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I’m writing this with a very specific kind of headache. It’s the kind you get after playing about forty minutes of Arkham VR, a game for the Playstation VR virtual reality headset. The goal of Arkham VR is to make you really feel like Batman by giving you a first-person, 360 degree view of his ugly,…
By Rebecca Shabad CBS News October 4, 2016, 7:42 PM RNC prematurely declares Mike Pence debate winner two hours before start time The Republican National Committee (RNC) appeared to accidentally declare on its website Tuesday night that Mike Pence was the winner of the vice presidential debate, nearly two hours before it was slated to…
Social video shows Hurricane Matthew making landfall along Haiti’s southwestern coast in the morning of Oct. 4. Matthew made landfall as a Category 4 storm. (claritza jimenez/The Washington Post) (This story has been updated) Early Tuesday morning, Hurricane Matthew crashed ashore in Haiti as a powerful Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds. It was the…
Oct. 5, 2016 6:01 a.m. ET The New York Times NYT -1.24 % is moving away from standardized “banner” advertisements on its website and plans to replace them with its own proprietary display ad formats. Online banner advertising has become increasingly commoditized in recent years, with the same standardized, rectangular formats appearing on sites across…
</p> <p> GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container The rest of the political world has spent the past several days dissecting a devastating report from the New York Times about Donald Trump’s 1995 tax returns. Trump has spent it, at least in part,…
Banner Image Tim Kaine Rubbed Mike Pence’s Nose in Trump’s Crazy Kaine interrupted his way to the truth at the vice-presidential debate. Senator Tim Kaine, left, and Governor Mike Pence. (AP Photo / David Goldman) GOP vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence checked in on aisle 4 at Longwood University Tuesday night to clean up Donald Trump’s…
The former governor and mayor has a decent record of fighting sprawl. Scott Audette/Reuters Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia will be scrutinized for all sorts of things in the coming days, for his positions on gun control, abortion, and global trade. The chattering class will also consider how he fits into the political calculus of…
FARMVILLE, Virginia — Mike Pence is running for vice president on Donald Trump’s ticket. But his debate performance on Tuesday seemed to occur in a bizarre alternate universe where some normal establishment Republican is the nominee. Pence gave a solid, smooth performance that heartened some wary conservatives. But there was a sense of cognitive dissonance…
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There’s no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. But after Tuesday’s bombshell report by Reuters, indicating the enormous, faltering web company designed a bespoke email-wiretap service for the U.S. government, we now know that a Yahoo account is a toxic surveillance liability. Reuters’s Joseph Menn is reporting that just last year, Yahoo chose to comply…