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Progressive Media Pressures SXSW to Only Restore Anti-GamerGate Panel

Digital media festival South By South West (SXSW) faced frenzied criticism from across the tech media this week after it cancelled two panels on gaming, with Vox Media and BuzzFeed promising to boycott the festival. Yet much of the outrage was confined to the cancellation of just one of the panels: the one that reinforced progressive narratives.

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The Second Teaser Trailer for ‘American Milo’ Has Been Released

American Milo, a feature-length documentary by independent filmmaker Loren Feldman about my ascension to greatness and influence in American media – his words, not mine – comes out in November. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAA1svoQzsQ Mortified though I am by the attention, obviously, here’s the first

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Launch Trailer for Psychological-Horror Game ‘The Park’

The launch trailer for The Park, a first-person psychological horror game set in the same universe as developer Funcom’s The Secret World MMORPG, shows off the disturbing and twisted environments protagonist Lorraine will navigate as she tries to find her lost son in a haunted amusement park.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Frontwoman Karen O Creates Theme Song for ‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Karen O is teaming up with Lara Croft. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman, who was nominated for a best original song Academy Award last year for “Moon Song” from “Her,” has created a new theme song for the video game heroine that will be featured in “Rise of the Tomb Raider,” the forthcoming follow-up to the 2013 title that rebooted the action series.

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Majority of Theranos Board Gone After FDA Report

Biotech sensation Theranos was supposed to be Silicon Valley’s next hot IPO. But late Thursday evening, the company told Fortune Magazine that its board of directors had shrunk from 12 members to five as it battles a perfect storm of negative publicity.

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Breitbart Tech Editor Hosts Epic 8-Hour Free Speech Live Stream

Milo Yiannopoulos, Noah Dulis and the rest of the Breitbart Tech team held an all-star 8-hour live stream on YouTube today, bringing together cultural libertarian thinkers, gamers, journalists, Hollywood celebrities, Internet personalities, filmmakers, trolls and contrarians in what might be

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China to Impose Orwellian ‘Social Credit System’ on Internet Users

The latest brainstorm from the Chinese Communist Party is a system for monitoring the Internet activity and financial transactions of its citizens, computing a “social credit” score on the acceptability of each person’s behavior, similar to the credit ratings compiled by financial institutions.

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Quotas Are Coming to Silicon Valley

Quotas are coming to Silicon Valley. In fact, there is growing evidence they’ve already been put in place at some of the largest tech companies in the region — and soon, “diversity” will be required for start-ups seeking funding.

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‘Party Hard’ Review: Silly Serial Killer Simulator with a Funky Beat

Party Hard is strategy stealth murder simulator from Pinokl Games. You play as the Party Hard killer, a man driven to kill people at parties because… they’re too loud. Obviously, the plot isn’t the best part here — the gameplay is, and it’s best to not dwell on it. You’re an angry sociopath in a mask with a knife and with one mission in life: get your knife on.

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Senate Passes Controversial CISA Cybersecurity Bill

The U.S. Senate has passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by a vote of 74-21, despite vociferous objections from civil liberties groups who say the bill will afford the government even more powers to collect the private online data of ordinary citizens.