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HQ Trivia‘s Scott Rogowsky explained his decision to step away from the ultra-popular trivia app. The host, known affectionately as Quiz Daddy, is leaving for a new baseball show on upstart sports network DAZN. He explained on Twitter that he attempted to stay on at HQ Trivia, but couldn’t make it work. A MESSAGE TO […]
A group of students in Germany found that patiently awaiting the Game of Thrones season 8 premiere wasn’t worth the anticipation, so they developed a program to try and predict who will live and who will die by the end of the series finale. Computer scientists studying at the Technical University of Munich are using an algorithm […]
Arguably the most famous black hole of all time now has an apt name. Powehi is the name that’s been given to the black hole recently designated as the first to be captured in a direct image, per The Guardian. The name is derived from the 18th century sacred Hawaiian creation chant, the Kumulipo, and is […]
Talk to holdouts opting not to buy into the smart speaker phenomenon and they’ll frequently offer the same reasoning for not purchasing an Echo or Google Home speaker: they’re worried someone might be listening. And a new report from Bloomberg suggests their paranoia is founded in facts. The report reveals that Amazon hires thousands of […]
Netflix, the home of Beyoncé‘s upcoming Coachella documentary, is getting into publishing. The ever-expanding streaming giant is reportedly prepping to launch a new “print journal” tentatively called Wide, per a Bloomberg report. The publication is expected to be handed out free of charge at events (presumably screenings, etc.) the streaming platform hosts in connection with its slate […]
Julian Assange has been arrested in London. The WikiLeaks co-founder was taken into custody at the Ecuadorian embassy in London Thursday, per BBC News. Assange had been at the embassy for the past seven years, utilizing asylum in an alleged effort to avoid extradition to Sweden in connection with a sexual assault case that’s since […]
After remaining elusive to the scientific community for many years, astronomers have finally captured an image of a black hole. The New York Times reports that, after two years of computer analysis, the National Science Foundation has photographed the cosmic entity. Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of […]
Unfortunately, we are tasked today with possibly ruining a very good meme. In recent days, a certain video clip of a man dramatically entering a room and posing for a flurry of snapping cameras has become a juggernaut of a meme. Most recently, you may have seen it put to good use amid the celebratory […]
When it comes to refreshingly mild attempts at a jovial April Fools mini-prank, Google is currently in the lead. Overnight, Google tucked a version of the vaguely vintage game Snake into its Maps app, most assuredly as a way of ringing in the first of April. They also launched a standalone site for anyone whose […]
A man who initiated a swatting amid a Call of Duty: WWII argument that ultimately turned fatal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. 26-year-old California man Tyler R. Barriss has been sentenced to two decades behind bars after previously pleading guilty in November to 51 federal charges stemming from a history of hoax calls […]
