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Wikimedia Commons Last week, when Google’s head of news, Richard Gringras, introduced Accelerate Mobile Pages, the company’s new open-source project aimed at making the Web faster, he said its main objectives were to create a “deal-less environment” that’s “about making sure the World Wide Web is not the World Wide Wait.” The new model could…
In the not too distant future… we could be getting brand new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, courtesy of original human host Joel Hodgson! But for an extremely steep Kickstarter goal. If you’re new to the show, MST3K was the cult classic that aired on Comedy Central and Syfy after debuting on Minnesota public…
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” typically tapes earlier in the day, but news broke of the horrific terrorist attacks that have left over 160 people dead in Paris. According to those who attended the taping, Colbert broke the news to the audience. One audience member said Colbert re-recorded the intro without the jokes remarking that…
PARIS — I walked through the 10th arrondissement about an hour and a half before the attacks. It was a beautiful fall evening in the city. Despite a mid-November chill that arrived Friday afternoon, restaurant terraces and sidewalks were bustling when a wave of terror attacks killed at least 120 people. Now, President François Hollande…
Reports of several horrifying attacks in France’s capital began surfacing on Friday evening: In addition to news of a reported shooting in Paris at the Cambodge restaurant in the 11th arrondissement and civilians reportedlybeing taken hostage at Paris’ Bataclan Arts Center, there have also been reports of three explosions at Paris’ Stade de France, and a dismembered body also…
Video close media-action-overlay Scene of Deadly Attacks in Paris Police in Paris confirmed on Friday that several people were killed in multiple acts of violence in and around the city. Publish Date November 13, 2015. Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Watch in Times Video » PARIS — Shootings and explosions erupted in…
The Associated Press said French police claim Friday’s shootings and explosions to be the deadliest violence France has seen in decades. A Paris police official said there were at least 100 hostages in Paris’s Bataclan theater. Multiple officials, including one medical official, put the number of dead at between 35 to 40 people.All officials spoke…
Fallout 4 isn’t just causing a wave of “sick” days across the planet. The excellent open-world role-playing game is also eating into the time people spend on … other habits. Pornhub, one of the world’s most popular adult video sites, told GamesBeat that it saw a 10 percent drop in traffic among gamers after…
Nintendo’s “free” crane game for the 3DS requires a dollar for every five tries with the crane. Some companies would just tell you to pay and leave it at that. Not Nintendo. They’ve got a cartoon rabbit ready to explain to you why Nintendo needs to do this. All screenshots here are from the game/app/3DS-decorating…
Ten years ago, Nature published a paper with a simple title: Oxytocin increases trust in humans. The paper described an experiment carried out by Swiss scientists, who asked volunteers to entrust money in an anonymous partner. This anonymous partner could either repay their trust by reimbursing them, or betray them by keeping the cash. Amazingly,…