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Batkid Saves San Francisco
Last week, the Make-A-Wish Foundation turned San Francisco into the fictional city of Gotham for 5-year-old Miles Scott, a cancer patient who assumed the role of "Batkid" to save the city from the Riddler and the Penguin.
The Resurrection of Silk Road
It's been a little over a month since the F.B.I seized and shut down Silk Road, but the infamous online black market is already back in business. Which brings us to the question…
Do you think it is feasible to keep the drugs off the Internet?
JP Morgan's Q&A Hashtag Gets Hijacked
J.P. Morgan's slight attempt at hosting an AMA-like Q&A event with a senior executive had to be cancelled today after the hashtag was hijacked by a storm of tweets shaming the company for its controversial business ethics.
Trans-Pacific Partnership
What once began as a free trade agreement to foster the economies of the Asian-Pacific region may soon become a facade for an international copyright regime, according to WikiLeak's latest publication of a chapter on intellectual property rights proposed by the U.S. as part of the treaty.
Kaufman's Daughter Hoaxer Identified
The Smoking Gun has outed a woman who claimed to be the daughter of deceased American comedian Andy Kaufman as New York-based actress Alexandra Tatarsky.