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Late next month a large asteroid is set to buzz past Earth but lucky for you (also me, I guess) it’s not set to hit the planet. If trajectories do change between then and now don’t bother with some “But you told us Complex…” thing because nobody’s going to be worried at that point. According […]
On Thursday the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it is charging Steven Seagal after he allegedly neglected to disclose that he received payments to promote a cryptocurrency. Seagal is accused of failing to reveal that he was being paid to tout the new coin on his social media accounts. He was reportedly promised $250,000 in cash, […]
A former Amazon manager claims she was fired from the company after expressing concerns over discriminatory hiring practices and unequal pay. According to NBC News, 38-year-old Lisa McCarrick filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Monday, about three months after she was fired from her regional manager position. McCarrick claims that prior to her termination, a supervisor asked her to scour job […]
Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician known for her essential work on the nation’s first mission to space and the first landing on the moon, has died at age 101. Johnson was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures, also the title of a nonfiction book. “NASA is deeply saddened by the loss […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently shelled out $165 million to buy the Warner Estate in Beverly Hills, a sprawling nine-acre estate that belonged to media mogul David Geffen, the Wall Street Journal reports. It is now the most expensive property purchased in Los Angeles, surpassing the Chartwell in Bel-Air, which was bought for about $150 million in December by Lachlan Murdoch, son of News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. Geffen […]
For the first time ever astronomers have located a fast radio burst (FRB) that regularly repeats itself. Don’t know what an FRB is? Well, we’ll try our best to explain it to you. Science Alert defines them as mysterious deep space signals that are unpredictable. CNN adds that they’re millisecond-long radio wave bursts from space. They can […]
Simon Weckert, an artist from Germany, came up with an idea to game Google Maps by tricking it into thinking several Berlin streets were cramped up with traffic. Now, as is the case with almost all art, there seems to be a thin line seperating whether this is brilliant or eye-rolling, so we’ll just lay […]
New emojis will be rolling out on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, and other devices this year. Included in Emoji Version 13.0 are the “Italian Hand,” disguised face, ninjas, anatomical body parts, smiling face with tear, the Transgender flag, new animals and food, parents feeding baby, and more. Unicode Consortium shared the official list of […]
Finally, everyone who enjoys ingesting cereal straight from the mouth of their nearest friend has somewhere to celebrate their intimate dining preferences. The practice, by way of the always handy Know Your Meme database, is known among people who write articles about social media trends (and thus arguably ruin them for everyone) as the Cereal […]
Facebook has apologized after its platform wrongly translated Xi Jinping, the name of the Chinese leader, from Burmese to an offensive English word. The company became aware of the mistranslation when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, took to Facebook to write about Mr. Xi’s two-day visit to her […]
