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Cecil the Lion’s Brother, Jericho, Has Allegedly Been Killed [UPDATED]
[Update 8-1-2015 1:17 p.m. PST] It appears that CNN, who was first to report on the incident, may have jumped the gun. According to Reuters, Jericho is alive and well. Jericho, the brother of Ceil the Lion, was illegally killed on Saturday in Hwange National Park in Zimabwe,…
· Riley Schatzle
Facebook Unveils Massive Solar Drone That Will Provide Internet to Rural Areas
Facebook just built a drone that will be able to beam broadband internet to areas across the globe that cannot currently access the internet. Connectivity Lab, a Facebook initiative to develop new technology to provide internet accessibility for everyone, recently finalized…
· Riley Schatzle
Tech Employee Spends $476,000 on Online Strippers and Sex Toys Using Company Card
A “national solutions architect” for a St. Louis-based company was indicted last week by federal authorities for using nearly half a million dollars in company funds to pay for online strippers. John David Berrett, 40, is accused of falsifying expense reports from September 2013…
· Riley Schatzle
Chinese Company Unveils $48,000 ‘Tesla Model S’ Knockoff
A new Chinese electric car company called Youxia Motors unveiled their first vehicle on Sunday evening and it looks like KITT from “Knight Rider” collided with a Model S Tesla. According to Car News China, Youxia Motors will begin production on the Youxia X late next year. The…
· Laura Dang
Whole Foods Under Fire for Using Cheap Prison Labor to Produce Cheese and Fish
After issuing a public apology back in June for overcharging customers for seafood and produce, Whole Foods is now getting a bad wrap for using cheap prison labor to produce goods such as cheese and fish. The popular grocery chain is one of several buyers of products produced by…
· Riley Schatzle
HP Reportedly Bans T-Shirts at Work, Programmers Forced to Wear Collared Shirts
HP has finally put their foot down, ending what was becoming a fashion catastrophe. This week, HP sent all of their employees — roughly 100,000 individuals across several countries including the UK, Australia, India, Germany and the U.S. — a confidential memo reminding them that…
· Jacob Wagner
Dunkin’ Donuts CEO Says $15 Minimum Wage is ‘Absolutely Outrageous’
Dunkin’ Donuts CEO Nigel Travis is not a fan of increasing the minimum wage to something more livable. He told CNN’s Poppy Harlow yesterday that increasing the minimum wage for workers in New York is “absolutely outrageous.”
· Max Chang
A 20-Year Study Reveals Which Skills Will Make Your Child Most Successful in Life
If you want ensure that your child has the best chances for being successful in life, you may want to pay extra attention to developing their social skills as they enter kindergarten, says a newly released study 20 years in the making. The study, which began in 1991 and was…
· Riley Schatzle
Google Self-Driving Car Records its First Accident With Injuries
One of Google’s self-driving cars recorded its first accident involving minor injuries earlier this month. During the evening rush hour on July 1, one of Google’s Lexus vehicles had slowed to a stop at an intersection in Mountain View, California. About three seconds later, a…
· Riley Schatzle
‘Naked’ Baristas Serve Coffee in New York For New Ad Campaign
Some New Yorkers were shocked when they found out their local baristas were serving coffee naked.
· Editorial Staff
How an Asian-American UC Berkeley Honors Student Became a Budding Male Pornstar
Jeremy Long is a law student at UC Berkeley, the highest rated public university in California and one of the top colleges in the world. He’s always been studious, having received Berkeley’s prestigious full-ride Regents’ and Chancellors’ Scholarship for his undergraduate…
· Laura Dang
A ‘Luxury Tour’ in China Makes Over $1.4 Million a Month Scamming Rich Women
Extremely wealthy Chinese women are being scammed out of hundreds of thousands to go on Hong Kong luxury tours that offer “certified” cosmetic procedures along with good-looking boy toys on fancy cruise ships. CNR News via Shanghaiist reports that the sea clinic has been hosting…
· Riley Schatzle
Meet the Mysterious Jewelry Designer Making Grillz for Rihanna and Cara Delevingne
Dolly Cohen, dental technician turned badass mouth grill designer, is a mysterious and difficult woman to get a hold of. According to Vogue, Cohen is more difficult to get a hold of than Rihanna — one of Cohen’s many celebrity clients.
· Gary Vaynerchuk
This is the Biggest Mistake a Young Entrepreneur Can Make
A common question I get all the time: what is the biggest mistake young entrepreneurs are making? They’re building businesses that only work during the best-case market scenarios.
· Riley Schatzle
‘Taxi Versus Uber Driver’ Protests Turn Violent in France
On Thursday, French taxi drivers finally hit their boiling point with Uber, and especially its unlicensed Uberpop drivers, stealing their riders. UberPop is a transportation service that allows private drivers to carpool individuals who are traveling in the same direction. At…
· Max Chang
New York Investigation Reveals Whole Foods Has Been Overcharging Customers
If you’ve ever had that pained feeling of being robbed at a Whole Foods checkout because their premium food items are so ridiculously expensive, you may want to trust that gut feeling.
· Laura Dang
Poorer People Are Most Likely to Listen to Rap and Country, Study Reveals
Social class dictates many aspects of our day-to-day life, but does it determine the kind of music we listen to? A study recently published in the Canadian Review of Sociology suggests that social class influences our cultural attitudes and the musical genres we favor.
· Riley Schatzle
The Surprising Reason More Vacation Days May Make You More Productive
A new study taken from two leadership consultants shows that European executives are more productive than American executives because they take more vacations per year. The study came about after Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, the founding executives of leadership development…
· Riley Schatzle
Drinking Coffee May Actually Help You Manage Stress, New Study Reveals
It’s been widely speculated that caffeine may have an inverse effect on chronic stress, and a new study may have finally figured out why. A group of scientists from Brazil and Portugal and the U.S. set out to further understand the effects caffeine has on cognitive function and…
· Riley Schatzle
Snapchat Founder Says The Future of Mobile Video Will Be Vertical
According to Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, the future is vertical, which means those who are watching or shooting videos horizontally are missing the latest memo. Mobile filming has created problems for many people because phones are vertically aligned, whereas video…
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