Trump Tweets ‘Read The Transcripts’ And Gets Mocked By People Who Have

Twitter users pointed out that no verbatim transcript of Trump’s calls with the Ukrainian president have been released.

Emilia Clarke’s Tiny Puppy Is Her New Sun And Stars

The “Game of Thrones” actor says her new pup is the “light of my goddamn life.”

Donald Trump’s Impeachment Defense Is That Democrats Are Bad

Democrats say the president abused his power, and the White House response is that Democrats abused theirs.

YouTube TV finally arrives on the PlayStation 4

YouTube’s streaming service YouTube TV has finally arrived on the PlayStation 4. The arrival is a welcomed one that makes a lot of sense in light of Sony’s big 2019 announcement about its own OTT service: PlayStation Vue is going to be shuttered. With YouTube TV, PS4 owners can sign into their accounts and stream live television directly through the … Continue reading

Netflix changes how it counts viewing popularity, pumps up 'The Witcher'

Netflix’s final earnings results for 2019 are out (PDF), and in a year where it suddenly started to face more competition than ever before, the company says its service and content is only becoming more popular. The letter to investors claims that it…

Spotify tests Stories for influencer playlists

Spotify is testing a new feature that lets influencers share Stories alongside their public playlists, TechCrunch reports. Spotify’s version will allow select users to share video clips that contain snippets of songs and album art. As you’d imagine,…

The Hunger Games Pulls a Star Wars With Its Prequel Hero

Sure he’s evil—but, like, how did he get to be evil? Suzanne Collins has unveiled the protagonist for her Hunger Games prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and he sounds pretty bloody familiar.

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Okay, But Have You Tried Just Making Them Employees?

Uber is still doing everything in its power to fight the implication of California’s new independent contractor law, likely working its developers into the ground to roll out product features designed not to improve driver or rider experience, but to create flimsy legal defenses against an increasingly indefensible…

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The World Was Supposed to Eliminate This Greenhouse Gas—But Emissions Hit a New High Instead

The world’s quest to reduce an extremely potent greenhouse gas isn’t going as well as we thought it was, according to a new study. HFC-23, known as fluoroform, is a greenhouse gas that has 12,000 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide does.

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Deadly New Virus in China Has Reached the U.S., CDC Reports

What initially appeared to be an isolated, mild outbreak of a pneumonia-causing virus in China has quickly turned for the worse. On Tuesday, U.S. health officials confirmed the first case to have reached the country—a man who had recently traveled to the Wuhan region of China, where cases have been most common. It’s…

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