iOS 12 could be summed up in one feature: speed. The rest is just a footnote, especially when you compare iOS 12 to iOS 11. You may remember that iOS 11 was filled with many new features, especially on the iPad. But it was also the buggiest release to date. Even the Calculator app wasn’t […]
How ‘d*ck soap’ turned the publishing industry upside down
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Do TV quizzes need ‘gender neutral’ questions?
“They are trying very hard to strike a better balance between questions that refer to men and questions that refer to women,” she says. She acknowledges this is hard because men have traditionally had the freedom to achieve more, and their achievements are more well known. Alan Connor – question editor on Richard Osman’s House […]
Facebook and Microsoft briefed state officials on election security efforts today
So much for summer Fridays. Yesterday, BuzzFeed reported that a dozen tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Snapchat, would meet at Twitter headquarters on Friday to discuss election security. For two of them, that wasn’t the only meeting in the books. In what appears to be a separate event on Friday, Facebook and Microsoft […]
‘Are we there yet?’ A road trip with kids is itself a destination
Route 219, West Virginia (CNN)I’m writing this on a road trip, the longest we’ve taken with our two daughters. It is nine hours according to the phone’s GPS, which means 11 hours in actual time with stops, which equates to 24 hours in perceived time. “Best case scenario for a car trip with little kids: […]
In the Trump era, satire is a dying art
Barack Obama and Joe Biden team up in a fictional crime novel (left) and Sacha Baron Cohen poses as one of his new characters (right), but neither match the absurdity of reality.Image: quirk books/showtime Nearly 20 months into the international embarrassment that is the Trump administration, faced with the prospect that its president may well […]
Anti-Trump children’s book ‘Ronald Plump’ gets roasted on Twitter
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Author of cult novel ‘House of Leaves’ posts wild TV script that’s impossible to film
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If I Was a “Real” Christian, Would I Really Be This Anxious All the Time?
ShareTweet I struggle with anxiety. I am a worrier. Sue me. I have been told it’s probably hard for my husband that I deal with anxiety, and I heartily agree. But it’s even harder on me. I have also been told that Christianity must not be working because if it worked, I wouldn’t be so […]
Aztec War God’s “Tower Of Skulls” Even Bigger And More Gruesome Than Thought
A new discovery has reaffirmed that the Aztecs will always be near the top of the list of history’s most badass cultures, not that there was ever much doubt anyway. Flashback to 2015, when archaeologists discovered a chunky cylindrical tower made out of nearly 700 humans skulls deep within Templo Mayor, one of the biggest […]