"Property Brothers" fans, rejoice! Drew and Jonathan Scott are finally premiering the seventh season of their HGTV show "Brother vs. Brother" on Wednesday.This time, the Scott brothers are facing off in Los Angeles with two new homes and (as always) a heaping dose of sibling rivalry.In fact, this season is sure to have an exceptionally…
Read More »The Suburbs Are Still Hell
Before he vaulted to infamy in August for allegedly shooting three people and killing two in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse led a regular teenager’s life in the Illinois village of Antioch. Its slogan is “Authentic by Nature.” It’s the type of slogan, and Antioch the type of town, that Donald Trump wants…
Read More »How to Break a Big Pharma Monopoly on a Covid-19 Vaccine
In mid-July, the U.S. media lit up with a big story about the global race for a Covid-19 vaccine. State-backed Russian hackers, it was alleged, were poking around the vaccine trade secrets of U.S., Canadian, and British drug companies. This was framed as a serious national security issue, as if Moscow was seeking recipes for…
Read More »How FaZe Clan is continuing to lead the esports world
The esports world is evolving quickly and so are the professional organizations that drive it. FaZe Clan is among the world’s most popular. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 we talked to FaZe Clan CEO Lee Trink, investor Troy Carter, and Nick Kolcheff, better known as NICKMERCS, about the shifting industry landscape. Carter first explained the motivation…
Read More »Nike Run Club’s Apple Watch app gives you more incentives to keep running
Nike The app also promises “fresh” content and art for the quick start button, Guided Runs and other watch face complications.This could be an important update. While Nike Run Club already offered badges and encouragement from your friends, this promotes a regular schedule no matter what your fellow runners are doing. That, in turn, could…
Read More »Tyron Woodley Rips Colby Covington with ‘Make Racists Catch the Fade Again’ Hat
John Locher/Associated PressTyron Woodley will have plenty of motivation when he steps into the Octagon against Colby Covington on Saturday.Part of that motivation will apparently be to "Make Racists Catch the Fade Again."As TMZ Sports shared, Woodley wore a red hat with those words on it as a way of mocking Covington's "Make America Great…
Read More »How do you stop corporate fraud?
CORPORATE SCANDALS occur with depressing regularity, from the accounting misstatements at Enron in 2001 to fake bank accounts at Wells Fargo, uncovered in 2016. In June Wirecard, a German payments processor, revealed that €1.9bn ($2.3bn) was missing from its accounts. What was remarkable about the affair was that the company’s book-keeping had been the subject…
Read More »‘Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time’ Review: Superb Noirish Hungarian Drama
Slippery, supple and sinuous, Hungarian director Lili Horvát’s deliciously reworked psychological noir is a spiral staircase, polished to a glossy shine, down which unreliable motivations, self-delusions and romantic obsessions tumble in gorgeous 35mm. Pivoting on a terrifically self-possessed performance from lead Natasa Stork — in her debut screen performance — “Preparations to Be Together for…
Read More »Toucan raises $3M to teach you new languages as you browse the web
Toucan has developed a Chrome browser extension designed for anyone who wants to learn a new language but hasn’t found the motivation or the time. Once installed, the extension scans the text of any (English-language) website you’re visiting and will automatically translate some of the words into the language you’re trying to learn. If you…
Read More »Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” These are the opening words of the short book On Bullshit, written by the philosopher Harry Frankfurt. Fifteen years after the publication of this surprise bestseller, the rapid progress of research on artificial intelligence is forcing us to reconsider…
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