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Lyft bests Uber (and others) in latest diversity report
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Donuts delivered via drone is the future we all imagined
This Wednesday, a Denver-based bakery, in collaboration with Texas-based company Drone Dispatch, delivered fresh donuts to the Denver city officials via drone. Recipients include policemen, fire departments, and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock this Wednesday. Hancock was excited, ...
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Report suggests millennials like esports as much as 'real' sports
A new report on esports suggests that millenials age 21-35 like gaming sports just as much as 'real sports.' The annual Internet Trends report from Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker was released today, and it has a few fascinating takeaways on the effect of gaming -- including ...
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Trump derails Twitter with a typo and we all covfefe
It's been an hour and a half and my Twitter timeline is still awash with jokes about President Trump's latest tweet, in which he seemed to have lost interest halfway through a signature rant about being slammed by the media: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869766994899468288 Interestingly, ...
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Violence in Far Cry is fine -- until it hits too close to home
Far Cry 5 looks very similar to every other Far Cry game made, ever -- with the key difference being that the main villains are a religious cult based in Montana. Apparently, this is too much for some gamers, because they're already asking Ubisoft to make changes. There's now ...
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Lost architecture subreddit memorializes buildings long gone
A new subreddit is offering a glimpse of beautiful architecture lost to history. r/Lost_Architecture offers a trip through time with images of long-destroyed and demolished buildings. Lost_Architecture, founded last week, is a picture-heavy subreddit that memorializes beautiful ...
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Chipotle reports hackers stole credit card info using malware
If you've eaten at a Chipotle in the last few months, your credit card info could have been stolen. The restaurant chain posted a warning on its site today, telling customers to be on the lookout for credit card fraud. Chipotle says the hackers used malware designed to access ...
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Theater decimates Facebook critics over ladies-only Wonder Woman screening
Texas-based theater chain Alamo Drafthouse announced yesterday that it was having a special screening of Wonder Woman where everyone present would be a woman, even the staff. No boys allowed, in other words. Some people always want what they can't have, so this was not met with ...
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Disney CEO says its films are safe from hackers
Last week, rumors were circulating that a certain Disney film had been stolen by hackers. Disney CEO Bob Iger now says the ...
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Apple veteran Marc Newson has designed a $12000 hourglass
Industrial designer Marc Newson, one of the people behind the Apple Watch, has designed a beautiful, expensive timepiece ...
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Hacker trolls Zuckerberg commencement speech by defacing Harvard newspaper
Days after Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg returned to the Yard (and visited out in his old room), a mischievous prankster ...
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Walkers Crisps Football Promotion turns into a PR nightmare on Twitter
This is why we can't have nice things.