Kate Knibbs
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Donald Trump And Ted Cruz Got Into A Late-Night Twitter Fight About Their Wives
The two leading GOP presidential candidates, burnt sienna businessman Donald Trump and Friendless Senator Ted Cruz, are in a microblog insult battle about the women they married.
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A Former US State Department Employee Is Going To Prison For Twisted Sorority-Girl ‘Sextortion’ Scheme
A former US State Department employee will spend 57 months in prison for a “sextortion” cyberstalking crime that sounds like an SVU sweeps-week plot, only weirder and more awful.
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Uber Is Trialling A Much-Needed Feature In The US
Uber already has an option to split fare between riders, but if you want to straight-up pay for someone else’s ride, you’ve had to use some clever tricks, like entering your friend’s location and having them pretend to be you, which is awkward. Soon, there will be a better way.
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Obama Just Made His Dumbest Comments On Encryption Yet
President Obama celebrated attending SXSW this year by doing the most SXSW thing ever: an interminable and substance-lite keynote discussion. Obama talked with Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith about the current encryption debate — but admitted his stance boils down to “I’m not a technical expert, but let’s not be absolutists about this whole ‘backdoor…