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People are outraged by this school shooter game for all the wrong reasons

May25
by on May 25, 2018 at 11:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Acid, a Russian independent game developer that publishes titles on Steam, is set to release Active Shooter, an FPS that simulates a school shooting incident. It allows you to play as the shooter or a SWAT team member tasked with neutralizing the perpetrator. It’s not the first game to attempt to tackle this difficult topic, and yet it’s drawn ire from the Steam community, as well as a UK-based nonprofit. But they’re asking the wrong questions about it. “Why would anybody think it’s a good idea to market something violent like that, and be completely insensitive to the deaths of…

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Reddit co-founder tells TNW about the sneaky design trick it decided to abandon

May25
by on May 25, 2018 at 11:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


How do you redesign a site with 350 million monthly active users, 300 million comments a day, and a user base known to get a little rowdy when things go wrong? This is exactly the sort of challenge Reddit’s CTO and Co-Founder Chris Slowe has been tackling over the past year. In a talk at TNW Conference, Slowe let loose a little about the recently redesigned “front page of the web,” aka Reddit. Perhaps the most interesting element — at least to me —  was one that never made the cut. The team knew after launching its first mobile app,…

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Reddit co-founder tells TNW about the sneaky design trick it decided to abandon

May25
by on May 25, 2018 at 11:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


How do you redesign a site with 350 million monthly active users, 300 million comments a day, and a user base known to get a little rowdy when things go wrong? This is exactly the sort of challenge Reddit’s CTO and Co-Founder Chris Slowe has been tackling over the past year. In a talk at TNW Conference, Slowe let loose a little about the recently redesigned “front page of the web,” aka Reddit. Perhaps the most interesting element — at least to me —  was one that never made the cut. The team knew after launching its first mobile app,…

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How free higher education can drive global innovation and diversity

May25
by on May 25, 2018 at 10:21 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Speaking on the second day of TNW’s 2018 conference, Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun lived up to her title of provocateur by proposing a radical idea: higher education should be free for all, and the fact that it isn’t is having a negative impact on culture as a whole by stifling innovation and diversity. When speaking about potential solutions to this problem, Dr. Ben Hayoun said: How can we support a new diversity? How can we have better gender representation on a leadership level? I’ve been told we need to start diversifying education with K-12. Young kids, for sure. But you…

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Tweets from a decade ago reveal a simpler time on the internet

May25
by on May 25, 2018 at 7:47 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Former Kickstarter CTO Andy Baio hit upon a most excellent discovery recently: a quick way to surface tweets from your timeline from exactly 10 years ago. Here, try it for yourself. Yup, those are decade-old tweets from the people you follow now While we obviously won’t get to see the same set of tweets, you’ll probably get a similar sense of how Twitter – and the world, I might argue – was more innocent back then. Running through my ancient timeline, I see chatter about FriendFeed, a social network from back in the day, news about Oppo making portable music…

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