Sports Illustrated over the decades has chronicled stellar match-ups, blow-outs, squeakers, sudden deaths and photo finishes. Now it’s getting ready to take on a whole new kind of game. Publisher Meredith Corp. has sold for $110 million the intellectual property around the venerable sports-news outlet to Authentic Brands Group, the brand-development company that manages Juicy Read more about Meredith sells Sports Illustrated to Authentic Brands Group for $110M[…]

Here are a couple of relatively safe bets you can make right now about the European parliamentary elections that commenced yesterday and will continue through the weekend. One is that nationalist, populist, far-right parties will surge, winning up to a third of the seats in the contest. The other is that Steve Bannon—Donald Trump’s erstwhile Read more about How the EU’s Far Right Will Boost Google, Facebook, and Amazon[…]

You're using strong and unique passwords. You're on the lookout for phishing emails. And you've set up two-factor authentication on every account that offers it. Basically, you're acing Personal Cybersecurity 101. But with new threats popping up all the time, you may be looking for other proactive steps you can take to protect yourself. Here's Read more about How to Spring Clean Your Digital Clutter to Protect Yourself[…]

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. —Winston Churchill Read more about It’s OK That Amazon Will (Likely) Get the .amazon Domain[…]

Fierce storms lashed across the central US this week, unleashing hundreds of powerful tornadoes that carved a path of destruction through parts of Missouri and Oklahoma Wednesday night, and left at least three dead. While the worst of the violent winds has passed, the region is now bracing for massive flooding, following record amounts of Read more about For the Midwest, Epic Flooding Is the Face of Climate Change[…]

Tornadoes are tearing up the Midwest, Airbnb calls truce, and we've got some books for your long weekend. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Today's Headlines Tornadoes are tearing up the midwest. So why are they so hard to predict? Click Here: More than 200 tornadoes have hit the Read more about Mysterious Midwest Tornadoes, Airbnb's NYC Truce, and More News[…]

After surprising Super Bowl 2018 viewers with an ad announcing that sci-fi movie The Cloverfield Paradox would be arriving imminently, Netflix chose not to make a habit of similar ambushes. Instead, it left that practice to the musicians. Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Eminem, Death Grips, Drake, and Beyoncé again (this time as half of The Carters) Read more about Netflix's Anything-Goes Philosophy Gets to Parody Rap[…]

Allan Kafley spent most of his childhood in a refugee camp in Nepal. His father told him about traveling through jungles, mountains, and forests in the family’s native country of Bhutan. “But those things were a fantasy because I was growing up in a refugee camp,” says Kafley. “I knew nothing about that.” Aarian Marshall Read more about Hiking or Camping? Take the Bus to the Trail This Summer[…]

In the streets of New York, few things give you away as a tourist as obviously as tilting your head to take in the city’s upper limits. But when the red, yellow, and blue helicopter appeared in the skies over Manhattan’s southern tip, even the most jaded of native urbanites could be excused for risking Read more about The 'Hingeless' Mechanics of a Stunt Helicopter Flight Over NYC[…]

Ben Berman thinks there's a problem with the way we date. Not in real life—he's happily engaged, thank you very much—but online. He's watched too many friends joylessly swipe through apps, seeing the same profiles over and over, without any luck in finding love. The algorithms that power those apps seem to have problems, too, Read more about This Dating App Exposes the Monstrous Bias of Algorithms[…]