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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,…
HALLOWEEN is supposed to last for one night only. At Yale University (motto: “Light and Truth”) it has dragged on considerably longer. As happens at many American universities, Yale administrators sent an advisory e-mail to students before the big night, requesting them to refrain from wearing costumes that other students might find offensive. Given that…
To many, Finland is a member of the euro zone’s fiscally conservative core, alongside Germany. But in the words of its own finance minister, “basically, we are the sick man of Europe.” Indeed, new statistics show just how lousy Finland is performing financially. The Finnish economy is 11% smaller than its 2008 peak, making it…
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Nike introduced some stupid new uniforms for tonight’s Bills-Jets game, and the color-on-color combination is especially bad for people with colorblindness, who are taking to Twitter to let the NFL know their displeasure. We’ve simulated what the game looks like to people with red-green colorblindness (using the formulas supplied here) in the video above. Below,…
Sony has been making some big moves in the streaming industry as of late. Just a few days ago, they announced an agreement with Disney that added the ESPN family of channels, Disney, and ABC to their already robust content line up. Today, they have another announcement: no longer will you need a Playstation 3…