Woods in contention as Reed penalised for breaking rule

December 6th, 2019 04:41 PM

Tiger Woods is two behind Gary Woodland at Hero World Challenge as Patrick Reed gets a two-shot penalty for improving his lie in a bunker.

Russia Is Teaching the World to Spy

December 6th, 2019 02:11 AM

Easy-to-use technology straight from Moscow for any aspiring strongman — at a low price.

Jury Rules You Can Call Elon Musk a Pedo Guy

December 6th, 2019 05:24 PM

It took a federal jury in Los Angeles less than an hour to throw out a $190 million defamation case against Elon Musk. Calling someone a “pedo guy” to an audience of millions of Twitter followers isn’t an accusation, the jury decided, because words are tricky little devils that can mean a lot of things and slinging…

In AI Dungeon 2, You Can Do Anything--Even Start A Rock Band Made Of Skeletons

December 6th, 2019 08:00 PM

Plenty of games offer players multiple solutions to problems. Fight or talk. Stick to the beaten path or explore. Stealth or charge in like a conspicuously bullet-resistant idiot. A game that lets you do anything, though? That’s harder to come by.

David Fizdale was just another Knicks scapegoat

December 6th, 2019 03:59 PM

David Fizdale is free. David Fizdale has been fired, but the Knicks front office is and always will be worse. After losing their seventh and eighth consecutive games by 81 points, the New York Knicks fired David Fizdale on Friday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. At 4-18, the Knicks have the second-worst record in the league only to the Steph Curry-less, Klay Thompson-less, Kevin Durant-less and Andre Iguodala-less Golden State Warriors (by a half game.) The Knicks own the NBA’s...

Confederate groups' presence leads to scrapping of Christmas parades

December 7th, 2019 02:00 AM

Two North Carolina towns call off events fearing ‘disruption’‘We just absolutely had to err on the side of public safety’Two Christmas parades in North Carolina have been cancelled within a week after residents protested against the inclusion of a float and participation by a Confederate group.The town of Garner, near Raleigh, announced it had decided to cancel its planned event in case it might be a “target for disruption”, it announced on the city website. The decision followed heated...

Your Feet Will Thank You When You Buy a Pair of These Adidas Slides

December 6th, 2019 01:00 PM

For something everyone loves, sandal slides don’t get much respect.

Bankrupt PG&E reaches $13.5 billion settlement with California wildfire victims

December 7th, 2019 01:46 AM

California's bankrupt power producer PG&E Corp said on Friday it had reached a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of some of most devastating wildfires in the state's modern history.

See Atomico’s most senior VCs on stage at Disrupt Berlin

December 7th, 2019 12:00 AM

Atomico is among the most widely respected venture firms in Europe, ranking right up there with friendly rivals like Accel London and Index Ventures. It’s also just 13 years old at this point, compared with its more established peers. It’s easy to overlook this, considering the impact the firm has made on the European startup scene since Swedish billionaire Niklas Zennström — who’d previously cofounded Skype and Kazaa — first swung open its doors. Consider that four funds and $1.5 billion...

We still don’t know how many people watched The Irishman on Netflix

December 6th, 2019 05:00 PM

Netflix didn’t have plans to release numbers for The Irishman when asked by The Verge earlier this week, but ratings firm Nielsen beat the streamer to the punch. Nielsen reports that “an average minute audience of nearly 13.2 million viewers with a reach of over 17.1 million unique U.S. viewers” watched The Irishman within the first five days of its release. That’s better than El Camino, the Breaking Bad movie that debuted to 11 million views, but didn’t do as well as the meme-fueled Bird...

Jury sides with Elon Musk in “pedo guy” defamation case

December 6th, 2019 05:29 PM

Enlarge / Elon Musk leaves a Los Angeles federal court on Tuesday December 3, 2019. (credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images) A Los Angeles federal jury has found Elon Musk not liable for defamation in a lawsuit brought by British caver Vernon Unsworth. Musk dubbed Unsworth a "pedo guy" in a tweet last year, but argued in court that he meant this as a generic insult—not as an accusation that Unsworth was a pedophile. "My faith in humanity is restored," Musk said on his way out of court. Musk and...

Deserted 5-year-old takes toddler to neighbor in bitter cold

December 6th, 2019 09:24 PM

Authorities say a 5-year-old left alone with a toddler in a rural Alaska village carried the younger child half a mile to a neighbor's house in the bitter cold after the power went out

There are no heroes or villains in Netflix’s Marriage Story

December 6th, 2019 06:00 PM

Scarlett Johansson, Azhy Robertson, and Adam Driver in Marriage Story. | Photo: Netflix Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson chart the death of a relationship Continue reading…