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RIO DE JANEIRO — Mario Andrada paced through the Olympic press center Monday afternoon, explaining why he has no time to talk just now. “There is an expression we have in Brazil,” he said. “ ‘When you have a hard job, you kill a lion a day.’ I have two lions to kill.” This month, Andrada…
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Some relatively minor tweaks aside, Overwatch’s cyborg ninja dragon blender Genji hasn’t changed much since launch. Over the past few weeks, though, I’ve come across dozens of threads begging Blizzard to nerf Genji so hard he starts throwing rubber ducks instead of ninja stars. What happened? In hero-based games like Overwatch, there’s always a “nerf…
10 things you need to learn in design school if you’re tired of wasting your money I hope everyone had a good summer. It’s hard to believe it’s over, yet here we are. Still feeling the summer breeze of warm ocean wind. Still smelling the sunscreen, the taste of cotton candy, the mind still wandering…
In October of last year, Twitter made the hard decision to remove the tweet count data the way it was presented at the time, without replacing it. I would say they simply removed the API access, but that’s not strictly true, because there was no real API for that data. They announced the news in…
As of 2014, Twitter estimated that as many as 23 million of its 271 million users were bots, or automated accounts taught by code to Tweet according to the desires of their creators. For example, you might see that one bot posts a photo from NASA’s Cassini mission every hour, while others recycle politicians’ old…
cxenseparse_start The Confederate flag was displayed at the White Lives Matter demonstration.(Photo: David Goldman, AP) It’s a stark image that caught some in Houston’s Third Ward off guard: Confederate battle flags waving outside of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Office. Roughly 20 people showed up on Sunday, some with the red…
ChangeAdvertising, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, conducted a study from August 14-18th that examined the top 50 news sites (list of sites based on this article from 2015 by the New York Times). Note: the only deviation from this list is that Forbes.com was added in place of NPR.org. It found, amongst other things, that: 41 of 50…
There are a lot of reasons the 2015 version of Fantastic Four failed. But one of them might have been cutting all of the elements of the original story idea’s massive and completely bonkers battles. Screen Crush has a long post-mortem on the movie, which includes an interview with Jeremy Slater, who wrote some initial…
It’s a crime both uniquely lurid and bafflingly inexplicable — a double murder of a husband and wife in which the suspect was reportedly found astride one of the victims, biting “chunks of his face off.” This is the tragedy of John Stevens and Michelle Mishcon Stevens. And as the story unfolds of what happened inside…