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If you’ve ever preordered a videogame and felt disappointed by your purchase later, let me suggest a great thing to try: Stop preordering videogames. It must be difficult to ponder such a thing when the entire blockbuster videogame industry seems intent on getting you to preorder every game, every time. That up-sell was once confined to the checkout counter at…
“Stranger Things,” the breakout hit of the summer, is coming back for a new season in 2017, Netflix announced this morning. The new season will feature nine new episodes – one more than season 1 – with creators Matt and Ross Duffer returning as showrunners and writers. In a teaser trailer above, it’s evident that…
Claim: Neil deGrasse Tyson addressed gender inequality on Twitter by tearing apart a joke about women in science. false Example: [Collected via Twitter, August 2016] Origin:On 24 August, 2016, a Twitter account called “SciencePorn” (which mostly publishes interesting and amusing stories about science) posted the following joke: First woman on the Moon: “Houston, we…
Popular cloud storage firm Dropbox has been hacked, with over 68m users’ email addresses and passwords leaking on to the internet. The attack took place during 2012. At the time Dropbox reported a collection of user’s email addresses had been stolen. It did not report that passwords had been stolen as well. The dump of…
Edit: Instagram has fixed this issue, presumably because of this article. Facebook and Twitter still have not. I used Instagram as the prime example, but the main takeaway is that the target=”_blank” vulnerability is extremely common. The individual web developer should guard against it and the browsers should consider modifying this behavior. If you use…
Warcraft made loads of money in China. China was awesome, obviously. It’s still a hotbed of Warcraft-playing. We actually had incredible success in most of Europe, too. The UK, similar to the US, got down on the film fairly early on. But in Russia, Germany, France, Spain, pretty much any European country, and in China…
Facebook’s ability to figure out who you know in real life can sometimes be unnerving. The “People You May Know” list can be uncanny, leading many users to ask, “How do they know I know that person!?” Well, it’s possible that you actually told Facebook yourself. If at some point in the past you uploaded…
The dark winter of Chipotle’s soul stretches on as the company is hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that many of the friendly youths assembling burrito bowls in the last few years were stiffed on their wages. Whatever they tell you, no one works just for the love of the bowl. While Chipotle maintains…
As the dialogue surrounding the usage of trigger warnings and safe spaces continues on college campuses nationwide, one website has for years been enforcing an editorial policy that may further the conversation: EverydayFeminism.com, a self-proclaimed “educational platform for personal and social liberation,” does not use the term “trigger warning” in front of its articles, not because…
Aug. 30, 2016 3:10 p.m. ET Google is moving onto Uber Technologies Inc.’s turf with its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco that would help commuters carpool at far cheaper rates, according to a person familiar with the matter, jumping into a booming but fiercely competitive market. Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., GOOGL -0.49…