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Star Wars

Mattel’s New Star Wars Barbies Are Amazingly Extra

When you think of Star Wars Barbies as a concept, you think it would be very easy for Mattel to just put Barbie in a Princess Leia costume and call it a day. Which, to be fair, Mattel has indeed done. But it has also gone beyond that to deliver…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Star Wars

Comings and Goings in the World of Xbox

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

AR-15

A gun range in Texas advertised a ‘back-to-school’ firearms sale

A gun store in Texas hosted a back-to-school firearms sale just weeks after a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart killed 22 people. Boyert Shooting Center, in Katy, outside Houston, posted a sign on its marquee earlier this month that said: "Back to school…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Hrant Dink

Exposing Ghosts of the Past, Michael Rakowitz Pulls Back the Curtain

Michael Rakowitz, “The Breakup” (2010-ongoing), Mixed media (image courtesy the artist) LONDON Following Baghdads fall to US troops in 2003, more than 15,000 artifacts were looted from the National Museum of Iraq by thieves. The presence of ISIS went on to f…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Nukes

Change These Facebook Settings to Make Your Voice Recordings More Private

In what has become a thing over the past few months, Facebook is the latest of the tech giants to admit that outside contractors were given access to users voice recordings. Though Facebook has been light on the details, we can assume the program played out…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Barton F. Graf’s ripple effect over Madison Avenue, Instagram’s privacy practices, and Foursquare pitch deck

Barton F. Graf founder Gerry Graf YouTube Welcome to the Advertising and Media Insider newsletter, where we round up the most interesting stories we covered this past week, ICYMI. I'm Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter filling in for Lucia whi…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Obamacare

Obamacare Keeps Losing

At the rate things are going, Obamacare may be nearly dismantled by the time it reaches the Supreme Court for the second time. Last week, the Obamacare abortion mandate part of the Affordable Care Act that essentially forced Christian businesses that weren’t…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Electric Car

Researchers have found a way to transform glass bottles into electric car batteries

Americans throw away enough glass every week to fill a 1,350-foot building. Glass takes up to a million years to completely decompose in a landfill, but it's easy to recycle, so there's no reason we should ever have to make anymore glass. We already have enou…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Black Hole

Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

Even though the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a monster, its still rather quiet. Called Sagittarius A*, its about 4.6 million times more massive than our Sun. Usually, its a brooding behemoth. But scientists observing Sgr. A* with the Keck Tele…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Slavery Abolition

100 books to read in a lifetime — according to Amazon Books editors

As of 2010, there were about 129,864,880 books in the entire world, according to Google's estimate. Even if you quit your job, subsisted off of dewdrops, and spent every waking hour reading, the odds that you could read every one of them are not in your fa…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Mattel’s New Star Wars Barbies Are Amazingly Extra

Comings and Goings in the World of Xbox

A gun range in Texas advertised a ‘back-to-school’ firearms sale

Exposing Ghosts of the Past, Michael Rakowitz Pulls Back the Curtain

Change These Facebook Settings to Make Your Voice Recordings More Private

Barton F. Graf’s ripple effect over Madison Avenue, Instagram’s privacy practices, and Foursquare pitch deck

Obamacare Keeps Losing

Researchers have found a way to transform glass bottles into electric car batteries

Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

100 books to read in a lifetime — according to Amazon Books editors

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