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Can you really call eSports a sport? ESPN thinks so
Products sales don't account for all of the $111 billion that the video game industry generates, eSports play a big role as well, a big enough role that ESPN brought eSports...
Twitter's new homepage is great but it doesn't solve the big issues
Less than a fourth of American adults use Twitter, far less than the 71% who use Facebook. While trailing behind Facebook in user numbers doesn't really mean much, the fact...
China used a cyber super weapons to take down GitHub
Remember that prolonged cyberattack that GitHub suffered last month, the one that was suspected to have been conducted by the Chinese government? Well, researchers are suggesting that this wasn't an...
HRW is suing the DEA for decades of bulk data collection
It looks like the NSA isn't the only government agency in the United States that's collecting vast amounts of data on American citizens, the DEA is doing it too. In...
Instagram isn't banning pictures of menstrual blood after all
Facebook has some notoriously aggressive anti-sexual policies when it comes to the content posted on its website and its subsidiary, Instagram. However, what constitutes as sexually suggestive is debatable and...
Twitter is the next tech company to get hit with a discrimination lawsuit
It doesn't look like any tech company is safe from the explosion of gender discrimination lawsuits in Silicon Valley right now, not even Twitter. Hot on the heels of Facebook's...
CrowdFlower has raised $12.5 million to keep big data nice and clean
It's nice to know that the human touch is still needed in a world where robotics and artificial intelligence are gaining momentum. CrowdFlower, which has five million so-called on-demand contributors...
The Alamo Drafthouse has banned the use of Google Glass
Keep your eyes on the screen. No, the other screen. The movie theater chain known for its tongue-in-cheek attitude and serious anti-texting policy has added another bullet point to its...
Sr. Pago is bringing Spuare-like payments to Mexico's "unbanked" citizens
Sr. Pago, one of the two largest mobile point of sale services in Mexico, today announced the launch of the Sr. Pago Card System, the first service in the Americas...
Did Google censor search results for a potential Nest competitor?
Forget net neutrality — do we need search neutrality as well? Pando reports that home automation company Vivint found itself mysteriously removed from Google search results this past winter just two weeks after the search...