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Hillary Clinton appears to be Apple Music’s new spokesperson. This may cost her much of the streaming vote, but for Apple it’s a huge step up from James Corden. For that, we are grateful. https://gizmodo.com/james-cordens-apple-music-ad-is-so-bad-im-cancelling-m-1786784884
Donald Trump once again displayed his ignorance on all issues cyber at tonight’s presidential debate. For starters, Ol’ Don has some theories about who might have been behind the devastating hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It could have been Russia, or maybe China, or it could have been “someone sitting on their bed…
Following weeks of speculation about the health of both the Democratic and Republican nominees, Donald Trump arrived at the first presidential debate on Monday with a big league drippy nose. Was it a cold? An impression of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek? Post-nasal drip induced by the insufflation of quasi-legal narcotics? Who nose.
Watching the debate will not make you a happier or healthier person. It probably won’t even make you a better informed person. It’s just a sad reminder that our political system is broken and everything is really bad. Maybe it will be OK, maybe it won’t, but you don’t need to subject your eyes to…
While many people struggle to prove they’re humans in the real world, doing so online is generally pretty easy, accomplished by copying down a couple scribbly words. For the visually impaired, however, things can be a bit more complicated and, in Amazon’s case, occult. As Twitter user Ben Cox first discovered, Amazon has a novel…
Uber’s fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh are super exciting for anyone interested in the future of transportation—but they could come at a huge risk for passengers riding in the vehicles. A new report from the Guardian, citing documents obtained under public record showed that until June, Uber required anyone riding in one of its…
Fire up the grill and invite me over, friend. Today, we feast in celebration. The latest USDA meat production projections are out, and they predict that, after years of domination by chicken, beef will become the fastest growing meat category over the course of the next decade. Beef isn’t just going to be more available,…
Palantir Technologies, the secretive CIA-funded startup founded by Peter Thiel, is being sued by the United States Department of Labor for discriminating against Asian applicants. According to a press release sent out by the Department of Labor, Palantir used a “hiring process and selection procedures that discriminated against Asian applicants for software engineering positions on…
The first presidential debate is tonight, and you can watch it for free. But for journalists piling into Hofstra University, the price of doing business has gotten steeper. As per Hofstra’s media rate sheet, a simple wi-fi connection for press will cost $200. Word first got out when two journalists from Vocativ noticed this seemingly…
Signal has already offers the best way to send secure and privacy conscious messages on Android and iOS, and now, an update offers everyone the opportunity to us Signal’s on the desktop. The desktop beta had previously been limited to Android users, but with a new update to the iOS Signal app out today, iPhone…
Instagram did such a good job of completely ripping off Snapchat’s stories feature that you might think the two features work exactly the same. Well, I’ve got some bad news for you: your Instagram stories are totally public. That’s right, unlike Snapchat, where only people who can see your stories are people you have added…
The Walt Disney Co. is working with a financial adviser to evaluate a bid on Twitter Inc., according to a new Bloomberg report. The acquisition would make sense for a lot of reasons. For starters, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is on the board of the Walt Disney Company. It also happens to be one of…
Does just the thought of February 14 fill you with dread? Did you spend the last couple of Valentine’s Days alone, in bed, eating Häagen-Dazs straight from the tub? If this video of roses being sliced up with a katana blade in slow motion seems like the perfect metaphor for your love life, it might…
So before you feel tricked by a technicality: Inuktitut does have a written language, but it’s just not an alphabet. Instead, as Tom Scott explains, it uses a related system of symbols to express sounds called an abugida. This writing system is in use in the far north of Canada and was originally invented by…
Last week, Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan Pharmaceuticals, testified in front of Congress about why the company has raised the price of EpiPen from roughly $57 in 2007 to $600 today. Under intense questioning, she claimed that the company only makes about $100 per 2-pack of EpiPens. Today the company was forced to “clarify”…
A great TV show deserves a great title sequence. Think Game of Thrones’ intro, in which the raven view of the board game-esque map shows the players involved in the story. Or think of The Sopranos sequence, in which Tony is driving around New Jersey as if it were his kingdom. Or the beginning of…
When teens get in trouble for posting things online, there’s often something nefarious afoot, like drunken antics, offensive behavior, or criminal activity. But for one high school student, publicly calling out her school’s nasty water situation was apparently enough to do the trick. Hazel Juco, a senior at John Glenn High School in Westland, Michigan,…
Over the weekend, Facebook scrambled to make things right after mistakenly locking out administrators from two of the most widely read Palestinian news outlets. The company has recently struggled with censorship on its platform. It frequently removes posts that have news value and then blames the deletions on moderation errors, saying that its team processes…
To date, Analogue has released adapters allowing nostalgic gamers to use modern wireless controllers on both their classic NES and Super Nintendo consoles. But the company, working with 8Bitdo, is turning the clock back even further with a new wireless adapter for the 40-year-old Apple II and IIc computers. Neither computer is remembered as a…
There was a time when playing video games with your friends meant visiting your local arcade and crowding around a Pac-Man or Galaga machine. Those days are long gone, but for around $30 a pop, you can relive some of that nostalgia and build your own tiny arcade with these highly-detailed miniature replicas. Let’s get…
