On Social Media, There Is No Difference Between the Real and the Fake
In his The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek, taking from French humorist Alphonse Allais, presents us with a comic scenario: a married couple, for the sake [Read More…]
Month: September 2017
With new operating system, Apple revamps its money-making App Store
An attendee checks out a new iPhone X during an Apple launch event in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (Reuters) – Apple [Read More…]
Facebook Won’t Make Cars, COO Sandberg Reassures Germany
Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandbergwent on a charm offensive in Germany on Thursday, telling the country’s powerful automakers that the world’s biggest social network does [Read More…]
Facebook Crisis Response Centre Unveiled, Brings Safety Check and Community Help Together
To help its users during disasters, Facebook has created a new centre for crisis response where people can find information about recent crises and access the [Read More…]
Facebook Messenger Now Has 1.3 Billion Monthly Active Users
More than 1.3 billion people around the world are now using Facebook Messenger every month, the company has announced. The Messenger surpassed the one billion monthly active [Read More…]
Samsung to build its own 1,000 fps camera to challenge Sony
Sony was the first to build a mobile camera with on-chip memory – the Motion Eye camera on the Xperia XZ Premium and XZs (later XZ1 too). [Read More…]
MAC Ball 2017 $510 000 raised for the MAC Foundation
Montreal came together, on September 16, to raise money for the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) Foundation at the eagerly anticipated MAC Ball. Some 700 [Read More…]
Tasmanian Hospitality Association head lashes Liquor and Gaming Commission licence approvals
THE Tasmanian Hospitality Association wants the Liquor and Gaming Commission scrapped, labelling it a “waste of taxpayers’ money”. THA general manager Steve Old says the [Read More…]
Georgette Braun: Rockford’s No. 1 video gaming venue keeps things clean and friendly
A smiling Donnie Cuppini, an owner of Slots of Fun, greets me, a newcomer, as soon as I enter the video gaming venue: “We’ve got three [Read More…]
Online gaming must confront its pathetic, disturbing racism
I was 10 when we got the internet. Online gaming immediately became my favorite part about the family computer. Represented by a brown-skinned girl avatar [Read More…]