Three teams stand undefeated this week in the CFL, but that number could fall to one after this weekend’s slate of games. Week 3 begins in Calgary where the 2-0 Stampeders host the Ottawa REDBLACKS at 9 p.m. ET. The Stamps look to continue their roll following a dominant 41-7 victory over the Toronto Argonauts, while the REDBLACKS endeavour to start the season 2-0 following their win over Saskatchewan last week. The Thursday Night Football Concert Series continues with James Barker Band performing at halftime at McMahon Stadium. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats play their home-opener at Tim Hortons Field when the…
Author: Loknath Das
A college football Saturday usually has games kicking off every hour and half-hour (or more often), because there are so many games that they can’t all start at 1, 4, or 8 Eastern, like in the NFL. But more games than not fit into a few established buckets of time. A few decades of a mostly standard college TV schedule has allowed us to get a good sense of what games should look like at different times of the day and week. Each slot has its own personality and demands. Would it be nice to have a game as big…
Eve Thomas, an artist and magazine editor from Montreal, would not call herself a gamer. She played video games on a Mac as a child and enjoyed Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii, but most modern video games don’t appeal. “I don’t like the stress of dying,” she says. “And every single advert for most games presumed me to be a guy. They would presume a certain gaze. They didn’t feel like they were speaking to me.” About three years ago, Thomas got in contact with game programmer Brie Code at Ubisoft, one of the world’s biggest games publishers, hoping to…
Thiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, Karbi Anglong in Assam, and Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh are infamously linked in more ways than one. These three districts witnessed murders from the hands of irate mobs. The victims were hapless “outsiders”, who were beaten up and left to die. The perpetrators were local residents and the trigger was a piece of information circulated in social media platforms. Not long ago, many parts of India witnessed mob violence based on rumours that people possessed cow meat or were smuggling cows. In most cases, the people who took the law into their own hands were associated with right-leaning outfits or a part of so-called cow-protection groups. But the spate…
The “Pretty Woman” star has joined Instagram and made her first ever social media post. It’s a photo of her sitting in grass wearing denim shorts and a black top that says “love.” She captioned the photo, “Hello” with a sunshine emoji. The 50-year-old Oscar winner does not have a Twitter or Facebook account. source:-usatoday
Facebook has hired a team of ex-intelligence officers, researchers and media buyers to find the worst possible things that can be done using the platform and to help the company prevent them. The group is called “Investigative Operations Team” and is testing the company’s advertising systems, pages, Instagram, Messenger and more, BuzzFeed News reported on Saturday. The team is searching for troubling behaviour, examining keywords and other signals that could be used to promote violence. It is also investigating Facebook’s merchant tools, attempting to spot problematic product sales. “What we have now is a series of people who are truly looking for how…
Manon, 17, has a Facebook account but to connect with her friends she turns to other social networks like Instagram or Snapchat. “I don’t use it to post status updates or personal information,” the San Francisco teen says. Manon maintains her Facebook account to be able to stay in touch with the large number of users on the huge social network and as a “gateway” to log into other apps. “But to communicate with my friends, it’s Snapchat,” the high schooler said. “Everyone says Facebook is out of date. I think it’s because all the parents are on Facebook.” As Facebook has grown into a…
Facebook Messenger now gives you a reason to make friends who primarily speak Spanish as it has received the anticipated update to let users translate messages from Spanish to English and vice-versa. The new translation functionality comes through the artificial intelligence (AI) backed M Translations that Facebook had unveiled at its F8 developer conference last month. Initially, translations are possible only in the US and Mexico. We can expect a broader rollout of the latest development in the coming future, though. If you receive a message from your friend in English or Spanish but you haven’t set either language as your default language, the M bot available…
In a move that garnered significant publicity, manufacturer Continental recently banned workers from using Snapchatand WhatsApp due to fears that confidential information could be leaked, and data protection laws breached through their use. What many reports failed to mention was that this applied to the apps installed onto work phones, rather than being an attempt to prevent staff from using the apps on their personal devices. Double-edged sword However, in a digital age where smartphones enable billions of people to connect instantly across scores of platforms, social media is undoubtedly a double-edged sword. In hours, if not minutes, a few words…
Teens age 13 to 19 spend upwards of nine hours per day connected to a smartphone, tablet or computer, according to Digital Day research. Children eight to 12 average six hours a day, while kids age five to seven are spending roughly 4.5 hours in front of a screen. All that screen time sets up potential problems for our children. “It’s a habit,” admitted Hannah Kimmel, a 16-year-old from Fort Loudon. “As soon as I wake up, I look at my messages. Everyone else does it. I want to, too.” image: https://content.aimatch.com/default.gif image: https://content.thestar.com.my/smg/settag/name=lotame/tags= “Everything is posted in a public…