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Lemonade Denies “Unforgivably Negligent” Security Gaffe Insurtech company Lemonade has refuted claims put forward by a short seller that it has an "unforgivably negligent security flaw" on its website. Muddy Waters Research LLC alleges that a vulnerability exists on Lemonades website that could potentially expose customers personally identifiable information.  The investor claims that it was able to log in to and edit Lemonade customer accounts with...

Photo: Zackery Michael There’s a self-conscious artifice that needs to be embraced in order to fully enter the world of St. Vincent’s dark and compelling new album, Daddy’s Home. In and of itself, this isn’t necessarily anything new: Annie Clark, the multi-hyphenated artist now six albums deep into her career under the St. Vincent moniker, has always had a chameleonic muse, adopting different personas and perspectives in her songwriting, most recently with the high-gloss, electronic-in...

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers attempting to link slave labor in the harvesting of cocoa to Starbucks’ marketing have gained a court victory that will let their case move forward. On May 5, Los Angeles federal judge John Holcomb threw out two parts of a lawsuit that was filed by Schonbrun Seplow, which is claiming companies that use cocoa harvested in West Africa by means of child and slave labor are faking their interest in buying cocoa that is ethically sourced. The f...

Print this article For all the media’s talk these past few years about dangerous rhetoric, disinformation, and so-called hate speech, it’s amazing MSNBC’s Joy Reid is given a free pass by her peers and colleagues. She is probably the meanest, most venomous person on television. She is also a font of misinformation (and sometimes disinformation). But Reid’s bomb-throwing and conspiracy theory-mongering serve the “correct” causes, so our otherwise extremism-obsessed media dont consi...

The Media Used Trump to Sell Subscriptions. Now What? The former president may have hated the press, but he certainly boosted its business. May 12, 20215:44 AM Animation by Slate. Photos by Twitter, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Nation, and the New York Times. , a series of stories checking in on how things are going now for the people and products that were riding high during the last administration. Donald Trump aimed to drive public distrust in the media. He did a fair bit of ...

Published May 12, 2021   Updated May 12, 2021, 10:34 am CDT Doctor Who has been around for more than 50 years, fueled by its extraordinarily dedicated fandom. And like many long-running fandoms, this involved a lot of fanfiction. That’s why some fans had a nasty surprise when they discovered a section of the official Doctor Who website where the BBC attempts to discourage fanfic. Featured Video Hide In the FAQ section of the BBC’s Doctor Who website,...

We published a post on work at the University of California, San Francisco, to identify existing drugs that looked like they had the potential to treat Covid, as in at a minimum reduce the severity of disease (We Found and Tested 47 Old Drugs That Might Treat the Coronavirus: Results Show Promising Leads and a Whole New Way to Fight COVID-19). But that was before the vaccine effort was far enough along to look like it was likely to bear fruit. As we’ve pointed out, the West has gone all in w...

• Pick 10: Justin Fields, QB, Ohio State: The Eagles obviously did not like Fields enough to take him with their first-round pick. And thats fine. If you dont love a quarterback, dont take him. Personally, I think hes a very talented player and theres a lot to work with. Obviously, I did not have a chance to get to know him as a person the same way scouts and front office folks do, but from what info was available to me, Id have taken him. • Pick 37: Christian Barmore, DT, Alabama: I had ...

NASA Admin Scolds China After Out-of-Control Rocket Lands in Indian Ocean Share A Long March 5B rocket in 2020. (Photo: STR/AFP, Getty Images) After days of fretting over when and where an out-of-control Chinese rocket would land as it fell back to Earth, China announced early Sunday that the rocket had landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives. Although it was unclear whether the debris had caused any damage, NASA sharply scolded China for failing to be responsible with its space debris. In...

Photo: STR/AFP (Getty Images) After days of fretting over when and where an out-of-control Chinese rocket would land as it fell back to Earth,China announced early Sunday that the rocket had landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.Although it was unclear whether the debris had caused any damage, NASA sharply scolded China for failing to be responsible with its space debris. Advertisement In a statement released on Sunday after the debris landed, NASA administrator Bill Nelsonsaid that spac...