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I have gone to Burning Man several times, but its founder, Larry Harvey, was not someone I knew very much about. Harvey, who was born in 1948, was raised outside Portland, Oregon, by adoptive parents. After a stint in the…
A Benday-dot field of yellow and red is disrupted by a pendulous blob of white, contained by a black outline. It’s a photograph, a cropped closeup of a cartoon tear rolling down a cheek. Go ahead, jump to conclusions. I…
Can a technology initially intended as a way to circumvent the existing financial architecture be adopted by the market’s most powerful player? A former Federal Reserve governor who was on Trump’s short list to lead the Fed prior to the appointment of Jerome Powell…
A Chinese-based sex doll manufacturer has unveiled its plans to create fully autonomous AI-controlled sex robots which would be capable of making decisions without relying on outside control. DS Doll, a company based in the Chinese city of Dalian that manufactures a…
Rudy Giuliani is not helping. The newly appointed lawyer on President Donald Trump’s Russia investigation defense team has been on a befuddling media blitz in recent days; most recently, Giuliani said in an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday…
The North Korean Foreign Ministry has warned the United States against provoking Pyongyang while the current thaw in ties between the two Koreas shows signs of progress. North Korea’s KCNA news agency has cited the country’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson as saying…
