Vine Won’t Say If It Banned Porn Because of Hot Pocket Incident
Vine, the Twitter-owned mobile video app, has formally banned“explicit sexual content” from being shared in a blog post announcing the change to its Terms of Service. The move arrives a little more...
View ArticleEast or West? Crimea’s Choice by the Numbers
Crimean voters face a choice on March 16 between East and West: whether to stick with Ukraine which is on track to join the European Union or become a part of Russia. A majority of Crimeans are tied to...
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Conservative Powwow Goes Soft
National Harbor, Maryland - Over the years, the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has grown into a bigger, sleeker, more professional version of its former self.Some of the...
View ArticleRussian Power Plays
When Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the onetime oil billionaire who used to be Russia’s richest man, was freed abruptly from prison last December after being locked up for a decade by Russian President Vladimir...
View ArticleThe War Brewing in the Streets of San Francisco
As Silicon Valley money continues to pour into San Francisco, wealthy tech workers are displacing longtime residents at record pace. The conflict, referred to by former mayor Willie Brown as “a war...
View ArticleMalaysian Plane Presumed Crashed; Questions Over False IDs
KUALA LUMPUR/HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said...
View ArticleThe Locked Room at the End of True Detective
“Death is not the end,” or so an elderly African-American woman informed Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in the penultimate episode of the first season of HBO’s True Detective. Tonight, however, is the...
View ArticleInterpol Says Use of Stolen Passports on Flights 'of Great Concern'
ROME (Reuters) - International police agency Interpol on Sunday confirmed "at least" two passports recorded as lost or stolen in its database were used by passengers on board a missing Malaysia...
View ArticleEvidence So Far Does Not Point to Attack on Malaysian Plane: Sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators in Malaysia are voicing skepticism that the Malaysian airliner which disappeared early Saturday was the target of an attack, say U.S. and European government...
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Pistorius Vomits in Court at Steenkamp Autopsy Details
PRETORIA (Reuters) - Track star Oscar Pistorius, on trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, wept and vomited into a bucket in a South African courtroom on Monday after hearing graphic...
View ArticleInside the Colleges That Killed Frats for Good
A crudely battered female mannequin dangled from a Middlebury College frat balcony in early May of 1988. Doused in blood-tinted paint and flashing a sexually charged slur, the gross spectacle appeared...
View ArticleAfter Shedding 140 Pounds, a Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Champion Gets Ready to Walk...
Go West, young man, advised Horace Greeley without ever specifying just how far in that direction one should venture.Ryan Newburn is a young man: he celebrated his 24th birthday last Monday. And while...
View ArticleIraqi Women Protest Against Proposed Islamic Law in Iraq
(Reuters) - About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically...
View ArticleNeil Young’s ‘No-Compromise’ Music Player Is an Audiophile's Fantasy
Neil Young has come one step closer to unveiling his long-awaited, high-quality digital music player, which will try to let consumers “hear music the way its creators intended, with the emotion,...
View ArticleEdward Snowden Talks About Fighting for Your Right to Privacy at SXSW
It has been almost a year since former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden turned over thousands of classified NSA documents detailing America's massive online spy operations to a journalist....
View ArticleProtests and Talks Widen Rifts in Venezuela Opposition
(Reuters) - As violent protests in Venezuela alienate moderates in the opposition and show no signs of toppling President Nicolas Maduro, the socialist leader's call for talks is deepening divisions...
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Duke Energy Wants to Pass on Pond Cleanup Charges to Customers
The company that spilled millions of gallons of toxic coal slurry into a major North Carolina river last month wants its customers to pay for cleaning up its waste lagoons in the rest of the state....
View Article50-Cent Origami Microscope Could Help Fight Malaria
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a microscope that only costs about 50 cents to make. The 'Foldscope' is aimed to help fight malaria and other diseases in...
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Today in Tabs: Vox Tabuli
And as always, literally all the ACTUAL FACTS of the story are obscured by tech media corruption, lies, infighting and bullshit.— Shanley (@shanley) March 10, 2014So Techcrunch was all "Google Ventures...
View ArticleThe American Who Dared Make Putin’s Case
Stephen Cohen, a professor emeritus at Princeton, has found himself in strange company lately.An academic with generally progressive beliefs married to Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor-in-chief of the...
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