For two days, the front pages of the biggest gaming sites weren’t focused on Overwatch or the giant vampire belle from Resident Evil 2 that everyone seems to be really horny for. Instead, they were about Palestine. The editorial staff of IGN,...
A Facebook group titled #SaveSheikhJarrah with 132k members taken down for review. A Palestinian writer who lost access to her Twitter account for posting footage of attacks on Gaza. A photograph of the al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in...
So let’s say there are infinite parallel universes. Everything that could possibly exist does exist — just in some other dimension. It’s quantum physics; you don’t think too hard about it. You just think about how cool it would be to take a vacation...
The audio-only app Clubhouse is facing new accusations of antisemitism. Venture capital investor Michaela Hirsch tweeted out audio clips and descriptions of some of the antisemitism she’d heard in a room discussing Louis Farrakhan’s legacy.
A month ago, I finally got my second dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. As a health professional who has been deployed to the frontline since the start of the pandemic, this not only offered some hope to break the endless cycle of loss and...
On December 8, when Britain’s first COVID-19 vaccination was delivered, official government guidance stated that people who were pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant should not receive it. The reason given was that these new...
At one point in season six of Line of Duty, which is currently airing on BBC One, Superintendent Ted Hastings – the proud, determined, grouchily folksy Northern Irish head of Anti-Corruption Unit 12 – is called into the office of some of the...
Is Twitter real life? This has become one of the perennial questions of social media. Indeed, it often seems as if prominent Twitter users enjoy nothing more than reminding the people they spend their lives, both professional and personal,...
Yahoo Answers is shutting down. Once upon a time, it was a juggernaut that pulled 31 million visitors a month and easily swatted away competition from the likes of Google and Amazon, both of which launched (and later scrapped) their own Q&A...