YouTuber NikkieTutorials: ‘There’s Never The Perfect Timing’ To Come Out As Transgender

The Dutch makeup artist said she’d like to use her experience to inspire other LGBTQ youth.

Mr. Peanut Apparently Died, And Everyone Thinks He’s In Hell

“He sold his people to humans as food,” one Twitter user said. “He was a freakish monster, and nobody should mourn him.”

Dad Says Philadelphia Flyers’ Mascot Gritty Punched His Son At A Game Boy

The teenager was part of a photoshoot with the orange-fuzzed, crazy-eyed hockey mascot. The team denies the charge.

China Halts Transportation Out Of Wuhan To Stop Spread Of Coronavirus

Cases of the infectious respiratory disease have been reported in China, U.S., Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

GM’s Cruise Origin is not like other autonomous cars

Rarely has “form follows function” been so fitting as with the Cruise Origin, the autonomous taxi pod that the GM and Honda-backed transportation company revealed this week. It’s a far cry from most of the self-driving concepts we’ve seen before, swoopingly futuristic vehicles fit for a sci-fi movie. That’s not from a lack of design attention, however: indeed, everything about … Continue reading

NASA asks public to vote on the best name for its Mars 2020 rover

NASA has revealed the nine finalists in its Mars 2020 rover naming contest. According to the space agency, it received more than 28,000 essays starting on August 28 when the contest went live. More than 4,700 volunteer judges read and assessed these essays, narrowing them down to the best nine options. Now that the finalists have been revealed, the public … Continue reading

Google helps publish the largest high-res map of brain connectivity

A joint effort between Google and the Janelia Research Campus has just achieved a significant breakthrough in brain mapping. They’ve published the largest high-resolution map of brain connectivity to date, offering a 3D model of 25,000 fruit fly neu…

Twitter Borked Its Own Platform Trying to Fix Its Nazi Ad-Targeting Problem

Like most companies in the tech realm, Twitter is no stranger to weirdly hollow apologies. Some of the company’s greatest hits happened when it was grilled on offensive trending topics (whoops!), leaking account info to hackers (oopsie!), and failing to deal with the harassment-filled cesspool a lot of us know the…

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Jessica Simpson Erased John Mayer’s Number After He Called Her ‘Sexual Napalm’

The singer said she was “was floored and embarrassed” after Mayer’s 2010 comments to Playboy.

Fortnite is now an official high school sport – yes, really

Fortnite joined the ranks of official esports league play, sanctioned by the NFHS and CIFSS in association with the group PlayVS. The NFHS is the National Federation of State High School Associations, the nonprofit organization that writes the rules of competition for “most high school sports and activities” inside the United States. California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section is the athletic and … Continue reading