The IRS is suing Facebook for $9bn over unpaid taxes, reports Reuters, targeting its licensing of "intellectual property" to its own Irish subsidiary to shift profits to that lower-taxed jurisdiction.… Read the rest of the article: IRS sues Facebook for $9bn
In this video, Claude Debussy's Clair de Line is presented on a modular synthesizer. The accompanying Haiku says all: from the modular, a landscape a wee sterile, just a reflection… Read the rest of the article: Debussy's Clair de Lune on modular synth
Sega Arcade: Pop-Up History [Read Only Memory] is a beautifully-illustrated hardcover book about six classic Sega "body sensation" arcade cabinets – Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run, After Burner, Thunder Blade… Read the rest of the article: Pop-up book of classic Sega arcade cabinets
In this video, Xenos moutoni are carefully extracted from hornets. Xenos parasites, in the order Strepsipsera, live their entire lives in the abdomens of wasps and similar insects, altering the… Read the rest of the article: WATCH: Parasites removed from hornet
The Fashion Institute of Technology has apologized for a "clearly racist" show where a black model was asked to wear giant red lips and black plastic ears. The model refused,… Read the rest of the article: New York fashion school apologizes for racist catwalk face mask
Burger King's switching to preservative-free ingredients, and chose to market this fact by showing what will now happen to its sandwiches if they are left out uneaten. Welcome to the… Read the rest of the article: Burger King shows sandwich decaying to moldy slab of meat and bread in new ad
The broken ASCII-art "FUCK EPIC GAMES STORE" wasn't placed intentionally by Steam to show up as the store's description in Google search results, but there it is, all the same.… Read the rest of the article: Steam’s Google result reads “F☠️ck Epic Games Store”
Exhibit A: Boycycle, a music video by Vedran Rupic for Bosnian DJ Salvator Ganacci, who stars as the titular creature. Exhibits B1 through B3: Progressive Insurance's "Motaur" ad campaign, with… Read the rest of the article: Boycycle v. Motaur
Amusing yet unsettling and increasingly smooth, the deepfakes keep coming. Here's Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk's faces superimposed onto Star Trek's original 1965 pilot episode, with Bezos as the Talosian… Read the rest of the article: Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk star in Star Trek deepfake
In this security footage, three masked and armed robbers raid a pot shop in Everett, Washington, only to be confronted by an unexpected challenge: a blast of bear spray right… Read the rest of the article: WATCH: Pot shop clerk fights off robbers with bear spray
The rich plan to ride out the plague in private jets, but there's a problem: there's not enough of them, and crews are leery of flying to China. The wealthy… Read the rest of the article: Coronavirus means a boom in private jet inquiries
The Financial Times, which is like The Wall Street Journal but with a three-digit IQ, has an amusing 404 Not Found page. Why wasn't this page found? We asked some… Read the rest of the article: The Financial Times' 404 page
President Trump today announced that he is commuting the prison sentence of Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governer jailed for corruption, and pardoning Bernard Kerik, the former New York Police… Read the rest of the article: Trump commutes sentence of corrupt governor Rod Blagojevich, pardons Giuliani crony Bernard Kerik
These Lyrics Do Not Exist differs from similar projects involving human faces, cats, etc., in that the AI-created results are no more uncanny than the real thing. You give it… Read the rest of the article: AI writes song lyrics at least as well as humans can
Justine Haupt made this handsome and completely functional rotary cellphone. Her design is open-source and you can even buy a case kit from her company, Sky's Edge Robotics. You have… Read the rest of the article: Open-source rotary cellphone
This 1632 portrait of a young woman was painted by the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, says Allentown Art Museum, contrary to the judgement of the Rembrandt Research Project, which… Read the rest of the article: Disputed Rembrandt is real, say experts
A Cambridge University don wrote and published erotic fiction about his own students under a pseudonym, reports the BBC. Dr Peter Hutchinson was accused of sexual harassment in 2015 and… Read the rest of the article: Academic published erotic fiction about own students
Facing "mounting legal costs" over lawsuits filed by victims of sexual abuse, the Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy protection. NBC News reports that the move pushes the… Read the rest of the article: Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy protection over sex abuse lawsuits
"Sonic the Hedgehog gets bluer!" announces the press release for a porn parody of the hit movie based on the classic Sega character. The parody film is titled "Sonic the… Read the rest of the article: Sonic the Hedgehog "porn parody" clearly ignorant of prior Sonic fandom
Face ID Masks plans to offer a service that prints your face onto respirator masks, so you can unlock your phones without exposing yourself to the plague. But there's a… Read the rest of the article: Respirator masks with your face printed on it
