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Earlier today, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and killed eleven people before being apprehended by police. The suspect has since been identified as 46-year-old Robert Bowers, who appears to have had a history anti-Semitic speech on the social network Gab. Following these revelations, Paypal banned the site from its payment platform — the latest action taken against the troublesome social network by a major technology company.In a statement to T

I recently got an ad for Solitaire 95 on Instagram. I don’t know what I did to piss Instagram off so much it put me in the demographic of ‘people who play Bejeweled Blitz on non-timed mode,’ but the ad worked, because I downloaded the game. I enjoyed the novelty of the classic Windows 95 tabs and the iconic pixelated palm tree cards for one game before I forgot about it, but the experience did get me thinking about when I moved to New York City three years ago from South Korea

For the past week or so, virtually all of my time has been dedicated to the sprawling Wild West epic Red Dead Redemption 2. Rockstar’s latest game is so huge, so all-encompassing, that I didn’t let myself play anything else while reviewing it. In 2018 that isn’t such an easy thing to do. So many of the games I play now are ones that have become fixtures in my daily routine. I feel like I’m missing out not checking in on my Animal Crossing campground, or getting in a few

More and more I find myself trying new ways to get lost. Not to disappear, not quite, but to separate self from self  —  or to create a new, quiet space, the way a mirror does with reflections. There’s no sound in mirrorspace. Just mirrorselves who move silently through an inverted, recognizable world. It sometimes occurs to me to wonder about time there, in the land beyond the silvered glass, but only when I’ve ventured far enough from myself that it occurs to me

After rolling out its Version 9 of Autopilot a couple of weeks ago, Tesla has followed up with an additional update to equip its vehicles with its Navigate with Autopilot feature, a driver assistance system that brings the vehicles closer to being able to drive on their own.Tesla officially released the Version 9 update earlier this month, which included a new dash cam feature, games that can be played while the car is parked, and updates to the vehicle’s navigation settings, and indicate

Google For Jobs has made a great impact on the jobs market ever since it was released by the search giant in June 2017. There’s been tons written on the feature since it came out, but it’s still a new product and many users are still figuring out how to get the most out of it — that’s why I’ve written this article. I’m going to go into the three main features that I felt helped the most when it comes to hiring campaigns. Bu I don’t want to tread over ol

I watched Hot Summer Nights on Amazon the other week since I’ll watch anything starring Timothée Chalamet right now and also it just looked really fun and stylish. And it is loaded with style — it feels like a menagerie of pastiche and homage, rearranged into a brand new story.
The thing I found most interesting about the film was its use of myth. Like The Sandlot, the film relies on a narrator looking back at an important time in their life; something a little dreamy and ide

The biggest products to hit this week include the iPhone XR, Apple’s more affordable twist on the iPhone XS and XS Max smartphones, and Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar’s prequel that’s driving a ton of deals on consoles. If you’re not after either of those — or if you’ve already bought them — there are plenty of other deals that are worth rummaging through as we inch closer to the holidays.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is now available for the PS4 and Xbox One

After 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr., was arrested on Friday on the suspicion that he mailed 13 explosives to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, the spotlight turned on a Twitter account that appears to belong to him, which he allegedly used to issue veiled threats to critics of the President. Twitter has apologized for not acting on tweets that clearly violated its terms of conduct.After the account was surfaced on Friday, Rochelle Ritchie tweeted several screenshots of threatening twe

After 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr., was arrested on Friday on the suspicion that he mailed 13 explosives to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, the spotlight turned on a Twitter account that appears to belong to him, which he allegedly used to issue veiled threats to critics of the President. Twitter has apologized for not acting on tweets that clearly violated its terms of conduct.After the account was surfaced on Friday, Rochelle Ritchie tweeted several screenshots of threatening twe

Halloween is just a couple of days away, and if you’re celebrating the evening, you’re probably throwing together some sort of costume for a party, or getting something squared away for your child.Over the years I’ve been building costumes, I’ve found one thing that really makes or breaks a costume: attention to detail. Costuming is a hobby into which, in the pursuit of perfection, you can dump endless time and money, but for something like Halloween, not as much effort

Officials said this week that Facebook would face a £500,000 fine from the UK over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but it was a drop in the bucket for the massive company.“We considered these contraventions to be so serious we imposed the maximum penalty under the previous legislation,” the head of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said in a statement. As some pointed out this week, however, it will take a tiny amount of time for Facebook to recoup that los

Bias is an overloaded word. It has multiple meanings, from mathematics to sewing to machine learning, and as a result it’s easily misinterpreted. When people say an AI model is biased, they usually mean that the model is performing badly. But ironically, poor model performance is often caused by various kinds of actual bias in the data or algorithm. Machine learning algorithms do precisely what they are taught to do and are only as good as their mathematical construction and the data they

On Friday, a Florida man was arrested in connection with a string of mail bombs sent to prominent critics of President Trump, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris. Reporters spent the day working to unearth the social media accounts of the man, 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr. of southern Florida. While the authenticity of every account has yet to be confirmed, reporting so far paints a picture of a man who bought into many of the right-wing conspiracy theories that burbled up

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The urban mobility market has come a long way since London’s first horse drawn bus service in 1829. Even in the last five years, the rise of digitally-enabled ride-hailing mobility solutions such as Uber or ViaVan, or dockless on-demand mobility solutions such as Ofo and Mobike have significantly changed how Londoners get around. However, with urban density expected to reach 66 percent by 2050 and the growing expectations of on-demand in urban societies, cities are under constant pressure

Twitch today revealed a plethora of new features for streamers and viewers, as part of the first day of its TwitchCon celebrations. CEO Emmett Shear led the Day One keynote, revealing the new features to the attendees. Some were niche — such as the better moderation tools, and the ability to designate some viewers as VIPs — but others were big and exciting. One of the biggest updates was Squad Stream, which allows users to stream together from a single page. Streamers in the sq

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the Twitch streamer and Fortnite star who’s profile only continues to increase, announced today that he and his sponsorship partner Red Bull will air a New Years Eve live stream from New York’s Times Square. The event, which will run from 7PM ET to 7AM ET the following day and stream on Ninja’s personal Twitch channel, will feature him playing Fortnite with a series of notable guests as he rings in the new year for various time zones around t

The Vankyo M50 Passport DLP mini-projector is an Android-powered gadget that can project onto just about any flat surface. It’s pocket-sized, so I smuggled a review unit home to see what it could do. The M50 Passport is an immediately accessible gadget. It’s small – about the size of a passport, hence the name – and it runs on Android, which means most of us are familiar with its software already. It’s also quite fetching, especially compared to regular projectors.

Today, the FBI arrested Cesar Sayoc, a man from Florida who is suspected of having mailed bombs to a number of prominent critics of President Donald Trump, including Democratic politicians and former officials. Footage from the site of the arrest — an auto parts store, according to The Guardian — shows Sayoc’s van under a tarp. As a news helicopter followed the covered vehicle, the wind blew the tarp off, revealing windows packed with decals of Donald Trump and other Republica

Today’s ceaseless data scandals have everyone talking about privacy, especially insofar as our favorite digital devices and platforms are concerned. Few companies have been at the center of the media maelstrom focused on privacy than Apple, the world’s most valuable and most-tech savvy corporation. Tim Cook, its CEO, has regularly lauded the company’s stance on data and user privacy as being a major advantage it has over most of its competitors. What’s the truth behind A

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Remaking horror classics is a tried-and-true tradition, but it’s still a little mystifying why anyone felt 1977’s Suspiria was a good candidate. Dario Argento’s giallo classic, about a dancer training in a school that is secretly home to a coven of witches, isn’t influential for its setting and premise, so much as for its bold visual style, its mood, and the hypnotic score by prog-rock band Goblin. Many of the elements that made the original Suspiria unforgettable were t