CompuServe Forums, RIP

Enlarge / CompuServe brought millions of Americans “online” for the first time—before AOL and the Internet stomped it down. Now AOL is killing off CompuServe’s venerable forums. (credit: CompuServe) In the 1980s and early 1990s, before America Online CDs clogged America’s mailboxes and the word “Internet” had yet to be spoken by nearly anyone outside […]

Mary Barra calls for 'unity and inclusion' after Trump disbands CEO forums

U.S. President Donald Trump disbanded two high-profile business advisory councils on Wednesday after corporate CEOs quit in protest at his remarks blaming violence in Charlottesville, Va., not only on white nationalists but also on the protesters who opposed them. General Motors CEO Mary Barra had been a part of Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum prior […]

Politicians’ social media pages can be 1st Amendment forums, judge says

Enlarge (credit: Hamza Butt) We’ve been covering a recent First Amendment lawsuit targeting President Donald Trump—a novel legal argument in which Twitter users claim their constitutional rights were violated because the commander-in-chief blocked them from his personal @realDonaldTrump Twitter handle. To be sure, it’s a digital-age-based constitutional theory about social media rights in a day and age […]

Overwatch Patch Notes: New hero changes and modes revealed on forums

The PC Overwatch Patch Notes confirm some of the big new hero changes that have been made in a bid to rebalance certain characters. The biggest tweaks have been made to Bastion and D.Va, here’s what the developer’s had to say on their robot improvements: “The goal of these changes is to move some of Bastion’s […]