Protesters rallied Saturday outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, where GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump launched his campaign last year. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Donald Trump has called them thugs, professional organizers and supporters of Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders. | Continue reading
Earlier this week we brought you news that Anonymous was planning to launch “total war” on Donald Trump. Today, the hacktivist’s fired the opening salvo. The group followed through on earlier threats by posting extensive personal information about Trump — including a social secur … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has received plentiful media coverage in his presidential campaign – far more media coverage than any other candidate in the 2016 presidential campaign. The real estate mogul has more delegates than other Republican candidates while spending far less for paid adverti … | Continue reading
Momentous things are happening in US politics. No, not the slow, miserable upending of the political system by business Oompa-Loompa Donald Trump, but magic — magic! — might finally be about to get the recognition it deserves. Earlier this week, Texas congressman Pete Sessions in … | Continue reading
Sci-fi strategy game Stellaris, the latest project by Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4 developer Paradox Development Studio, is coming to PC, Mac and Linux on 9th May, Paradox revealed at its GDC press conference.The developer wore Trump-parodying "Make space great again … | Continue reading
Bereits im Dezember 2015 erklärten die Hacktivisten von Anonymous, den Milliardär und Präsidentschaftskandidaten der Republikaner Donald Trump auf dem Schirm zu haben. Nun wurde ein neues Video veröffentlicht, in dem mittlerweil... | Continue reading
Anonymous declaring war on things is becoming rather blasé. In December it declared war on Donald Trump, before that ISIS, and if you want to go back even further we’ve seen operations aimed at combatting the KKK, Scientology, Syria, and The Westboro Baptist Church. “War” in this … | Continue reading
"Why doesn't President Obama just get the people from Google to fix the failed website. In fact, why didn't he use them in the first place!" | Continue reading
Is the tech industry partly responsible for the rise of Donald Trump? That’s what John Robb, who’s always worth reading, suggests in a series of recent posts, citing the great Nassim Taleb in support. His vision: “The nation-state as we’ve known it is rapidly hollowing out … this … | Continue reading
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump announced an impromptu boycott of Apple products "until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal." A staunch supporter of the FBI's demands, Trump said he owns both Samsung and Apple p … | Continue reading
Video: Nadja Oertelt, Armand Valdes, Loris RaveraThe recent Apple court case against the U.S. government has been dominating headlines and stoking our collective paranoid fears. Should the government be able to force private companies to help decrypt our devices or does this set … | Continue reading
Real-life Tony Stark and SpaceX/Tesla/SolarCity head honcho Elon Musk did not attend a secret Republican meeting to discuss toppling Donald Trump, he says in a tweet.That the tweet is far from the most absurd thing to come out of this election cycle is a testament to how bizarre … | Continue reading
Campaign Calculus: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have the highest “very negative” scores of the remaining 2016 candidates, according to a new NBC News/ WSJ poll. What does voter discontent mean for the two frontrunners? WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports. Image: Getty. | Continue reading
An artist who painted a picture of Donald Trump with a micropenis has been repeatedly banned from Facebook for posting the image online. As Motherboard reports, Los Angeles-based artist Illma Gore posted the image to a feminist Facebook group on February 10th, and it quickly circ … | Continue reading
Some of the most powerful people in the technology industry met with Republican senators, party officials, and assorted billionaires on a private island last weekend, the Huffington Post reports, with the main topic of conversation being the rise of Donald Trump, and how best to … | Continue reading
The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, March 5, 2016. The Gang goes full tilt boogie on the Republican race to the bottom with Trump in the driver seat. In the real time race, Twitter has the nomination lo … | Continue reading
This year, more money will be spent on political ads – $11.4 billion – than ever before. According to Borrell Associates around $1 billion of that will be spent on digital media, and half of that on social media. Compare that digital media spend to the $22.25 million spent in 200 … | Continue reading
Donald Trump says constantly, “I’m NOT a politician.” It makes sense. Voters hate politicians. Look at the chart below from the current Gallup poll of confidence in American institutions and you’ll see the “institution” of Congress is dead last on the list. Only 8% of those surve … | Continue reading
The chart below is the past week’s Google trend graph for U.S. Google users searching the phrase, “how to move to canada”? The turning point is three days ago, Super Tuesday (3.2.2016), the day people who were still skeptical of the chances of Donald Trump winning the GOP preside … | Continue reading
A little over a week has passed since Facebook rolled out its new ‘Reactions’ and the Web is already looking for alternative ways to enjoy them. Available for Firefox and Chrome, Reaction Packs is a fun browser extension that swaps out the default reaction emoji on Facebook with … | Continue reading
What happens when you use one of the closest things we have to an AI — a Recurrent Neural Network or RNN — and feed it a steady diet of Trump's speeches and debate transcripts? You're about to find out. The @DeepDrumpf Twitterbot, a project by Bradley Hayes, a postdoctoral resear … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has reassured America about his alleged hand size. At an officially sanctioned Republican presidential debate tonight, Trump responded to provocative remarks made by Senator Marco Rubio earlier this week. Continue reading… | Continue reading
If you think Donald Trump says crazy things, just wait until you get a glimpse of his Twitter bot likeness. Dubbed ‘Deep Drumpf’ (after John Oliver’s recent dismantling of Trump), the project was a creation of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) postdoc … | Continue reading
The best way to market any product or service is not the traditional advertising route. A focus on real-time communications gets you noticed. And its free. | Continue reading
Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, when 12 states hold their primary elections and caucuses in the U.S. presidential campaign. It is arguably the most important day for candidates in the battle for the Democrat and Republican nominations, a day when the most states and the most delegates … | Continue reading
I was starting to believe the magazine industry was being ripped off. Until the past weekend, I hadn’t seen any Trump branded magazines among the many lists of Trump failures appearing. I recalled some as I blogged about them nine years ago. Even better, my friend Dylan Stablefor … | Continue reading
Two years ago, in an issue of the Hammock Idea Email, I wrote about research into why people aren’t convinced when presented with irrefutable evidence that something they believe in, is false. As Donald Trump’s supporters are exhibiting such a pattern — even he admitted it with t … | Continue reading
In November of 2015, Gawker’s Ashley Feinberg created a Twitter bot that posted quotes from the writings and speeches of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who created the facist party. The bot’s tweets were Mussolini quotes attributed to Donald Trump, the thinking being: thi … | Continue reading
Es kommt wie es kommen musste, die Facebook Reactions waren aber auch ein zu offensichtliches Ziel. Wer diese Smileys schon jetzt nicht mehr sehen kann, der wird wohl in Zukunft ohne Probleme seine eigenen dafür einfügen können, denn... | Continue reading
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, February 26, 2016. The Gang finds it hard to concentrate purely on technology as we wake up to the increasing likelihood of more Trump in our diet. + G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, … | Continue reading
As a CEO and immigrant worker (take that, Trump!), I always get asked about moving my company to Silicon Valley. I usually answer that I believe you can build a world-changing organization anywhere, but the job is always easier at your industry’s center of gravity. For fashion, i … | Continue reading
Ask supporters of Donald Trump what they like about the Republican candidate and you'll hear it's his ability to say what's on his mind. He has no filter. He's not beholden to corporate interests. He hates and maligns and stereotypes freely. He is not politically correct. So it m … | Continue reading
Tired of the establishment blockchain calling the shots? Looking for new blood that will make the blockchain great again? Fear not! Donald Trump will make the blockchain great again. Take it from Trumpchain. It takes a U.S. election to bring out the easy answers to our serious … | Continue reading
Jeb Bush pulled out of the Republican race Saturday night after finishing fourth in South Carolina with just 7.8 percent of the primary vote behind Trump, Rubio and Cruz and it appears George W.’s loser brother has quickly become too lame even to prank. JebBush.com was never owne … | Continue reading
Can real estate mogul and United States presidential contender Donald Trump make bitcoin great again? | Continue reading
Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that it’s time for all of us to boycott Apple. “I think what you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just th … | Continue reading
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Apple over its fight with the FBI. As you can see in the footage below (reportedly shot at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina), Trump was discussing the need to bring overseas jobs back to the Uni … | Continue reading
Donald Trump today called for a boycott of Apple following the company’s refusal to help the FBI unlock data from the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Speaking at a rally in South Carolina, the Republican presidential candidate declared, “I think what you ought to do is boycott A … | Continue reading
At a rally today in South Carolina, Donald Trump called for a boycott of Apple products in response to the company's current legal standoff with the FBI. Currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump was speaking at a rally in advance of tomorrow's S … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the Donald Trump and inequality, then FANG, Aggregation Theory, and Disruption. This episode is sponsored by Wealthfront. See recommended portfolios and get up to $15,000 managed for free by visiting Wealthfront.com/exponent. Links Michael Brendan: How an Ob … | Continue reading