Adrianne Jeffries
That Time Lou Pearlman Tried to Send a Boy Band to Space
When Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were the most popular groups in the world, NASA wanted a boy band song to inspire young people about the space program.
Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.
‘Are you Batman?’: How YouTube’s Volunteer Army Gets Channels Undeleted
When YouTube’s content moderation fails, super-users from the YouTube Contributors and Trusted Flagger programs are ready to intervene.
YouTube: Some Nootropics Channels Were ‘Removed Mistakenly’
The company says there is no site-wide crackdown on smart drugs, but some channels remain deleted.
YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
At least three creators have had their channels deleted with little explanation, but countless similar videos are still up.
There's a New Film About Misophonia, Where People Get Enraged by Certain Sounds
A documentary about people who fly off the handle at the sound of someone chewing.
This Lot in Brooklyn Shows What Uber Did to NYC More Clearly than Any Statistic
Uber's autonomous fleet of cabs isn't here yet, but the residential streets of Greenpoint are already lined with unused yellow cabs.
How Much Money Do People Spend on Uber?
We crunched a data set with the spending habits of about 50,000 people to see who’s spending what on Uber.