July 2021 Culture Articles
- Dark mode isn't as energy efficient as we all hoped
- An OnlyFans model is suing two influencer agencies claiming exploitation
- Tesla is doling out $1.5M in settlements over battery throttling snafu
- Google expands its online gallery of ultra-HD classical art
- Ex-cop sentenced for terrifying harassment of eBay critics involving dead pig
- FDA allows first human testing of brain chip implants... but not Neuralink’s
- It’s the 50th anniversary of the most horrific kids’ toys ever
- Ecuador cancels Julian Assange's citizenship, making extradition more likely
- It's so scorching hot outside that vinyl LPs are warping in the mail
- Jeff Bezos offers NASA a $2 billion not-bribe to kill its SpaceX deal
- Activist group lays body bags outside a Facebook office to protest misinfo
- Krispy Kreme is making an Xbox-themed doughnut because, why not?
- Amazon contradicts recent Bitcoin rumors, briefly sends price crashing
- Revel to further crowd Manhattan streets with new Tesla taxi service
- ShotSpotter sure sounds like its tampering with evidence to help cops
- A film studio is building a virtual set with Samsung's ‘The Wall’ displays
- Your landlord may have handed Amazon keys to your apartment building
- Mickey Mouse rapping is the greatest thing on TikTok right now
- Amazon gears up for Bitcoin payments... and its own crypto
- Citizen is now paying New Yorkers to livestream crimes
- Jack Dorsey wants to integrate Bitcoin into Twitter somehow
- Jeff Bezos thinks space factories would solve our problems. He's wrong.
- Major news sites now include embedded porn, thanks to VidMe buyout
- The Trump cultists have their own cryptocurrency now
- These shots from the 2021 iPhone Photography Awards will blow you away
- Swatter behind Tennesse Twitter user's death gets five-year prison sentence
- YouTubers spent a ton of money restoring the 1986 'Super Mario Bros.' cartoon film
- Slip.stream wants to be the royalty-free soundtrack to creators’ content
- Tesla might accept bitcoin for cars again after all
- Nope, charging electric cars doesn’t pollute as much driving gas ones does
- The FTC has voted unanimously to endorse right-to-repair
- Tesla will finally open Superchargers to other EV makers later this year
- Space Tax Act aims to make Bezos and others pay up for future rocket trips
- We take no pleasure in reporting that Jeff Bezos has returned to Earth
- CNN's subscription streaming service could struggle to find an audience
- Rocket Boi Jeff Bezos blasts into space tomorrow. Here's what to know.
- Impossible Foods' chicken nuggets could be its ticket to world domination
- I took Pornhub's tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's nudes
- Poor Elon Musk doesn't like being Technoking anymore
- Ford made a gasoline-inspired perfume to ease skeptics' transition to EVs
- This Mars rover engineer’s debut album is pure space-rock bliss
- Black teen kicked out of skating rink after facial recognition mis-ID'ed her
- Delta pilot sues his employer for stealing his app idea
- You can buy the royalty rights to the ‘Shrek’ soundtracks for $2.3M
- Amazon further solidifies publishing chokehold with new fiction serials platform
- Clippy refuses to die, is resurrected as a Microsoft emoji
- An 'A.I. model' of Anthony Bourdain's voice says lines he never uttered in new documentary
- Amazon and Diane von Furstenberg aim to make invasive smart home tech chic
- Facebook employees' access to user data was always going to lead to abuse
- FAA says Jeff Bezos can blow his rocket into space next week
- Amazon poached a bunch of experts from Facebook's satellite internet team
- Everyone you love is doing it: How the 'photo dump' took over Instagram
- Humanity crosses a point of no return with Kraft Mac & Cheese ice cream
- Peloton pays musicians way more than Spotify, but not because it cares
- Google faces severe fines in France for not paying news outlets
- Pornhub’s new audio guides help you find famous museums' nudes
- Elon Musk denies claims that buying SolarCity was a family bailout
- Amazon named robots after Muppets because it's running out of humanity
- Elon Musk eats $10K crow, reserves seat on Branson's Virgin Galactic flight
- TikTok exploits our gnat-like attention spans. Are 3-minute videos a mistake?
- TikTok and YouTube influencers boxed for cash, but haven't been paid
- NYC's new biometric privacy laws are a good start, but not enough
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- Arctic doomsday music vault will ensure our bangers survive the End Times
- Google's director of AR is leaving to join Facebook's Reality Labs team
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak supports right-to-repair, a jab at Apple
- This site lets you shop as if you're as rich as Elon Musk
- More than half of U.S. states are suing Google for Play Store antitrust
- Meet Laurent Simons, humanity's future cyborg-prodigy overlord
- Fort Lauderdale is buying into Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnel grift
- Tokyo's Shinjuku district adopted a giant, four-story 3D CGI cat
- Trump is suing social media CEOs for revoking his 'god given' right to post
- Blackstone and Jay-Z invest millions in a Pokémon card grading company
- A Tribe Called Quest royalties were sold with an NFT. The group never OK’d it.
- Tesla Fremont employees allege widespread racism on the factory floor
- Team MAGA’s latest tragic Twitter clone is a hotbed for communist Sonic porn
- Inside TikTok's booming dissociative identity disorder community
- We can't get enough of these retro game dioramas
- Pokémon made into Japanese handicrafts may soon be yours to buy
