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The credo of Thiel’s venture-capital firm: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Credit Photograph by Robert Maxwell Barrier Status: ‘none’ Peter Thiel pulled an iPhone out of his jeans pocket and held it up. “I don’t consider this to be a technological breakthrough,” he said. “Compare this with the Apollo space…
During one of the Democratic debates last December, as a five-minute commercial break came to a close, there was a problem: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hadn’t yet returned to the stage. The moderators, forced to abide by the constraints of live television, carried on without her, until, a few minutes later, she resumed her place…
The ambitious space game No Man’s Sky has been delayed, two sources tell Kotaku. We don’t know exactly what the new release date is—and it may not be finalized yet—but we’re hearing it’s been bumped until at least July or August. Developed by a small UK-based team called Hello Games, No Man’s Sky has been…
Photo Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, at a forum in China last year. Mr. Thiel is said to have financed the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media. Credit Visual China Group, via Getty Images A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization. His friends suffered at the hands…
Adam Singolda is nearly an hour into explaining his sometimes frightening pitch to media companies when he decides to go full Game of Thrones. “Winter is coming,” Singolda says, referring to the catchphrase from the bloody drama. “There is going to be a shake. But we’re building the wall.” Winter, as he sees it, is when…
Gwyneth Paltrow’s pop-up shop, goop mrkt, came to San Francisco this week. (Yep, note the very trendy lack of vowels!) Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed The shop opened at 140 Maiden Lane, a “stunning small-scale prototype of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design of the Guggenheim Museum,” which feels VERY GOOP. At the goop mrkt’s opening party, there was “pizza” from…
Illustration: Jim Cooke, Photo: Getty Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has generated an unceasing torrent of press attention that some estimate to be worth roughly $2 billion. Yet the central mystery at the very core of his persona—his inscrutable hairdo—has somehow, impossibly, remained unsolved. Until, perhaps, now. A tipster who claimed knowledge of Trump’s…
Late-night CNN viewers were treated to a brief moment of Cinemax-style steaminess during a segment that aired at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern time today. While on-air personalities were discussing protests at a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico last night, the screen behind them displayed a tweet from the Donald about the event. “Does your…
Those yellow clothing-collection bins behind your local gas station or convenience store aren’t actually particularly charitable, according to a Reveal investigation. Not only will your donations likely not be helping hungry kids in Africa, they may be directly supporting a Danish international fugitive named Mogens Amdi Petersen. Most bins of this type, which have cropped…
Video Trump Protesters Clash With Police Outside a rally for Donald J. Trump in Albuquerque, protesters threw rocks at police officers. By THE NEW YORK TIMES on Publish Date May 25, 2016. Photo by Roberto Rosales/Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press. Watch in Times Video » ALBUQUERQUE — Protesters outside a rally for Donald J. Trump…