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Kathy Willens/AP The New York Yankees appeared to be in deep trouble in the top of the first inning in the AL Wild Card game when they gave up three runs to the Minnesota Twins and had to pull Luis Severino. Instead, they responded with three of their own in the top of the first […]
YouTube The Navy’s Surgeon General has sent a message to Navy Medicine commanders around the world criticizing the “highly offensive” photos of a nurse flipping off newborn babies at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida. Vice Adm. Forrest Faison called the photos “unprofessional and inappropriate” behavior that was inconsistent with the service’s core values of honor, courage, and […]
Mouse and video gaming settings can make or break your Counter-Strike: Global Offensive experience, so it’s very important to ensure you have settings that are right for you. It’s also important to recognize that the only way to know these settings and their suitability to you is to play CS:GO and try out each setting. […]
With ISIS’ three-year blockade of Deir ez-Zor effectively broken by government forces, the offensive against the terrorists continues, while humanitarian aid has started to arrive to civilians in the city, who say they were “on the brink of starvation.” On Saturday, the Teym oilfield was recaptured from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in the […]
In June, Google announced that it would begin isolating YouTube videos that weren’t directly in violation of its standards but contained “controversial religious or supremacist content.” And starting this week, those efforts will begin to take effect. The videos that fall into this category won’t be able to run ads and those who post them […]
Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images Pranking rookies is an NFL tradition as old as football itself, and on Wednesday night the Tampa Bay Buccaneers got a couple of their rookies good. According to ESPN’s Jenna Laine, the Buccaneers offensive line was dining out at a Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Jacksonville and told the two undrafted rookies on […]
Kenedy posted two videos on Instagram last week while on tour with the Chelsea squad in China and he was booed by supporters during Saturday’s 3-0 win over Arsenal. On Sunday, Chelsea issued an apology for the 21-year-old’s behaviour and said the player had been “strongly reprimanded and disciplined”. But the Premier League champions have […]
It seems that creating well-behaved chatbots isn’t easy. Over a year after Microsoft’s “Tay” bot went full-on racist on Twitter, its successor “Zo” is suffering a similar affliction. Despite Microsoft programming Zo to ignore politics and religion, the folks at BuzzFeed News managed to get the bot to react to the restricted topics with surprising […]
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is getting a cyberwarfare unit for defending the country from cyber threat, as well as conducting offensive military cyber operations to shut down foreign criminal networks overseas. “As of tomorrow, Australia will have an information warfare division within Defence. This is a result of the changing character of contemporary conflict,” […]
Enlarge / Portrait of Asian-American band The Slants (L-R: Joe X Jiang, Ken Shima, Tyler Chen, Simon ‘Young’ Tam) in Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon, in 2015. (credit: Anthony Pidgeon via Getty Images) The Supreme Court held today that the government can’t refuse to register trademarks because some may find the trademarked words offensive. The […]
