WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
The Xbox One hit the shelves this week and with the Playstation 4 due out next week, the topic of the week was the ‘battle of the consoles’. So which one comes out on top?
We’ve had a couple of sexist apps in the Weird Wide Web but this one’s a little different because it objectifies men. Women using Lulu have the option to rate men in their lives, be it an ex, a co-worker you have a crush on or just a friend, with tongue-in-cheek hashtags like #BigFeet, #PornEducation and #ObsessedWithHisMom. [New York Times] Needless to say, it hasn’t gone down well.
Richard Branson has decided that you can now use Bitcoins to buy a Virgin Galactic ticket. One future astronaut, a female flight attendant from Hawaii, already has.
(Image: Virgin)
British Airways have installed new digital billboards that point to and talk about the planes flying over them.
(Video: British Airways/YouTube)
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