One hundred Republican lawmakers and their staff ran into a truck outside Charlottesville. The news quickly spread to Facebook.
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Grab Your iPad (and Your Remote) for Steven Soderbergh’s Cinematic Experiment Mosaic
You’ve got two different ways to watch Steven Soderbergh’s new cinematic experiment, Mosaic: You can turn on HBO and watch it as a six-episode series, with parts airing each night from Monday January 22 to Friday, January 26. Alternately, you can pick up your phone or tablet, download the Mosaic from Steven Soderbergh app, and […]
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Chelsea Manning Will Run for US Senate, and Her Video Announcement About It Is Super Intense
If elected, Manning will be the first transgender member of the U.S. Senate.
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There Are Probably Aliens Out There, and Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Is Going to Find Them
Lets just hope he doesn’t make any dick jokes when he does.
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Twitter Is Purging Some of Its Nazis
There’s no First Amendment right to spreading racist vitriol on Twitter dot com.
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Between the Death of Net Neutrality and Disney Buying Fox, Today’s a Great Day for Our Soulless Corporate Overlords
David Soanes Photography / Getty Images This morning the Federal Communications Commission voted, along party lines, to kill net neutrality—the rules that have, until now, ensured an internet in which service providers were forbidden from giving preferential treatment to certain sites and services. While telecom companies are vowing that consumers won’t get screwed over by […]
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A San Francisco Animal Shelter Used a Robot to Get Rid of Homeless People
The robot is equipped with four cameras.
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In Today’s Edition of Former Tech Insiders Denouncing Social Media…
Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook’s former vice president for user growth, said he feels “tremendous guilt” about helping to create tools that “are ripping apart the social fabric.” Mike Windle / Getty Images This video of former Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya is worth checking out. It’s only the latest example of major tech insiders turning against […]
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“Shadowy” Online Ads Are Targeting an American Election Again, This Time in Alabama
Just one of many, many pieces of election disinformation that spread on social media during the 2016 presidential election. Drew Angerer / Getty Images The Daily Beast reports: Three months after Mark Zuckerberg pledged to stop external forces from disproportionately affecting U.S. elections, targeted ads are bombarding voters in a pivotal Senate race. Those ads […]
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Neil Young Just Launched His Massive Online Archives
neilyoungarchives.com Today Neil Young launched his online archives—visit them at neilyoungarchives.com—and I don’t think it’s too crazy to say it’s groundbreaking. The Canadian singer/songwriter’s 50-plus-year career has been, quite literally, archived into streaming format, accessible via timeline and a fun filing-cabinet graphic, with each song taking up a different folder. It’s a little hard to […]
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FCC Lays Net Neutrality on Chopping Block
This move gives a major win to companies like Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, and Charter.
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Bill Gates Is Not Scared of Artificial Intelligence. He Should Be.
The billionaire’s statements come days after Steven Hawking warned A.I. could devastate humanity.