Before Aug. 30, Ruby Franke was best known as the incredibly strict mother behind “8 Passengers,” a popular family YouTube channel from Utah with over 2 million subscribers. Now, all eyes are on the controversial vlogger for another reason: six felony charges of aggravated child abuse, each of which carries …
Read More »Did These Researchers Just Solve One of the Mysteries of Getting High?
The cannabis world can be an uncertain place. Often, a lack of understanding comes from a dearth of clinical research into cannabis studies. But many countries around the globe have increased cannabis analysis in recent years —and now, there’s hope that the U.S. will soon enough increase its research frequency, …
Read More »Meta Is Using Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and Tom Brady to Get You to Like AI
Meta is going all in on the AI rush, revealing more than two dozen different chat bots with “personalities” loosely based on celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. The announcement, made Wednesday at Meta Connect, where the tech giant is unveiling its latest AI and virtual reality projects, confirmed …
Read More »How Isiah Thomas Went from All-Time NBA Great to Cartoon Villain
The vilification of Isiah Thomas began in his prime playing years. As the star and floor leader of the Detroit Pistons, the so-called Bad Boys — Isiah named the team after a line of dialogue from Al Pacino’sScarface— Thomas became associated with all the sins of that two-time NBA champion …
Read More »Everything Swifties Need to Know About Travis Kelce
Perhaps it was inevitable that Miss Americana herself would end up in an almost-confirmed relationship with a star of that most American sport — and a reigning champion, no less. The appearance of Taylor Swift in the box suite of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Sunday, wearing …
Read More »Colin Kaepernick Asks to Lead Jets' Practice Squad
Colin Kaepernick has formally requested that he join the New York Jets practice squad after their loss of quarterback Aaron Rodgers to a torn Achilles in the 2023 season. The veteran player has not been on an NFL roster since 2017 following his protest of protest police brutality and racism …
Read More »A Shazam for People: Clearview's AI App Was a Hit Among the Rich and Powerful
When I first broke the story of Clearview AI in The New York Times in January 2020, people were shocked. Some were horrified. The tiny start-up had scraped 3 billion faces from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites without anyone’s consent to build a groundbreaking facial recognition app. …
Read More »How Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Distort Reality to Sell Fantasy
Jonathan Taplin has had more careers than most folks — Bob Dylan and The Band’s tour manager, film producer (the Last Waltz and Mean Streets) Wall Street entrepreneur,teacher at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In an exclusive excerpt from his latest book,“The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires …
Read More »Trans Boxers Are Stepping Into the Ring. Will the Sport Let Them Stay?
P atricio Manuel sits silently backstage at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. He’s in the back corner of the white-tarpaulined gazebo as he waits to be called to the ring of the 3,000-seater events center here in Indio, California. Inside the thin tent walls, he can hear the hubbub of …
Read More »They Gossiped At Brunch. Now There's a Mob After Them
“Whoever Sarah is, your friends [are] over there talking about you.” When TikTok influencer Kellie Yancy overheard a group of women gossiping about their friend while out at brunch, she immediately got on TikTok. “They said that your coochie was out on the video, she said you dress sleazy everywhere …
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