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It’s fine. It will probably be fine. Hillary will probably win. Maybe.Digital Vision/Thinkstock Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party’s unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the convention … It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination…
Captain America has been a symbol of American heroism since 1941, and that all appears to be a lie. SPOILER BEGINS HERE “Steve Rogers: Captain America #1” hit shelves on Wednesday along with a twist that seemingly changes the entire history of the character. The final page of the issue has Rogers saying two words:…
PayPal co-founder and former CEO Peter Thiel at the National Press Club October 3, 2011 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel confirmed to Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times Wednesday that he scouted out potential plaintiffs and bankrolled lawsuits targeting Gawker Media, including Hulk Hogan’s complaint that won…
The credo of Thiel’s venture-capital firm: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Credit Photograph by Robert Maxwell Barrier Status: ‘none’ Peter Thiel pulled an iPhone out of his jeans pocket and held it up. “I don’t consider this to be a technological breakthrough,” he said. “Compare this with the Apollo space…
During one of the Democratic debates last December, as a five-minute commercial break came to a close, there was a problem: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hadn’t yet returned to the stage. The moderators, forced to abide by the constraints of live television, carried on without her, until, a few minutes later, she resumed her place…
The ambitious space game No Man’s Sky has been delayed, two sources tell Kotaku. We don’t know exactly what the new release date is—and it may not be finalized yet—but we’re hearing it’s been bumped until at least July or August. Developed by a small UK-based team called Hello Games, No Man’s Sky has been…
Photo Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, at a forum in China last year. Mr. Thiel is said to have financed the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media. Credit Visual China Group, via Getty Images A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization. His friends suffered at the hands…
Adam Singolda is nearly an hour into explaining his sometimes frightening pitch to media companies when he decides to go full Game of Thrones. “Winter is coming,” Singolda says, referring to the catchphrase from the bloody drama. “There is going to be a shake. But we’re building the wall.” Winter, as he sees it, is when…
Gwyneth Paltrow’s pop-up shop, goop mrkt, came to San Francisco this week. (Yep, note the very trendy lack of vowels!) Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed The shop opened at 140 Maiden Lane, a “stunning small-scale prototype of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design of the Guggenheim Museum,” which feels VERY GOOP. At the goop mrkt’s opening party, there was “pizza” from…
Illustration: Jim Cooke, Photo: Getty Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has generated an unceasing torrent of press attention that some estimate to be worth roughly $2 billion. Yet the central mystery at the very core of his persona—his inscrutable hairdo—has somehow, impossibly, remained unsolved. Until, perhaps, now. A tipster who claimed knowledge of Trump’s…