Category: Features – Page 180
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Penna Retro Bluetooth Typewriter Keyboard Pre-Orders Are Now Open
Elretron's Penna Bluetooth Typewriter just wrapped up its IndieGoGo campaign today. The project managed to rack up nearly $500,000 in crowdfunding to bring the
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Weekly Recap May 6th, 2017: Darksiders 3, Feminism Overload, And Palmer Luckey
There has been so much overbearing talk and ideologically-driven discussion about identity politics and feminism in media that when Gunfire Games and THQ Nordic
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Everything Wrong With Tropes Vs Women’s Lady Sidekick Video
One of Anita Sarkeesian's final videos in her series of Tropes Vs Women in Video Games took aim at the “Lady Sidekick” trope, a common trope in games that's
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Myo-Prosthesis And Machine Learning Continue To Make Dramatic Advancements
Last year the concept of myoelectric gestures based on muscle data translated into bionic prosthesis movement was a big thing. DARPA's experimentation into the
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Open Discussion: April 30th, 2017
Welcome to the latest Open Discussion... a forum that is open for anyone to say anything — whether the matter is pressing, video game related or something ent
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Palmer Luckey Smear Campaign Was Fake News, According To UploadVR
Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and former front-man for the VR company (which is owned by Facebook), recently left the company this year. This came after a tu
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Nintendo Switch Purchaser Distribution Skews 90% Male
Nintendo released their financial data recently over on their official Japanese website, recounting how they've shipped 2.7 million Nintendo Switch SKUs worldwi
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Weekly Recap April 29th: Snopes’ Fake News And Huffington Post Apologizes
The official Fact Checker of the internet, Snopes, was caught peddling fake news by fabricating lies about #Gamergate without properly citing their work. This p
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WikiTribune Promises Evidenced Based Journalism Despite Wikipedia Shortcomings
The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, released a video claiming that WikiTribune – a new website he's working on – will attempt to fix all the “fake news
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Snopes Fabricates Lies About #GamerGate Without Citing Sources
Snopes has been selected by Facebook as an official “fact checker” for helping determine when a site is publishes an article that could be considered “fake news
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Brash Games Shuts Down Following Multiple Scandals [Updated]
[Update 4/25/2017: It looks as if Brash Games is now back up. A review was recently published on April 24th, 2017 for The Deer God, so it appears as if there ma
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Disqus Implementing Shadow Banning Tools, “Toxic” Content Detection
We previously wrote about how Disqus had plans on “improving” the user experience by being more proactive in moderating comments on publisher platforms. They’ve
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Huffington Post Forced To Apologize For Racist Propaganda; Editor-In-Chief Resigns
Retribution has been paid to the Huffington Post in the form of the editor-in-chief of the South African division resigning, and a scathing critique of the publ