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Verizon to unload Tumblr: Could Pornhub provide a happy ending?

May03
by on May 3, 2019 at 2:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Verizon could be looking to sell Tumblr, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. But will a new owner bring back porn? Depends on the owner. Tumblr — the free blogging platform picked up in Verizon’s 2015 acquisition of Yahoo — is perhaps best known for its community of pornography curators. That’s prior to the purge, anyway, which saw the platform drop all adult content in December of 2018, much to the chagrin of its users. Since then, Tumblr’s popularity has waned. The site lost nearly 100 million monthly pageviews in the month that followed the ban —…

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These Roland BOSS pedals make you sound like a guitar god

May02
by on May 2, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Music, Plugged


Learning to play guitar is a lot of fun (and easier than ever), but somewhere around my 500th attempt at the main riff from “Black Sunshine” I got frustrated. I was playing the right notes, but it didn’t sound like White Zombie. In fact nothing I played sounded right – that is, until I added some Roland effects pedals to my practice sessions. Effects pedals allow you to change your guitar‘s tone with a stomp of your foot. This makes it simple to change from the crunchy sound of a heavy metal verse to the clean tones used in wailing…

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CHEAP: Get a ridiculously good Dyson cordless vacuum for 61 percent off

May02
by on May 2, 2019 at 9:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Corded vacuum cleaners suck (I’m sorry). The cables snag. Your range is limited to the nearest available wall socket. They’re often bulky and cumbersome. And, if you’re as hopelessly clumsy as I am, you’re perennially tripping on the wires. Lugging my ancient Vax to the top of my home’s landing area always feels somewhat dangerous, as though I’m Dyson with death (absolutely 100 percent not sorry). It’s for that reason why, if I lived in the states, I’d grab this Dyson V7 Motorhead cordless vacuum cleaner, which is currently on sale at Newegg for $154.99. That’s $245 (61 percent) less…

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Xbox enshrines wholesome ‘trash talk’ in its community standards

May02
by on May 2, 2019 at 9:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Microsoft changed the wording of its standards, explicitly banning offensive trash talk on its services and offering less crass alternatives. It sounds hokey at first — the examples of player banter sound so calculatedly good-natured they’ll make your teeth ache at first glance — but considering how often players can’t seem to tell the difference between trash talk and harassment, it’s an instruction some will need. The changes to Xbox‘s community standards were first spotted by eagle-eyed Redditors. The strictures on trash talk are in the fourth section, “Keep Your Content Clean,” where Microsoft outlines its desire to keep the platform accessible…

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