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Scott Eric Kaufman

Scott Eric Kaufman was an assistant editor at Salon. He wrote a dissertation about non-Darwinian evolutionary theory in American popular culture and taught at a university, but then thought better of it. He was also the proprietor of the AV Club's Internet Film School and a contributor at Lawyers, Guns & Money. 

Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones of the comedy troop Monty Python (John Phillips/invision/AP)

Monty Python founding member Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia

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Nike: Hyperadapt

On November 28th, Nike will take us “Back to the Future” with self-lacing shoes

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a U.S. Navy communications satellite lifts off from Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, June 24, 2016, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The satellite is designed to significantly improve ground communications for U.S. forces on the move. (AP Photo/John Raoux) (AP)

Europe has lift off: European stock markets defy expectations, skyrocket for second day running

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"Teminator Genisys" (Paramount Pictures)

Meet your “Doom”: Carnegie Mellon researchers deliberately violate Asimov’s First Law of robotics, teach robots to kill

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In this Nov. 5, 2014 photo, a person walks in front of a Yahoo sign at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo reports quarterly financial results on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) (AP)

Millions of emails hacked: Yahoo to reveal massive data breach as sale to Verizon approaches

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(Comedy Central)

Adult Swim streams “Space Ghost” episodes from 9 seasons for free

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(Joel Ryan/invision/ap)

Brangelina split breaks the internet: “What’s in the box?!? Divorce papers”

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(AP/Chris Pizzello)

Twitter users fire back at “The Wire” creator David Simon’s “inappropriate racial vernacular”

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In this image released by SpaceX, an unmanned Falcon rocket lifts off from from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, May 27, 2016, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The first stage of the unmanned Falcon rocket settled onto a barge 400 miles off the Florida coast, eight minutes after liftoff, It's the third successful booster landing at sea for the California-based SpaceX. This one came after the rocket launched an Asian communications satellite. (SpaceX via AP) (AP)

Space oddity: Undeterred by Falcon 9 explosion, Elon Musk plans to travel “well beyond” Mars by 2018

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Lyft (Courtesy of Lyft)

Lyft founder claims that all its cars will be self-driving by 2021

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Melissa Villasenor as Bjork (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl3-M5gUZlg" target="_blank">YouTube</a>)

Meet “Saturday Night Live”‘s three new featured players

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"Reading through closed books" (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i25SuJzb0A" target="_blank">MIT Media Lab</a>)

MIT and Georgia Tech develop technology to read books without opening them

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2011 file photo, a pedestrian walks by a Wells Fargo bank branch in Los Angeles. (AP)

Wells Fargo “sandbagger”-in-chief in charge of phony account division received $124 million in exit pay

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FILE - This Feb 21, 2012 file photo shows a Hewlett Packard logo in Frisco, Texas. Hewlett-Packard on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 said it is splitting itself into two companies, one focused on its personal computer and printing business and another on technology services, such as data storage, servers and software, as it aims to drive profits higher. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) (AP)

HP to buy Samsung’s printer division for $1.05 billion

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VSS Unity (Virgin Galactic)

New Virgin Galactic spaceship successfully passes its first test flight

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(Shutterstock)

Facebook censors Norwegian Prime Minister after she posts iconic Vietnam War photograph

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2011 file photo, a pedestrian walks by a Wells Fargo bank branch in Los Angeles. (AP)

Wells Fargo fined $100 million by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for illegally opening unauthorized accounts

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(<a href="http://blog.airbnb.com/fighting-discrimination-and-creating-a-world-where-anyone-can-belong-anywhere/" target="_blank">Airbnb</a>)

Airbnb “putting in place powerful systemic changes” to prevent racial discrimination by hosts

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Kit Harrington as Jon Snow in HBO's "Game of Thrones." (Helen Sloan/courtesy HBO)

Tenacious D’s Kyle Gass composes ode to Jon Snow’s “Game of Thrones” election victory

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(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

#OscarsSoWhite notwithstanding, Hollywood still “the epicenter of cultural inequality” according to USC study

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A drone aircraft with a payload of simulated blood, and other medical samples flies during a ship-to-shore delivery simulation Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in Lower Township, N.J. How to distribute lifesaving supplies quickly and safely after a natural disaster has long been a puzzle for responders. Now, drones might be the lifesaver. That idea was put to the test this week on the New Jersey coast as a drone delivery conducted test flights to help determine whether drones can be used to carry human medical samples to and from areas during major natural disasters. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) (AP)

Epson and DJI partner on drones that allow pilots to see in first-person perspective

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(Reuters)

Google joins the fight against ISIS and white supremacy in that most American of ways — advertising

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FILE - In this April 30, 2015 file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to a question during a news conference at IBM Watson headquarters, in New York. The dispute over whether Apple must help the FBI hack into a terror suspect's iPhone is about to play out in a Southern California courtroom. The hearing Tuesday, March 22, in U.S. District Court in Riverside is the first in the battle that has seen Cook and FBI Director James Comey spar over issues of privacy and national security. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (AP)

iPhone 7 unveiling features James Corden, “Carpool Karaoke” and a plumber named “Mario”

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Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

Goldman Sachs bans employees from donating to Donald Trump — but not Hillary Clinton

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