Facebook Now Lets You Choose Who Manages Your Account When You Die
What happens to your Facebook profile when you die has long been an important, if controversial, issue . Now, the social network will let you designate a 'legacy contact' to take care of your profile...
View ArticleBad News, Good News, Bad News
Bad news: I've been missing in action this week, as I've been stuck in bed heavily doped up and suffering with two things — the recurrence of an old back injury, and the flu. The flu is letting up, but...
View ArticleApple Design Boss Jon Ive Gets Chauffeured To Work In A Bentley
There is surprisingly little to be learned about Sir Jonathan Ive in this 17,000-word piece in The New Yorker, except this: The fucker gets driven to work in a Bentley Mulsanne, "a car for a head of...
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The Time a Cop Pretended His Arm Was a Vagina to Bust a Cyber-Perv
Sometimes the long arm of the law clutches you with nothing more than brute force and brawn. And sometimes that arm folds back onto itself, posing as an underage girl's vagina, in order to trap and...
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Edward Snowden Banned From Reddit During AMA
During an AMA to promote CITIZENFOUR this afternoon, reddit moderators temporarily banned the Oscar-winning documentary's subject from commenting. Edward Snowden was forced to sign-in through another...
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The Lost Emoji
This summer, a very small council of people you've never heard of will make a very large pop -cultural impact when they release dozens of new emoji. But this crop of tiny phone art had to be narrowed...
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Cherry Magnate Shoots Self in Head as Cops Raid Hidden Drug Stash
The owner of a Brooklyn-based maraschino cherry company killed himself Tuesday during a drug raid on his Red Hook factory. After watching law enforcement agents discover a fake wall, Dell's Maraschino...
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Revenge Porn Sleaze Craig Brittain Wants His Past Deleted from Google
Before it was shuttered by the federal government, IsAnyoneDown.com published naked photos of women without their consent. Now Craig Brittain , the site's former owner, is demanding that Google erase...
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Psychopath Who Harassed Brianna Wu: Just Kidding!
Earlier this month we wrote about "Jace Connors," a seemingly deranged violent Gamergate obsessive who filmed himself kicking a wrecked car and claiming he'd been planning to attack the game developer...
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A Guide to the Sex Discrimination Lawsuit That's Roiling Silicon Valley
Ellen Pao's blockbuster lawsuit against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers has been described as "exposing Silicon Valley secrets" and putting the usually secretive world of...
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News Industry Shrugs, Prepares to Hand Entire Business Over to Facebook
Facebook, a dull and endlessly scrolling record of personal propaganda and content headlined in two or more sentences, isn't satisfied with the way its 1.4 billion users (most non-sentient) consume the...
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Ellen Pao Loses on Every Count in Blockbuster Gender Discrimination Suit
Ellen Pao, the former Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers junior partner who sued the high-powered Silicon Valley venture capital firm for gender discrimination after she was allegedly sexually...
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Homeless Silicon Valley Couple Triumphs Against All Odds
Prerna Gupta and her husband Parag Chordia own a company that makes iPhone apps. Their most famous app is Songify, which made them very rich—so rich that they faced every rich person's nightmare: they...
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Silicon Valley Is Becoming a Documentary About Silicon Valley
Accuracy is the best thing about Silicon Valley . Anyone who's spent any time in the Bay Area tech scene will wince at how well the show's writers have nailed the culture of nerd despair and hubris....
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Which Tech Company Retracted An Employee's 'Weaponized' Interview?
San Francisco's tech boom has radically altered the city's landscape — Teslas and tech worker shuttles prowl incessantly through the streets and the guy sitting next to you at dinner is invariably...
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How Elon Musk Almost Sold Tesla To Google For $11 Billion
In early 2013 Tesla was in dire straits. The automaker was struggling to take orders, produce, and deliver the first batch of Model S sedans, and those that did roll out of the factory were of dubious...
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Resort Where David Goldberg Died Deletes Treadmill Photo From Its Site
After days of silence and misreporting , the Mexican resort where Sheryl Sandberg’s late husband allegedly died in an exercise fatality has deleted this photo of its treadmill facility.Read more...
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A Salute to AOL's Tim Armstrong, a Real Shitty Boss
In May 2011, Tim Armstrong spent a day at work barefoot to raise awareness about barefoot children, instead of just donating money to barefoot children to buy them shoes. This is the kind of boss Tim...
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'Everything Really Hit Rock Bottom': How Nasty Gal's Culture Went Nasty
“Be a nice person at work,” Sophia Amoruso writes in her 2014 book #GIRLBOSS, a combination memoir and self-help book for hungry millennial feminists looking to get ahead in life and business. “If you...
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