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Mozilla has a new logo, the latest in the company’s effort to rebrand itself as a modern technology outfit worthy of your attention. It’s no surprise that the company reaching to stay relevant in the face of plunging usage of its key product, the internet browser Firefox. Somewhere out there is a designer who still…
Palmer Luckey (AP Images) DALLAS — After being basically in hiding for 117 days, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey spent his first full day back in the spotlight getting grilled by a feisty lawyer who tried to “make fun” of the fact Luckey had no college degrees. Luckey took the stand here in the northern…
The National Park service retweeted some sick Donald Trump burns, noting how, uh, lightly attended his inauguration was compared to Barack Obama’s in 2009. But now, the NPS has been ordered by its Washington support office to “immediately cease use of government Twitter accounts until further notice,” according to an internal email obtained by Gizmodo….
Dan Scavino has shared articles from websites that claim 9/11 was an ‘inside job’, Michelle Obama is a man and Beyonce is funded by the CIA. scald=5187301:article_responsive_images [if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif] END scald=5187301 President Donald Trump speaks at the CIA headquarters on January 21, 2017 in Langley, Virginia. Olivier Doulier/Getty The man behind Donald Trump’s official presidential…
If you want to sleep with a robot, you don’t have to wait decades for a Westworld-style theme park of carnal delights. The future of virtual sex is already here. Strap on enough hardware, and the avatar of your dreams will grind to the beat of your teledildonics. Today’s smart dolls are becoming increasingly lifelike — nowhere…
post details byline /post details An educational presentation on San Francisco’s low population of children took place during a Planning Commission meeting Thursday, launching a discussion into what, if anything, The City can do to remedy this issue. Nationwide, the percentage of homes with children is 29 percent. In San Francisco, it’s 18 percent —…
Kellyanne Conway talks to reporters at Trump Tower in New York last month, when she was the then-president-elect’s campaign manager . (Evan Vucci/ AP) A senior aide to President Trump said Sunday that he has no plans to release his tax returns, a marked shift from Trump’s pledge during the campaign to make them public…
Photo: AP Update 7:30pm: Donald Trump has since deleted the follow-up tweet, possibly breaking the rules regarding archiving official records a second time. As of now, there’s no proof on his Twitter account of it ever existing. Of course, that’s what archived images are for. We’re officially through the looking glass, and it’s time to…
Neo-Nazis met in Washington, D.C., last week to celebrate Donald Trump‘s presidential victory and proclaim that their time has come. Video captured by the Atlantic shows the group using Nazi salutes and shouting “Heil!” to the president-elect’s victory. Punching Nazis, otherwise known as “fash-bashing,” is part of a long, storied tradition of anti-fascist violence, carried…
Ludwig “zai” Wåhlberg probably didn’t expect to stumble into the entire enemy team while near his home base in the dwindling minutes of the Pit League Season 5 quarterfinals, but it didn’t matter either. Some quick thinking allowed him to secure the win for Evil Genius even after dying. Evil Geniuses may have had the…