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American Gods will get a third season and a new showrunner
The second season of American Gods just premiered on Starz this past week, and fans can breath easy: Deadline reports that the network has renewed the series for a third season, and has brought on Hemlock Grove and Walking Dead producer Charles Eglee to serve as showrunner.
Based off of the classic fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman, American Gods follows a former convict named Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) who is pulled into an epic battle between factions of old and new deities when he’s hired by a mysterious man, Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) to act as a bodyguard and driver.
While Starz quickly renewed the show after it premiered in 2017, the series experienced a considerable amount of turmoil soon after. Showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael...
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মাসুদকে বিশ্ব সন্ত্রাসবাদী ঘোষণায় চিনের বাধা: ‘যতদিন লাগে, ততদিন’ ধৈর্য্য ধরে অপেক্ষা করবে ভারত, জানাল সূত্র, ‘বোঝাপড়া’য় পৌঁছতে আমেরিকা, ফ্রান্স, ব্রিটেন আলোচনা চালাচ্ছে বেজিংয়ের সঙ্গে
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দেখুন: এবিপি আনন্দ হাইস্কুলে বাজিমাৎ, সিজন থ্রি (১৬.০৩.১৯)
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অসুস্থতার জন্য গৃহবন্দি, ২৫ বছর পর প্রথমবার গোয়ায় ভোটপ্রচারে থাকছেন না মনোহর পর্রীকর
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Everything we think we know about Google’s mystery gaming announcement
Google is making a big play in gaming next week, but we’re still unsure exactly what that entails. For years, the company has toyed with the idea of getting involved in what is now the biggest sector of the entertainment industry, worth an estimated $138 billion dollars as of last fall. And it would make competitive sense: Amazon owns Twitch, Facebook acquired Oculus, and Microsoft has Xbox. The only other major tech company without a serious gaming platform or investment of its own, not counting mobile app stores, is Apple, although even the iPhone maker is now rumored to be working on a game subscription service of its own.
Google has always had many of the pieces required to challenge the likes of Sony and Nintendo. The Android...
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Everything we think we know about Google’s mystery gaming announcement
Google is making a big play in gaming next week, but we’re still unsure exactly what that entails. For years, the company has toyed with the idea of getting involved in what is now the biggest sector of the entertainment industry, worth an estimated $138 billion dollars as of last fall. And it would make competitive sense: Amazon owns Twitch, Facebook acquired Oculus, and Microsoft has Xbox. The only other major tech company without a serious gaming platform or investment of its own, not counting mobile app stores, is Apple, although even the iPhone maker is now rumored to be working on a game subscription service of its own.
Google has always had many of the pieces required to challenge the likes of Sony and Nintendo. The Android...
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বায়োপিকে শ্রীদেবীর ভূমিকায় অভিনয়ের প্রস্তাব খোলামনে গ্রহণ করবেন, বললেন বিদ্যা বালন
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দিল্লি থেকে কলকাতায় ফিরে অর্জুন সিংহ বললেন, জয়ের ব্যাপারে একশো শতাংশ নিশ্চিত
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কমিশনের কাছে ফিরহাদ-অনুব্রতর নামে অভিযোগ সিপিএমের, প্রচারের আগে দক্ষিণেশ্বরে কল্যাণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, সঙ্গে আরও খবর, হেডলাইনস ফটাফট
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অনুব্রত মণ্ডলের নির্দেশ মতো বোলপুরে ভোটের প্রচারে বিলি করা হল জল-নকুলদানা
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নিউজিল্যান্ডে মসজিদে হামলাকারীকে বাধা দিতে গিয়ে নিহত পাকিস্তানি
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ভোটের ২৫ দিন আগে কলকাতায় কেন্দ্রীয় বাহিনী, বউবাজার এলাকায় রুট মার্চ আধা সেনার
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আদর্শ আচরণবিধি লঙ্ঘন করেছেন ফিরহাদ হাকিম ও অনুব্রত মণ্ডল, নির্বাচন কমিশনে অভিযোগ সিপিএম নেতা রবীন দেবের
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মেদিনীপুর রাঙামাটির ডায়মন্ড স্পোর্টিং ক্লাবের মাঠে শুরু খাইবার পাস
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ভোটারদের মনে আস্থা ফেরাতে জেলায় জেলায় রুট মার্চ কেন্দ্রীয় বাহিনীর, জওয়ানরা কথা বলেন বাসিন্দাদের সঙ্গে
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কসবা নিউ বালিগঞ্জ বিদ্যালয়ের অধ্যক্ষের সঙ্গে ফেসবুকে পরিচয়ের পর বাড়িতে এসে চায়ের সঙ্গে ঘুমের ওষুধ মিশিয়ে নগদ টাকা, সোনাদানা সহ মূল্যবান সামগ্রী লুঠের অভিযোগ, ওড়িশা থেকে গ্রেফতার মহিলা প্রতারক
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নির্বাচন কমিশনের প্রতিনিধিদলের কাছে বিভিন্ন রাজনৈতিক দলের প্রতিনিধিরা, বিস্তারিত জানাচ্ছেন আমাদের প্রতিনিধি
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কলকাতার পার্ক সার্কাস স্টেশনে আক্রান্ত কাশ্মীরি ব্যবসায়ী, প্রায় ২ লক্ষ টাকা লুঠের অভিযোগ, অভিযুক্তরা অধরা
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অর্জুন সিংহের খাসতালুকে অর্জুন-অনুগামীদের বাড়িতে হামলা, অভিযোগ-পাল্টা অভিযোগে উত্তপ্ত ভাটপাড়া
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২০১৪-য় ছিল হাওয়া, ২০১৯-এ চলছে ‘মোদি সুনামি’, ২০২৪-এ আর নির্বাচনই হবে না, বললেন বিজেপি এমপি সাক্ষী মহারাজ
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অল্পের জন্য রক্ষা, নিউজিল্যান্ড ছাড়লেন আতঙ্কিত বাংলাদেশের ক্রিকেটাররা
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ঘণ্টাখানেক সঙ্গে সুমন (১৫০৩১৯): জেলায় রুট মার্চ বাহিনীর। স্পর্শকাতর ইস্যুতে তৃণমূলের ধর্নার পাল্টা বিজেপি। ট্রোলিং নিয়ে দুই সুর বাবুল-দিলীপের। ভবিষ্যতের ভূত প্রদর্শন শুরুর নির্দেশ সুপ্রিম কোর্টের
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ভোটের আগে দেবগৌড়া ঘনিষ্ঠ দানিশ আলি জেডিএস ছেড়ে যোগ দিলেন বিএসপি-তে
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শুক্রবার থেকে শুরু হয়েছে অল বেঙ্গল ওপেন ফিডে রেটিং চেস টুর্নামেন্ট, উদ্যোক্তা দিব্যেন্দু বড়ুয়ার দাবা অ্যাকাডেমি
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চালু হল এসবিআইয়ের ইওনো অ্যাপ, কার্ড ছাড়াই এটিএমে টাকা, দেশের ১৬,৫০০ এটিএমে মিলবে পরিষেবা
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বিজেপির ভোটপ্রচারের সূচনা, চৌকিদার দৃঢ় ভাবে দেশের সেবা করছেন, আপনারাও ‘ম্যায় ভি চৌকিদার’ শপথ নিন, অনুগামীদের মোদি
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ধোনির ডেপুটি হিসেবে উপযুক্ত ঋষভ পন্ত, বললেন রিকি পন্টিং
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তৃণমূল-বিজেপি তরজা, অর্জুন অনুগামীদের বাড়িতে হামলা, জায়গা ভরানো খবর নয়, বাছাই করা সেরা খবর, সবার জন্য সব খবর, ফটাফট
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ক্রাইস্টচার্চের মসজিদে বিস্ফোরণের পর থেকে নিখোঁজ হায়দরাবাদের ফারহাজ, সরকার খোঁজ নিক, বললেন উদ্বিগ্ন বাবা
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বোলপুরে প্রচার শুরু তৃণমূল প্রার্থী অসিত মালের, দমদমের বাম প্রার্থী নেপালদেব ভট্টাচার্যের নিশানায় শাসক দল
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জন্মদিনে ছোট্ট আলিয়ার ভিডিও পোস্ট মহেশ ভট্টর: বুকে বসে মেয়ে, গান গেয়ে জন্মদিনের শুভেচ্ছা বাবার
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ছল-চাতুরির আশ্রয় নেওয়ার জন্যই বারবার কমিশনের কাছে যাচ্ছে বিজেপি, কমিশনের সঙ্গে কথা বলে জানালেন পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায়, পাল্টা মুকুল রায়
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আরামবাগে বাম প্রার্থীর প্রচার শুরু, কোচবিহারে বিয়েবাড়িতে গুলি, মৃত বালক, সঙ্গে ২৩ জেলার আরও খবর, এক ঝলকে
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নূসরত জাহানের নামে সোশাল মিডিয়ায় আপত্তিকর ছবি পোস্ট করার অভিযোগে গ্রেফতার ১
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অনুরাগীর ডাকে সাড়া, মস্তিষ্কের কঠিন অসুখে আক্রান্ত দেয়ার জন্মদিনে কেক কাটলেন অভিনেতা দেব
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আপনাদের চৌকিদার দৃঢ় ভাবে দেশের সেবা করছেন, আপনারাও ‘ম্যায় ভি চৌকিদার’ শপথ নিন, অনুগামীদের মোদি
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মাসুদকে আন্তর্জাতিক জঙ্গি হিসেবে ঘোষণা করতে চাপ, চিনের সঙ্গে আলোচনা আমেরিকা, ফ্রান্স, গ্রেট ব্রিটেনের
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ভোটারদের আস্থা বাড়াতে বীরভূমের সিউড়িতে কেন্দ্রীয় বাহিনীর রুট মার্চ
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কমিশন-দল পৌঁছল রাজ্যে, আজ বিজেপির প্রথম প্রার্থী তালিকা প্রকাশের সম্ভাবনা, জায়গা ভরানো খবর নয়, বাছাই করা সেরা খবর, সবার জন্য সব খবর, ফটাফট
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বাঁকুড়ার ইন্দপুর থেকে উদ্ধার বিপুল পরিমাণ বিস্ফোরক, গ্রেফতার এক
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খুনের মামলায় অভিযুক্ত হওয়ার পর আদালতে হাসি নিউজিল্যান্ডে জঙ্গি হামলার অভিযুক্তর
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পাওয়ার মিল: ভোটের ব্যস্ততায় খাবারে কীভাবে ক্যালরির ভারসাম্য রাখছেন দক্ষিণ কলকাতার তৃণমূল প্রার্থী মালা রায়? দেখে নেব
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Unnerving Annabelle 3 Teaser Delivers Giggles and an Official Title
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Questions about policing online hate are much bigger than Facebook and YouTube
In the wake of a hate-fueled mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, major web platforms have scrambled to take down a 17-minute video of the attack. Sites like YouTube have applied imperfect technical solutions, trying to draw a line between newsworthy and unacceptable uses of the footage.
But Facebook, Google, and Twitter aren’t the only places weighing how to handle violent extremism. And traditional moderation doesn’t affect the smaller sites where people are still either promoting the video or praising the shooter. In some ways, these sites pose a tougher problem — and their fate cuts much closer to fundamental questions about how to police the web. After all, for years, people have lauded the internet’s ability to connect...
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This week’s Simpsons focuses on League of Legends
League of Legends will be one of the focal points in Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons. The crossover will give fans of the show a look at the world of e-sports and PC gaming, while giving League fans who are lapsed Simpsons viewers a reason to tune in.
Whalen Rozelle, Riot Games’ co-head of e-sports, tells The Verge that The Simpsons reached out last year to learn more about League e-sports, as an executive producer for the show regularly drives by League’s e-sports arena on the way to work. “This episode was not sponsored in any way. They came to us organically to help consult on the episode,” Rozelle says. “We worked very closely with the Simpsons team, reviewing the script and sharing feedback on specific questions they had while...
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Valve says it will investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide bad-faith scores
Valve says it’s taking a new approach to user reviews on its gaming marketplace Steam, after attempting and largely failing to solve the problem of so-called review bombing that taints its consumer recommendation system. In a blog post published today, Valve says that it’s “continued to listen to feedback from both players and developers,” and it’s implementing a new approach: hiding the off-topic review scores.
The company says that it defines a review bomb as “one where the focus of those reviews is on a topic that we consider unrelated to the likelihood that future purchasers will be happy if they buy the game.” To identify such campaigns, Valve says that it’s developed a tool to identify periods of time where a review bombing is...
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Tinder says it no longer uses a ‘desirability’ score to rank people
Tinder wants to set the record straight about how its platform ranks and shows people potential matches, so today it published a blog post on the subject — but still kept things fairly vague. The company’s Elo score was a “hot topic” a few years ago, according to the blog post, but the ranking feature has now been depreciated.
The idea behind the Elo score was that Tinder would rank people by attractiveness. Elo scores are used to rank chess players, too, but in the context of Tinder, the more people that swiped right (or Liked) a person’s profile, the higher their assigned score went up. Their card would then be served to other people with a similar score, thereby keeping the most desirable people interacting with one another. On...
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LG’s 2019 OLED TV lineup with AirPlay 2 will hit stores starting in April
LG has unveiled the pricing and release plans for some of its 2019 OLED TV lineup, basically mirroring the company’s playbook from last year. These are some of the very best TVs you can buy, so LG is continuing to price them as such.
The 2019 C9 (65-inch, 55-inch) and E9 (65-inch) series TVs will start shipping in April. The 77-inch model of the C9 and 55-inch E9 will hit stores a bit later in May and June, respectively. And this year’s update to LG’s “wallpaper” TVs — to be available in 65- and 75-inch sizes — will come out in June.
(If you were wondering, no, there’s still not at a firm price or release date for the stunning rollable TV.)
LG’s TV branding can be pretty confusing, but all of these TVs fundamentally share the same...
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Snapchat may launch a gaming platform as early as next month
Snap may be launching a new gaming platform for Snapchat as early as next month at the company’s Snap Partner Summit in Los Angeles on April 4th, according to a report from Cheddar.
Snapchat has dabbled in games before — the company launched “Snappables,” a set of AR lens games last year — but the new platform (said to be codenamed “Project Cognac”) would be a larger foray into the gaming world, and it would allow outside developers to create games that would live inside the Snapchat app.
Snap also reportedly bought out Australian game studio Prettygreat back in January, according to a report from CNET, which could further hint at a new gaming push. Additionally, The Information reported in summer 2018 that Snap was working on a...
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How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and more
You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, and other services; in fact, just across the internet in general. They begin playing as soon as you load a page or (if they’re more deviously implemented) when you start scrolling through a page to catch your attention.
Automatic video play is a feature that, while nice to have when it’s surfacing content that’s related to your interests, can be pretty annoying. Autoplay videos can be harmful, too, exposing you to violent, offensive, or otherwise unwanted content that you shouldn’t have to see by default. Several browsers, like Google Chrome and Firefox, now have built-in measures to curb autoplay videos, but for the most part, turning them off...
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Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres
Reddit has banned r/watchpeopledie, an infamous subreddit that hosted videos of people dying gruesomely. The ban comes after the subreddit re-hosted videos of the recent mosque massacres in New Zealand. According to the new landing page, the subreddit was banned for violating Reddit’s content policy about glorifying or encouraging violence.
A Reddit spokesperson provided this statement: “We are very clear in our site terms of service that posting content that incites or glorifies violence will get users and communities banned from Reddit. Subreddits that fail to adhere to those site-wide rules will be banned.”
A source at the company agreed with that assessment, confirming that when communities encourage posting either the shooter’s...
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Why can’t YouTube automatically catch re-uploads of disturbing footage?
After a man used Facebook to live stream his attack on two New Zealand mosques last night, the video quickly spread to YouTube. Moderators fought back, trying to take the horrific footage down, but new uploads of the video kept appearing. It led many observers to wonder: since YouTube has a tool for automatically identifying copyrighted content, why can’t it automatically identify this video and wipe it out?
Exact re-uploads of the video will be banned by YouTube, but videos that contain clips of the footage have to be sent to human moderators for review, The Verge has learned. Part of that is to ensure that news videos that use a portion of the video for their segments aren’t removed in the process.
YouTube’s safety team thinks of it as...
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ক্রাইস্টচার্চের গুলিচালনায় নিউজিল্যান্ডের প্রধানমন্ত্রীকে চিঠি লিখে শোক মোদির, ইসলামোফোবিয়া-ই দায়ী, বললেন ইমরান
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নিউজিল্যান্ডের দুটি মসজিদে জঙ্গি হামলায় নিহত এক ভারতীয় সহ ৪৯, নিখোঁজ আরও ৯
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আলিয়ার জন্মদিন পালন: কাটলেন পাপারাৎজিদের আনা কেক, ভক্তদের সঙ্গে তুললেন নিজস্বী
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মালাইকার সঙ্গে গীর্জায় বিয়ে? ব্যক্তিগত জীবন নিয়ে চর্চায় ক্লান্ত? মুখ খুললেন অর্জুন কপূর!
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ভারতীয় দলে চার নম্বরে উপযুক্ত ব্যাটসম্যান হতে পারেন পূজারা, মত সৌরভের
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অর্জুন সিংহর খাস তালুক উত্তর ২৪ পরগনার ভাটপাড়ায় অর্জুন অনুগামীদের বাড়িতে হামলার অভিযোগ তৃণমূলের বিরুদ্ধে
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কোচবিহারে বিয়েবাড়িতে গুলি, মৃত বালক, দ. ২৪ পরগনায় যাত্রা শিল্পীর রহস্যমৃত্যু, ২৩ জেলার বাছাই খবর, সব জেলার সব খবর, এক ঝলকে
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পৌঁছল নির্বাচন কমিশনের উচ্চ পর্যায়ের প্রতিনিধিদল, নেতৃত্বে উপ নির্বাচন কমিশনার সুদীপ জৈন
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আজ ও আগামীকাল কলকাতা সহ দক্ষিণবঙ্গে বজ্রবিদ্যুৎ সহ বৃষ্টির সম্ভাবনা, বৃষ্টি হতে পারে পুরুলিয়া, বাঁকুড়া এবং পশ্চিম মেদিনীপুরেও
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আজ দিল্লি যাচ্ছেন রাজ্য বিজেপির সভাপতি দিলীপ ঘোষ, দ্রুত রাজ্য বিজেপির প্রার্থী তালিকা ঘোষণার সম্ভাবনা
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Questions about policing online hate are much bigger than Facebook and YouTube
In the wake of a hate-fueled mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, major web platforms have scrambled to take down a 17-minute video of the attack. Sites like YouTube have applied imperfect technical solutions, trying to draw a line between newsworthy and unacceptable uses of the footage.
But Facebook, Google, and Twitter aren’t the only places weighing how to handle violent extremism. And traditional moderation doesn’t affect the smaller sites where people are still either promoting the video or praising the shooter. In some ways, these sites pose a tougher problem — and their fate cuts much closer to fundamental questions about how to police the web. After all, for years, people have lauded the internet’s ability to connect...
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This week’s Simpsons focuses on League of Legends
League of Legends will be one of the focal points in Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons. The crossover will give fans of the show a look at the world of e-sports and PC gaming, while giving League fans who are lapsed Simpsons viewers a reason to tune in.
Whalen Rozelle, Riot Games’ co-head of e-sports, tells The Verge that The Simpsons reached out last year to learn more about League e-sports, as an executive producer for the show regularly drives by League’s e-sports arena on the way to work. “This episode was not sponsored in any way. They came to us organically to help consult on the episode,” Rozelle says. “We worked very closely with the Simpsons team, reviewing the script and sharing feedback on specific questions they had while...
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Valve says it will investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide bad-faith scores
Valve says it’s taking a new approach to user reviews on its gaming marketplace Steam, after attempting and largely failing to solve the problem of so-called review bombing that taints its consumer recommendation system. In a blog post published today, Valve says that it’s “continued to listen to feedback from both players and developers,” and it’s implementing a new approach: hiding the off-topic review scores.
The company says that it defines a review bomb as “one where the focus of those reviews is on a topic that we consider unrelated to the likelihood that future purchasers will be happy if they buy the game.” To identify such campaigns, Valve says that it’s developed a tool to identify periods of time where a review bombing is...
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Tinder says it no longer uses a ‘desirability’ score to rank people
Tinder wants to set the record straight about how its platform ranks and shows people potential matches, so today it published a blog post on the subject — but still kept things fairly vague. The company’s Elo score was a “hot topic” a few years ago, according to the blog post, but the ranking feature has now been depreciated.
The idea behind the Elo score was that Tinder would rank people by attractiveness. Elo scores are used to rank chess players, too, but in the context of Tinder, the more people that swiped right (or Liked) a person’s profile, the higher their assigned score went up. Their card would then be served to other people with a similar score, thereby keeping the most desirable people interacting with one another. On...
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LG’s 2019 OLED TV lineup with AirPlay 2 will hit stores starting in April
LG has unveiled the pricing and release plans for some of its 2019 OLED TV lineup, basically mirroring the company’s playbook from last year. These are some of the very best TVs you can buy, so LG is continuing to price them as such.
The 2019 C9 (65-inch, 55-inch) and E9 (65-inch) series TVs will start shipping in April. The 77-inch model of the C9 and 55-inch E9 will hit stores a bit later in May and June, respectively. And this year’s update to LG’s “wallpaper” TVs — to be available in 65- and 75-inch sizes — will come out in June.
(If you were wondering, no, there’s still not at a firm price or release date for the stunning rollable TV.)
LG’s TV branding can be pretty confusing, but all of these TVs fundamentally share the same...
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Snapchat may launch a gaming platform as early as next month
Snap may be launching a new gaming platform for Snapchat as early as next month at the company’s Snap Partner Summit in Los Angeles on April 4th, according to a report from Cheddar.
Snapchat has dabbled in games before — the company launched “Snappables,” a set of AR lens games last year — but the new platform (said to be codenamed “Project Cognac”) would be a larger foray into the gaming world, and it would allow outside developers to create games that would live inside the Snapchat app.
Snap also reportedly bought out Australian game studio Prettygreat back in January, according to a report from CNET, which could further hint at a new gaming push. Additionally, The Information reported in summer 2018 that Snap was working on a...
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How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and more
You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, and other services; in fact, just across the internet in general. They begin playing as soon as you load a page or (if they’re more deviously implemented) when you start scrolling through a page to catch your attention.
Automatic video play is a feature that, while nice to have when it’s surfacing content that’s related to your interests, can be pretty annoying. Autoplay videos can be harmful, too, exposing you to violent, offensive, or otherwise unwanted content that you shouldn’t have to see by default. Several browsers, like Google Chrome and Firefox, now have built-in measures to curb autoplay videos, but for the most part, turning them off...
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Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres
Reddit has banned r/watchpeopledie, an infamous subreddit that hosted videos of people dying gruesomely. The ban comes after the subreddit re-hosted videos of the recent mosque massacres in New Zealand. According to the new landing page, the subreddit was banned for violating Reddit’s content policy about glorifying or encouraging violence.
A Reddit spokesperson provided this statement: “We are very clear in our site terms of service that posting content that incites or glorifies violence will get users and communities banned from Reddit. Subreddits that fail to adhere to those site-wide rules will be banned.”
A source at the company agreed with that assessment, confirming that when communities encourage posting either the shooter’s...
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Why can’t YouTube automatically catch re-uploads of disturbing footage?
After a man used Facebook to live stream his attack on two New Zealand mosques last night, the video quickly spread to YouTube. Moderators fought back, trying to take the horrific footage down, but new uploads of the video kept appearing. It led many observers to wonder: since YouTube has a tool for automatically identifying copyrighted content, why can’t it automatically identify this video and wipe it out?
Exact re-uploads of the video will be banned by YouTube, but videos that contain clips of the footage have to be sent to human moderators for review, The Verge has learned. Part of that is to ensure that news videos that use a portion of the video for their segments aren’t removed in the process.
YouTube’s safety team thinks of it as...
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Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi Has A Hilarious Response To James Gunn’s Rehiring
Today, Disney surprised us all by reinstating James Gunn as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, after the filmmaker had previously been removed from the production last summer due to a Twitter controversy. Marvel fans have been ecstatic about the announcement ever since and some of his colleagues at the House of Ideas have joined in with celebrating the good news.
The latest is Thor: Ragnarok‘s Taika Waititi, who had the perfect response to Gunn re-entering the MCU. Before I go any further though, let’s see what the man Marvel lovers know as Korg had to say:
What the hell?? I thought I was going to do it!! https://t.co/Emdfiw6Opa
— Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) March 15, 2019
The New Zealand director is referencing the fact that he was pretty much the internet’s favorite choice to replace Gunn on Guardians 3, likely due to how he’s already helped shape a cosmic comedy for Marvel in the past. Obviously, Waititi’s just joking here though, as he’s previously made it clear that he wouldn’t want to step on Gunn’s toes and move in on his franchise.
The director’s future with Marvel has yet to be defined, though they’d be mad if they didn’t get him back on board after Ragnarok was such a roaring success. At least he’s directed an episode of Jon Favreau’s highly anticipated Star Wars live-action series The Mandalorian, which is coming to Disney Plus later this year.
As for Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 isn’t the only superhero film he’s got in the works. Despite making amends with Marvel, he’s still signed up to helm The Suicide Squad for DC. The thinking is that he’s going to be busy with that for the next couple of years or so and then he’ll set about completing the Guardians trilogy he began back in 2014.
Tell us, are you glad James Gunn is back with Marvel, or would you have liked to have seen Taika Waititi’s take on the Guardians franchise? Lay out your feelings in the comments section down below.
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