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A man in Nashville is facing a domestic assault charge after a mid-gaming argument allegedly resulted in him body-slamming a woman. Per a report from local outlet WSMV, Joshua Stone was charged with domestic assault following the incident, during which the unidentified woman allegedly unplugged the PlayStation console Stone was using at the time. At […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has big plans for remaking Twitter into a place that’s more conducive to forming communities and less a source of harassment and outrage. In a TED Talk on April 16, Dorsey explained that he’s looking to make changes to Twitter to downplay likes and retweets as he’s found it leads to […]
Last year, it was confirmed that Sony began production on the successor to the PlayStation 4, After months of speculation, information on the console has been revealed. Mark Cerny, the lead system architect for the PS4, sat down with Wired to discuss details about the next-gen release. Unlike the PS4 Pro (which was just a buffed […]
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 […]
