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Buyer beware: It’s not just Samsung smartphones that are blowing up. The company’s washing machines are catching fire, too. On Sept. 28 the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a statement warning consumers about exploding washing machines from the Korean giant. The news comes just as Samsung struggles to manage a massive recall of…
Enlarge this image A new study out of Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black boys, expecting trouble. LA Johnson/NPR hide caption toggle caption LA Johnson/NPR A new study out of Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black…
If you build it, they will play. For Stefan Pokorny, said buildings are castles and caverns, cities and sewers. But he’s not building them for people to walk through or to have displayed in museums. He’s crafting them for use in Dungeons & Dragons games. Pokorny—who has a master’s degree in painting—is the founder…
It’s wearing a little thin. With a little over a month before its release, Marvel has finally pulled the curtain back a bit on Doctor Strange. Reports from a recent set visit have been pouring in Tuesday, and all sorts of tidbits are coming to light about the movie: How its exploration of magic will…
And so the No Man’s Sky saga continues. Beyond the hype, the promises, and the prolonged silence from developer Hello Games and head honcho Sean Murray, it appears the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)—an independent regulator whose role is to “regulate the content of advertisements, sales promotions and direct marketing in the UK [by investigating]…
CD Projekt Red’s next game supposedly has more people working on it than The Witcher 3 ever did, however little else is known about Cyberpunk 2077 beyond its tabletop roots. Geralt’s last outing set the bar high with regards to open-world exploration, and it seems the Polish studio is keen to keep this momentum going,…
It’s a banner week for the end of the world, because we’ve officially pushed atmospheric carbon levels past their dreaded 400 parts per million. Permanently. According to a blog post last Friday from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, “it already seems safe to conclude that we won’t be seeing a monthly value below 400…
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisitionhttp://www.thejimquisition.comhttp://sharkrobot.com/collections/jim… If you see sinister political agendas where none actually exist, you might be a bit weird. If you see a game with a woman in it and instantly write it off as “SJW propaganda,” you might have a problem with more than just propaganda. Source: Oh Virginia! (The Jimquisition) – YouTube
Please enable Javascript to watch this video HOBOKEN, N.J. — More than 100 people were injured in a rush-hour train crash at a New Jersey Transit station in Hoboken Thursday morning that apparently caused heavy damage and a partial roof collapse. The commuter rail train smashed into the historic station shortly before 9 a.m., and emergency crews are at the…
Photo Donald J. Trump at the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University on Monday. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times On Tuesday, Donald J. Trump boasted of what he described as widespread approval of his performance in the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton. Such a great honor. Final debate polls are…