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As humans, we’ve gotten pretty good at shaping the world around us. We can choose the molecular design of our fruits and vegetables, travel faster and farther and stave off life-threatening diseases with personalized medical care. However, what continues to elude our molding grasp is the airy notion of “time” — how to see further than our present moment, and ultimately how to make the most of it. As it turns out, robots might be the ones that can answer this question.
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Cambridge Analytica may be gone, but its spirit will live on in the 2020 US presidential election. Former senior staff of the now bankrupt business are reportedly working with the Trump 2020 campaign under the guise of a new company. But don’t tell anyone, because apparently it was supposed to be a secret. News broke that Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for president Donald Trump’s upcoming reelection bid in 2020, was working with the company earlier this afternoon after se

Federal prosecutors have indicted disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former president and chief operating officer, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, for defrauding customers and investors, calling their actions a “corporate conspiracy” that “endangered health and lives.”
Holmes has also stepped down as CEO from the blood-testing company, once a Silicon Valley darling valued at $9 billion. Starting in 2015, a series of articles in The Wall Street Journal by

Jared Taylor, founder of white nationalist publication American Renaissance, can proceed with a lawsuit against Twitter. Taylor sued Twitter in February, alleging that the company had violated civil rights and contract law by banning two of his accounts. Yesterday, California judge Harold Kahn narrowed the suit’s potential scope, but he said that Twitter hadn’t made a strong enough argument for throwing it out altogether.
Twitter argued that Taylor’s complaint violated Califor

Warning: This piece contains language and content regarding domestic abuse that some people may find sensitive or triggering.
Last night the actress and TV personality Chloe Dykstra wrote an unlisted blog post on Medium detailing allegations of emotional and sexual abuse that occurred in a relationship over a period of three years. Since the post went live, many have speculated that the ex-boyfriend in question was TV host and podcaster Chris Hardwick; some, including his former employees, have

Elizabeth Holmeshas left her role as CEO of Theranosand has been charged with wire fraud, CNBC and others report. The company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, was also indicted today by a grand jury.
These criminal charges are separate from the civil ones filed in March by the SEC and already settled. There are 11 charges; two are conspiracy to commit wire fraud (against investors, and against doctors and patients) and the remaining nine are actual wire fraud, with a

Let's be honest, there are few feelings that can match the rush of watching live as your favorite soccer team wins in PKs during the World Cup, snags a game winning run in the bottom of the ninth, or gets a sudden KO in the middle of the octagon. Even seeing these major moments an hour later — or worse, catching wind of them on Twitter — is enough to cause despair. 
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Let's be honest, there are few feelings that can match the rush of watching live as your favorite  team catches a pass in the end zone, snags a game winning run in the bottom of the ninth, or gets a sudden KO in the middle of the octagon. Even seeing these major moments an hour later — or worse, catching wind of them on Twitter — is enough to cause despair. 
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Humans aren't perfect, but anatomist Alice Roberts knows how they could be.
On Wednesday, BBC shared a terrifying video in which Roberts reimagines the human body and creates Alice 2.0 — a version of herself with no errors and the most successful features of animals.
This, uh, different looking human model, has large eyes and ears, a chimp's lower back, the legs of an emu, small pumps in her thighs to help blood circulation, and a breast-less chest. Within her lies a dog's heart, "the grac

Jaguar’s battery-powered V20E boat just broke a maritime speed record.
Peter Dredge, the co-founder of Jaguar Vector, piloted the boat at speeds of 88.62 miles per hour across eight miles of the Coniston Water lake in Cumbria, England. His speeds broke the previous record of 76.8 mph set ten years ago.
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Humans have long sought answers to the fundamental questions of our existence. How did we get here? What is our purpose? Should I buy the dip? For some, the answers lie in churches full of sacred texts. But others place their faith in the house that Satoshi built, and on the blockchain. Matt Liston, former CEO of cryptocurrency company Augur, recently collaborated with artist Avery Singer to found a blockchain-based religion called 0xΩ, pronounced “Zero Ex Omega”. @0xOmega is:

In 2012, upon discovering that the number of students wanting to study IT at the University of Cambridge had dwindled dramatically, Eben Upton began brainstorming for a gimmick to increase the number of enrollees. So he came up with the Raspberry Pi. Ah yes, that's more like it.Image:PixabayThe $35-a-pop minicomputer became an instant hit, sold like hotcakes worldwide, and has prompted the rise of amateur inventors. Innovative projects like voice-activated coffee machines, bow-tie spy cams,

Hey, Marco Rubio. Shut the fuck up.
Just. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio's Twitter blasted out an ad for his reelection on Friday, and it's the biggest pile of trash and as desperate an attempt at appealing to ... millennials? as I have ever seen.
"What do you think of Kanye West's new album?" the video asks Rubio, who responds by saying he doesn't know anything about West's new album except that he premiered it in Wyoming. Rubio then brings up drama between Drake and Pusha-T.

The hype for Cyberpunk 2077 is so goddamn real. 
After first teasing the neo-noir game five years ago at E3, CD Projekt Red came back with a new trailer that upped the ante and stole the show. In short, Cyberpunk 2077 came to kick ass, take names, and look super fucking dope in the process.
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We caught the hour-long, hands-off demo at E3, and it was the kind of wild ride you need to see to believe. There's almost too muc

Machine translation of foreign languages is undoubtedly a very useful thing, but if you’re going for anything more than directions or recommendations for lunch, its shallowness is a real barrier. And when it comes to the law and constitutional rights, a “good enough” translation doesn’t cut it, a judge has ruled.
The ruling (PDF) is not hugely consequential, but it is indicative of the evolving place in which translation apps find themselves in our lives and legal system.

The Kissing Booth is the teen romance that Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos claims is "one of the most watched movies in the world right now." And that's a big problem. 
Don't get me wrong. I can appreciate a glittery high school fantasy as much as the next person—seriously, I've seen all of Riverdale. 
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But The Kissing Booth isn't just the latest movie setting unrealistic expectations for teenagers. Instead, it i

Earbuds are getting better and better in terms of quality, which means you don't have to sport gigantic headphones on your commute to and from work. And wires? Forget 'em.
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With so many options on the market, finding a good pair that isn't a total ripoff is easier said than done. Some models have poor connectivity, while others are bulky and uncomfortable. But if this were an episode of the Bachelorette, the 1MORE iBFree

In Celeste Ng's second novel Little Fires Everywhere, we're introduced to two families: the Richardsons and the Warrens. 
On the surface, the Richardsons are the kind of family you might see in a stock photo framed in Target. They live in Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb known for order. But Little Fires Everywhere introduces us to them them in the midst of turmoil: their family home is burning down and the immediate suspect is Izzy, the Richardsons' rebellious younger daughter.
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Former Cambridge Analytica (CA) employees are working on Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, according to a new report from the Associated Press (AP). 
Because of course they are — it was a winning strategy, after all.
Under a new company called Data Propria, former CA-employees are reportedly planning to employ the psychographic microtargeting techniques that CA used in the 2016 presidential election and Brexit campaigns. Those are the same tactics that so inflamed the public an

Snacking at your desk is basically proven to increase productivity at work (and if your office has free snacks in the kitchen...you can forget about that diet).
While we'll be the first to confirm that eating three bags of Cheetos a day is a 100% acceptable lunch, what's not so adult is your computer keyboard looking like it belongs to a slimy toddler.
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When paper towels just aren't cutting it, you need The Wype: A personal desktop snack rag that is tota

Apple has officially signed Oprah Winfrey to a multiyear deal for new original programs, according to a statement released today. The tech company didn’t specify the role Winfrey would play in these shows, but a representative said that “together, Winfrey and Apple will create original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world. Winfrey’s projects will be released as part of a lineup of original content from Apple.”
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Oprah and Apple are teaming up to take over the world, presumably.
Apple announced a new multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey, in which the voice of our generation will produce content for the tech giant in the form of original programs. The exciting news came on Friday, just in time for us to spend the whole weekend celebrating the arrival of new Oprah shows.
The announcement didn't come with any additional information, such as what kinds of shows we can expect or exactly where they'll liv

Data analysis company Data Propria, led by a former Cambridge Analytica strategist, is reportedly working on President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. The Associated Press reports that Data Propria has begun work on a project “along the lines” of Cambridge Analytica’s controversial work for Trump in 2016. Data Propria head Matt Oczkowski denied the claim, though he didn’t rule the idea out for the future.
The AP writes that Data Propria, which launched la

Computer systems are getting quite good at understanding what people say, but they also have some major weak spots. Among them is the fact that they have trouble with words that have multiple or complex meanings. A new system called ELMo adds this critical context to words, producing better understanding across the board.
To illustrate the problem, think of the word “queen.” When you and I are talking and I say that word, you know from context whether I’m talking about Queen El

In the current landscape of multiplayer video games, everything kind of blends together into only a handful of categories, as seen in recent weeks. 
You've got your team-based shooters like Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII, your multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBAs) like Paladin, your fighting games like Dragonball FighterZ, and your battle royale games like Fortnite and every other game coming out this year.
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Appleannounced today a multi-year content partnership with Oprah Winfrey to produce programs for the tech company’s upcoming video-streaming service. Apple didn’t provide any specific details as to what sort of projects Winfrey would be involved in, but there will be more than one it seems.
Apple shared the news of its deal with Winfrey in a brief statement on its website, which read:
Apple today announced a unique, multi-year content partnership with Oprah Winfrey, the esteemed prod

The CRM industry is now estimated to be worth some $4 billion annually, and today a startup has announced a round of funding that it hopes will help it take on one aspect of that lucrative pie, customer support. Kustomer,a startup out of New York that integrates a number of sources to give support staff a complete picture of a customer when he or she contacts the company, has raised $26 million.
The funding, a series B, was led by Redpoint Ventures (notably, an early investor in Zendesk, which K

When you spend time with a lot of BMWfolks, as I did during a trip to Germany earlier this month, you’ll regularly hear the word “heritage.” Maybe that’s no surprise, given that the company is now well over 100 years old. But in a time of rapid transformation that’s hitting every car manufacturer, engineers and designers have to strike a balance between honoring that history and looking forward. With the latest version of its BMW OS in-car operating system and its a

Pixar Animation Studios has built its reputation on a lot of elements: computer animation that was miles ahead of the competition for more than 15 years, memorable humor and memorable characters, and stories that are accessible to children but sophisticated enough to keep adults engaged. But past a certain point in its history, Pixar became known above everything else for its willingness to explore emotional depths its contemporaries wouldn’t touch. Pixar films like Finding Nemo, Up, Toy

Earlier this week, Comcast made a $65 million offer to acquire most of 21st Century Fox, attempting to derail a Disney-Fox acquisition that was announced last year. Comcast and Disney have both been chasing this deal for months. And although the financial terms for each company are different, they’re looking for the same assets from Fox — which, in turn, is looking to refocus on its core network TV business.
But which parts of Fox are staying independent, and which ones will Comcast

In sports, “peak age” is always looming, and it can come as quickly as the early 20s. But it doesn’t have to be this way — and we’re likely to see more and more older athletes, says journalist Jeff Bercovici, San Francisco bureau chief for Inc. Magazine and author of Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age.Five years ago, Bercovici noticed that, increasingly, the best athletes in the world weren’t necessarily the youngest. To figure out why,

The U.S., along with Canada and Mexico, will co-host the World Cup in 2026. This means it has a good chance of getting an automatic bid for the tournament, even if the team doesn't actually qualify.
Fun loophole, right? And considering the U.S. men's team didn't qualify this year, it's a pretty exciting idea for American soccer fans. So exciting, in fact, that the idea has taken on a miniature meme life of its own, courtesy of Roll Safe.
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"If you're a dictator, I'm a dictator."
Those are the romantic words we assume Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un would exchange if they ever starred in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel, The Notebook.
If you're struggling to imagine the two world leaders replacing the film's real stars, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, a terrifying image created and shared on Instagram by Japanese graphic designer Shusaku Takaoka will help (and also destroy your eyes).
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Apple has confirmed on its support site that Apple Maps is having significant issues today, causing problems for people across platforms who are trying to search for locations or obtain directions to a destination, as first reported by 9to5Mac.
If you try to use Apple Maps, it will attempt to load results for about 30 seconds before timing out, showing “No Results Found.” People first started noticing problems earlier this morning, reporting issues on social media, but Apple’s