The mobile gaming market is one of the fastest growing industries, and for the first time, market watchers forecast it to generate more than half of the global gaming market revenue in 2018. In the first half of 2018 alone, a total of 19.5 billion mobile games were downloaded across both Google Play and the […]
Tag: Fiasco
Facebook suggests Europeans won’t be compensated for data fiasco
Apparently, people in the European Union expected a payout from Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica data fiasco. “This was clearly a breach of trust,” the social network said in a statement to Reuters. “However, it’s important to remember that no bank account details, credit card information or national ID numbers were shared.” As a result, […]
AI Weekly: Facebook fiasco proves we need a better approach to personal data
Recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data have a lot of people rightfully concerned about how their personal information is collected and used online. But while Facebook is trying to position the Cambridge Analytics breach (and collection of user data by other third-party apps) as a function of bad actors on its plat…Read […]
Here’s how to make sure Hawaii’s missile warning fiasco isn’t repeated
This is a guest post from Steve Bellovin, a professor in the Computer Science department and affiliate faculty at the law school at Columbia University. His research focuses on networks, security, and public policy. His opinions don’t necessarily reflect the views of Ars Technica. (credit: EUGENE TANNER/AFP/Getty Images) By now, most people have heard about […]
Days after iPhone battery fiasco, lawsuits against Apple begin to mount
Enlarge / An iPhone 6’s battery, courtesy of iFixit. (credit: iFixit) Since news broke that Apple deliberately slows down the processor speed of iPhones as they age, the company has now been sued three times in various federal courts nationwide. These proposed class-action lawsuits allege largely the same thing: that over time certain iPhones exhibited […]
Formula E’s Montreal race cancelled over ‘financial fiasco’
Formula E may be increasing acceptance of electric racing and EVs in general, but it has faced plenty of problems between bleeding cash (it lost $ 39.4 million US in the year ending July 2016) and races being moved or pulled in Brazil, Russia and the UK. And now, those problems just got magnified. Montreal […]
British Airways 'sorry' after passenger BED BUG fiasco on flight to London
British Airways passengers discovered the gruesome creatures after flying from Vancouver to London. Heather Szilagyi was travelling with her fiancé Eric Neilson and her eight-year-old daughter when they spotted the bugs. They complained to a flight attendant upon spotting them but were not able to change seats, as they were told: “We don’t have anywhere […]
Colbert, Carell and 'Donald Trump' Revisit Dana Carvey's Sitcom Fiasco in Hulu's Too Funny to Fail Trailer
Teaming Dana Carvey, red-hot off his Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live run, with the likes of Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert and Louis C.K. sounds like a comedy grand slam. ABC’s The Dana Carvey Show however was sent to the showers after just a handful of 1996 airings, its infamous flame-out well-chronicled in the Hulu documentary Too […]
The ‘Rick and Morty’ Szechuan Sauce Fiasco and Harvey Weinstein Top This Week’s Internet News
Last week the Internet spent a lot of time talking about a ‘Rick and Morty’ marketing tie-in gone awry. https://media.wired.com/photos/59e1082accd2e15751deab30/master/pass/McDonaldsHP-524957460.jpg Feed: All Latest
Colombian conspiracy? Peru & Colombia at center of World Cup match-fixing fiasco
Published time: 12 Oct, 2017 17:52 Video footage has emerged of Peru and Colombia players apparently conspiring to fix their FIFA 2018 World Cup Russia qualifier to end in a draw – a result which benefitted both sides. The teams played out a 1-1 draw in the Estadio Nacional de Lima in the Peruvian capital […]
