Another Dead Cyclist In The City

Around 9:30 a.m. on June 24 in Manhattan, cyclist Robyn Hightman rounded the corner from 23rd Street onto Sixth Avenue, where they were struck by a large white delivery truck and thrown off their bike into the middle of the street. A photo from shortly after the crash shows a mangled, black, single-speed bicycle

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Internet Shutdowns Are Now Just Another Weapon in the Dictator's Arsenal

Last month, two high-ranking Ethiopian officials were murdered in an attempted coup. The consequences of the murders quickly rippled out into cyberspace, a bloody illustration of the diverging lines between the internet and the physical world.

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Bill de Blasio’s Son Pens Candid Op-Ed On Fear Of Police

Dante de Blasio recalled a near-encounter with an officer during which he said he felt afraid.

Broward Sheriff’s Office Loses Accreditation In Latest Post-Parkland Blow

The Florida agency was chastised for its response to two deadly mass shootings within 13 months.

Tesla's former head of production joins competitor Lucid Motors

Tesla Motors is suffering from some significant brain drain. On Monday, upstart electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid Motors announced that it is hiring Peter Hochholdinger, Tesla’s former head of production, to serve as its vice president of manufactu…

Google pushes for an official web crawler standard

One of the cornerstones of Google’s business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine’s web crawler, Googlebot. It minimizes pointless indexing and sometimes keeps s…

Netflix ‘Sandman’ project tipped as most expensive DC show ever

Netflix plans to adapt Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic from DC Comics into a television series, a new report claims. This won’t be the first time the comic has faced a big adaption, though past efforts have largely failed. The leak claims Netflix has made a ‘massive financial commitment’ for this adaption, allegedly making it the most expensive DC Entertainment work … Continue reading

Defying International Community, Japan Resumes Commercial Whaling

Six months after announcing it would be breaking with the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japan has officially resumed commercial whaling. Hundreds of whales will now be permitted to be hunted commercially each year in defiance of the IWC’s moratorium on the practice.

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Sent From My iPhone

Apple design wunderkind Sir Jony Ive is leaving the company after 27 years and Apple is scrambling to ensure the public that this is fine, everything is fine.

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Facebook Vows Crackdown On Misinformation After Calls From Civil Rights Groups

The social media giant said it would treat the census like an election, but not everyone is impressed with the changes.