Tag: youtube
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The Secret Life of Components: Hinges
Tim Hunkin’s ongoing series about the parts that he uses to make his contraptions continues in episode three: Hinges. Tim is an absolute legend and he can even make hinges interesting. The series has so far covered working with chains and LEDs. You can find out more about The Secret Life of Components at Hunkin’s…
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YouTube’s Advertising Hellhole Urges People to Waste Money on Mystery Boxes
Will Sommer for The Daily Beast: Untold riches are promised on Mystery Brand, a website that sells prize-filled “mystery boxes.” If you buy one of the digital boxes, some of which cost hundreds of dollars, you might only get a fidget spinner—or you might get a luxury sports car. For just $100, users can win…
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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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Fortnite Skipping Google Play to The Detriment of User Security
Epic is skipping Google’s Android app store (the advertising publisher calls it Google Play as if that meant anything) for their upcoming Android version of the free-to-play Fortnite (which is already on iOS and almost every gaming and computing platform.) There’s a beta signup here and the compatibility situation on Android is already a nightmare, check out…
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Epic Sues 14 Year Old Fortnite Cheater
Sarah Jeong has an article up about Epic suing a 14 year old cheater in their free-to-play game Fortnite. It’s absolutely twisted that a business can sue anyone for cheating in a video game. It’s slightly more understandable to get litigious with people making and selling cheats, but then Epic should really just strengthen their…