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After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company. Nick Denton, the company’s outgoing…
WIRED has never been neutral. For nearly a quarter of a century, this organization has championed a specific way of thinking about tomorrow. If it’s true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, then our task has been to locate the places where various futures…
Members of the House Judiciary Committee are set to question FBI officials next month about allegations of perjury involving Hillary Clinton’s conflicting statements to Congress last year. Witnesses at the hearing could include FBI Director James Comey, according to USA Today, which first reported the panel’s plans. A Judiciary Committee spokeswoman confirmed the…
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates instructed Justice Department officials Thursday to begin the process to end the federal government’s use of private prisons. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run…
Days of rain swallowed thousands of roads and buildings in water throughout Louisiana. At least 11 people were killed and more than 10,000 displaced as the ‘unprecedented’ floodwaters rose. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) BATON ROUGE — Five days into this disaster, adrenaline is giving way to exhaustion and — for many of those who left their homes…
There are plenty of ways to celebrate victory at the Olympics: You can do the Lightning Bolt like Usain Bolt. You can do various things with your fingers like Michael Phelps. You can brag on Twitter. But rarely has anyone danced like David Katoatau did this week in Rio. And what’s remarkable about his dancing…
As experienced pros are replaced by passionate up-and-comers, will diners notice a change in seasoning? If I hadn’t gone to cooking school or spent six years working in Toronto kitchens, I wouldn’t be who I am today: a writer, not a cook. Cooking is a wonderful art, skill, trade and craft. But as a career,…
There’s an ongoing conversation about race and racism on social media — but white people are missing most of it. A Pew Research Center report released Monday asked Americans who identified as black, white, and Hispanic about how much they post about race, and how much content they see about it. Pew studied “social media…
Blizzard team shooter Overwatch is a game designed around heroic moments. It hands players ample opportunity to sacrifice their kill counts, their glory, and the characters themselves for the greater good, to be immortalized in the match’s signature “Play of the Game” moment shown to every participant after the dust has settled. Oftentimes, this highlight…
Mr. Valls, in an interview published Wednesday in La Provence, the daily newspaper in Marseille, called the burkini part of a “political project” to enslave women. Laurence Rossignol, a feminist and the Socialist minister for families, children and women’s rights, called the burkini “profoundly archaic” and “not just a new kind of bathing attire,” but…