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Of course it’s Milo Yiannopoulos (with his crony Allum Bokhari) who finally takes Breitbart “News” all the way over the line into overt white supremacism, with a lengthy, utterly disgusting article singing the praises of the “alt-right” movement — the latest term neo-Nazis, Gamergate trolls and white nationalists use to describe themselves: An Establishment Conservative’s…
Financial traders must be extra careful when reacting to new-product announcements by companies that list their shares. Take this press release by Tesla on April 1 last year, introducing a line of watches called the Model W. “It is infinitely adjustable, able to tell the time no matter where you are on Earth. Japan, Timbuktu,…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** How to Hack an Election Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time. By Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis | March 31, 2016 Photographs by Juan Arredondo From BODY COPY CENTERED It was just before midnight when…
In recent years, venture capitalists have funded all manner of improbable ideas. An app that lets random people call and wake you up. A bathroom scale that posts your weight on Twitter. And then there is Doug Evans’s brainchild. With no experience running tech companies and a bungled juice-bar chain under his belt, he has…
Earlier this week players in Eve Online were involved in one of that game’s famously large and expensive battles. But sources tell Polygon that this was just the opening round of what could be the largest military mobilization in that game’s history. Digging deeper into the subject, we’ve been able to chart the rise of…
I often say Im a video game culture writer, but lately I dont know exactly what that means. Game culture as we know it is kind of embarrassing — its not even culture. Its buying things, spackling over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and its getting mad on the internet.Its young men queuing with plush mushroom…
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A student who was born female felt perfectly comfortable identifying as a man at Wellesley College — until people said he shouldn’t be class diversity officer because he is now a white male. Timothy Boatwright was born a girl, and checked off the “female” box when applying to the Massachusetts all-women’s school, according to an…
Starting Wednesday, about 95 percent of content the British newspaper The Telegraph publishes online will flow through a new content management system — one that it developed in-house through a collaboration between its product team and the newsroom, aimed at simplifying its digital publishing process. “Our old content management system is about 10 years old…
Yesterday (and for almost three years), Alison Rapp was a Nintendo employee working in communications and marketing for the company’s Treehouse localization group. Today, Nintendo fired her. Rapp announced on Twitter earlier that Nintendo made the decision to terminate her employment. “As many of you know, the last couple months have been quite a whirlwind…