August 2021 Culture Articles
- DIY Pokémon Snap controller proves Nintendo needs to just make the damn thing
- Kanye West's 'Donda' set a bunch of streaming records on Apple Music
- China restricts kids' online video game access to 3 hours per week
- This AI program will create a mashup DJ set from any songs you want
- Tomorrow 232: Web shooter
- Apple's making it slightly easier for devs to avoid App Store gouging
- MLK's inclusion in ‘Fornite’ feels disingenuous and creepy
- Panasonic whitewashed stock photo of a black man in a new ad
- Jeff Bezos' pocket rocket is 10 inches long, reusable, and made for beginners
- Warhammer+ is finally live, here's what you should know about it
- Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry on the 7 devices she can't live without
- The OnlyFans drama has creators worried about more than money
- NASA says yeah, Jeff Bezos' tantrum is definitely delaying its moon trip
- Some jabroni bought an NFT of a free clipart rock for $1.3 million
- OnlyFans backtracks on no-porn policy following backlash
- Airbnb will temporarily house thousands of Afghan refugees for free
- EU hopes to make Bitcoin traceable and ban anonymity
- Someone created a tiny, replica ‘Simpsons’ TV that plays random episodes
- MSCHF's new 'Famous Mouse' prank is begging for a Disney lawsuit
- OnlyFans confirms the porn ban in email to creators, updated terms
- TikTok now has its own SiriusXM radio station
- Jack Dorsey reveals he's dabbling in Bitcoin mining now
- Watch this guy build a mind-blowing, 3D printed RC beer boat for his pool
- Windows 11 won’t give up on making it super annoying to swap browsers
- Scientists set a new world record calculating the digits of Pi
- What in the absolute hell does Palantir know that we don’t?
- MIT's inflatable bionic hand is a cheap leap forward for prosthetics
- Ikea is straight-up supplying clean energy to Sweden now
- Bruce Willis licensed his deepfake for some Russian cell phone ads
- Tracking Chris Chan started Kiwi Farms. Will her arrest be its end?
- Twitter's big, ‘one size fits all’ redesign was predictably ableist
- T-Mobile is investigating a potentially massive customer data hack
- Jeff Bezos is suing NASA because it hurt his feelings
- Walmart is gearing up for its own, sigh, cryptocurrency projects
- The U.S. government is finally investigating Tesla Autopilot’s safety
- We really want to hate Dogepalooza, but it seems very nice
- Crypto hacker returns stolen millions, claims they only did it for lolz
- Facebook's restrictive research rules sent a Princeton study packing
- You can now buy weed directly from apps like Weedmaps
- This Netflix spoof compiles the fake titles you wish were real from movies, TV
- YouTube for QAnon and anti-vaxxers signs Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald
- A $1.5 million 'women-led' NFT project was actually run by dudes
- This German animal shelter is using Tinder to get pets adopted
- PSA: You can get these surprisingly decent sex toys at your local drugstore
- 'NY Times' tech workers stage job walk-off to protest union-busting tactics
- Instagram retracts ban on Pedro Almodóvar’s nipple movie poster
- SpaceX's space billboard isn't what it sounds like, but it's still dumb
- NYPD is quietly investing in an enormous arsenal of surveillance tech
- Rudy Giuliani joined Cameo during the Witching Hour, so he's doing fine
- WeWork to take over shuttered Saks Fifth Ave shops, dubs them... SaksWorks
- Louisiana buys cops new toys as prisoners with COVID are sent to dungeons
- Marjorie Taylor Greene is one Twitter violation away from a permanent ban
- Never mind podcasts, Substack is getting into comics, too
- Amazon will pay customers up to $1,000 if a purchase results in injury
- Disney found out about NFTs and released a dumb $400 Spider-Man
- The Tesla Cybertruck is now only arriving some time in 2022
- Disney World unveils 2-day 'Star Wars' LARP to escape reality, and it ain't cheap
- Why antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists love Linktree
- The sneaky scamps at Facebook hid your privacy settings again
- KFC pop-up hotel includes ‘press for chicken’ button and $139 worth of chicken
- Amazon drivers ready for “giant war” over cruel, impossible quotas
- Biden's goal of 50 percent electric vehicles by 2030 is too lax
- Lesbian bars are disappearing, Hinge is trying to stop it
- Microsoft turns off YouTube comments for its very bad Windows 11 video
- T-Mobile will finish devouring Sprint by the middle of next year
- Democrats are pushing for big polluters to pay for their climate damage
- Netflix hypes SpaceX's first civilian launch with Countdown docu-ganda
- Facebook banned researchers who pried into its ads and misinformation
- Spotify is experimenting with a $0.99 subscription tier
- Blizzard’s president is quitting amid ongoing legal scandal
- Tim Pool sucks and a new deep-dive proves it unequivocably
- Mental Health
- Fake Cormac McCarthy fools Twitter... again
- Social media sites are apparently a-ok with antisemitic posts
- Apple inoculates App Store against 'Unjected' anti-vax dating site
- Tesla's Megapack batteries in Victoria burned for three days straight
