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Over the past several years, there’s been a significant increase in the number of people using ad-blocking software in their web browser. We have certainly seen a growth in those numbers here at WIRED, where we do all we can to write vital stories for an audience that’s passionate about the ongoing adventure of our…
Elon Musk is known for doing things differently – indeed, it’s been a major reason why both he and his companies have been so successful. But fingers crossed this method of thinking outside the square doesn’t succeed: Musk has allegedly banned a blogger from buying one of his cars for criticising the South African billionaire.more…
Start Article Post Content Just imagine what a Michael Bloomberg presidency could mean to a people tired of politics, yearning for leadership and hopeful for a better tomorrow. And by that I mean the employees of Bloomberg Media, not the United States of America. While New York City’s former mayor had jaws dropping Saturday when…
The closing of Grantland, ESPN’s sports and culture site, has been the subject of a tremendous amount of coverage and speculation since it was announced Oct. 30. The affection many had for the site resulted in a predictable outpouring of anger from the Web site’s readers, not to mention a number of fond farewells from…
The brands were out in full force during Sunday’s Superbowl, reaching the eyeballs of millions of consumers with millions of dollars. Mountain Dew took a novel tact, attempting to create the most grotesque, unsettling, and plain awful character of all (worse, even, than Norm MacDonald’s Colonel Sanders): PuppyMonkeyBaby. The character is exactly what is sounds…
Share. Fly to Gotham City and Metropolis. By Jim Vejvoda Turkish Airlines called upon Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice characters Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor to tout their respective hometowns in two new ads dropped on Super Bowl Sunday. The commercials seen below feature Ben Affleck and Jesse Eisenberg as their characters to sell…
“Hillary Clinton Is Again Put on the Defensive Over Perceived Ties to Wall Street,” the New York Times frets today. Whatever could be going on here? What is the deal, Democratic voters? Dozens of prominent economists and academic experts have endorsed her plans to regulate the financial sector. Her policies would “try to prevent the…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Include: Need For Transparency And Accountability Tech companies have gotten better about disclosing their diversity data, but there are still a ton of companies that haven’t done so. In the reports that do exist, what’s often missing are insights around retention rates, which can be good indicators of a company’s culture and what…
When the popular YouTubers known as the Fine Brothers speak about their work — specifically, a series of online videos where people of various age groups “react” to pop culture and Internet phenomena — they often speak in terms of creating “time capsules” for future generations to watch and understand how we viewed the world…
(Amy King/The Washington Post; iStock) In the aftermath of an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle that sickened dozens of people across the United States last fall and led to an overhaul of the company’s food safety practices, Americans reacted by avoiding the beloved fast-food chain. Restaurants that once sported long lines were suddenly empty, a phenomenon that was almost…