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A Google Chrome plugin with the seemingly innocent name of “Coincidence Detector” has one sole purpose: compiling and exposing the identities the names in three sets of parentheses — i.e., (((Fleishman))) — on web pages. As Mic detailed in a story earlier this week, white supremacists have begun using the construction, called an “(((echo))),” to…
Employment trends in newspaper publishing and other media, 1990–2016 June 02, 2016 Few industries have been affected by the digital or information age as much as newspapers and other traditional publishing industries (books, magazines, etc.). In June 1990, there were nearly 458,000 people employed in the newspaper publishing industry; by March 2016, that figure…
Maybe you weren’t in the mood to hear about Bacon Critic on Twitter all day, but that’s too bad for you, because on Wednesday, Time Inc. launched Extra Crispy, a breakfast-focused vertical run out of its Brooklyn-based “creative lab” The Foundry. And yes, Extra Crispy is hiring a bacon critic — or, to be way…
Examples of these markets include San Antonio, where Blomquist says flippers are actually purchasing at a 7.8 percent premium above estimated full market value, as well as Austin, Texas; Salt Lake City; Naples, Florida; Dallas and San Jose, California. Despite the premium to buy, flippers are still seeing growing gains in profit. Home flippers realized…
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Johnny Depp has been accused of domestic violence by his estranged wife of 15 months, Amber Heard. The story is only a few days old, and it’s already unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the gossip press — as Lainey Gossip points out, typically these kinds of allegations don’t touch the A-list. Though Depp’s publicity…
In the early days of the social web, putting someone’s name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug. Today, it’s something far more sinister. Neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white nationalists have begun using three sets of parentheses encasing a Jewish surname — for instance, (((Fleishman))) — to identify and…
Professor William S. Klug. Photo: UCLA Citing law enforcement sources, CBS News reports that the two people who died in today’s shooting at UCLA were an engineering professor and a student “apparently despondent about grades.” http://gawker.com/at-least-two-p… The network identified the professor as William Klug, who specialized in computational mechanics and received a Ph.D from Caltech…
The maker of No Man’s Sky says he received death threats throughout a week in which his game was reportedly and then confirmed to be delayed. Sean Murray, the managing director for Hello Games, said this on Twitter yesterday evening: I have received loads of death threats this week, but don’t worry, Hello Games…
By far the best moment of Recode’s annual Code Conference was when Elon Musk took the stage and explained that though we think we’re flesh-and-blood participants in a physical world, we are almost certainly computer-generated entities living inside a more advanced civilization’s video game. Don’t believe me? Here’s Musk’s argument in full: The strongest argument…