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Should social media ban offensive comments?
British MP Luciana Berger is calling for Twitter Inc. to block anti-Semitic language from the site after she received thousands of hateful messages. Berger, the shadow Minister for Public Health, has been the target of online abuse for several months after Garron Helm, a 21-year-old internet troll, was jailed for sending her anti-Semitic messages. Helm tweeted at Berger ...
Blizzard teases gold-for-game-time in World of Warcraft
Blizzard Entertainment is considering allowing players to buy game time tokens with real money to sell to other players for gold, the in-game currency in World of Warcraft. “We’re exploring the possibility of giving players a way to buy tradable game-time tokens for the purpose of exchanging them in-game with other players for gold,” Blizzard community ...
Could the next Nintendo handheld be “doughnut-shaped?”
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is rumored to be producing a new handheld to replace the 3DS with an unusual screen shape. According to an Osakan reporter with Japan Times, Nintendo has entered a deal with Japanese electronics company Sharp Corporation to produce “free-form” LCD screens that can be manufactured in a variety of unusual shapes. Other industries ...
Twitter CEO “grabbing a lifeboat” by dumping TWTR stock?
Twitter, Inc. CEO Dick Costolo has been making investors nervous as he sells more and more of his stock in the company, and now some have reacted in outrage after his family trust unloaded all of its remaining shares. “Selling stock speaks louder than any words,” one investor told Business Insider, calling for Costolo to ...
Controversial mass-shooting game “Hatred” back on Steam Greenlight
Hatred, a game its creators at Polish game company Destructive Creations describe as “an isometric shooter with [a] disturbing atmosphere of mass killing,” is back on Steam Greenlight after being briefly removed yesterday. Hatred has been surrounded with controversy from the very beginning, with game journalists like Polygon’s Collin Campbell calling the announcement “the worst trailer of the year”, ...
Facebook app now improves your pictures for you
New updates to Facebook Inc.’s mobile app include features that automatically enhance photos uploaded to the social network, improving both image clarity and lighting. Proving the old adage that “the best camera is the one you have with you,” mobile phones have replaced digital cameras as the dominant image capture tools, and what was previously a ...
Elite: Dangerous finally releases, but without offline play
Elite: Dangerous, the crowdfunded followup to a long running space sim series that dates back to the mid 1980s, has finally gotten its official release after nearly three years in development. The latest entry into the now 30-year-old franchise had been eagerly anticipated by gamers, who managed to pledge nearly £1.6 million (roughly $2.5 million USD) ...
Zuckerberg’s Facebook page under bizarre attack by Brazilian trolls
Internet trolling can happen to anyone, even – or perhaps especially – to Facebook Inc. CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. But the most recent attacks on Zuckerberg’s Facebook timeline come from an unexpected source: Brazil. The attack began as a series of strange images posted to Facebook updates made by Zuckerberg, such as his 2011 announcement ...
Ubisoft hasn’t ruled out Assassin’s Creed in Asia
After announcing the release of a side-story game set in China, Ubisoft Montreal does not discount the possibility of a full Assassin’s Creed game set in East Asia. Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is a side-scrolling game that will be available for download on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, and it can be purchased alone or ...
Facebook banishes the word “user” from its vocabulary
Facebook Inc. is changing its internal processes to eliminate the word “user,” choosing to use the term “people instead. Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook’s Director of Product Design, spoke at The Atlantic’s Navigate tech conference on Wednesday, where she described a recent shift in the way the company thinks of its users internally. According to Stewart, “User” ...
