“After meeting with Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) a commander of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division sent out emails describing the congresswoman as “smoking hot” and joked in another email to a male colleague that he had masturbated while thinking about her after their meeting. Those emails and other details of …
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Google Doesn’t Want You To Google This
“Last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)—a group of the world’s top economies—decided it was time to crack down on international tax shenanigans through meaningful reform. These legal loopholes allow major tech corporations to move money around on paper through a series of shell corporations in Ireland, …
Read More »Maximum Rage Over The Minimum Wage
“House Speaker John Boehner warned President Barack Obama that he will “run into a brick wall” by using his executive power and bypassing Congress, as the White House has signaled the President intends to do. “We’re just not going to sit here and let the President trample all over us,” …
Read More »Gambling with Miss USA: Erin Brady offers Super Bowl prop bet advice
The coin toss, the National Anthem, the halftime show — the hundreds of prop bets available add one more wrinkle of entertainment to the Super Bowl. Miss USA Erin Brady visited SB Nation to dole out some gambling advice for Super Bowl XLVIII.
Read More »End of the iPod age, gag orders, and ‘Doctor Who’: 90 Seconds on The Verge
Apple reveals record sales numbers… DOJ reaches agreement with tech companies… Doctor Who gets a makeover. http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5351918/apples-ipod-rides-into-the-sunset http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5350106/apple-q1-2014-earnings http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5351544/facebook-microsoft-and-apple-announce-deal-to-share-more-information http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5350926/this-is-peter-capaldis-new-doctor-who-costume Hosted by Adi Robertson. Written by Nathan Cykiert and Ross Miller. Video Production by Zach Goldstein. More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/videos Visit …
Read More »6 Foods You’re Eating Wrong
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Read More »The Verge Mobile Show 077 – January 28th, 2014
The Verge Mobile Show is a weekly podcast about the biggest news in mobile technology with Verge editors Dieter Bohn, Chris Ziegler, Vlad Savov, and Dan Seifert. Tune in today at 4:30PM ET! More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/videos Visit our playlists: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/playlists …
Read More »Massive Internet Shutdown in China | China Uncensored
What happens when the Internet goes out for China’s 500 million Internet users and netizens? Well of course everyone freaks out. Even though Chinese authorities said they were victims of hacking, the truth came out. What’s most likely is that Chinese censors screwed up, and instead of China’s internet censorship …
Read More »‘Crootin, Ep 3: 2014 Signing Day predictions, nation’s top LBs, DBs
Celebrating a cold-weather Super Bowl, the frozen championship football deserves
New York and New Jersey are presently ensconced in ice, and the 82,000 fans who watch Super Bowl XLVIII in MetLife Stadium won’t be much warmer. Is this a bad thing? Not at all — it should be like this every year.
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