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As experienced pros are replaced by passionate up-and-comers, will diners notice a change in seasoning? If I hadn’t gone to cooking school or spent six years working in Toronto kitchens, I wouldn’t be who I am today: a writer, not a cook. Cooking is a wonderful art, skill, trade and craft. But as a career,…
There’s an ongoing conversation about race and racism on social media — but white people are missing most of it. A Pew Research Center report released Monday asked Americans who identified as black, white, and Hispanic about how much they post about race, and how much content they see about it. Pew studied “social media…
Blizzard team shooter Overwatch is a game designed around heroic moments. It hands players ample opportunity to sacrifice their kill counts, their glory, and the characters themselves for the greater good, to be immortalized in the match’s signature “Play of the Game” moment shown to every participant after the dust has settled. Oftentimes, this highlight…
Mr. Valls, in an interview published Wednesday in La Provence, the daily newspaper in Marseille, called the burkini part of a “political project” to enslave women. Laurence Rossignol, a feminist and the Socialist minister for families, children and women’s rights, called the burkini “profoundly archaic” and “not just a new kind of bathing attire,” but…
Blizzard snuck a hilarious gag into the patch that hit the Overwatch public test realm today. The change automatically edits the text chat of anyone who types a certain phase into the match channel—don’t worry, you’ll only be affected if you’re a jerk. As Eurogamer noticed, if you type “gg ez” (as in, “good game,…
Donald Trump said on Twitter that people would soon call him “Mr. Brexit,” without further explanation | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Donald Trump is Mr. Brexit? Trump takes to Twitter. World confused. By Paul Dallison 8/18/16, 3:06 PM CET Updated 8/18/16, 3:33 PM CET /.meta /.summary /.story-intro Donald Trump, no stranger to sending out odd tweets,…
Using Facebook is a trade. You get a way to socialize over the Internet, and the company gets to rent out your eyeballs to advertisers. But today Facebook signaled that it thinks millions of people are cheating on that deal by using ad-blocking browser extensions. The social network says that it will start tweaking…
Facebook can’t win the war it started on ad blockers last week. So say Princeton assistant professor Arvind Narayanan and undergraduate Grant Storey, who have created an experimental ad “highlighter” for the Chrome browser to prove it. When you have Facebook Ad Highlighter installed, ads in the News Feed are grayed out and written…
June 13, 2016 4:04 a.m. ET As consumer adoption of online ad-blocking tools continues to grow, publishers and media companies are experimenting with various ways to limit the impact of ad-blocking on their businesses. That’s given rise to a new breed of “anti-ad-blockers”, or technology companies hoping to cash in on the situation by selling…
New York Times President and CEO, Mark Thompson addressed the IAB Ad Blocking Summit, held June 6, 2016 in New York City. In his talk, An Update from The New York Times on Its Approach to Ad Blocking, Thompson took a hard look at the factors contributing to the rise of ad blocking and urged…