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- This comic explores Dungeons & Dragons’ classroom potential
- 11 new trailers you should watch this week
- New York City is the perfect scooter market, but it’s also the most impossible
- Microsoft’s Halo arcade game is now deployed to Dave & Busters across the US and Canada
- Florida man arrested in alleged multi-state SIM card hacking ring
- Junior Disease Detectives is for teens — but I geeked out over it, too
- Why Facebook banned Alex Jones — and Twitter didn’t
| This comic explores Dungeons & Dragons’ classroom potential Posted: 11 Aug 2018 11:00 AM PDT  The mainstreaming of the popular roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has significantly changed how people address and understand the game. It's become a spectator sport and a way for some gamers to earn their living. D&D gameplay and its symbolism have become a significant plot point in geek-oriented TV shows like Stranger Things and The Big Bang Theory. It's the subject of copious scientific studies and papers, and hundreds of long-running live-play podcasts. It's a steadily growing business, and an effective promotional gimmick for businesses. And it's also increasingly an educational tool. More and more teachers are publishing guides on how to use D&D both in the classroom, and as an after-school activity that promotes social growth,... |
| 11 new trailers you should watch this week Posted: 11 Aug 2018 10:00 AM PDT  A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to catch an early screening of Skate Kitchen, which comes out this weekend, at a film festival in Brooklyn. The film is just wonderful — it's about a skate group composed of teenage girls, and one girl in particular who runs away from home — and is fully just the kind of seemingly casual, relaxed picture about people trying to live that I absolutely love. The screening I was at was particularly special though, because Skate Kitchen is a real group of skaters from New York, who star in the film as fictionalized versions of themselves. So the tiny theater was packed with people who (judging by the chatter around me) were friends and relatives of the film's stars. That led to some funny reactions, like... |
| New York City is the perfect scooter market, but it’s also the most impossible Posted: 11 Aug 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Electric scooters have cropped up en masse in cities across the country from Salt Lake to Washington, DC, but they won't be hitting the most populous city in the US anytime soon. On one hand, New York City is a natural fit for these scooter companies, which have been valued at as high as $2 billion in recent months. New York is a city with a booming public transit system that millions take every day, but it's also filled with gaps. A recent report showed that 24 percent of the city's subway stations — many located in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens — were inaccessible to many of the city's residents. Scooter companies are salivating over the prospects, and sources tell The Verge that... |
| Microsoft’s Halo arcade game is now deployed to Dave & Busters across the US and Canada Posted: 11 Aug 2018 08:54 AM PDT  At E3 this year, Microsoft unveiled a new Halo game — Halo: Fireteam Raven. It wasn't Halo 6 or Halo: Infinite, but an arcade game set during the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The game is now available to play across the US and Canada at Dave & Busters. The game follows a team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs), as they fight alongside Master Chief on the original Halo ring. The game booth uses a 130-inch 4K screen to allow up to four players to play, manning four turrets in the game console, which allows them to fight across six levels. Players will also be able to log into the game with their gamertag to add their progress on Halo Waypoint. The games have been installed at Dave & Busters, a chain of arcade restaurants with 117... |
| Florida man arrested in alleged multi-state SIM card hacking ring Posted: 11 Aug 2018 08:00 AM PDT  Florida authorities made an arrest last month in an alleged multi-state SIM card hacking ring, the latest in a series of similar incidents. According to court records first unearthed this week by reporter Brian Krebs, law enforcement learned of the plot when a mother in Michigan overheard her son pretending to be an AT&T employee and called investigators. Authorities turned up, searched the son's room and his computer, and discovered files with a list of names and phone numbers, along with SIM cards and cell phones. After more searching, officers say they discovered SIM cards that led to seven victims in seven states, and who said their identities were stolen and cryptocurrency accounts pilfered of... |
| Junior Disease Detectives is for teens — but I geeked out over it, too Posted: 11 Aug 2018 07:00 AM PDT  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic novel that uses trolls, aliens, and a county fair to explain how it investigates mysterious disease outbreaks. It's meant for teens, but it's a good read for adults, too Nearly two dozen very serious subject matter experts from the CDC, the US Department of Agriculture, and the 4-H club contributed to Junior Disease Detectives: Operation Outbreak, which you can download on the CDC's website. It's a detective story with cover art that looks like something off a science fiction book from the 1980s. And even though I'm not their target audience, I tried it — and it's actually a lot of earnest, educational fun. The book opens with a group of students at a 4-H club meeting,... |
| Why Facebook banned Alex Jones — and Twitter didn’t Posted: 11 Aug 2018 03:00 AM PDT  On one hand, we spent maybe too much time this week on the question of whether one person should lose access to his social media accounts. On the other hand, it's a question that illuminates some of the central tensions that led me to start this newsletter. How can social media be used to do harm? Can tech companies effectively rein in their worst users? Also, what the hell is Twitter's deal? Will Oremus tries to answer the latter question with some reporting on what people inside Twitter are saying about Alex Jones. He offers a handful of theories on the company's paralyzed, contradictory stances on Infowars. First, there's Twitter's bias toward inaction on almost all things; second, there's its terror of being called partisan by... |
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