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Enlarge / Maybe Twitter should try this approach for the 677,775 emails it says it will soon send to affected users. (credit: Warner Bros. / Sam Machkovech) On Friday, Twitter took an end-of-the-week opportunity to dump some better-late-than-never news onto its userbase. For anybody who followed or engaged with a Twitter account that faked like […]
When Bait! from Resolution Games first launched on Gear VR it introduced several visually pleasing vistas at which players could cast their line for some recreational fishing. With a mixture of free-to-play design and some light microtransactions, it quickly soared on the platform and became one of the most-downloaded mobile VR experiences available. Now today Bait! is […]
Facebook launched its social VR Spaces beta last April, finally showing us a compelling experience that helped put the social media company’s acquisition of Oculus in the first place. Recently, Oculus showed off a little ice fishing game from casual game studio Resolution Games at the Oculus Connect 4 conference. Now, the game — dubbed […]
Enlarge / Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter. (credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) As the public learns more about confirmed Russian troll accounts on social media platforms over the past few years, reporters have begun digging into any ties they may have with major political or tech voices. The Daily Beast found a pretty big […]
Are Disney and Lucasfilm really going to pull the greatest bait and switch in cinema history? The final Last Jedi trailer just landed and left fans with even more questions, as expected. However, for the first time many are not simply wondering about what clues can be discovered but are actually convinced that much of […]
Flickr / surdna One problem with “passive investing” (which I have argued is actually an oxymoron) is the fact that it systematically buys high and sells low. This is simply a product of weighting index components by their market capitalization. I imagine a fair amount of passive investors are aware of this but there’s another issue […]
The Real Madrid superstar revealed yesterday that he wants to leave the La Liga champions. Ronaldo, 32, has grown frustrated at tax allegations lodged against him, which he denies. Spanish prosecutors believe the Portugal international should have paid tax on image rights income and he is being accused of defrauding the tax office of nearly […]
Seth Meyers may not be an Academy Awards contender this year, but he knows exactly what it takes to become one. The Late Night host has unveiled the (parody) trailer for his new (non-existent) movie, simply called Oscar Bait and billed as “the most blatant attempt to win an Oscar since The King’s Speech.” Honestly, it’s refreshing […]
“Late Night with Seth Meyers”/NBC; YouTube With Oscar ballots due this week, Hollywood is flooding the public with marketing around this year’s Oscar nominees. Just in time, Seth Meyers spoofed the telltale signs of an Oscar-worthy film on Tuesday’s “Late Night.” Playing several roles in the sketch portraying the ultimate Oscar film, the host laid […]
