Email can be a slippery beast, and one thread of messages Gizmodo recently received—seemingly by mistake—has given us a window into how Microsoft prepares its employees for the apparently terrifying prospect of talking to the press.
Last night, Melania Trump, wife of The Donald, delivered a speech during the first night of the Republican National Convention. But soon after, some people began questioning whether Melania or her speechwriters had in fact copied part of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech. CNN reported on the…
Ted Cruz lives in a world where winning zero delegates is a feat worthy of a victory speech. But Saturday, his Twitter account briefly confronted reality, if only for 11 seconds.
Is the woman pictured above Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mother? Heh, no. That’s Kim Cattrall, the Canadian actress best known for her role on Sex and the City and best known in my heart for doing this. In a feature on the prime minister last night, however, CBS’ 60 Minutes misidentified her as Margaret…
Bad news travels fast, but apparently not fast enough for the The Austin American-Statesman.
It’s pretty well established by now that Ted Cruz, a man whose tendency to fudge the truth is not really a secret, made a big ol’ goof right before the Iowa caucuses.
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An Illinois funeral home apparently buried a deceased woman a day early, which made for an incredibly sad and awkward situation when her family showed up Friday to view the body and found the wrong woman stretched out in the open casket.
Here’s an abstract from a student conference at the Technical University of Denmark, located just north of Copenhagen. As you can see, DTU students are full of ideas for sustainable ways to improve the campus, including fiber optic oh hey look that’s a link to a “facesitting” porn video.
Groupon became famous and went public in 2011 by hawking restaurant discounts to people who Instagram their food, but since then, they’ve realized that emailing people coupon spam isn’t a profitable model. Now they’ve switched from pushing coupons to selling a motley assortment of very strange shit, like a mane for…
Carnegie Mellon University is one of the country's preeminent geek schools; think Stanford, without all the nonsense preening, bullshit self-aggrandizement, lustful VCs and palm trees. This year, more than 1,200 students applied for its M.A. program in computer science; yesterday an untold number of them received a…
Yay! You got there! After all those hours on the road you've made it to a taping of The Price is Right!
When Uniontown, Pa., police arrived at the scene of a pizza shop robbery, their primary suspect denied he was at fault. Eric Frey said someone else forced him at gunpoint to write a stickup note on a piece of toilet paper—"I have a gun. Give me $300."—and hand it to the cashier at Michael Maria's Pizza.
A Michigan woman was arrested early Sunday morning in a jail parking lot after she mistook the jail for a bar. The Associated Press describes the 39-year-old as “super drunk.” A breathalyzer revealed that she had a BAC more than twice the legal limit.
An alleged mother-son meth-making team managed to alert law enforcement to their activities when they accidentally dialed 911 while preparing for a cook at their Florida home.
News just broke that the Secret Service may have tried to to assassinate President Obama for the third time—according to reports, agents allowed a guy with a gun to get in an elevator with the president earlier this month and had no idea he was armed until someone else pointed it out.
Delaware Governor Jack Markell accidentally tweeted a photo of a model wearing what the Daily Mail called "bondage gear" yesterday. This was embarrassing for Markell, but the model, Precious Little, was the one who was really upset—she tweeted, "I have INFINITELY superior taste in men & am offended anyone would…
Nathan Deal, the conservative Georgia governor who's in a tight re-election race against a grandson of Jimmy Carter, suffered a misstep Tuesday when he mistakenly assumed a Hispanic student speaking to him at the University of Georgia was an undocumented immigrant.
Spanish clothing retailer Zara was selling a blue-and-white-striped shirt with a six-pointed star over the left side of the chest that read "SHERIFF." The shirt, the store says, was intended for children aged three months to three years. Except, zoomed out on their website, the shirt looks a lot like...a concentration…
Perhaps ISIS should open a new training camp to instruct its murderous recruits on how to tweet without revealing the precise location of its training camps to citizen investigative journalists.
