After weeks of bad press, Uber finally did something that isn’t totally dishonest or gross. The popular ride-hailing service said today that it’s going to make life easier for people who want to delete their Uber accounts permanently by letting them do it from within the app.
Open up a web browser or power up a smartphone—pretty much essential for modern-day living—and you’re walking straight into a privacy minefield. That much you know. Especially after the news earlier this week that Unroll.me, a popular service that lets you unsubscribe from multiple email lists with a single click, was…
It was 11:56 pm Wednesday night when a Deep Space Network receiver picked up a signal from NASA’s Cassini orbiter as it emerged from its first trip through the gap between Saturn and the gas giant’s rings. In the ensuing data came pictures of the planet’s north pole and cloud tops from only 1,800 miles (3000…
Creating a fictional company that’s basically Facebook, Google, and Apple rolled into one is no easy task. We know those brands. We live those brands. But in The Circle, co-writer and director James Ponsoldt had to do just that and so much more.
I like it when people cram powerful gaming hardware inside a cool and custom built computer case. Fans of PC gaming and Star Trek will want to lust after this custom gaming rig. It’s made to look like a shuttle from Star Trek: Voyager.
This impressive build is completely custom and was made by Stefan Ulrich of Random Design. He spent over 200 hours building the system, most notably the case, which he hand-sculpted from styrofoam, body filler, and fiberglass.
The brightly-lit machine is liquid-cooled and has an Intel i7 6700K processor, 32GB of RAM, 240Gb SSd, and a GTX 980 Ti video card. The only thing I love as much as a cool custom PC is a build video that shows what went into the beast, so here you go:
PlayStation 4 may have given Sony a welcome nudge upwards in its latest financial results, but the company is warning that sales are likely to slow in the year ahead. Sales in Sony’s Game & Network Services division rose 6.3-percent year-on-year, to $14.73bn, an increase which the company says was primarily down to greater sales of PS4 and games for … Continue reading
The patent fight between Apple and Qualcomm is getting uglier, with the chip-maker now outraged that its legal foe – and customer – is now withholding cash while the two clash in court. Tensions were cranked up to eleven back in January, when Apple accused Qualcomm of forcing unfair licensing fees onto it. Suing the company, it accused it of … Continue reading
Because we live in a world where former reality star Donald Trump is president of the United States, certain members of the media appear to believe that any celebrity has the chance to be the next leader of the free world.
Singer John Legend has been very vocal about his opposition to Trump, recently telling TMZ that he thinks he’s a “terrible president” when asked about his first 100 days in office.
“He’s manifestly unqualified, not curious, not good at legislating or doing anything that his job requires,” Legend said. “I can’t say anything nice about the guy. I think he’s one of the worst people I’ve ever encountered in public life.”
Legend’s feelings on Trump aren’t what you would call groundbreaking when you consider that a new CNN/ORC poll found that Trump had the lowest approval ratings of any newly-elected president as he approaches the 100-day mark, with 54 percent saying they disapprove of Trump’s handling of the presidency.
Yet those people who likely share the same feelings as Legend, and many whom are probably more qualified, aren’t asked if they are considering getting into politics in the future.
Thankfully, Legend is not considering it. He seems to realize that being famous and having an opinion doesn’t make you qualified to run for office.
He point-blank told TMZ he would not consider running for office. “I don’t want to be in office. I do what I do and I love what I do. I’m an activist, but not a politician.”
Not being able to take a hint, TMZ’s cameraman continued to press Legend, telling him that he thought the American people might vote him in. Legend wisely responded, “That’s not the point. I don’t want to run.”
For two decades, the press has been pestering George Clooney with the same question, though his answer has always been no. “Believe me, you don’t want me in politics,” he told the Associated Press in 2006.
At a 2015 press conference in Beverly Hills for the film “Our Brand is Crisis,” the question about running for office came up yet again.
“I’ve been asked that for almost 20 years now and the answer is just, no,” said Clooney, who produced the film. “Who would ever want to live like that?”
Clooney, with his history of humanitarian causes, has long been thought to make the jump to politics despite his protests otherwise, but ever since Trump won, it’s been open season on celebrities with dissenting political opinions.
Stars like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Scarlett Johansson, Katy Perry and Tom Hanks are actually being asked if they have political plans in their future. The question is only being asked because these individuals voiced their opinions about Trump, yet in asking them, it legitimizes the idea that fame is somehow a qualification for the presidency.
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It was only a matter of time before J.Lo fans and A-Rod fans gave the two stars’ budding relationship the super-couple nickname: J-Rod.
And Lopez responded to the nickname in an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight at Thursday’s 2017 Billboard Latin Music Awards in Miami.
“I mean it’s fine, I don’t know,” she told Cameron Mathison. “We kind of thought that might happen because people who knew us were already doing it.”
“So you guys, it’s not like you were original,” she added with a smile, speaking to fans who’ve started using J-Rod.
On Monday, the Nuyorican superstar gave Ellen DeGeneres some details about how she and Rodriguez first began dating. Lopez described how the two simply ran into each other while she was having lunch in Los Angeles.
Watch the interview above.
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