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If you want to survive a biological attack, you might want to look into buying a Tesla. The company just officially unveiled the Model X, and Elon Musk shared a rather unexpected feature during the… Tesla’s new Model X has a ‘bioweapon defense mode’ button | The Verge.
Yesterday, 4chan founder Christopher “moot” Poole announced he was selling the infamous anonymous message board to Hiroyuki Nishimura, the man whose 2channel message board had inspired 4chan’s creation. Over the past 12 years, 4chan has fostered many of the central groups and images of web culture, alongside damaging harassment campaigns and pockets of neo-Nazism. We talked with Poole…
https://youtu.be/yyQI3qnrzH8 via 9 Celebrity Freak Outs (That Were Totally Justified) – YouTube.
As if you didn’t already know, next month finally marks the day from Back to the Future Part II when Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived in 2015. There’s a lot going on to celebrate the occasion (click here for proof) but this may be the best thing yet. Above you see Doc Brown himself,…
CNBC being taken off Nielsen effective 10/1/15. Current sample size for CNBC’s Nielsen ratings determined by NINE Homes – Linda Y #iabmixxâ Boon Yap on Twitter: “CNBC being taken off Nielsen effective 10/1/15. Current sample size for CNBC’s Nielsen ratings determined by NINE Homes – Linda Y #iabmixx”.
IAB President-CEO Randall Rothernberg AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 The Interactive Advertising Bureau elevated its fight against ad blockers on Tuesday, with President-CEO Randall Rothenberg renewing what he called his “cri de coeur” against the practice and showcasing small publishers being hurt by the practice. The organization also said it was taking new steps…
If ad blocking is war, long-tail publishers will likely be its earliest casualties. “Ad blocking is a threat to the whole industry, but it has an especially high impact for the small publishers who make up so much of the rich fabric that is the digital experience,” said Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising…
I went on my second Tinder date on the Tuesday after Valentine’s Day. We met for Mexican food just south of Union Square. I don’t know what I ordered or how I kept my calm throughout the meal, listening to my date talk about the fact that he and his entire family were healthcare professionals….
From the September 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show: RUSH LIMBAUGH: There’s so much fraud. Snerdly came in today ‘what’s this NASA news, this NASA news is all exciting.’ I said yeah they found flowing water up there. ‘No kidding! Wow! Wow!’ Snerdly said ‘flowing water!?’ I said ‘why does that excite…
Actress and women’s rights activist Emma Watson has spoken out about her experience with sexism in Hollywood, and provided some startling hard numbers in the process. In a recent interview with the Guardian, the United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador underscored what she saw as the disproportionate representation of men and women in the film industry using statistics…