You know YouTube’s copyright takedowns are bad when newly released games start to include the following option: I never thought I’d see the day when a game (and possibly more to come) would basically kneel before Google and the music industry to prevent potential copyright takedowns to those who may …
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Apparently while I was minding my own business today Microsoft released an AI on twitter targeted at teens, young adults etc as an experiment. After not even a full 24 hours they had to shut the bot down after it became a racist, sexist asshat. The last thing it uttered …
Sending someone your nudes doesn’t seem like the best way to test someones eyesight while you’re working on getting their glasses fixed. While the woman was waiting for her glasses to be fixed, she received a text message containing an image of a nude, fully aroused man. A short time …
Microsoft’s timing couldn’t be better. 😛 Hours after hosting a “women in gaming” luncheon at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft threw a party with scantily clad dancers in school girl outfits. It wasn’t a good look, and the company has since apologized. Of course they did pull …
People do strange things when they’re caught being stupid. When the store’s loss prevention staff accused her of theft and pulling her clothes partway off didn’t convince them otherwise, she resorted to violence. According to police, she hit one of the employees trying to detain her in the face, then …
Hey, remember WebTV from over a decade ago? It was Microsoft’s attempt at trying to get old people who were afraid of owning a computer to access the internet to, well… Access the internet! Pepperidge Farm doesn’t remember, but Wal-Mart sure does. They’re still selling the old thing despite the …
The whole shooting at the Umpqua Community College has been all kinds of depressing. The guy behind the shooting announced his plans on 4chan of all places, and while there were some people in the thread telling him not to do it, he was still cheered on for starting the …
So this isn’t looking very good for FireFox users… Mozilla has announced a new Extension API for Firefox browser called ‘WebExtensions‘ that is compatible with API used by Blink-based Chrome and Opera browsers, and they want to deprecate current Firefox XPCOM/XUL/XBL APIs from 12 or 18 months from now. I’m …
If you tell Siri to charge your phone 100% she’ll dial 911. O_o While this sounds like a far-fetched scenario, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility. Earlier this year, for example, a woman used Pizza Hut’s app to alert the police that she and her children were being held …