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Rumor has it that the iPhone 8 will be something completely different!

It’s hard to say how reliable these reports are, especially since critics are craving something new after the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, and iPhone 7 all had basically the same design. Early reports suggested that the iPhone 8 would have a glass back with metal on the outer edges, an OLED screen which covers almost the entire face of the phone, and a home button and fingerprint scanner embedded beneath the screen.... Read Original Article

A Green Bay, Wisconsin, city clerk refused to set up an early-voting site because she didn’t want it to help Democrats, newly released emails show.

According to the emails, obtained through an open-records request by the One Wisconsin Institute, City Clerk Kris Teske refused to open more than a single early-voting site because the local college students who would most benefit from it were likely to vote for Democrats.... Read Original Article

In case there needs to be another reason to be wary of the impending AT&T/Time Warner merger, it turns out that AT&T has been secretly spying on its own customers.

Project Hemisphere is a covert AT&T program that analyzes cellular data from the company’s call records to determine where a given individual is located and with whom they are speaking.... Read Original Article

A new hacked email released by WikiLeaks shows Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff describing her over-laughter as “authentic weirdness.”

According to the email stolen from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s gmail account (), strategist Luke Albee commented during Clinton’s testimony in the House Benghazi hearing that, “She sometimes laughs a little too hard at jokes that aren’t that funny.... Read Original Article

If you ever had the sneaking suspicion that “Make America Great Again” was code for “Turn America’s clock back to the 1950s,” a new poll suggests you were absolutely right.

According to a survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute, 72 percent of likely voters supporting Donald Trump say America has changed for the worst since the 1950s.... Read Original Article

Sen. Elizabeth Warren may have Hillary Clinton’s back when she faces sexist attacks, but she’s still prepared to hold her accountable when it comes to reining in America’s corporate giants.

Although Silicon Valley has raised $4 million for Clinton’s campaign this year (compared to only $20,000 for Donald Trump), Warren is pushing for Clinton to curb the increasing market and political clout of tech corporations like Google, Amazon, and Apple.... Read Original Article

Expect this November to be ugly, no matter who wins.

Nearly half of Republicans won’t accept this election’s results if the opposing candidate wins, according to a new Reuters-IPSOS poll.

The survey, which was conducted online from Oct. 14 to Oct. 20, found that 49 percent of Republicans polled would not accept the legitimacy of this election if their candidate doesn’t win.... Read Original Article

A Super PAC supporting Donald Trump, the presidential candidate who has suggested making it illegal for foreign donors to contribute money to American election campaigns, is not shy about taking money from foreign donors. Namely, Chinese donors.

The Telegraph has revealed that a Super PAC promised to exchange influence in return for illegal campaign contributions from a donor it thought was Chinese.... Read Original Article

In one of the oddest turns of the campaign season, a Democratic activist was indeed trying to disrupt campaign events — but they were Marco Rubio’s events. And he was working with Donald Trump’s favorite news outlet, Breitbart.

According to a report from Politico, Breitbart recruited Aaron Black, a progressive activist from Democracy Partners, who provided them with tips and video footage and coordinated how they would cover his disruptions.... Read Original Article

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk offered Reddit users an optimistic glimpse into the possible future — his future — during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Sunday.

During the freewheeling conversation, Musk answered a question about permanent habitation on Mars with descriptions that sounded like they came out of a science fiction novel.... Read Original Article

Billionaire Mark Cuban wants us to believe that the $85.4 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner will, get this, lead to “more competition.”

Cuban, who has appeared in ads for AT&T (although he says he’s no longer paid by them), argued to TechCrunch that Google, Amazon, and Facebook are “dominating digital content” while “AT&T and Time Warner lag way behind.”... Read Original Article

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence wants everyone to know about some little-known killers: toddlers. And it’s getting the National Rifle Association riled up.

The ad, called “Toddlers kill,” begins with a series of news reports about children accidentally firing weapons that were left available to them without adult supervision.... Read Original Article

In technology, design has to continually evolve to keep current. In furniture, not so much: Iconic pieces go to museums and get knocked off for decades.

So it was with the Aeron chair, which, upon its release in 1994, became an instant icon and the first acquisition by design curator Paola Antonelli at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art.... Read Original Article

This 2016 year has played out like a game of Dystopia Bingo. A presidential candidate from a major party who is terrifyingly blasé about the use of nuclear weapons and who might not even accept a democratic verdict against him? Check.

Man-made climate change passing the proverbial point of no return (while no one seems to care)?... Read Original Article

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was put on the defensive by a series of pointed questions about his controversial Gettysburg speech posed by CNN’s Jake Tapper during an interview on Sunday.

After Tapper asked if she knew Trump’s Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, speech on Saturday would open with a “list of grievances,” she initially deflected the question by focusing on the subsequent sections of the GOP nominee’s speech before cryptically adding, “He delivers his own speeches.... Read Original Article

In yet another sign that Donald Trump’s business brand has taken a major hit during this election, tenants in some of Trump’s Manhattan apartment complexes are petitioning to have his name removed from their buildings.

At least 81 residents of 220 Riverside Boulevard have signed a petition to rename the tower and remove its large gold “Trump Place” sign, according to the New York Post.... Read Original Article

In the wake of Donald Trump’s racially divisive presidential campaign, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus distanced himself from a 2012 report he helped create that called for the Republican Party to be more inclusive toward minorities — particularly Hispanics — during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

“I contend that he’s going to do better in black communities than we have done four and eight years ago,” Priebus said.... Read Original Article