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This holiday season, as you sift through greeting cards and party invitations from friends and family, you might find you’ve gotten mail from an unexpected sender: Amazon. The Seattle giant has just printed a holiday toy catalog, and will be mailing it out to millions of customers starting in November. This is the first time…
Photo: Richard Drew (AP) MoviePass, the ticketing startup that burned through hundreds of millions of dollars trying to undercut the theater business by selling tickets at cost to subscribers, has screwed up an awful lot as of late. Its parent company Helios & Matheson is being sued by shareholders for alleged fraud, as well as…
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta is a smart, tough reporter. He can also be a grandstander who seems to thrive on conflict with President Trump, and doesn’t always know when to stop his aggressive questioning. But whether you like Acosta’s style, it’s clear the White House crossed a bright line Wednesday when it took…
The president had soured on the former senator from Alabama after Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation. Source: Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns at Trump’s request – The Washington Post
Star Trek icon Jean-Luc Picard is returning to the final frontier. And one of the people helping the beloved character boldly go once again is best-selling author Michael Chabon. Author Michael Chabon beams up with Star Trek: Discovery and the further adventures of Jean-Luc Picard. Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance The author of acclaimed novels Wonder…
Big companies attract big attention, and none quite as much as Apple. Its quarterly reports have become something of a collective soothsaying moment for stock markets and the tech industry, and so Thursday’s report garnered its usual share of outsized attention. WIRED Opinion About Zachary Karabell is a WIRED contributor and president of River Twice…
Imagine preparing for a job interview or a promising first date. You probably consider your outfit and general grooming—a fresh shower, plus hair products and makeup, if you use them. Glasses or contacts? Hair up or down? Various decisions signal different levels of erudition or sexual appeal, and people spend considerable time and money trying…
BREAKING: Authorities identified the attacker in the shooting as Ian David Long, 28. A gunman opened fire inside a crowded country-music bar late Wednesday in Southern California, killing a dozen people, a toll that included a sheriff’s deputy who had rushed inside to confront the shooter, police said. The gunman was later found dead inside….
GIF: New York Times It’s the 2018 midterms, and today you have your chance to record just how you feel about that. The New York Times has set up a live map of results across the nation, where readers can click one of six emojis (angry, sad, afraid, neutral, happy, and laughing) to have their…
Ahead of the November 6 elections, CJR invited writers to spotlight stories that deserve closer scrutiny, in their states and beyond, before voters cast their ballots. Read dispatches from “States of the Union” here. For those of us with memories of November 8, 2016, etched into our temporal lobes, one crack of the neck in the…