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Warning! Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6 follow. ‘The Battle of the Bastards’ was many things. It was Game of Thrones‘ most expensive episode, costing around $10 million, and it took 25 days to shoot — another record for the show. And judging by how much of it my wife spent with her eyes squeezed nearly…
Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg, a man who runs a service that collects the personal information of more than a billion people daily, seems to be worried about being spied on. There’s something very interesting in the photo Zuckerberg posted today to celebrate Instagram’s 500 million monthly active users, can you see it? Look closer. As…
Today we’re excited to announce the release of PressForward 3.9, which features a complete overhaul of the codebase to improve stability and pave the way for exciting future developments. With the release of version 3.9, PressForward takes its first step into an entirely new backend structure. After four years of constant development the core code…
Updated June 22, 2016 9:44 a.m. ET Facebook Inc. FB -0.22 % has inked contracts with nearly 140 media companies and celebrities to create videos for its nascent live-streaming service, as the social network positions itself to cash in on a lucrative advertising market it has yet to tap—and keep its 1.65 billion monthly users…
Every week or so during the spring, I met with Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the party headquarters on Capitol Hill. We fell into a familiar routine. I would enter his office, usually chaperoned by Sean Spicer, the R.N.C.’s chief strategist and head of communications. Priebus has a healthy appreciation…
Photo Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, in 2014. He has filed an amendment that would prevent any money from being spent to redesign American currency. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, moved on Tuesday to block the Treasury Department’s sweeping plan to represent women and civil…
TO MARK the United Nations’ International Women’s Day on March 8th, we present our “glass-ceiling index” which aims to reveal where women have the best chances of equal treatment at work. It combines data on higher education, labour-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity rights, business-school applications and representation in senior jobs. We’ve also included paternity rights as an additional…
On the evening of March 31, Aleksandr Markov heard the doorbell and rushed to open the door of his St. Petersburg apartment. But instead of the guest he had been expecting, Markov was surprised to see several strangers on his doorstep. Then came the blow. “I was hit in the eye,” he tells RFE/RL. “I…
In case you haven’t heard, Captain America is a Nazi now and fanboys everywhere are losing their shit. Last week, issue 1 of Nick Spencer and Jesus Sais’ new comic series Captain America: Steve Rogers hit the shelves of comic stores everywhere and shocked fans across the nation when, in the final panel, Captain…
Image: Jim Cooke, Photo: Getty Donald Trump is not going to be the president. Trump isn’t going to let himself lose in any official capacity, of course—that would go against everything the Trump brand stands for. So when his numbers start dropping, as they inevitably will and already have, Donald Trump is going to save…