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For the third year in a row, Amber Rose led hundreds of defiant folks down the streets of Los Angeles for her annual SlutWalk. 
The Amber Rose Foundation hosts the walk, which was founded after the SlutWalk protests in Canada. Over the past three years, the foundation has honed in on a very specific aim: to empower people, end rape culture, and reclaim the word “slut.” 
In addition to the actual walking and catching glimpses of the celebrities in attendance (including Rose'

If his approval rating isn't registering and Donald Trump needs help determining who is not on his side of history these days, he can look for answers in Marshawn Lynch's wardrobe.
The Oakland Raiders running back, known just as much for his on the field antics as he is for his playful treatment of the media, was spotted wearing a shirt with a strong message ahead of Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos: "Everybody vs. Trump."
It's a loud and clear statement, particularly in the face of diss

It's amazing (and truly terrifying) the things Donald Trump can accomplish with less than 140 characters to work with.
On Sunday morning the Commander/Tweeter/Golfer-In-Chief fired off several tweets about North Korea's Kim Jong-un — who he now apparently only refers to as "Rocket Man" or "Little Rocket Man" now — and casually called three former presidents failures like it was NBD.
*nervous laughter*
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Trump kicked off the

It took an entire year after the release of the iPhone 7 for Apple to start selling a dongle that lets you plug in headphones (or your car’s AUX cable) and charge at the same time. But now it’s here. Apple is just selling the thing, mind you — not making it. In September, Belkin announced a new version of its “Rockstar” adapter that now includes both a 3.5mm jack and Lightning port. Last year’s version had two Lightning ports, so if you wanted to use wired hea

Now that iOS 11 is out, augmented reality apps are becoming some of the most entertaining apps in the App Store, thanks to Apple's ARKit. 
While we've seen AR apps meant to help you buy furniture or bring children's books to life, Holo's take on the new feature will be more familiar to fans of Snapchat. 
SEE ALSO: 13 Incredibly Handy New iOS 11 Features
The app allows you to record videos with 3D "holograms" (which is how 3D animations are referred to in the app) of animals, movie char

A federal court ruled yesterday that the FBI does not have to disclose either the name of the vendor used or price the government paid to hack into the iPhone 5C of mass shooter Syed Farook, according to ZDNet. The device became embroiled in a heated national controversy and legal standoff last year when Apple refused to help the FBI develop a backdoor into it for the purpose of obtaining sensitive information on Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, both of whom participated in the terrorist atta

Shared, a new anthology curated by digital artist Molly Soda and poet Sara Sutterlin, is an ambitious project — an attempt to record internet art in a tangible, permanent, holdable format.Soda and Sutterlin aren’t the first to do something like this. Previous anthologies such as Boosthouse’s The Yolo Pages or Tao Lin’s 40 Likely to Die Before 40 pulled together dozens of disparate writers from the alt-lit genre, and Omar Kholeif’s You Are Here and the New Museum&rsq

James Cameron’s 2009 film had plenty of critics, but one particular point of contention was the film’s use of papyrus font for its logo and subtitles. With a series of sequel films now in production, Saturday Night Live resurrected those complaints during last night’s season opener.
Ryan Gosling hosted last night’s show, and along with the typical efforts with Adam Baldwin’s reprising his depiction of President Donald Trump and a sketch about how La La Land saved ja

Marinebedrijf Koninklijke Marine, is the organization responsible for maintaining the vessels of the Royal Netherlands Navy, and recently partnered with Artec 3D to 3D scan the country’s entire naval fleet, according to Naval Technology.The project is a massive undertaking, but once complete, it will dramatically speed up ship maintenance and replacement part fabrication. As some parts don’t have manufacturing blueprints or 3D CAD files available, these scans will not only serve as a

I ride my bike into work several days a week. The trip is just under four miles, with a lot of traffic lights, and a decent incline up one half of the Brooklyn Bridge. Google Maps estimates it should take 23 minutes on a bicycle, and on an ordinary bike, that was usually what I found as well.When the weather is nice, the ride can be a real pleasure. The bits I like least are getting stuck at a red light or behind a tourist snapping selfies in the bike lane on the bridge. It’s also a bit un

Just days after the 2016 Presidential Election, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it was “pretty crazy” to think that his company had influenced the election’s outcome in a meaningful way. He’s had an about-face on that line of thinking since then, and at the end of Yom Kippur, he’s publicly asked for forgiveness “for those I hurt this year,” and pledged to do better.Facebook has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks following reve

As I take the first of three yellow LPs out of the box, my heart is beating fast with excitement. I gently place it on a turntable, hit play, and go lie down on the couch, the lights in my living room dimmed to a minimum. An old man with an Austrian accent starts speaking in a calm voice.
“As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organization of 147 member states who represents almost all of the human inhabitants of the planet Earth, I send greetings of behalf of the people of ou

It seems like yesterday that I put together the September book list. Where did the month go?
I’ve been trying to read more non-fiction and specifically non-genre books recently. My background is in military history, so when I first saw Josh Dean’s The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History, I was intrigued. The book is a really fascinating look at a chapter of the Cold War, about a mission to recover a sun

Shortly after Apple unveiled its new iPhone lineup in September, Chinese smartphone maker Huawei took a jab at the company, promising to unveil a “real AI phone” in the form of its Mate 10 lineup later this month. Reliable leaker Evan Blass has procured a new image of the Mate 10 Pro, which shows off the phone’s three-camera setup and hints at the company’s AI ambitions.
Blass revealed last month that the company will release a trio of Mate 10 models: a standard version,

Shortly after Apple unveiled its new iPhone lineup in September, Chinese smartphone maker Huawei took a jab at the company, promising to unveil a “real AI phone” in the form of its Mate 10 lineup later this month. Reliable leaker Evan Blass has procured a new image of the Mate 10 Pro, which shows off the phone’s three-camera setup and hints at the company’s AI ambitions.
Blass revealed last month that the company will release a trio of Mate 10 models: a standard version,

Do you hate pigeons? If you hate them as much as I do and live in a city full of them, you might find that chasing after them means getting weird frowns. Fortunately, there’s a new app called Pigeon Panic that promises to let you do that (relatively) frown free. It makes use of Apple’s ARKit on iOS 11 that has seen a raft of cool apps come out, including one that lets you put Ikea furniture on the street.The premise of Pigeon Panic is simple: you throw random bits of food like pizza,

GUEST: Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the classic Blade Runner, will be in theaters soon. I can’t wait, because the original was not only a technological tour de force when it was released in 1982, it also offered a critical perspective on the future of robots, artificial intelligence, and our possibly dystopian future.
Blade Runner explored our fascination with — and fear of — futuristic worlds where AI dominates and it is impossible to tell who’s who in the battl

Space Pirate Trainer is finally poised to exit Early Access and release its 1.0 version on October 12, 2017, for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift as well as on the Windows Store for Windows VR headsets (when those are available, of course).There’s a short list of introductory VR apps that I cycle through anytime I’m letting someone try out an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive for the first time. I almost always start with something super simple like Tilt Brush before moving on to things like The Lab (

GUEST: Personal digital assistants have taken the world by storm. We have Siri and Google Assistant on our phones, and many of us have Amazon Echo and Google Home, as well. Voice user interfaces, which have been available to consumers since the 1990s, have finally gone mainstream as a way to play music, set timers, and control smart homes.
But voice hasn’t really taken off for ecommerce, despite Amazon’s leadership in the smart speaker market. When asked about this a few months ago,

GUEST: The transition from 3G to 4G went largely unnoticed by the average consumer, but the coming shift to 5G will be very different. It was clear at Mobile World Congress Americas earlier this month that after years of talk, major US wireless carriers are going all-in on 5G. Verizon is solving transmission barriers, and AT&T introduced its Internet of Things (IoT) platform, revealing its intent to stay ahead of the pack. Knowing how this network leap will change your mobile experience will

GUEST: In a blistering assault on the value of the liberal arts many months ago, former Sun Microsystem CEO Vinod Khoshla offered anything but nuance in his opening indictment: “Little of the material taught in Liberal Arts programs today is relevant to the future.”
The rest of his article is a tirade against majoring in the liberal arts.
However, Khoshla’s own field, tech, is full of people who’ve devoted their university days to the liberal arts:
Susan Wojcicki (CEO of