Open Championship organizers don’t want anybody calling it ‘The British Open’ anymore and it is causing more confusion than ever

If you’re unsure of what to call this week’s major golf tournament, that’s okay — some of the game’s top broadcasters aren’t entirely clear on the matter either. The Open Championship is the oldest of golf’s four majors, and it also has the most confusing name. “The Open Championship” is its official label, but many have […]

‘Mistreatment of anybody is never justified’: HRW to RT on abuse of suspected ISIS fighters in Iraq

Iraqi forces must stop carrying out executions of suspected IS militants without trial and subjecting them and their families to torture, Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of HRW’s regional branch, told RT, citing newly released videos. Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of HRW’s Middle East & North Africa division, spoke to RT about […]

Comfortably Dumb: If the Car Is Doing the Driving, Will Anybody Be Doing the Thinking?

– From the May 2017 issue – If the dominant narrative holds and autonomous cars do colonize our roads, there will be no more mental calculations of time, distance, and speed. No best-guessing what that idiot in the left-turn lane will do instead of turning left. Not even any more weighing whether to grind your […]

17 corporate pranks that aren’t April Fooling anybody

It’s (ugh) that time of year again. That magically obnoxious season wherein every tech startup, thought influencer and blog worth its weight in snark attempts to pull a fast one on the rest of us with a clever April Fool’s Day prank. Only problem is, they’re rarely clever, usually terrible and almost assuredly obvious to […]

Does anybody know the password for the WeWork espresso machine

Access to coffee is a universal human right, a fact that corporations acknowledge by placing coffee machines in conspicuous locations in nearly every workplace imaginable. To give you some idea of how important coffee is, coffee is available on the International Space Station, despite the absence of gravity, which is necessary for coffee to adhere […]

Alien Covenant GORY new trailer: Will ANYBODY survive? Watch here

The latest clip starts off calmly enough, with the cast of characters landing in what they assume to be paradise, but quickly turns very, very dark indeed. It was supposed to drop today (Wednesday) but was rushed out overnight following a HD leak, reports claim. It follows a five-minute prologue scene that was teased online […]