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Dec. 31, 2015 11:36 a.m. ET Gawker Media, a network of websites known for pillorying the powerful in media, tech and politics, has helped sell millions of cable ties to readers looking to control their tangled messes of electronic cords. Gawker has also been hawking flashlights, laser printers, headphones, car phone chargers and a 42-piece…
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., site of one of the deadliest mass killings last year. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The mass killings that erupted last year seemed linked by little more than a hail of gunfire. Their locations became etched in public memory, the terror and bloodshed drawing our attention to a church…
On Wednesday afternoon, we all crowded outside the exhibit hall counting down the minutes till the doors opened, as if awaiting a Black Friday sale. As a returning student in the midst of a career change, the Grace Hopper Celebration’s career fair was particularly exciting for me — hundreds of companies came to GHC to recruit for…
I’ve never been a fan of the “sharing economy”. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with Uber, Airbnb and their peers, it’s just that there doesn’t really seem to be much “sharing” going on. It’s more like adding a technological middleman to a rental market. Now having shaken up the taxi and hotel market, the…
Kylo Ren So I finally got a chance to see The Force Awakens, doing so by myself, on New Year’s Eve, before heading straight home to think about it right around the time when it seemed like everyone else in New York City was just heading out to do New Year’s Eve stuff.I briefly considered…
Over the weekend a bunch of militant ranchers and wannabees took over a building at a federal wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon. The group has threatened violence upon any authority threatening to remove them and are generally making a big show of things. The leader, Ammon Bundy, kin to Nevada rancher and scofflaw Cliven…
A man’s “Cash For Life” lottery winnings are up for auction. In one of the most bizarre auctions that Repocast.com has ever held, an unidentified man’s lottery winnings will be auctioned off to the highest bidder by order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The auction will run online at Repocast.com from 8 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Thursday,…
article start Weeks before a Star Trek fan film was set to begin production, Paramount Pictures Corp. and CBS Studios are setting their phasers to stun, accusing the makers of the crowd-funded project of infringing on their interstellar intellectual property. Paramount and CBS have filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court in California against the…
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen recently issued a final class action certification in O’Connor v. Uber. Judge Chen expanded the class to include drivers bound by 2014 and 2015 arbitration clauses, finding that those clauses were unenforceable on public policy grounds. Since the issuance of the order, Uber has sought to delay the trial and…
Chelsea Clinton is a long-time devotee of the group exercise classes. | Getty Chelsea Clinton to headline fundraiser at SoulCycle in Tribeca By Annie Karni 01/04/16 12:24 PM EST Updated 01/04/16 01:18 PM EST Busy New Yorkers can now donate to Hillary Clinton’s campaign without missing a workout — Chelsea Clinton is set to host…