Where to Play Risk Online

Risk has all the trappings of a phenomenal board game: It’s cheap, engrossing, and has the uncanny ability to ruin lifelong friendships in one night. Risk: Factions ($10) Risk was originally released in the ’50s, which makes it ancient when compared with today’s modern game design. The iconic title has undergone several official redesigns in that…

Twitter is banning political ads – TechCrunch

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Jack Dorsey says Twitter will ban all political ads Arguing that “internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse,”…

Supercross’s anticipated EV class not ready for primetime in 2020 – TechCrunch

Motorcycle racing series Supercross isn’t quite ready to add an EV class. The sport — where riders race high-performance machines on jump-filled stadium tracks — currently fields only gas-powered two-wheelers. Supercross was poised to launch an all-electric class this month, by converting its junior program to a new e-moto manufactured by KTM — Supercross Director…

Facebook sues OnlineNIC for domain name fraud associated with malicious activity – TechCrunch

Facebook today announced it has filed suit in California against domain registrar OnlineNIC and its proxy service ID Shield for registering domain names that pretend to be associated with Facebook, like www-facebook-login.com or facebook-mails.com, for example. Facebook says these domains are intentionally designed to mislead and confuse end users, who believe they’re interacting with Facebook.…