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Video has taken over social media, and now it’s coming for your lock screen. Today Mic is launching a revamped version of its MicCheck iPhone app (now called simply Mic) that primarily focuses on push alerts, taking advantage of the rich notification capabilities in iOS 10 to offer video, photos, and text alerts accessible on…
In his 29 years in prison, David Bonner has mopped floors, cooked hot dogs in the cafeteria and, most recently, cut sheets of aluminum into Alabama license plates. The last job paid $2 a day — enough to buy a bar of soap at the commissary or make a short phone call. “This is slavery,” said Bonner, who is 51…
New Business Model. Same Racist Cab Drivers. /header Black riders in Seattle and Boston get longer wait times and more canceled rides.Adam Berry/Getty Images If you have a distinctively black-sounding name, you are more than twice as likely to have your Uber trip canceled than if you had a white-sounding name, a new study…
Screenshot via Paramount Pictures. Obviously, you want your daughter to have a fun Halloween. Duh. A huge part of that is picking out the perfect costume. To figure out what that costume should be, first ask yourself: Is your daughter a whore? That’s what “writer” Erick Erickson (who is sorry for some things he’s said,…
Instacart workers are earning a lot less money after changes to the company’s pay structure — changes CEO Apoorva Mehta told BuzzFeed News are necessary for the company’s continued growth, but that hundreds of vocal Instacart shoppers say are threatening their livelihoods. According to a Buzzfeed News analysis of 15 workers’ pay stubs, shifts that…
Patient burned by mid-surgery explosion when laser ignites fart: An accident at Tokyo Medical University Hospital… https://t.co/lj29bWjF3M pic.twitter.com/dVfqX7N8m3 — NewYork (@NewYorkLoving) October 31, 2016 Ninety-nine percent of the colorless, but certainly not odorless, gas released when one “passes gas” is a combination of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and methane. The last 1 percent is made by…
The media is fascinated with Trump voters. Who are they? What are their unique rituals and folkways? How can we empathize with their struggles, and appreciate their quaint subcultures? Why are they so angry? These articles attempt to evoke empathy and understanding for these people, but they reek of an anthropological contempt; they portray Trump…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” Mel Gibson Is Not Sorry Indignant, yes, his appearance on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert suggested. But the disgraced star’s apology tour has been, overall, strikingly lacking in actual apologies. Google Metadata CBS “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” Mel Gibson, drunk and…
Poll: Trump Leads Clinton in Virginia 44-41 startclickprintinclude endclickprintinclude loadInlineNwsModule | $loadInlineNwsModule nwsLetterEmbedded | $nwsLetterEmbedded nwsModuleAttached | false NEWSLETTERS Receive the latest local updates in your inbox startclickprintinclude Poll results released Tuesday say Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton among Virginia voters in the race for the presidency. Of registered Virginia voters polled by the…
Donald Trump at the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants Press Conference in 1999. Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage/Getty Images Even before the release of the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, Donald Trump’s candidacy was giving women anxiety. But after it came out — and after at least ten women came forward to accuse the Republican nominee…