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AP On Tuesday, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona announced he will be retiring from Congress in 2019. To that I say: Bye, bitch!!! Flake decided to announce the end to his political career in the most Jeff Flake way possible: with a grandstanding speech on the Senate floor. People like to characterize Flake as a…
Over the past two years, Adobe has ventured deeper into artificial intelligence with initiatives like Adobe Sensei, the AI the company is building to power many of its tools. In 2016 it demoed an experiment that let you literally put words into someone else’s mouth (some unrelated researchers took the idea even further and faked a speech by…
Apparently its drone plans are done for, too By Jacob Kastrenakes on October 23, 2017 12:30 pm Spectacles were one of last winter’s hottest gifts, but apparently demand for them quickly died off and left Snap in a bad position. The Information reports that Snap expected demand for Spectacles to continue after the holidays…
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Delicious industrial goodness. Nesster/Cropped/CC BY 2.0 When you hear the name “Product 19,” you’ll either flash on an experimental invention from some corporate R&D department, or, if you’re one of its fans, you might think of the health cereal, rare in the aisles of American supermarkets yet loved all the same. But earlier this…
Reddit is purging Nazi, white supremacist, and other hate-based groups from its site as part of a new policy change announced Wednesday that targets and bans certain violent material. The popular discussion site, which has struggled with how to monitor and remove vitriolic and offensive content in the past, said in a statement that it…
Earlier this week, actress Heather Lind said in a now-deleted Instagram post that former president George H.W. Bush had sexually assaulted her. “He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” she wrote. “He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me…
Filmmaker James Toback has long had a bad reputation with women. Stories about the writer-director often referred to him as a womanizer, but what that actually meant did not become clear until the Los Angeles Times published an investigation Sunday in which 38 women accused the writer-director of sexual harassment. Within two days those numbers…
iStock I have a confession to make. I’m black. I’m a black guy with black parents and black relatives and even some black friends. I also work at Morgan State, a historically black university. And since we’re keeping it 100, I’m the political editor at The Root, which you are reading right now, and which…
Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG. “Don’t embarrass me in the hotel,” Harvey Weinstein commanded model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez in a recording published on Tuesday by the New Yorker. Released with a story detailing part of a long history of rape and sexual assault allegations leveled against the producer, the recording was initially part of a New…