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Snapchat’s reinventing itself to fight Instagram

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 11:56 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, world


Last week, Snapchat held its first partner summit, where it described the company’s new approach to standing out from competitors like Instagram. Key announcements included new AR features for lenses, new Snap original content, a multiplayer gaming platform, and a new developer kit to integrate Snapchat stories in other apps (like Tinder). Let’s break down these announcements to understand what the company wants to do. First, the new AR features include: Solving math problems by pointing the Snap camera to a problem. AR effects for monuments, pets, and people. Integration with Amazon.com, – so that you can shop what you see.…

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CHEAP: Find tranquility with $100 off Bose QuietComfort 25 headphones

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 11:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you work in a busy office, travel a lot, or just find yourself distracted by the outside world, you should probably get a pair of active noise-canceling headphones. And you know what’s great? You can now get the Bose QuietComfort 25 headphones for only $179,95, a full $100 off the list price. Thank you, universe. Bose headphones are still the high-water mark for noise-cancelation and the QuietComfort 25 are no exception to this. They’re a brilliant pair of comfortable and great-sounding cans, which deliver a wonderful…

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DOOM speedrunning is a complicated, frustrating sport

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 10:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Now, here’s a blast from the past. Remember DOOM? I’m talking about the one from 1993. For a lot of people – myself included – Carmack and Romero’s first-person shooter was a formative cultural experience, a bit like how LARPing Wolfenstein was for people born in the 1920’s. It may come as a surprise, but for a game that’s now old enough to have a pension plan and a couple of kids, there’s still a thriving ecosystem of DOOM speedrunners that continue to break records, almost 26 years later. Most recently, competitive DOOM player 4ShockBlast completed the iconic Hangar level…

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South Korean police use AI to bust $19M Bitcoin-fuelled pyramid scam

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 9:29 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


South Korean police have caught the masterminds of a Bitcoin-fuelled Ponzi scheme responsible for generating almost $19 million in revenue. The scam, called “M-Coin,” is said to have targeted those with poor understanding of the technology – mostly elderly people, retirees, and housewives – with promises of free cryptocurrency and recruitment bonuses for signing up others, reports Korea Joon Gang Daily. The Seoul Special Judicial Police Bureau for Public Safety, which acts independently of local police, arrested the CEOs of “a Bitcoin enterprise” and an online store over their part in the scam last week. Ten other recruiters were also arrested.…

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Lady Bits #2: On genderless Siri, shitty NASA, and clitoris games

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 8:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, newsletter


Welcome back to Lady Bits, our newsletter… And whoever else wants to read it. Today, we talk about genderless voice assistants, NASA being shit, and what the fuck happened during the Lady Bits launch. the bloody news Physicist Dr. Jess Wade has written over 500 biographies of women scientists on Wikipedia. The Guardian reported the founder and all-female editorial board of the Vatican’s women’s magazine all quit. They claim they were discredited by the Church for denouncing the abuse of nuns. The Cut interviewed Jessica Knoll on how to be a writer and still get really, really rich. As journalists, we’re allllll ears… VICE looked back at the cult…

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