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“The Munsters” is one of those old-school ’60s sitcoms that couch potatoes of a certain age watched and rewatched throughout their formative years. We absorbed these shows’ quirks and themes and catchphrases so completely that the merest of references can trigger a flood of childhood memories. They weren’t the acme of broadcast art, but they […]
Blue Origin, founded by billion Jeff Bezos, saw its first major incident on Monday. Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press A Blue Origin rocket with no crew onboard failed just over a minute after liftoff on Monday. The New Shepard rocket, launched from Blue Origin's West Texas facility, carried cargo for research. A livestream of the launch showed […]
REUTERS/Rick Wilking Medium isn’t commenting on whether or not Jeff Bezos violated its terms of service with his astonishing post on Thursday. The online publishing site also won’t say whether Bezos gave it a heads up before he published it. But Medium did confirm that, no matter how many people like his post, he won’t get […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) On Thursday afternoon, Jeff Bezos took to Medium to excoriate David Pecker and his company American Media Inc.—which owns the National Enquirer—for attempting “extortion and blackmail.” Rather than comply with their demands, the Amazon founder and CEO (who also owns The Washington Post) has published emails from AMI […]
The Amazon founder spent his summers reading Asimov and has named pets and companies after ‘Star Trek’ characters. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c4a1fa640ef432d22a5420f/master/pass/Culture_GeeksGuide_Bezos.jpg
Evan Vucci/AP The retiring Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona urged members of his political party to challenge the president, days before he is scheduled to retire from Capitol Hill. “Somebody does need to challenge the president,” Flake said in a CNN interview on Friday. “I think that the country needs to be reminded what […]
FORMER WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn is set to fight former WBA interim super-middleweight champion Anthony Mundine on Friday November 30, 2018. Here are our top spots to watch the unmissable River City Rumble in Brisbane. Jeff Horn vs Anthony Mundine fight details When: Friday 30 November, gates open 4:30pm, main fight at 9:30pm Where: […]
Cliff Owen/AP A seasonal Amazon worker, who wrote an anonymous column in The Guardian, described the induction talk they were given on their first day. A manager took an image of an inverted pyramid, labelled the bottom “least important” and said that CEO Jeff Bezos thinks he belongs at this end of the diagram. Amazon’s […]
After 238 cities vied to be home to Amazon’s new “headquarters,” the company chose the obvious: New York City and Arlington, Virginia. https://media.wired.com/photos/5be4c41f58337a7335bf6897/master/pass/Queens-AP_18312721850052.jpg
With Alec Baldwin presumably still indisposed — how do you not riff on the Trump/Jim Acosta press conference kerfuffle? — NBC’s Saturday Night Live this weekend instead opened with ousted/forcibly-resigned Attorney General Jeff Sessions bidding adieu to his friends from the White House. Discovered by Sarah Huckabee Sanders hiding under his desk (waiting to give […]
