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Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, wrote a 137-word op-ed this weekend about Kamala Harris with the declaration, “Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago.” If you haven’t been following the intricacies of California politics,…
The Trump administration’s war on marijuana legalization may soon end. A year ago, the Department of Justice, under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, made a move widely interpreted as a signal to federal prosecutors and other law enforcement…
Amazon’s facial analysis technology might have a woman problem. A new study from MIT and University of Toronto researchers has found that the technology tends to mistake women, especially those with dark skin, for men. Released Thursday, the study found…
There’s almost nothing of consequence to discuss in “Serenity” that isn’t a spoiler, but there’s almost nothing in it that’s not spoiled in advance (except for the calculated earnestness of some plot points). For the most part, it’s a bland…
Last week, the filmmaker Adam McKay received three Academy Award nominations—for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay—for “Vice,” his seriocomic bio-pic of the former Vice-President Dick Cheney. McKay, a former lead writer for “Saturday Night Live” and a…
The Pentagon’s cybersecurity capabilities are lagging behind adversaries’, but even as they struggle to improve their performance, past recommendations on plugging gaping security holes still aren’t being followed, according to a pair of scathing reports recently released. The US military…
