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According to the high-profile consulting firm, McKinsey & Co., millennials will have to work seven years longer or save twice as much in order to live as well in retirement as their parents. But take heart millennials! The following video should make you feel better (if you have a little adventure in your soul as…
Michael Strahan’s last day alongside Kelly Ripa is on Friday — and it’s not a moment too soon. Ripa is already talking about who should replace Strahan on “Live with Kelly and Michael.” And on Thursday she was photographed wearing a jacket with the word “Freedom” written on the back. Regular viewers of the talk…
Illustration by Tara Jacoby There are few things on this planet I hate more than bottled water. Just the crinkling sound of someone wrapping their mouth around one of those squeaky garbage accordions fills me with rage. I stopped drinking it a long time ago—and you should stop drinking it, too. In 2015, in the…
There’s a lot going on in X-Men: Apocalypse. An ancient god-king-mutant-thing named En Sabah Nur awakens after centuries of dormancy, and decides to obliterate the modern world out of sheer disgust. Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) proudly presides over a thriving school for young mutants. His new students Scott Summers (Mud’s Tye Sheridan) and Jean…
The Russian government is not known for being particularly straightforward with facts. Russia is currently backing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his brutal, 5-year-long war to regain control of his country from rebels. As part of that effort, Russia’s government and state-owned media want to discredit the people fighting against Assad. Those people include the…
Mic CEO Chris Altchek. Credit: Mic AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 Like explorers on the high seas, digital media companies these days are looking left and right, high and low, for new sources of revenue. Advertising, branded content in particular, has become a huge business for companies like BuzzFeed and Vox Media, but revenue…
It isn’t unusual for Facebook’s advertising and content policies to change week-to-week as the social network looks for more ways to bring in revenue while carefully managing the user experience. But the constant evolution, particularly with video, may be starting to rile publishers who are looking for their own ways to make money from the…
Seven months ago, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank vowed that if Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, he’d eat one of his columns. Watch him keep his promise. (The Washington Post) The tweets and emails started immediately after Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday night: “You’ve got a promise to keep, bub.” Dana Milbank writes about…
Marie Duplessis, French courtesan and Parisian celebrity, was a striking Victorian beauty. In her best-known portrait, by Édouard Viénot, her glossy black hair frames a beautiful, oval face with sparkling eyes and ivory skin. But Duplessis’ fame was short-lived. Like Violetta, the protagonist in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata whose tale Duplessis inspired, Duplessis was…
Begin: WordPress Article Content uBeam could be vaporware, according to a blogger claiming to be uBeam’s former VP of engineering. They accuse the startup of being unable to fulfill promises made about its technology. [Update: Reporter Lee Gomes confirmed with the author that they are former uBeam VP of Eng Paul Reynolds. More below] uBeam…