Microsoft Slammed For Sexist Xbox One Ad
Can one of you guys point out what is so "insanely" sexist and offensive about this customizable letter from Microsoft? Has no one seen the awesome "boyfriend, get me a beer" ad?
Microsoft has apologized for the wording in this ad and is currently taking steps to change it. The company sent the following statement to Eurogamer: "The letter is fully customizable and we meant no offense, but understand how the defaults could be perceived. We're making changes to the letter defaults and apologize for the oversight."
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Wikimedia Is Liable For Contents of Wikipedia Articles
This seems like common sense doesn't it? Why would they not be liable for the content on Wikipedia?
The Wikimedia Foundation is liable for the contents of Wikipedia articles but does not have to fact check the contents before they are published. Articles on Wikipedia are written and altered by third parties and not checked by Wikimedia, which owns the site. Nonetheless, Wikimedia has a certain responsibility for the contents of those articles, the court ruled.
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Another Restaurant Bans Google Glass
Businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone they see fit, this restaurant just so happens to have a sense of humor about refusing service.
If you do wear your Google Glasses inside, or film or photograph people without their permission, you will be asked to stop, or leave. And if we ask you to leave, for God's sake, don't start yelling about your "rights". Just shut up and get out before you make things worse
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Steam Autumn Sale 2013
Just a reminder that Steam's Autumn Sale 2013 just kicked off. The sale runs from today through December 3rd and is full of deals like 80% off Sleeping Dogs, 75% off Skyrim, 75% off Left For Dead 2 and more.
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Man Throws Away Hard Drive Containing $7.5M In Bitcoins
We've all done some pretty dumb stuff before but this takes the cake.
A hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site. A digital 'wallet' containing 7,500 Bitcoins that James Howells generated on his laptop is buried under four feet of rubbish.
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Government Pays $50M For Pirating Military Software
Attention citizens! Remember to always do as I say, not as I do. Thanks!
- Uncle Sam
For years the U.S. military operated pirated copies of logistics software that was used to protect soldiers and shipments in critical missions. Apptricity, the makers of the software, accused the military of willful copyright infringement and sued the Government for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in unpaid licenses. In a settlement just announced, the Obama administration has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the dispute.
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Pawn Stars Make A Scroogled Ad
Microsoft sure seems to like its Scroogled campaign. The company's latest effort is this Pawn Stars parody commercial.
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OCZ Plans Bankruptcy Filing
It looks as though OCZ will be filing bankruptcy and selling off its assets. Thanks to everyone that sent this one in.
Shares of solid-state drive technology vendor OCZ Technology Group (OCZ) remain frozen since 9 am, Eastern this morning, and the reason came across the transom just a short while ago: The company has received an offer from Toshiba (6502JP) to purchase all the company's assets in a bankruptcy proceeding.
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Scythe Mugen 4 CPU Air Cooler
If you are in need of a new CPU air cooler, I highly recommend reading our evaluation of the Scythe Mugen 4. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.
Scythe furthers its Mugen line of computer processor heatsink air coolers by redesigning the fan with the new "Glide Stream" unit. It also pays attention to the heatsink design itself but has totally rethought its mounting system and how it works making the Mugen 4 heatsink much easier to install than its predecessors? Bang for the buck too!
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Tech Questions Your Family Will Ask You This Holiday
Wired has put together a list of all the answers to the tech questions you'll be asked by family members over the holidays. Here are a few of my favorites:
Fix my printer.
Why is my Facebook stuff all public?
What exactly is Twitter?
My Netflix looks fuzzy, can you fix it?
Please fix my router/network.
I forgot my password. Again.
Why is my computer so slow?
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Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Only Works On Some GPUs
The alternative OS gurus over at Phoronix found something interesting while working with the latest open-source drivers for NVIDIA based video cards.
With being in the process of checking out several new NVIDIA GeForce 700 GPUs on Linux, now that I have out of the way the GeForce GTX 760 / 770 / 780 Ti / TITAN Linux benchmarks and Windows vs. Linux NVIDIA benchmarks, I decided to see how these four "Kepler" graphics cards are working with Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA graphics driver that's written through clean-room reverse-engineering.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts PC Patched
Here are the patch notes for yesterday's Call of Duty: Ghosts update:
Performance
Improved framerate performance when traversing moving platforms.
Improved latency for AMD graphics cards.
Improved performance issues caused by spamming.
Improved shader warming and level load performance.
Stability
Fixed crash in CODeSports play.
Fixed spawn crash for specific maps/modes.
Improved usability of broadcaster HUD.
Additional animations added for broadcaster mode.
Improved steam friends functionality.
Fixed smoke flickering and graphical corruption within blurred area of dual render scope.
Re-enabled fur and smoke DLLs from nVidia.
Additional Fixes
Fixed a variety of map specific spawn issues .
Fixed lobby migration closing the create a class screen.
Fixed not showing attachments and weapon camo for players while in private match lobby.
Fixed dog's extended kill not showing properly in final killcam.
Fixed loadouts appearing restricted if a restricted perk was selected in specialist strike package even though specialist wasn't equipped.
Fixed split screen UI issue that could potentially leave player in a bad state.
Fixed issue when selecting store from squads.
Fix to remember spectator team when switching to freecam in broadcaster mode.
Fixed issue with loading into specific maps with ghost mask equipped.
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Scythe Mugen 4 CPU Air Cooler Review
Scythe furthers its Mugen line of computer processor heatsink air coolers by redesigning the fan with the new "Glide Stream" unit. It also pays attention to the heatsink design itself but has totally rethought its mounting system and how it works making the Mugen 4 heatsink much easier to install than its predecessors? Bang for the buck too!
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