No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe is the perfect soundtrack for exploring the abyss | The Verge

Next week will see the release of No Man’s Sky, a sci-fi game about exploring a huge, procedurally generated universe. It’s a moment that many have been clamoring for ever since the game was first announced in 2013, with a raucous trailer, set to the sound of “Debutante” from 65daysofstatic. Since those early days the British…

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Twitter’s newly incentivized conversational ads could help its pricing problem

  If Twitter can get more people tweeting about brands’ ads, then maybe brands will count those free tweets’ audiences as extra impressions and consider the social network’s ads more cost-effective. It’s a big “if.” But considering how Twitter’s ad business is hurting, it can’t hurt to try. Earlier this year Twitter introduced its conversational…

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Why are sex workers getting kicked off Airbnb and other platforms without explanation? | Fusion

During the three years that Arianna Travaglini used Airbnb, she was a very good guest and received stellar reviews from her hosts. The five she stayed with praised her friendliness, cleanliness and conscientiousness. After she visited Toronto in April 2014, the Airbnb host wrote, “Very clean tenants. The apartment was in an amazing condition! Highly…

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Report: Trump Kept Asking During Foreign Policy Briefing Why He Can’t Just Use Nukes | Mediaite

According to a report from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked a foreign policy advisor three times during a briefing why he couldn’t just use nuclear weapons to solve the nation’s problems. Scarborough shared the anecdote on Morning Joe Wednesday, speaking deliberately to avoid naming his source. “I’ll be very careful here. Several months ago,…

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