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June 29, 2015
Social Life Management--Can It Save Your Online Reputation?
Is your social media profile doing you more harm than good? There might be a solution.
Before anyone interacts with you for business or leisure, it's a safe bet that they will look you up online first. It's also clear that one negative article or page popping up in your search results can prevent you from getting hired or romantically involved, and can even work against you in divorce court. To that end, protecting what appears when people look you up is becoming more of a pressing issue—and Social Life Management is an Internet battle station that claims it can legally clean up your online appearance.
Uber Managers In France Arrested
The arrests come days after French cabbies in Paris violently protested the ride-sharing service.
Two Uber France managers were taken into custody on Monday, according to Agence France-Presse. The arrests come days after French cabbies violently protested the ride-sharing service by blocking off major thoroughfares in Paris and attacking Uber drivers.
12 Hotshot Designers Reimagine The Iconic Coke Bottle
Buy the world a Coke.
This year marks a significant milestone for Coca-Cola as its signature hourglass-shaped bottle celebrates 100 years. While the pioneering pop brand has experimented with packaging throughout the decades, there's no denying the universal recognition that shapely silhouette carries.
4 Myths About Silicon Valley Industrial Designers
Think you understand what it's like to design products in the Valley? Think again.
[image error]The job of industrial designers may seem like magic. They sketch something, send it to a factory, and presto, new iPods! The reality has more to do with navigating contract negotiations, checking egos, following your gut, and admitting that some beautiful render on your screen can never actually be produced by real factory machines.
Our Bodies, Our Machines: Inside The "New Intimacy" Of The Digital Age
Internet porn, techno-lust, and machine-powered sex are explored in new media artist Faith Holland's exhibit, Technophilia.
Ethernet cords glisten, as though lubricated with Astroglide. Anonymously volunteered semen shots become hyper-colored collages. A series of endlessly looping GIFs satirize Hollywood's attempt to edit together visual metaphors for male ejaculation during the heavily censored years between the 1930s and 1960s.
June 28, 2015
SpaceX's Unmanned Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch
A fourth attempt at creating a "reusable" rocket ends in a cloud of smoke.
Early this morning, SpaceX made a fourth attempt to successfully return a Falcon 9 rocket to Earth in order to earn the coveted "reusable" tag. However, something seemed to go terribly wrong during the first stage of flight—most likely an explosion of some kind—and the attempt was unsuccessful.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch
A fourth attempt at creating a "reusable" rocket ends in a cloud of smoke.
Early this morning, SpaceX made a fourth attempt to successfully return a Falcon 9 rocket to Earth in order to earn the coveted "reusable" tag. However, something seemed to go terribly wrong during the first stage of flight—most likely an explosion of some kind—and the attempt was unsuccessful.
June 26, 2015
"I Dough, I Dough": Ben & Jerry's Renames Classic Flavor To Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage
On SCOTUS, scoops, and sweets.
Leave it to Ben & Jerry's—one of the world's most insouciant and often progressive brands—to take the Supreme Court's momentous support of gay marriage and turn it into a (literally) sweet moment of celebration.
Meerkat Introduces Embed Option For Livestreaming
The new embeddable player will officially launch on July 5 for Discovery's Shark Week.
Meerkat has unveiled a new weapon in its ongoing war with Periscope: an embeddable player.
BBC Publishes List of Links Removed From Google Search Results
Broadcaster says move is a matter of transparency and public policy.
The BBC has published a list of links that have been removed from Google searches as a result of last year's controversial "right to be forgotten ruling."
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