In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor…

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No. 11 Loyola-Chicago and No. 9 Kansas State advance to an Elite Eight matchup that no one predicted in what was supposed to be Kentucky’s region.

Back in 2016, Epic Games teased the live motion-capture technology first used for Hellblade, which was stunning and showed the potential of the tech. With this new iteration, though, the company says it hopes to take « live-captured digital humans to the next level. » Siren is a high-fidelity digital character based on the likeness of an…

Die EU-Staaten haben Leitlinien verabschiedet, nach denen sie ihre Beziehungen zu Großbritannien nach dem Austritt des Landes aus der EU gestalten wollen. Unter anderem haben sich die Staats- und Regierungschefs beim einem Treffen darauf geeinigt, Großbritannien ein umfassendes Freihandelsabkommen ohne Zölle auf Waren anzubieten. Decision: EU27 has adopted guidelines for the future EU-UK relations after…

Der achtmalige Sprint-Olympiasieger Usain Bolt hat am Donnerstag zum zweiten Mal mit den Fußballprofis von Borussia Dortmund trainiert. Der Superstar aus Jamaika nahm am Vormittag an der Übungseinheit von Trainer Peter Stöger teil. Unter dem Applaus der 1400 Besucher am BVB-Trainingsgelände in Dortmund-Brackel und Reggae-Rhythmen absolvierte der 31-Jährige zunächst eine lockere Laufeinheit, Dehnungsübungen und einige…

A heartfelt thank-you text will do as well, if you’re really not into the whole old-fashioned pen-and-paper thing. The point is, people in our lives do thoughtful and lovely things other than giving gifts, so if someone does something you really appreciate (like supporting you through a hard time, giving you great advice, or being…

The trade conflict between China and the U.S. escalated, with Beijing announcing its first retaliation against metals levies hours after President Donald Trump outlined fresh tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports and pledged there’s more on the way. On Friday, China unveiled tariffs on $3 billion of U.S. imports in response to steel and aluminum…