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Tyler Barriss was taken into custody Friday in Los Angeles on suspicion of making up a story about a shooting and hostage situation at a Wichita address halfway across the country. A man by the same name was arrested in 2015 for making a fake bomb threat to an ABC affiliate news station in Los Angeles. Deputy Wichita Police Chief Troy Livingston said the incident was the result of “swatting,” a type of hoax associated with online video gamers, where someone makes up a story in a fake emergency call designed to draw large numbers of police to a specific address. Finch opened the door to a swarm of police shortly after they arrived. Livingston said officers repeatedly gave him verbal commands to raise his hands and walk towards them, but Finch lowered his hands to his waist several times. When Finch moved his hands suddenly upwards, one of the officers believed he had … Continue reading →

If you grew up in the ’90s, there’s a fair chance you spent your wasted summers collecting coins and dodging Koopa Troopas in the video game Super Mario 64. According to new research, you should probably keep hold of your game cartridge for retirement. A new study published in PLOS ONE has found that playing the video game Super Mario 64 increases the amount of gray matter in old adults’ brains, especially in brain regions associated with spatial and episodic memory. The researchers on the project argue this means it could be used to stave off cognitive impairment, memory loss, and perhaps even Alzheimer’s disease. Psychologists at the University of Montreal recruited 33 people, aged between 55 and 75, and divided them into three groups. The first was instructed to play Super Mario 64 on a Nintendo Wii console for 30 minutes every day, for five days a week, over six months. … Continue reading →

You guys, we made it. The slog that was the year of 2017 is coming to a close. I’m not sure if it’s possible, but it truly feels like five years of WTF moments somehow crammed themselves into the past 12 months. The long haul is almost over, though, and 2018 is just around the corner. Before you bid adieu to this past year, take a moment to relive 2017 in memes — because this year was definitely one for the books and you could probably use a laugh. After a contentious U.S. presidential election in 2016, politics were on everybody’s mind. Unfortunately, the political climate felt about as divisive as it could get (at the time), and the mere mention of one political party or another could set off heated debates and yelling matches. As 2017 unfolded, engaging in a conversation involving politics became akin to navigating a minefield. … Continue reading →

A Facebook page called Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys is claiming responsibility for tanking the Rotten Tomatoes audience score for the latest “Star Wars” film, alleging that it used bots in a concerted attack against the Rian Johnson-directed movie. Throughout the course of our conversation, the self-identified member of the “alt-right” claimed that Poe Dameron (played by Oscar Isaac) is a “victim of the anti-mansplaining movement,” that Poe and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) are in danger of being “turn[ed]” gay, and that men should be reinstated as rulers of “society.” The discrepancy between the critic and audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes has sparked chatter about a possible backlash among “Star Wars” fans. On Monday night, Vanity Fair published a breakdown of the beating the movie has taken in certain corners of the internet. Meanwhile, Polygon and other sites have reported that the Rotten Tomatoes rating is being tanked by bots and/or organized attacks from the … Continue reading →