Category: living
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What Happens When The Publisher is a Casino
Last year I was happy to receive a gifted subscription to The Athletic, a subscription-based sports outlet. It has some fine writers. Now they’ve partnered with a sports gambling company, BetMGM. Nando Di Fino: From the day we started the fantasy sports section, I’ve gotten one question, repeatedly:“Why Chris Vaccaro?”But a close second is, “When…
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The Plagiarizer
IGN recently fired an editor that covered Nintendo platforms and software, Filip Miucin, when it was discovered that he had plagiarized a review for Dead Cells from another video review. This situation was awful enough, but IGN’s managers did a good job of resolving it quickly, and I thought it could be an opportunity for…
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Meet Brazil’s Gaming Scene With Cloth Map
Drew met Brazil’s game players, developers, and the people who sell them.
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Uber Had the Opportunity to Monitor Everything on Your iPhone’s Screen
Daniel Jalkut: Yesterday, Gizmodo reported that Uber had been granted an entitlement for their iOS app that allowed them to capture an image of an iPhone’s screen at any time, even when the Uber app was not the active app on the phone. This is a big deal, because users don’t typically expect than an…
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How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
This is an amazing article by Rachel Aviv for the New Yorker about elderly people in Nevada being tossed out of their homes and having their possessions taken by a genuinely evil system of guardianship that was supposed to take care of them. There is too much to quote in the article, but the main…