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—Ben Dreyfuss on Thu. February 26, 2015 9:17 PM PDT “What color is this dress?” What color is this dress? White and gold, or blue and black? Photo on Tumblr divides Internet: http://t.co/la2B6vGtOt pic.twitter.com/dpb8h1SjQ3 — KTLA (@KTLA) February 27, 2015 It’s the defining question of our generation. I felt very strongly that it was gold…
Since it hit Tumblr yesterday, the image below has started an internet schism that may never be healed. Some maniacs, it seems, see the dress as gold and white, while other completely reasonable people see it as blue and black. This is not a joke. This is not a prank. This dress is blue and…
Why that dress looks white and gold: It’s overexposed Left: The “original” photo. Right: The photo corrected for overexposure. By Jonathan Ellis & Dustin Drankoski2015-02-27 04:03:25 UTC Yes, the Internet went crazy Thursday night over a dress that looked white and gold to some people, and blue and black to others. We’re not here to…
Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. (And yes, it’s blue.) The fact that a single image could polarize the entire Internet into two aggressive camps is, let’s face it, just another Thursday. But for the past half-day, people across social media…
© Provided by Deadline Jon Stewart finally explained at length why he is leaving The Daily Show. He started by showing clips of reaction to his announcement from the right — mostly Fox News Channel, where Megyn Kelly is seen talking about how “nasty” Stewart got, with “no foothold in the facts.” He challenged FNC…
Photo Eddie Murphy before his “White Like Me” skit. Credit Frankie Ziths/Associated Press NEW HAVEN — THE recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy’s 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that “when white people…
The New York Post has promoted Remy Stern from digital managing editor to chief digital officer, a new role at the paper. Stern joined the Post in 2012 after stints with Gawker and Radar. In a memo obtained by Capital New York, Post publisher Jesse Angelo credited Stern with advancing the paper’s digital properties: Since we…
The gamer punches in play after endless play of the Atari classic Space Invaders. Though an interminable chain of failures, the gamer adapts the gameplay strategy to reach for the highest score. But this is no human with a joystick in a 1970s basement. Artificial intelligence is learning to play Atari games. The Atari addict…
Have you ever sat down to binge-watch your favorite box set, with the nagging feeling that you don’t have enough popcorn to make it through to the finale? If only there was a way to mainline the X-Files all at once—every episode playing simultaneously, on a single screen, a kind of dark magic that could…
Colliding spaces and the genius of @Genius By Troy Conrad Therrien Earlier this month, a billboard appeared on Canal Street in Manhattan with a yellow baby-shaped silhouette on top of pink, all-caps, Star Wars-skewed text reading “ANNOTATE.” Whereas most billboards are logo delivery vehicles, this one is unclaimed. Rather, this urban beacon broadcasts, simply, a…