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Investors valued the medical testing startup Theranos at $9 billion last year. But a bombshell Wall Street Journal investigation published last week has thrown the company into crisis by raising questions about whether its technology works as advertised. Theranos was founded by a Stanford dropout and is based in Silicon Valley, so people have naturally drawn comparisons to tech…
Aziz Ansari doesn’t necessarily want to call his new Netflix series Master of None autobiographical, but the actor did pull elements from his real life into making the show, which focuses on an Indian-American actor named Dev. At the first-ever EW Fest on Saturday in New York, Ansari spoke at length about one particular episode…
paging_filter The editorial brain-trust that left Gawker this summer after a dispute over an article that outed a publishing executive is finding its feet. New York magazine has hired former Gawker editor Max Read to edit a pop-up blog about Internet culture, POLITICO has learned. The blog will launch on Nov. 2 and run through…
Watch the Jessica Jones Official Trailer. After a tragic ending to her short-lived Super Hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a private detective in Hell’s Kitchen. It’s time the world knew her name… Marvel’s Jessica Jones All Episodes November 20 netflix.com/marvelsjessicajones Song: “Thousand Eyes” by Of Monsters and Men…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rufus Scales, 26 and black, was driving his younger brother Devin to his hair-cutting class in this genteel, leafy city when they heard the siren’s whoop and saw the blue light in the rearview mirror of their black pickup. Two police officers pulled them over for minor infractions that included expired plates…
I. Two girls fall in love. One will be slightly prettier or more feminine than the other or she’ll be cooler in an untouchable way. She will inspire a certain type of awe in the first girl. For the first girl, this love — the first tentative kiss they both gave into right away, followed…
Every Halloween, western kids look forward to dressing up in scary costumes and going door-to-door trick-or-treating around their neighbourhoods. But if you’re a kid living in a certain district in Kobe, Japan, the spooky highlight of your year could lie in receiving a big bag of candy from Japan’s largest yakuza group. Trouble is,…
Sometimes I feel like being 25 and having no children is a disease. Before you frown up your face and feel like this is just another blog post about relationships, men, and shade to the women who are 25 and under with a child or children please hear me out! As usual my blog posts…
On Thursday, while Washington was transfixed by Hillary Clinton’s marathon testimony before the Benghazi committee, a Republican bill to raise the debt limit fell apart. The Treasury Department says it must be raised by Nov. 3 to avoid a cataclysmic default. On Thursday morning, a Goldman Sachs note said it “seems unlikely” that the issue…
Daniel Craig recently caused controversy when he said he’d rather slash his wrists than play James Bond and he gets candid again about the 007 character in a new interview. An interviewer for The Red Bulletin told Craig, “Many men admire Bond for his way with the ladies,” and Craig responded, “But let’s not forget that…