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Whatever your opinion may be of beloved Californian burger outlet In-N-Out, you can't deny the brand has quite the pull. The chain opened a pop-up at a bar called Lover in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, something which it regularly does around the world. SEE ALSO: Overrated In-N-Out adds new menu item and it's severely disappointing Of course, In-N-Out doesn't have stores much further than beyond the U.S. west coast and in Texas. It's famous for being very careful about expansion, concerned about the impact growth has on product quality. A post shared by LOVER (@lover3181) on Mar 5, 2018 at 2:32pm PSTRead more... More about Australia, Food, Melbourne, Burger, and In N Out View the full article

Azealia Banks still wants to take Russell Crowe to court over the 2016 incident. https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/azealia-banks-still-wants-to-take-russell-crowe-to-court-over-2016-confrontation-news.45105.htmlView the full article

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Tower Records long boasted of being “the largest record store in the known world,” a boast that few of the old retail chain’s regulars would have debated. The slogan was characteristic of Tower’s colorfully eccentric, larger-than-life founder: Sacramento businessman Russ Solomon, long known and... View the full article

OpenTable, an online restaurant booking service, fired an employee who made hundreds of no-show reservations at various Chicago restaurants through rival site Reserve. The unnamed OpenTable employee allegedly made around 300 fake reservations through Reserve, the equivalent of 1,200 to 1,300 no-show patrons, according to BuzzFeed. The employee planned on using the hundreds of no-shows in sales pitches to restaurants prove that OpenTable is a better product than Reserve. SEE ALSO: How to score an excellent Valentine's Day reservation “This was obviously done with the intent to harm Reserve,” Reserve COO Michael Wesner told Eater Chicago which first reported the story. Read more... More about Chicago, Reserve, Opentable, Culture, and FoodView the full article

Nearly 1,000 invitees to Elton John’s 26th Academy Awards viewing party raised $5.9 million for his AIDS Foundation on Sunday night in West Hollywood. The tony gathering under white tents set up in West Hollywood Park drew its own bevy of celebrities from film, music, TV and other realms. Among... View the full article

Facebook, Twitter, and Google aren't the only companies to face questions from lawmakers about the role their platforms played in spreading disinformation during the presidential election. Reddit and Tumblr are now being dragged into the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation, according to The Washington Post. The news comes just days after The Daily Beast found evidence the Internet Research Agency — the Russia-backed "troll farm" that weaponized social media to great effect during the election — also had a sizable presence on Reddit and Tumblr. SEE ALSO: An ad industry group nominated Russia's election hack for all the awards Read more... More about Tech, Tumblr, Reddit, Tech, and Big Tech Companies View the full article

Dating app Bumble is joining the dozens of major companies that have decided to take the fight against gun violence into their own hands following a string of mass shootings and renewed discussions around gun reform. Starting immediately all profile pictures with visible guns and other deadly weapons like knives will be banned. Bumble is using a team of 5,000 contracted content moderators to… Read More View the full article

Vroom, an on-demand car buying and selling startup that has raised over $300 million in venture funding, has hit a bump in the road. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has laid off a sizeable proportion of its staff — in line with a strategy of “sharpening our focus on profitability,” according to a company spokesperson. As part of that move, a source tells… Read More View the full article

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Autonomous cars gather up tons of data about the world around them, but even the best computer vision systems can’t see through brick and mortar. But by carefully monitoring the reflected light of a laser bouncing off a nearby surface, they might be able to see around corners — that’s the idea behind recently published research from Stanford engineers. Read More View the full article

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Bumble is taking a firm anti-gun stance. The dating app known for its women-first philosophy has banned guns as well as dangerous weapons like knives from appearing in its users' profile photos. The company's CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd announced the change on Monday for its nearly 30 million users. It comes in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed. SEE ALSO: Here are the best gay dating apps, since meeting people IRL is hell To enforce the new policy, Bumble has instructed a team of 5,000 contractors to proactively remove photos with guns from users' profiles. Bumble accounts will not be banned, just the use of certain photos. Read more... More about Dating Apps, Guns, Bumble, Whitney Wolfe, and TechView the full article

Cory Finley, director of Thoroughbreds, stopped by to discuss the two films that influenced his work. It turns out Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece and the dark comedy cult film with Winona Ryder have way more in common than you might think! Subscribe to CineFix for more movie-related content Read more... More about Movies, Mashable Video, Cinefix, Winona Ryder, and Stanley Kubrick View the full article

Owners of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Panama ripped Trump's name off the front of their building on Monday. Orestes Fintiklis, who purchased the majority share of the building in August, had the Trump Organization removed from the building on Monday after a Panamanian court ruled in favor of Fintiklis taking over the hotel's administration, the New York Times reports. SEE ALSO: Former Trump aide goes off the rails during live interview and WTF is happening The ‘Trump’ letters were just removed from outside the Panama hotel where he lost management control today@UnivisionNews #TrumpOrg pic.twitter.com/1qs2gfW23U — David Adams (@dadams7308) March 5, 2018 Read more... More about Hotels, Donald Trump, Culture, and PoliticsView the full article

From a new Ethika mixtape dropping this week View the full article

WAtch the music video for Steve Aoki's single "Been Ballin" featuring Lil Uzi Vert. View the full article

Coinbase is continuing its executive hiring spree as the company has announced that Emilie Choi is joining Coinbase as vice president of Corporate and Business Development. Read More View the full article

“This lack of representation is something that is problematic and widespread in our industry” View the full article

As we've heard, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards. The film is about the very special relationship that develops between a mute woman (Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins) and a "fish man" at a secretive laboratory in 1962. Beyond its own qualities as a wondrously dramatic and romantic fantasy, The Shape of Water is also the first Best Picture winner since Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby to revolve around a female character. (In the earlier film, Hilary Swank portrayed a boxer seeking a new career; she won the Oscar as Best Actress.) Hawkins did not win an Oscar last night; instead, that honor went to Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), who created an instantly memorable highlight in... Read More View the full article

Here's your estimated 3-day box office returns (new releases bolded): 1. Black Panther - $65.7 million ($501.1 million total) 2. Red Sparrow - $17.0 million ($17.0 million total) 3. Death Wish - $13.0 million ($13.0 million total) 4. Game Night - $10.7 million ($33.5 million total) 5. Peter Rabbit - $10.0 million ($84.0 million total) 6. Annihilation - $5.6 million ($20.6 million total) 7. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - $4.5 million ($393.2 million total) 8. Fifty Shades Freed - $3.3 million ($95.5 million total) 9. The Greatest Showman - $2.6 million ($164.6 million total) 10. Every Day - $1.5 million ($5.2 million total) The Big Stories It is hard to think of a weekend at the box office with two more timely storylines – for better or... Read More View the full article

When Spotify launched its first beta in the fall of 2008, we described it as “an alternative to music piracy.” From the start, the Swedish company set out to compete with pirate services by offering a better user experience. Now, a decade later, it has come a long way. The company successfully transformed into a billion-dollar enterprise and is planning to go public with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. While it hasn’t completely evaporated music piracy, it has converted dozens of millions of people into paying customers. While Spotify sees itself as a piracy remedy, backed by the major labels, its piracy roots are undeniable. In a detailed feature, Swedish newspaper Breakit put a spotlight on one of Spotify’s earliest employees, developer Ludvig Strigeus. With a significant stake in the company, he is about to become a multi-millionaire, one with a noteworthy file-sharing past. It’s unclear what is current stake in Spotify is, but according to Swedish media it’s worth more than a billion Kroner, which is over $100 million. Strigeus was the one who launched uTorrent in September 2005, when the BitTorrent protocol was still fairly new. Where most BitTorrent clients at the time were bloatware, uTorrent chose a minimalist approach, but with all essential features. This didn’t go unnoticed. In just a few months, millions of torrent users downloaded the application which quickly became the dominant file-sharing tool. Little more than a year after its launch the application was acquired by BitTorrent Inc., which still owns it today. While that part of history is commonly known, there’s a step missing. Strigeus’ coding talent also piqued the interest of Spotify, which reportedly beat BitTorrent Inc. by a few months. Multiple sources confirm that the streaming startup, which had yet to release its service at the time, bought uTorrent in 2006. While some thought that Spotify was mainly interested in the technology, others see Strigeus as the target. “Spotify bought μTorrent, but what we really wanted was Ludvig Strigeus,” former Spotify CEO Andreas Ehn told Breakit. This indeed sounds plausible as Spotify sold uTorrent to BitTorrent Inc. after a few months, keeping the developer on board. Not a bad decision for the latter, as his Spotify stake makes him a billionaire. At the same time, it was an important move for Spotify too. Ludvig (Ludde) is still credited in recent uTorrent releases In addition to having a very talented developer on board, who helped to implement the much needed P2P technology into Spotify, the deal with BitTorrent Inc. brought in cash that funded the development of the tiny, but ambitious, streaming service. It might be too much to argue that Spotify wouldn’t be where it is without uTorrent and its creator, but their impact on the young company was significant. The file-sharing angle was also very prominent in the early releases of Spotify. At the time, of all the tracks that were streamed over the Internet by Spotify users, the majority were streamed via P2P connections. And we haven’t even mentioned that Spotify reportedly used pirate MP3s for its Beta release, including some tracks that were only available on The Pirate Bay. Spotify’s brief ownership of uTorrent isn’t commonly known, to make an understatement. When BitTorrent Inc. announced that it acquired “uTorrent AB” there was no mention of Spotify, which was still an unknown company at the time. Times change. Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN discounts, offers and coupons View the full article

Lil Wayne releases "Vizine," which takes a few subtle shots at Birdman. View the full article

Childish Gambino's 2018 North American starts in September. View the full article

Listen closely, future Academy Awards performers: Do. Not. Let. Mary J. Blige. Sing. Before. You. One of pop music’s most deeply committed performers, the veteran R&B artist almost always operates at 110%. And on Sunday’s Oscars telecast, where she gave the first of the night’s performances of... View the full article