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In the six months since coronavirus lockdowns hit the U.S.—yes, it’s already been six months—Americans across the country have started smoking record amounts of weed. And, to be fair, with never-ending piles of anxiety constantly washing over all of us, outrageous unemployment levels, and half a year stuck at home, it’s not surprising that so […]
For those paying attention, the lack of a phones-related announcement during Apple‘s special “Time Flies” event on Tuesday came as no surprise. Word on the proverbial street for months now has been that—thanks in large part to COVID-19—certain production elements were being hit with understandable delays. Then, in late July, comments from CFO Luca Maestri during the […]
ByteDance has rejected Microsoft’s bid to buy the app’s U.S. operations. “ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft,” Microsoft said in a statement. “We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests. To do this, we would have made significant changes to ensure […]
Americans, unsurprisingly, are currently estimated to have $1.64 trillion dollars of student debt combined. With a presidential election on the horizon, the topic of student debt—as always—is again rising to the top for many prospective voters as we look ahead to the next four years. “For students that are looking for ways to offset debt, I think […]
Surely, we’ve all wondered—in some way or another—if it might be possible to just strap oneself to a bunch of balloons and float around with nary an existential worry in sight. On Wednesday, noted illusionist and doer of preposterous things David Blaine actually fucking did it. “It’s gonna be right here in Page, Arizona, which is […]
In what feels like something directly out of an episode of Black Mirror, Elon Musk took to YouTube on Friday night to reveal that he successfully wired a living pig’s brain with his Neuralink technology that is eventually meant to allow people to link their minds with computers. Yeah, we had to read that one again too. During the […]
Joe Budden told his audience in the most recent episode of his podcast that, with seven episodes left, the show “will not be” a Spotify exclusive after Sept. 23. “What seven episodes left means is that September 23rd, this podcast—new episodes of this podcast—will no longer be available on Spotify exclusively,” Budden said. “September 23rd, I […]
As the headlines focused on Bella Thorne‘s $2 million OnlyFans record continue to pile up, sex workers are speaking out about how Thorne’s approach has the potential to damage the platform and the industry at large by erasing the years of oft-ignored bravery and resilience endured by those who actually deserve the credit. One source of contention […]
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned just three months after being hired for the role, The New York Times reports. Vanessa Pappas, who is the general manager of TikTok in North America, will replace Mayer in the interim. Prior to his short stint at TikTok, Mayer was the chairman of direct-to-consumer & international division at Disney. “In recent weeks, […]
There’s a lot more out there than this little mess of a planet. A new, breakthrough artificial intelligence technology has helped British researchers identify 50 new planets. According to CNN, astronomers and computer scientists from the University of Warwick accomplished the technological feat after building a machine learning algorithm to sift through old NASA data. The […]
