Tag: Society & Culture
ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
US government officials have condemned ICEBlock and CNN’s recent coverage of it, leading to more people hearing about its existence and downloading it from the App Store. Now the application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed…
Read MoreVideo game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status." The union makes its official…
Read MoreMost US teens still use TikTok daily as ban looms
With a TikTok ban in the United States looking more and more likely, a new report from Pew Research on teen social media use underscores just how influential the app is among its youngest users. Not only is it one of the most-used social media services by teens, 57 percent…
Read MoreADL report finds Steam is ‘rife’ with racist posts and images
Valve’s Steam store is more than just a place to buy computer games online. It’s an active community of gamers. Unfortunately, a sizable portion of those gamers are posting an “unprecedented” amount of hateful, racist and anti-Semetic content on the gaming site’s cyber social gathering place Steam Community, according to…
Read MoreCards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing and filling its property with ‘space garbage’
Cards Against Humanity is the latest entity to take on Elon Musk in court. The irreverent party game company filed a $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX for trespassing on property it owns in Texas, which happens to sit near SpaceX facilities. According to a lawsuit filed in a federal court…
Read MoreKim Dotcom, roguish face of 2010s online piracy, will finally be extradited to the US
Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder and hard-partying face of early 2010s online piracy, is finally headed to the US. Reuters reports that New Zealand’s justice minister signed an extradition order on Thursday to end the entrepreneur’s nearly 13-year legal battle, paving the way for the German-born Dotcom to face charges…
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