Yahoo Answers, a haven for the confused, is shutting down
7 Apr, 2021 09:54 PM
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Yahoo will be shutting down the question-and-answer service and deleting its archives on May 4. Photo / 123RF
Yahoo will be shutting down the question-and-answer service and deleting its archives on May 4. Photo / 123RF
New York Times
By: Daniel Victor
People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered real human reaction, for better or for worse, one longtime observer said. At times on Yahoo Answers, the people asking questions of strangers lunged for the hallucinatory limits of human curiosity:
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Yahoo Answers, where confused people quenched their thirst for knowledge, is shutting down on May 4
Agencies
Questions and answers will be halted on April 20, and will be wiped off the internet on May 4.
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It sought explanations for the unexplainable:
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WISBECH, UK (6th APRIL 2021) Indie developer D’Avekki Studios is thrilled to announce critically-acclaimed FMV game Dark Nights with Poe and Munro will release on May 4th 2021 for PS4 and Xbox One, with backwards compatibility for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. A release date for the Switch version is still to be announced.
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro tasks players with keeping small-town radio hosts John ‘Poe’ Pope and Ellis Munro together and alive through six TV-like episodes of supernatural mystery. A standalone prequel to 2018’s The Shapeshifting Detective, Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is the third game from the studio but the first to be ported to consoles in-house. The game released on Steam in May 2020 to praise from players and reviewers alike and the studio hopes console players will take t