Elon Musk has discovered a saboteur.

At least, that’s what he told Tesla employees in an email sent Sunday night, according to CNBC. 

“I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations,” wrote Musk, who’s under an immense amount of pressure to ramp up production of the Tesla Model 3 sedan. 

The email was sent the same night a fire shut down operations at a Tesla plant in Fremont, California, for several hours. 

Musk claimed an employee who was upset he didn’t get a promotion altered Tesla code and sent “large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.”  Read more…

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Last week, a hilariously creepy script made the rounds online. 

Writer and comedian Keaton Patti tweeted that he forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials, and then asked it to write its own version. The script he posted had some funny gems like describing pasta nachos as “warm and defeated” and a character revealing her mouthful of “secret soup.”

A group of coworkers who normally create drivers ed videos put together their version of the Olive Garden commercial, and it’s just as unsettling as the original script. Krista Doyle, one of the coworkers, tweeted that all they could talk about was the Olive Garden bot, so they “decided to just shoot the damn thing.” Read more…

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Google is closing the gap between Android and iOS.

In an update rolling out today, Google is (finally!) releasing desktop support for the texting service, Android Messages. The update will allow Android smartphone owners to send and receive text messages straight from their laptops or desktops. Text, images, and stickers will be supported in the web version of the service.

Android users can get started by visiting the new Android Messages website. From there, they’ll be presented with a QR code that they’ll then scan with the Android Messages app. Read more…

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Whole Foods, my close personal friend, what’s going on?

The supermarket and Jeff Bezos clique member has long been the place where I occasionally buy salad bar food that always ends up being just okay. But now there’s another facet to our relationship: we’re both following Beyoncé and Sting on Instagram.

In Whole Foods’ case, these two extremely different musicians are the only Instagram accounts it’s following. It’s also wiped all previous posts from its account, replacing them with two blank, white posts, and it’s added a bumble bee emoji to its bio. Very minimalist! Read more…

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The “Apeshit” music video from Beyoncé and Jay-Z features classic works of art from the Louvre, juxtaposed with modern music and choreography.  Watch for poetic statements about race, gender, love, and humanity. And, of course, those gorgeous pieces of art. Read more…

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ProPublica has obtained and released an absolutely heartbreaking audio recording of several children who’ve been separated from their parents at the border.

The nearly eight-minute long video comes after reports that almost 2,000 immigrant children have been taken from their families and placed in detention centers over a six-week period. The family separations are a result of the Trump administration’s new “zero-tolerance” policy, which requires authorities to detain any immigrants who cross the border and take their children into custody. 

In the audio obtained, which was reportedly recorded inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility last week, scared young children can be heard sobbing and shrieking, begging to be reunited with their loved ones. Meanwhile, border patrol agents are heard cracking jokes about the noise, saying, “Well, we have an orchestra here. What we’re missing is a conductor.” Read more…

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Pocket Kitchen by Aiclay is the kit for all burgeoning artists who dream of tiny inedible foods. From cakes to veggies, this comprehensive kit provides all the tools you need to make your cake – but not to eat it too. Read more…

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An emergency room physician has been suspended after a video showing an tense dispute with a patient went viral.

20-year-old Samuel Bardwell was unable to get up from a hospital bed at El Camino Hospital in California, after he suffered an anxiety attack following basketball practice last Monday, reported SFGate.

The video posted on Facebook by his father Donald clocked up 4.3 million views, and shows the physician arguing with the pair, urging that the patient is well enough to get up and that he was “the least sick of all the people that are here.” Read more…

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Facebook is tightening up its rules on advertising gun accessories to minors.

The social media giant announced it would restrict the advertising of weapon accessories, such as optics, belt accessories and holsters, to those over the age of 18. It is not outright banning the advertising of these kinds of items.

The changes start from Jun. 21, and advertisers will be required to restrict their audience when publishing an advertisement on the platform.

“Unlike posts from friends or Pages, ads receive paid distribution. This means we have an even higher standard for what is allowed and why we have chosen to limit weapons accessories to an adults only audience,” Facebook said in its blog post. Read more…

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Whenever you bring together dozens of different countries from around the globe, there’s gonna be some cross-cultural confusion.

And if you’re South Korean coach Shin Tae-yong, you figure out how to work that to your advantage.

In a press conference Sunday, Shin explained the unusual tactic he’d employed against spies from the Swedish team: He’d had his team members swap jersey numbers for the warmup games, in hopes that scouts would confuse the players for one another. 

“It’s very difficult for Westeners to distinguish between Asians, and that’s why we did that,” Shin explained, as quoted by ESPN. Read more…

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