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Might B.o.B. and Neil deGrasse Tyson have to take their mixtape beef elsewhere? According to the Financial Times, music streaming service SoundCloud could be in trouble unless it raises additional capital in the next 12 months. At the end of 2014, SoundCloud reported a gain of $17.35 million in revenue for the year, yet experienced…
XCOM 2 is great! Well, mostly. It has some performance issues and, more pertinently, it can get a little frustrating with fickle random number calculations and Central screaming at you all the time. Here are some mods to help with that. Save Scum Roller Do you save scum? You probably save scum. Save scumming is…
Kanye West just debuted both his new album T.L.O.P. (a.k.a. The Life of Pablo, formerly known as Waves and Swish) and “season three” of his Yeezy fashion line with a lavish two-hour event that confused the hell out of everyone who wasn’t physically inside Madison Square Garden with him. (Based on what we saw of the…
Democratic presidential candidates U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) and Hillary Clinton shake hands at the end of a presidential debate sponsored by CNN and Facebook at Wynn Las Vegas on October 13, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Hillary Clinton may have suffered a big defeat in Tuesday night’s New Hampshire primary…
Elinor Ostrom is a great example of a woman political scientist who knew stuff — in fact, she won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009. (Holger Motzkau/Wikimedia) Women Also Know Stuff. Does that sound obvious? It’s not, alas. We’re a group of political scientists who started that website when, as we consumed media reports…
When Kanye West premiered his new album The Life of Pablo at Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon, one line seemed to jump out of the stadium and onto computer screens around the world. It’s part of “Famous,” a clanging, dense new track: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that…
Photo Staffers on The Times community desk: (from left) Eric Copage, Bassey Etim, Lela Moore and Marcia Loughran. Credit James Estrin/The New York Times With so many hours logged in a sea of emotions, insights and opinions, it seems impossible for Times comment moderators not to feel some kinship with those who are doing the commenting….
Feb. 11, 2016 2:22 p.m. ET It’s getting easier to make money from Facebook FB 0.34 % Instant Articles, according to multiple publishing partners enrolled in the program. Publishers were frustrated in the early going by the platform’s advertising restrictions, but now credit Facebook with making improvements. Some say their Instant Articles currently generate the…
Photo: Karen Novak / Courtesy of Elizabeth Yuko. First, I had to tell the story of my sexual assault to the police officer at the reception desk, in front of what appeared to be the rest of the precinct. After a few minutes of awkwardly waiting, and trying not to make eye contact with…