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paging_filter The Village Voice has been sold to a new owner, marking the beginning of the latest chapter in the history of the storied weekly newspaper co-founded by Norman Mailer in 1955. Voice Media Group announced Monday that it has sold its flagship title to a company controlled by investor Peter D. Barbey of the…
“Captain America is only interesting if he’s a prick,” Vulture recently declared, inspiring so many angry Marvel fan rebuttals that it probably qualified as outright click bait. Of course, the idea of Captain America as “boring” has already been debunked by the $580 million his new movie just made at the box office. What we’re really talking…
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Do androids dream of a three-day week? This week, Professor Stephen Hawking weighed in on the topic that’s obsessing technologists, economists and social scientists around the world: whether a dawning age of robotics is going to spell mass unemployment. “If machines produce everything we need,” Hawking wrote in an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit,…
After dominating at the box office this past spring, Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller has some news regarding the upcoming sequels and Charlize Theron’s role in them. In an interview with Digital Spy, Miller confirmed that although he wasn’t sure whether Theron would return to portray the badass hero Imperator Furiosa, he had no plans for…
By Tim Carmody on October 11th, 2015 Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is now rich. In the comics, Peter Parker—once a schlubby, penny-pinching student, freelance photographer, and amateur scientist from the modest side of Forest Hills, Queens—is now the founder and CEO of Parker Industries, a global consumer technology company akin to Batman’s Wayne Enterprises or…
Photo Prof. Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. Credit Larry Levanti/Princeton University, European Pressphoto Agency Prof. Angus Deaton, a British economist, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for improving the accuracy of basic economic gauges, including measures of income, poverty and consumption. Professor Deaton,…
Entry Text October 11 marks the International Day of the Girl Child, a day designated by the UN to recognize the rights and specific challenges faced by girls around the world. Each year has a unique theme highlighting a particular area for change, and the theme for 2015 is all about unleashing the power of…
HIGHGATE, Vt. (AP) — American actor Randy Quaid was taken into custody Friday night while trying to cross into the United States from Canada, Vermont State Police said. The “Independence Day” actor was detained by troopers at the Highgate Springs port of entry days after Canadian officials said he would be deported. Quaid is wanted…
At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer’s conference on the theory of computing appeared to be something of a letdown. For more than 40 years, researchers had been trying to find a better way to compare two arbitrary strings of characters, such as the long strings of chemical letters within DNA…