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What if the New York City subway map paid homage to some of the city’s great women? (Hover over the map to magnify.) Cartography by Molly Roy, from “Nonstop Metropolis,” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Subway Route Symbols ® Metropolitan Transportation Authority “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” is a song James Brown recorded in…
Technology Zenefits, a Rocket That Fell to Earth, Tries to Launch Again close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Doug Chayka Trying to turn around a failing technology company is almost always a futile task — just ask Marissa Mayer at Yahoo or whoever it is who now runs BlackBerry. But the…
The 2016 Race How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages close story-meta-footer close story-meta Generated by chartmaker v0.12.1 on Wed Oct 12 2016 12:25:25 GMT-0400 (EDT) Our estimate of the U.S.C./LAT poll, using more typical weights Actual U.S.C./LAT estimates Our estimate of the U.S.C./LAT poll, using more typical weights Actual U.S.C./LAT estimates Our…
(Amy Cavenaile/The Washington Post; iStock) The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform. The resulting daily pop-up newsletter gave us some interesting insight into the world according to…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Two of Google’s ad measurement metrics have been suspended from accreditation from the Media Rating Council (MRC) — a key accreditation service advertisers and publishers use to verify that their ads are being properly measured — over “non-compliance” issues related to the way in which it counts its ad impressions. MRC announced…
Politics Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately close story-meta-footer close story-meta Video ‘His Hands Were All Over Me’ Jessica Leeds, a businesswoman at a paper company, was sitting next to Donald J. Trump on a flight to New York in the early 1980s. She told The Times that he lifted the armrest and…
As polls show that Donald Trump would overwhelmingly win if only men were allowed to vote, the GOP nominee’s supporters have spawned a new Twitter hashtag: #repealthe19th. That’s a reference to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The Twitter commentary began after Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight website published an article Tuesday looking at men’s and women’s…
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Thank god for Jim Sterling, a game critic whose recent YouTube antics forced YouTube’s copyright system to eat itself alive. Here’s how he did it. As you may already know, YouTube has something called “Content ID,” which is a system that theoretically allows users to identify and manage their videos. Basically, once a video is…
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday called out Hillary Clinton for suggesting she was in New York on 9/11 — and social media critics responded with pictures that show her next to him at Ground Zero a day later. Clinton was in Washington, DC, on 9/11. She visited lower Manhattan the next day — with…