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Mariah Carey Melts Down At Times Square New Year's Eve Performance

A lack of proper lip sync tracks led pop legend Mariah Carey to effectively abandon participation in her Times Square performance that was heavily hyped by ABC as the main event of Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve 2017....

Duke Flails, Falters, Gets Killed By Virginia Tech

Duke’s last two non-conference games of the year should have been cupcakes. But the Blue Devils were all over the place and struggled against both Tennessee State and Elon, trailing in the second half in both games before getting their shit together and taking the two victories....

Your App Isn't Helping The People Of Saudi Arabia

On March 15, 2002, 15 Saudi girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca. They were not trapped by fallen debris, or unaccounted for by firefighters. The mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s religious police, would not allow the girls to leave their burning school because they were not covering their hair...

Hey! Look! Someone Cares About Europa League!

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Poverty Doesn't Need Technology. It Needs Politics.

Yesterday marked the conclusion of the two-day Summit on Technology and Opportunity, an anti-poverty conference cohosted by the White House, Stanford University, and Mark Zuckerberg’s charity. Something is wrong here....

It's Friday And Jason Williams Turns 41 Today, So Enjoy This Highlight Reel

Happy birthday to White Chocolate, who is now “over the hill” but who will never stop giving us the good shit, and happy Friday afternoon....

Texas Tech Increases Lead On Texas With 100-Yard Fumble Return Touchdown

Texas running back D’Onta Foreman was a profile in courage as he dragged half a dozen Texas Tech defenders to the goal line. Then, tragically, he fumbled—and the Red Raiders’ Douglas Coleman picked up the ball for a 100-yard fumble return touchdown, turning the Longhorns’ go-ahead score into a TTU l...

There's Actual Hardcore Porn Hiding In iOS 10 [NSFW]

Last night, we discovered that typing the word “butt” into iOS 10's new, baked-in GIF search leads you to a certain My Little Pony in a fairly compromised position. Apple’s already corrected that particular oversight, but they’re not done yet—because the new Messages app is also hiding actual, very ...

Don't Update Your Fucking iPhone!

Yesterday, Apple released its latest major software update with iOS 10. As far as I can tell, the iteration exists only to cut my battery life in half, make my Messages app unusable, and trick me into downloading hundreds of cartoon Biebers and one George R. R. Martin. Reader, don’t be like me. Don’...

ESPN Feeds Audio Of People Laughing And Joking During <i>GameDay</i> Segment On Art Briles & Baylor Rapes [Updates]

ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast fell victim to technical difficulties as random voices invaded the panel’s discussion of an Art Briles exclusive, in which the former Baylor head coach attempted to defend himself to the network after being sent packing due to that university’s sexual assault scandal...

A Regular Person’s Guide To Apple’s New Phones (And Other Useless Shit)<em></em>

Well, well, well. Apple, Inc., a cash-hoarding operation that occasionally does online strip shows, announced a new line of consumer electronics today. There are places to revel in the minutia of every last tech spec, but I promise that you are not interested in processors and megapixels nearly as m...

Apple Just Fucked Over All the Tech Bloggers

You probably already knew that Apple was announcing a new iPhone today, but did you know that it was planning to livetweet its announcement? And that in doing so, it kind of accidentally fucked over every tech blogger in the country? It’s the best gift Apple could have ever given us. ...

ESPN Hot Mic Catches Someone Blathering About Chicago

“CHICAGO!? You can’t talk about Chicago like that! You can talk about Northwestern if you want.”...

Eh, Close Enough

Power Meters Are Dumb And Professional Cycling Should Ban Them<em></em>

The history of professional cycling has been one long march towards trying to find the most interesting, spectator-friendly way to present what is, at its core, kind of a boring sport. Over one hundred years ago, a French newspaper created the Tour de France as the ultimate endurance competition and...

Every Freakin' Year

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Kobe Bryant Is All About That $700 Juicer

Kobe Bryant rang in the New York Stock Exchange yesterday and unveiled his new career: heading up a $100 million venture capital fund. Along with Jeff Stibel—a former Web.com CEO—the creatively named Bryant Stibel will invest in “technology, media and data companies.” Apparently, the fund will succe...

Panel of Droids Discuss Liverpool and Barcelona's Prospects

Towards the end of the halftime break in Liverpool-Barcelona on Saturday, ESPN’s Ian Darke sent viewers from Wembley Stadium back to the studio, which sometime during the commercial break had moved to the Mos Eisley Cantina....

How Not To Break The Law Playing <i>Pokémon Go</i>

Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, wherein I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below....

Build Something, Like A Goddamn Cathedral

Justo Gallego would likely take umbrage with the phrasing of that headline, seeing as the former monk views his lifework as an act of godly devotion. But this is what he gets for building such a goddamn beautiful cathedral....