Charlie, a 22-year-old college student who spoke on the condition that only his first name be used, began gambling during his freshman year at Syracuse… Read More »How Colleges and Sports Betting ‘Caesarized’ Campuses
At least five dead, 18 injured in Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting; suspect identified
The layoffs of more than 1,000 Twitter employees this week included many who kept the site running smoothly and protected from hackers. Their departure sparked… Read More »Which employees does Twitter actually need?
Unlike Polis, Twitter’s project needs to find consensus, not for one question at a time, but for every conceivable controversy on the platform. Community Notes… Read More »Elon Musk Embraces Twitter’s Radical Fact-Checking Experiment
Nick Cannon at Fox Upfront 2022.Jason Mendez/WireImage Nick Cannon said Friday that he’s not sure if he’ll have any more kids. However, he said he… Read More »As Nick Cannon goes from 7 kids to nearly 12 in less than a year, he says he has ‘no idea’ if he’ll have any more kids
Enlarge / House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) is seen at a March 2022 hearing in Washington, DC. Online verification through ID.me was… Read More »ID.me made “baseless” pandemic fraud claims to win contracts, Congress says
For example, the association’s advisers predicted that Virginia could expect an additional $57 million a year in tax revenue if it legalized mobile sports betting… Read More »How a lobbying blitz caused sports betting to become ubiquitous
If you’ve enjoyed a Starbucks double-shot espresso, you might be wondering if that drink was discontinued. This was a very common question as so many… Read More »Has Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso Been Discontinued in 2022?
Students urge President Joe Biden to cancel student debt.Getty Images The Biden administration began notifying applicants who have been approved for student loan exemptions. The… Read More »A day after asking the Supreme Court to bail out the student loan forgiveness plan, the Biden administration began notifying applicants that they had been approved
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. NASA’s majestic new rocket soared into space for the first time on Wednesday, lighting up the night sky and accelerating on… Read More »NASA paves way back to moon with Artemis I rocket launch
Mr Musk, a long-described self-described “free speech absolutist”, had said in May that he would reverse Mr Trump’s permanent ban on Twitter and let him… Read More »Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account
Enlarge / Cement Works, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. (Photo by BuildPix/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images) No one knows who did it first or when. But by the 2nd… Read More »The road to low-carbon concrete
To hear some people on TikTok tell it, we’ve spent years in a “panoramic.” Or maybe it was a ‘panini press’. Some are in the… Read More »Leg booty? Panoramic? segments? How TikTok changes the language
NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured a beautiful view of the moon. The spacecraft, which made its debut flight atop the Space Launch System rocket on Wednesday,… Read More »First view of the moon from NASA’s Orion spacecraft
The time has come – or will come, in 2035 – to drop the leap second. So the member countries of the International Convention on… Read More »It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (In Ten Years)
