Bug-Ridden Tablets Behind Glacial Lines at Voting Sites in Los Angeles County, Report Finds
Shitty tablets helped screw up California’s March 3, 2020 primary election in big time, according to a previously unpublicized Los Angeles County report flagged by Politico on Wednesday.Read more...
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Amazon Prime Day 2020: When's It Happening, and What Deals Can You Expect?
Featured Deal: Instant Vortex Pro 9-in-1 10qt Air Fryer | $140Read more...
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This Candyman Shadow Puppet Short Film Is a Horrific Mirror You Can't Look Away From
Much as the Candyman film franchise focuses on the stories of people foolish enough to summon a murderous ghoul into their midst by chanting his name, the films have always been, at their cores, gruesome reflections on the American legacy of anti-Black racism that led to the lynchings of thousands over the centuries.Read more...
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Still Not Sure What to Buy Your Dad for Father's Day? Our Merch Is 10% off, Just Saying
10% off All Merch | Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Lifehacker, Jezebel, The Root, The A.V. Club, The Takeout, io9, Deadspin | Promo code DADSDAY10Read more...
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Doom Patrol's New Season 2 Trailer Is a Dark Disco Extravaganza
Before Doom Patrol’s Danny the Street was reduced to a single brick, the extradimensional being used to delight in throwing wildly extravagant parties for their friends—all of whom were social outcasts in need of a compassionate community. Danny might not be at their full power just quite yet, but in the latest…Read more...
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Senator Hawley's New 'Section 230' Bill Isn't Going to Make Silicon Valley Sweat
Sen. Josh Hawley, one of Facebook’s most vocal critics on Capitol Hill, introduced new legislation on Wednesday that would purportedly chip away at the limited liability shield that protects social media giants from being sued for content moderation decisions. Read more...
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A Brief History of Listening In on Police Radios
Last Friday night, thousands defied New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s curfew order and marched in the rain, the fifth evening in a week marked by beatings and mass arrests after dark. It was now common for police to leapfrog ahead of the crowd, assemble a chokepoint, and ambush with mass…Read more...
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Genome Analysis Points to Incest Among Ireland’s Prehistoric Rulers
Evidence of incest and inbreeding has been uncovered at an elite prehistoric Irish burial site, in a new paper that reads like a Game of Thrones subplot. Read more...
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T-Mobile, Which Said Sprint Merger Would Create Jobs, Already Laying Off Sprint Employees
T-Mobile insisted that its dreaded $26.5 billion merger with rival Sprint was all about job creation, saying the two companies would have 11,000 more employees by 2024 than they were expected to as separate entities. But now that the deal’s closed, hundreds of former Sprint employees working under the merged brand …Read more...
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Max Brooks' Bigfoot Tale Devolution Is Headed for the Big Screen
Author Max Brooks has a new book out called Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, and it arrives with some exciting news: much like Brooks’ previous best-seller, zombie-apocalypse story World War Z, Devolution will be getting the feature-film treatment.Read more...
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The Federalist Bends the Knee to Big Tech, Deletes Its Awful Comments Section
Google has booted fringe libertarian/conspiracist page Zerohedge from its AdSense platform over user comments and warned crackpot haven the Federalist that it could face the same fate, NBC News reported on Tuesday. The Federalist, which has postured itself as a haven for ideological outcasts of all stripes to post…Read more...
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Sorry, Captain Picard, Your Taste in Tea Sucks
Every June 16 we gather to celebrate Captain Picard, for it is—based on a loose extrapolation of the stardate of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s season seven episode “The Pegasus”—Captain Picard Day. A day to recall his triumphs, his heroism, his morals, and his earnest sincerity. Not this year. This year I come to…Read more...
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How to Pick the Right Power Supply for Your Next PC
Figuring out how much power you need to keep all your components fed and happy is usually the last part of building your own PC. It can also be the most confusing. Every component takes a different amount of power, and the bigger and faster your PC, the more power you need. The latest Intel Core i9-10900K can suck up…Read more...
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Save Your Floors From Dirt and Grime With $130 off a Dyson V10 Cordless Vacuum From Newegg
Dyson V10 Cordless Vacuum (Refurbished) | $270 | NeweggRead more...
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European Commission Launches Investigation Into the App Store and Apple Pay
The future is streaming and payment plans, and it is also a maelstrom of antitrust disputes. This is to say that the mutiny against Apple is making a little headway: the European Commission has announced two antitrust investigations into the iron rule of the App Store and Apple Pay.Read more...
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Amazon Introduces Social Distance Software at Warehouses, but That Won't Fix Its Coronavirus Problem
Amazon is debuting a new software that will send its warehouse employees real-time visual cues about their physical proximity to other workers, one of the company’s latest initiatives in response to covid-19—a problem the company has been struggling to address in its facilities.Read more...
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UK Exports Two New Coronavirus Cases to Covid-Free New Zealand
New Zealand has identified two new cases of coronavirus after going 24 days without a single active case, according to an announcement by New Zealand health officials on Tuesday. The two cases have been identified as two women from the UK who were granted exemptions to travel within New Zealand to attend a funeral…Read more...
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Lego's Super Mario Is Perfect If You Suck at the Video Games
Approximately 40,000 years ago, back in March when time still had meaning, Lego and Nintendo made nerds weep with joy when the companies announced their first collaboration: a high-tech Super Mario that lets you build real-life video game levels for out of Lego bricks. A real-life Mario Maker, if you will. Since then,…Read more...
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Tessa Thompson Will Use Dream Tech to Become the Ultimate Fencer in Balestra
Continue to give Tessa Thompson a sword, Hollywood. It’s the only way.Read more...
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Stephen King Yearned to Write an 'Existential' Horror Novel About Friday the 13th's Jason
Watching a hockey mask-wearing killer murder dozens of campers in the Friday the 13th franchise may not scream: “We need his point of view!” But it turns out horror icon Stephen King’s “best novel idea” he never penned was the story of, you guessed it, the indescribably immortal Jason Voorhees.Read more...
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Report: NOAA Officials Behind #Sharpiegate Violated Integrity Policies, Won't Face Consequences Though
Top officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration violated the agency’s scientific integrity rules when they debased themselves to back up Donald Trump’s incorrect assertion that Hurricane Dorian could strike Alabama last year, an internal investigation has shown. Regardless, everyone involved…Read more...
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Yes, Apple Will Eventually Make a Foldable Phone, But Dear God, No, It Will Not Be This One
Apple has long been rumored to be working on a flexible smartphone that would rival some of the experimental devices we’ve seen from Samsung and Motorola—though presumably more refined, one would hope. But today in Apple rumors that make you go “...what the fuck?” the foldable iPhone might have two displays separated…Read more...
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What's the Best Carry-On Luggage for Summer Travel?
Oooof, let me tell you something, Co-opulace: I. 👏🏾Need. 👏🏾 A. 👏🏾 Vacation!👏🏾Read more...
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Something Weird Is Going On With T-Mobile Today
T-Mobile customers across the U.S. are reporting that they cannot send or receive phone calls, and sometimes text messages. According to TechCrunch, the outage starting around 9-10 a.m. PT (12-1 p.m. ET) this morning, and at the time of this writing, is still the No. 1 trending topic in the U.S. on Twitter. Read more...
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Voter Registration Groups Targeted Black Lives Matter Protesters' Location Data
We know that the cops surveil us at protests, which is why you generally should be cautious about posting crowd photos and get a burner. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports, Democratic voter registration groups have jumped on the BLM surveillance bandwagon, collaborating with the tech firms in order to identify…Read more...
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