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Donald Trump‘s appearance on the University of Central Florida campus on Saturday made headlines—but not because of anything he said. The Internet was instead captivated by two young men standing to Trump’s left after seeing one feed a chip to the other, airplane-style. Who were these mystery dudes? Were they “Trump bros?” Were they protestors? Sign…
To accommodate everything that went on in the 2016 campaign just this past week, “Saturday Night Live” had to break format and jam four cold opens into the top of the show last night. Beck Bennett as Jake Tapper hosted the week-in-review montage, which began with Darrell Hammond’s Donald Trump — complete with a woefully introspective…
Early Saturday morning 65 women — aged 25 to 70 — arrived at a 5,000-square-foot former garage space in Brooklyn to compete in a female-only weightlifting competition. The Iron Maidens Raw Open was founded five years ago at Crossfit South Brooklyn to give women a place to compete in three powerlifts: the deadlift, squat and bench…
Donald Trump and his tiny hands at a rally in North Carolina (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images, definitely not photoshopped by Gizmodo) Wired published an embarrassing correction to a story by Jason Tanz about Donald Trump today. Apparently he or his editors had a Chrome extension turned on that changed every mention of “Donald Trump”…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Webpage bloat is a growing problem. So no surprise techniques to speed page load times have often focused on data compression to try to shrink the number of milliseconds it takes for a website to heave into view. But researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have taken a different tack…
I spent part of yesterday afternoon watching a former co-worker explain a joke I’d once made in Campfire, the software we used for work chats. It wasn’t, necessarily, the strangest experience — except that it was occurring in a taped deposition that was being played in court, in the midst of a lawsuit that was being…
It’sa well-documented fact that women tend to make less than their male colleagues in virtually every sector of the economy, as well as get passed over for promotions and leadership roles. For International Women’s Day, ad agency TBWA Worldwide had male staffers read quotes from female colleagues, which were about the challenges they face in everyday…
A while back, we ran an analysis on our posts to Facebook and concluded that the platform was largely time independent in terms of whether a post succeeded. A post at 4 AM on Saturday should be just as likely to find an audience as one at 10 AM on Tuesday. Despite a solid statistical…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens asked more questions than it answered, but luckily for us, director J.J. Abrams hasn’t been quite as secretive in the movie’s aftermath as he was before. He’s now explained one of the most puzzling moments in the movie. (Don’t read on if you somehow still haven’t seen it.) So in…
Former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio at the Hulk Hogan trial. In a mumbling video deposition, former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio was asked if there was any situation where he would deem a celebrity sex tape not newsworthy. “If they were a child,” Mr. Daulerio responded. “Under what age?” Mr. Daulerio was asked. “Four,” he said…