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Your Twitter handle may soon be part of the US visa process. Yesterday, US Customs and Border Patrol entered a new proposal into the federal register, suggesting a new field in which persons entering the country can declare their various social media accounts and screen names. The information wouldn’t be mandatory, but the proposed field would…
(Mike Steele via Flickr) This story has been updated Following web backlash Thursday, the pharmaceutical giant Bayer told a Brazilian advertising agency to “discontinue” an aspirin campaign that won awards in Cannes, France this week — and outraged people who thought it made light of a sex crime. The advertisement, created by AlmapBBDO in Sao Paulo, appeared…
Twitter is blowing up with criticism toward an ad that won a Bronze Lion at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on Thursday. “Don’t worry babe, I’m not filming this,” is the tagline for an ad created by Brazilian agency AlmapBBDO for Bayer aspirin. The type is in all caps in the middle of the…
Rosyna Keller cache hit 182:single/related:0a518848a20ac25b8ed9349d07edc523 empty Grey Group has continued to defend its widely criticized smartphone app, “I Sea,” after it was pulled from the Apple App Store earlier this week when two security researchers exposed it as a fraud. The app purported to be a crowdsourced way for people to help migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea by…
06/23/16 01:54 PM EDT Updated 06/23/16 04:29 PM EDT Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is joining CNN as a political commentator, according to a source familiar with the arrangement. It’s a salaried position and will make Lewandowski exclusive to CNN, effective immediately. The hiring comes just three days after Trump fired Lewandowski, ending…
In 2009, when Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games — beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago — Brazil was flying high. Although it had not escaped the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, it had suffered less economic damage, and come back more quickly, than other countries, including the…
When Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s fastest selling video game ever, was released in 2014, it captured the hacking spirit of the times. The game’s hacker hero, Aidan Pearce, takes advantage of the connected nature of today’s smart cities to wreak havoc in Chicago while hunting down the organization that killed his niece. The game was so…
Since the shooting at an Orlando nightclub last week that left 49 people dead, reports have emerged that gunman Omar Mateen frequented the gay club, used gay dating apps and had gay lovers. But the FBI has found no evidence so far to support claims by those who say Mateen had gay lovers or communicated…
Lending a new dimension to the phrase “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” recently fired Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has joined CNN as a political commentator. Presumably now if he wants to grab a reporter so hard that she’s left with bruises on her arm, his case will be handled by CNN’s…
Abigail Fisher, the plaintiff in the latest round of affirmative action cases heard before the Supreme Court, is the perfect villain in a liberal morality play about the evils of racism. Fisher’s case before the Supreme Court, in which she demanded that she be admitted to the University of Texas at Austin despite not having the…