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Surrounded by a swirl of controversy after published reports connected him to an alt-right political organization, the 24-year-old Oculus exec has issued a statement saying he’s sorry his actions “are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and his partners.” A post on Luckey’s Facebbook page appeared late Friday night, denoting the amount of money he…
Trump holds a rally in Des Moines in January. (Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post) Donald Trump’s charitable foundation — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s office….
Thirty seconds into watching this video, my face already hurt from smiling too much. What you’re about to watch is a compilation of footage that shows what director George Miller actually shot on the set of 2015’s masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. And you will be amazed at how much was actually done, practically, on…
Only women would sign up for this much crap. Okay first, allow me to check my privilege so you don’t have to: I am a white woman with a college education. I am married. I live in a beautiful little town in the mountains. I have a career I genuinely like. I am one lucky…
The man pictured below, the one arming himself with a head-missile made from a menu, is sometimes known as “Yukio Uchida.” If you meet him in person and ask for his name, he’ll tell you it’s Mark Kagaya. The one and only. If you ask him how he got to where he is now, he’d…
Former adult film actress Mia Khalifa has jumped into the sports world recently, not only exposing Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly’s DMs to her but also starting a regular FanSided.com picks column last week. Khalifa’s forays into sports got even more prominent Thursday when “Burt Gertson,” a self-proclaimed “54-year sportswriting veteran” who’s cited as working…
The United Nations just announced a date for its first ever mission to space—and it’s pretty soon. The U.N. intends to send Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser spacecraft, which is currently still in its testing-phase, into a 2-week, low-Earth orbit flight in 2021. Sierra Nevada signed on to partner with the UN in June, but the…
SpaceX plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars, according to its founder Elon Musk. But, while we now know a lot more about how SpaceX plans to get to Mars, details about how people will actually survive up there remain sketchy. Musk dropped the news on Tuesday during an address at the International Astronautical…
Even among tech companies, whose product announcements are geared to be grandiose, Elon Musk’s Mars-colonization rollout feels like something new. In a video shared Tuesday at a space exploration conference in Guadalajara, Musk outlined his plan: Before this century is out, a small team of humans will open a spacecraft door, step onto red ground…
I admit it: I’m an optimist. I wanted Elon Musk to show me a strong Mars plan with real finances and real life-support design. I was hoping he’d talked some of his billionaire friends into financing this Mars dream. I wanted the dream to be real. Optimists, of course, are frequently disappointed, which is why…