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Alisa Shevchenko is a talented young Russian hacker, known for working with companies to find vulnerabilities in their systems. She spends her winters in Asia, meditating and training in Thai kickboxing. She is also, the White House claims, guilty of helping Vladimir Putin interfere in the US election. Her company was a surprise inclusion on…
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson safety Van Smith drives a BMW, but the car is long past its days as a ride of luxury. It is a 1999 sedan with 300,000 miles on its odometer. Like many college students, Smith holds his breath every time he turns the key in the ignition — hoping the car…
(Neil deMause) This week, Gothamist is running excerpts from The Brooklyn Wars, a new book from journalist Neil deMause about the social, economic, and political forces that have radically reshaped Brooklyn over the past four decades. This five-part series, the Bushwick Wars, traces the story of Bushwick from the 1970s to the present…
.has-bugs Donald Trump votes on Nov. 8, 2016, in New York. Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images .single-featured-image Registered voters who didn’t vote on Election Day in November were more Democratic-leaning than the registered voters who turned out, according to a post-election poll from SurveyMonkey, shared with FiveThirtyEight. In fact, Donald Trump probably would…
Modern roller derby was invented 14 years ago. Now it has nearly 2000 leagues in 53 countries. The sport’s rapid growth says a lot about our fast-changing world. Roller derby has roots in the 1900s, but it is a twenty-first century sport in every way that matters. The first “roller derby” was held in Chicago…
A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate payouts to policyholders. Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance believes it will increase productivity by 30%…
This article is absolutely NSFW. On my kitchen table was the ass end of a giant demon bird. I was inspecting its empty orifice, comparing it to a photo on my iPad. The directions said that I had to glue a tiny lump of human hands, less than a half inch across, into the beast’s…
An ex-Snapchat employee says the company is misleading investors to drive up its IPO and he was fired for being a whistleblower, according to a heavily redacted complaint filed Wednesday in L.A. County Superior Court. Anthony Pompliano says “the avarice of the small group of executives at the helm” of Snapchat and his refusal…
This review includes major spoilers for “The Six Thatchers.” Sherlock is consistently inconsistent, veering between compelling drama (Sherlock’s death at the end of season 2) and self-indulgent nonsense (“The Abominable Bride“). The fourth season premiere, “The Six Thatchers,” is the first time it’s managed to be boring. Even at its worst, Sherlock usually maintains a palpable sense…
Hide CM floating unit A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30 CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY NICO DE PASQUALE / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ Will Heller, twenty-six After a month at a Zen silent-meditation retreat, Heller went back to his job at Goldman Sachs as a commodities trader in oil and gas. Victor Chen, twenty-eight Chen…