Why Is Jeff Bezos on a Horse? 2018 Is Nearly Over, So Here Are Some Random Guesses
Why is Amazon CEO and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos a cowboy now? On Monday—New Year’s Eve—the Western-themed apparel store Kemo Sabe posted a video of...
The Long, Terrible Saga of Pooey Puitton, 2018’s Hottest Poop-Shaped Toy
When I was a young, stupid, and spoiled tween, I wanted a Louis Vuitton bag, because all the other young, stupid, and spoiled tweens I knew...
Tesla is keeping 44 US stores open until midnight in year-end Model 3 sales push
Some Tesla employees will ring in the New Year on a sales floor this year as the automaker tries to liquidate its inventory of Model 3...
Noa’s new Alexa skill has human narrators read news from NYT, FT, Economist & others
News junkies who want something more in-depth than Alexa’s Flash Briefing now have a new option for listening to the day’s news — as well as...
FBI Botched Interrogation of Former NSA Contractor Accused of Stealing Secrets
In the case of a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of stealing a huge cache of classified documents, a federal judge this month agreed...
We Have Some Sweet Images From the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Art Book
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is our favorite movie of the year. It’s so amazing in so many ways that we simply can’t stop thinking about it....
U.S. Strategic Command Helpfully Reminds World It Could Still Annihilate Everyone Before Midnight
The United States Strategic Command—a high-level U.S. military unified command that oversees everything from nuclear deterrence, command, control, and communications to intelligence, cyber warfare, and combating...
Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
Earlier this year, Netflix was seen testing a bypass of iTunes billing across dozens of markets worldwide. As 2018 draws to a close, Netflix — the...
Polite Fortnite Society
My parents are approaching 60. When they were young, they hung out at diners, or drove around in their cars. My generation hung out in the...
What to expect from CES 2019
The timing is… less than ideal. Just as the industry is recovering from a holiday-induced hangover, we’re thrust into the country’s largest consumer electronics show. The...
