Monthly Archives: July 2020

Metacritic stops allowing you to review games on launch day

Metacritic wants people to actually play a game before reviewing it, so the site now requires users to wait 36 ​​hours from the launch of a new game before leaving a score. The intention is to avoid review blitz campaigns, where people leave negative ratings on a title sometimes as …

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Cloudflare’s DNS outage makes websites inaccessible

Users were blocked from websites on Friday due to a disruption to web infrastructure giant Clouflare. Angela Lang / CNET Several websites became unavailable on Friday after Cloudflare experienced outages in parts of its network. The affected system, called a DNS resolution, connects web users to the correct websites when …

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The long story of how Jesus came to look like a white European

This article is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; however, it does not represent the work of Snopes verifiers or editors. The representation of Jesus as a white, European man has come under new scrutiny during this …

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T cells: the missing link in coronavirus immunity?

Scientists who have spent months focused on the role of antibodies in fighting Covid-19 are beginning to suspect that a lesser-known part of the immune system is just as crucial: T cells. Evidence is emerging that T cells, which can “remember” past infections and kill pathogens if they reappear, have …

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