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Donald Trump, a self-declared businessman, negotiated himself out of even more of his presidential responsibility this afternoon: Following a slew of defections this week, he announced plans (via Twitter, of course) to disband two White House advisory councils composed of top American business leaders. Truly, the loyalty of remaining CEOs like Michael Dell, Jamie Dimon…

A reconstruction of the Anatoliadelphys maasae. Image: Peter Schouten During the 65 million years following the extinction of the dinosaurs, the success story of the mammals has been more than a little imbalanced. Eutherians (placental mammals like dogs, horses, you and I) had an evolutionary rager, exploding in diversity and filling vacant ecological roles across…

Image: Dell Ben Curtis, aka the “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” guy, served as Dell Computer’s pitchman for years and remains one of the most iconic symbols of the company. On Tuesday, Dell CEO Michael Dell insisted on remaining part of a (now-dissolved) presidential council while many others resigned in protest following Trump’s vigorous defense…

Screencap: Daily Stormer, Cloudflare It’s been a tumultuous week for The Daily Stormer, one of the internet’s leading neo-Nazi gutters. Several web hosting companies have kicked Daily Stormer off their services, and now it appears that Cloudflare, the company that has long protected The Daily Stormer from DDoS attacks, has ended its business with the…

Back in the dark ages of dumb phones, Nokia was the undisputed king of mobile handsets. It seems everyone has a story about the how their colorful Nokia block survived a car crash or 20-story fall, but after the company partnered with Microsoft in 2011 to put Windows Phone 7—not Android—on Nokia smartphones, the company…

Image: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN Particle accelerators have a lot of important jobs, like looking for new stuff by slamming beams of old stuff together. But a new particle accelerator observation has managed to be important while doing almost precisely the opposite of what we’d expect. Physicists have found evidence for hard-to-detect stuff by, well, not slamming…

Photo: AP Streaming media player Roku has begun to crack down on those among its more than 1,000 privately operated channels which are distributing pirated content, TechCrunch reported, and is warning users that subscribe to them that it can shut down the channels any time it chooses. Warning messages are being displayed to Roku users…

Matthew Prince of Cloudflare speaks onstage during day two of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. Photo: Getty Internet companies typically take a hands-off approach to offensive content on their networks, erring on the side of maintaining an open internet. But this approach sometimes ends in PR disaster. For Twitter, the debate has bubbled up in the…