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Showing posts with label Digg. Show all posts

2/16/2018

Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity


One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.

February 16, 2018 at 06:07AM
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2/14/2018

Timothée Chalamet Is a Once-in-a-Generation Talent


Timothée Chalamet, star of "Call Me By Your Name," is having his first big moment in a career that'll be filled with many. And he's determined not to screw it up.

February 14, 2018 at 07:52AM
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2/12/2018

Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell


How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

February 12, 2018 at 07:49AM
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2/10/2018

Trump Blocks Release Of Memo Rebutting Republican Claims


President Trump blocked the release of a classified Democratic memo, setting up a potential showdown with Congress over the fate of its contents.

February 10, 2018 at 06:01AM
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2/09/2018

Welcome to the Post-Text Future


The New York Times devotes a lot of words to how we're no longer going to be reading online.

February 9, 2018 at 08:29AM
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2/08/2018

Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted


We love our nifty phones and just-a-click-away services, but these behemoths enjoy unfettered economic domination and horde riches on a scale not seen since the monopolies of the gilded age. The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech.

February 8, 2018 at 07:39AM
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2/07/2018

2/06/2018

This is how the world’s most covetable cameras get made


Every one of Hasselblad's frightfully expensive X1D cameras comes stamped with a "Handmade in Sweden" inscription, and I was curious to find out just how well-earned that tagline is.

February 6, 2018 at 07:00AM
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2/05/2018

Netflix Just Announced 'The Cloverfield Paradox' Is Premiering Tonight


The third movie in the "Cloverfield" anthology (and maybe prequel to the first?) made its debut on Netflix right after the Super Bowl.

February 4, 2018 at 09:43PM
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2/04/2018

The Comic-Strip Heroine I'll Never Forget


Modesty Blaise was something like Wonder Woman meets James Bond — but she was so much more, too.

February 4, 2018 at 09:01AM
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2/03/2018

This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry


The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein.

February 3, 2018 at 08:46AM
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2/01/2018

Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada?


Researchers think Plutarch's "De Facie" tells the tale of Greek sailors making the treacherous transatlantic crossing. They dug into the science to show how it could have happened.

February 1, 2018 at 10:07AM
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1/31/2018

How to Not Die in America


I am lucky not for surviving a severe bacterial infection, but for being a member of a shrinking class of Americans whose lives can absorb a trauma of this magnitude.

January 31, 2018 at 01:30PM
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1/30/2018

'Black Panther' Just Had Its Premiere — Here's How People Responded


There's a little over two weeks left to wait until "Black Panther" hits theaters, but a lucky group got to see it in Hollywood last night. Here's how they reacted to the film.

January 30, 2018 at 11:49AM
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1/29/2018

Searching for an Alzheimer’s cure while my father slips away


At the beginning, we searched frantically for any medical breakthrough that might hint at a cure. Then hope gave way to the unbearable truth.

January 28, 2018 at 06:03PM
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1/28/2018

The Astronaut Who Might Actually Get Us to Mars


The improbable journey of Franklin Chang Díaz, who immigrated to the U.S. at eighteen, became an astronaut, tied the record for most spaceflights, and now might hold the key to deep space travel.

January 28, 2018 at 09:47AM
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