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The public hates the press. The press hates the public. We get it. Fair enough. We can only get the faintest glimmer of love from college kids, even. http://gawker.com/public-trust-i… A new Gallup poll of US college students is out, commissioned purely with the intent of catching college kids in some sort of stupid beliefs and…
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Kylo Ren has a lot of… anger issues in The Force Awakens. But even then, his path to the Dark Side in the movie was tinged with the hope that he could resolve the conflict within him. But apparently, it seems like Kylo was much further along that path than anyone realized. Spoilers ahead, if…
George Mason University leaders announced last week that they would rename their law school the Antonin Scalia School of Law, honoring the late U.S. Supreme Court justice, after receiving $30 million in gifts. Shortly after the university’s announcement, Del. Marcus B. Simon (D-Fairfax) began circulating a petition calling for a stop to George Mason “selling the…
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank on April 25, 2014 in New York City.Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Barney Frank, the former Massachusetts Congressman who retired from the House of Representatives in 2013, is perhaps best known for a bill that carries his name: the Dodd-Frank Act, which aimed to…
TRANSCRIPT GWEN IFILL: In the eight years since Apple unveiled its first smartphone, an entire generation of young users has spring up who never knew a world without a device in hand. That’s the starting point for the latest addition to the “NewsHour” Bookshelf, “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers,” by…
On Mar. 31, Nintendo’s first mobile app, a strange question-and-answer social network called Miitomo, launched in the US. It’s been available in Japan for a few weeks, and according to Nintendo, it was downloaded over 1 million times in the first three days there. Nintendo, which pretty much single-handedly created the portable video-game industry with…
Miitomo offers a disquieting prophecy of social networking’s future, one in which we largely cede the actual labor of interacting with other people to the networks themselves.Nintendo On Sunday, a new co-worker wearing a pair of cat ears dropped by to say hello. I would have liked to offer her a drink, but I…
Sarah Palin this week spoke before a crowd of Republicans for more than 20 minutes. Despite using thousands of words that would technically be characterized as “English,” Palin garnered real applause exactly once—when she spoke about Benghazi. It was that terrible. “Getting off the airplane today, as I’m walking through the airport and seeing all…
Friends, we’ve finally made it: The hellishly wearisome event that is April Fool’s Day is basically at its end. We at io9 despise this black day, but even our curmudgeonly souls got a smile out of this “prank” by the Canadian Library and Archives, which claimed to have dug up Wolverine’s military records from its…