I first found out about my impersonator, who I'll call Fake Jamie, from a LinkedIn message that popped up in late August last year. "Did we speak today?" the first line of the message read…
How sex censorship killed the internet we love
I pop over to Yahoo News and try the same searches, exhaling relief to see 892 news articles for "porn" from outlets ranging from Associated Press to Rolling Stone. They're there. It's just that Google's…
Joseph Gordon-Levitts artist-collaboration platform HitRecord raises $6.4M
In the early 2000s, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt was frustrated with the roles he was being offered. Instead of starring in critically acclaimed indies, he was typecast as “the funny kid on TV” due to roles…
We dismantle Facebooks memo defending its Research data-grab
Facebook published an internal memo today trying to minimize the morale damage of TechCrunch’s investigation that revealed it’d been paying people to suck in all their phone data. Attained by Business Insider’s Rob Price, the…
First China, now Starbucks gets an ambitious VC-funded…
Asia’s venture capital-backed startups are gunning for Starbucks . In China, the U.S. coffee giant is being pushed by Luckin Coffee, a $2.2 billion challenger surfing China’s on-demand wave, and on the real estate side,…
A government propaganda app is going viral in…
Besides binge-watching TikTok videos and battling enemies in the magical land of mobile games, many Chinese people may also pass time during the upcoming Lunar New Year on Xuexi Qiangguo, a news and chat app…
Ill never quit Hitman 2 if it keeps…
I feel the most tense right after a kill. There's still a job to finish and an escape to stage. It's never easy, and if I fail... that's it. I can't go after the target…
Polar vortex records are still overshadowed by big…
Yes, records for cold temperatures are breaking as an off-balance polar vortex sloshes over a vast region of the U.S. And while it sure feels frigid out there, overall, the number of daily cold records…
Samsung Galaxy S10 will probably be very, very…
Samsung's new flagship, the Galaxy S10, will likely come in at least three flavors and it will certainly be a very powerful device. We know that much from previous leaks and rumors. But with Samsung's…