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Minecraft is a game we’ve seen countless times before. And yet! The virtual reality demo showcased by Microsoft today makes the game almost seem brand new. You can start a new world on any surface you’d like—as you can see in the GIF above. Magical. Here’s the full demo. The amazing stuff starts at the…
June 15, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Verizon Communications Inc. has no desire to sell the Huffington Post or buy Dish Network Corp., Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said at a Wall Street Journal conference Monday. Verizon agreed last month to pay $4.4 billion for AOL Inc., AOL 0.08 % which owns several media properties including the…
The latest tweak to Facebook’s News Feed algorithm factors in the amount of time users spend viewing stories. Software engineers Ansha Yu and Sami Tas announced the change in a Newsroom post Friday, acknowledging that Facebook users don’t necessarily like, comment on or share every post that is important to them. Yu and Tas added that the…
New York’s Fifth Avenue, in 1974. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystine via Getty Images) Look at a photo of a street scene from the ’70s or early ’80s, and a lot of things look pretty much the same as today. Most of the buildings are similar. People’s clothes, on the whole, aren’t all that different, give or take a…
cache hit 2487:single/related:3e7c2e71d16ba707e0e3856fcb052e45 empty On Wednesday, reddit said that it would actively ban subreddits that users reported as being harassing in nature. At the same time, reddit administrators Jessica Moreno, head of community and support; Ellen Pao, interim CEO; and Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of reddit, said that they had shut down five…
[if (lt IE 9) & (!IEMobile)]> One Florida man’s unemployment claim could help take down a unicorn. In April, Darrin McGillis filed for unemployment benefits from Uber, claiming that he was unable to continue driving for the company after his vehicle was damaged. Uber is already facing a handful of lawsuits alleging that drivers should…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Reddit, the hugely popular online community know as the ‘front page of the internet’, has dropped the hammer on five groups on its site judged to be in violation of its policy against harassing users. They include r/fatpeoplehate, a subreddit that — as the name suggests — was a place for comments about fat people, and…
In the wake of a new anti-harassment policy, Reddit is banning a handful of its worst communities. “Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform,” a group administrator post reads. “We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but…
Power needs a critic. But a paradox mars criticism of the ascendant technological elite who are seeking to remake our lives: The people who understand technology well enough to criticize it tend to adore it uncritically; the critics are often Luddites who struggle with their toasters. It is notable, then, when a techie insider steps…
here there’s Internet, there are inevitably trolls spewing hateful or threatening language — even in Sweden, with its reputation for tolerance and liberalism. But Sweden has one of the highest proportions of Internet users in the world and, like many other countries, has seen online vitriol leave digital spaces with very real consequences. Faced with anonymous online trolls,…