Many Mayors Cite Covid Burnout as a Reason for Their Exit

Local officials nationwide are announcing plans to step back from elected office. Many offer the same explanation: Covid burnout.

15 Dog Posts From This Week That I Think We All Just, Like, Need, Ya Know?

SO GOOB.

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32 People Who Got Roasted Online So Bad They Just Gotta Delete Their Account

RIP.

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I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Collapse Of My Democracy.

I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn’t what I signed up for.

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Read This Story Based On West African Mythology If You Love Feminist Romance

"??un couldn’t remember the last time someone asked her what she actually wanted. People sought to touch without acknowledging her desire to be caressed, to consume without realizing her craving to just be held."

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New study shows that Facebook's job ad algorithm still discriminates based on gender

Facebook isn't supposed to let advertisers target by things like age or gender for employment ads anymore, but a new study showed that the social network's ad algorithm is doing it anyway.

More than two years after Facebook disabled that particular feature for housing and employment listings, researchers at the University of Southern California found that certain job listings mysteriously still show a noticeable skew in who sees themThe study's findings would be illegal under federal...

Tigers place Cabrera on IL with biceps strain

The Tigers placed Miguel Cabrera on the 10-day IL with a left biceps strain and selected the contract of infielder Renato Nunez.

Personal info for 1.3 million Clubhouse users reportedly leaked online

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Personal data for some 1.3 million users of the social audio app Clubhouse has been leaked online, Cyber News reported. a SQL database with users’ IDs, names, usernames, Twitter and Instagram handles and follower counts were posted to an online hacker forum. According to Cyber News, it did not appear that sensitive user information such as credit card numbers were among the leaked info. But the information could be used in...

Here Are Some Schmidt Questions From Every Season Of "New Girl" — Can You Get All 7 Correct?

“They don’t hate me because I’m old, they hate me because of my personality.”

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'SNL' imagines a Paramount+ Star Trek spin-off where it's all messy drama

Imagine Star Trek, except mixed in with all the serious, professional people in the ship's bridge crew are some younger Gen Z-equivalents who are totally self-possessed and wrapped up in petty personal dramas.  That's Saturday Night Live's pitch for our next Trek spin-off on Paramount+, and honestly it works.

Carey Mulligan and Mikey Day play our overly dramatic crew members, who immediately overreact when a dumb suggestion from Carey is appropriately shut down. The situation spirals from...

Timothée Chalamet joins Kid Cudi and 'SNL' stars for a rap about flutes

Chris Redd and Pete Davidson should really just take their hip-hop duo on tour at this point, right?

The Saturday Night Live stars were joined by Kid Cudi for a musical sketch about that "weird little flute" you sometimes see in rap videos. And it's great. Just funny words and quality beats, with a side of Timothée Chalamet cameo and a last-minute appearance by Carey Mulligan, the evening's host. Read more...

The best tech podcasts (that aren't 'Reply All')

So your favorite tech podcast just imploded after two beloved figures were accused of an anti-union push that contributed to a workplace culture that discriminated against colleagues of color. Now what?

At the time of publication, Reply All is still on indefinite hiatus. After their recent Bon Appétit series delving into the company's unfair treatment of marginalized staff members prematurely ended once former coworkers revealed that the call was also coming inside their own house at...

New Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Are Going Viral in Arabic

Facebook has been criticized for failing to curb misinformation in English. But little attention has been paid to the scale of the problem in Arabic.

Agent: Johnson agrees to $4.1M deal with Nets

Forward Alize Johnson has agreed to a multiyear deal with the Brooklyn Nets worth up to $4.1 million, his agent, George Langberg, told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

Google reportedly ran secret ‘Project Bernanke’ that boosted its own ad-buying system over competitors

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Google reportedly ran a secret project called “Project Bernanke” that relied on bidding data collected from advertisers using its ad exchange to benefit the company’s own ad system, The Wall Street Journal reported. First discovered by newswire service MLex, the name of the project was visible in an improperly unredacted document Google had filed as part of an antitrust lawsuit in Texas.

A federal judge has since let Google refile the document...

LG leaves behind more than a flip phone-shaped hole in our hearts

The LG Stylo 6 is one of the company’s bestselling phones in recent history. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

The company leaves a void that brands like Motorola and TCL are well-positioned to fill

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South Korea EV battery makers reach settlement in US trade dispute

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South Korean electric-vehicle battery makers SK Innovation and LG Energy Solution have reached a settlment in a US trade dispute, Bloomberg reported. Under the terms of the agreement, SK will pay $1.8 billion (2 trillion won) in cash and royalties to LG.

In a joint statement the companies said they would “work to help the development of EV battery industry in South Korea and the US. through healthy competition...

15 Times The Media Totally Failed Jessica Simpson

She deserved better!

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Chauvin trial newscast takes an awkward turn into racial issues on the 'SNL' cold open

Welcome to the "I would've voted for Obama a third time" of Saturday Night Live cold opens.

The sketch show's latest episode kicked of with a newscast send-up featuring two Black hosts and two white hosts in Minnesota discussing the trial of Derek Chauvin. It doesn't go well. While everyone at the table is friendly and seems to mean while, the white hosts (Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat) repeatedly turn to trite, saccharine expressions of hope and positivity for the U.S. justice system...

An amazing 'SNL' Weekend Update sits for an interview with the Titanic iceberg

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update has traditionally been home to bizarre and off-the-wall interviews, but this one... this one is a winner.

Bowen Yang, who just a couple weeks ago jokingly(?) bemoaned SNL's unwillingness to let his "gay Passover bunny" sketch happen, returned to Weekend Update as the iceberg that sunk the Titanic. Playing the part like a celebrity with a checkered past, Yang icily (OK, maybe slight pun intended) informs co-host Colin Jost that he's not there to discuss...