Month: December 2018

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Inside Maxim’s Art Basel Miami Party

Model Meredith Mickelson (L) and Maxim cover girl Chase Carter.

Maxim hosted the hottest party of Art Basel Miami with a celebration of our November/December issue at the Plymouth Hotel in South Beach. 

Cover model Chase Carter hosted the annual soiree and DJ Mad Linx kicked things off before Miami legend DJ Irie amped up the crowd even more. 

The fun-filled evening culminated with a special performance by rapper Yo Gotti. DJ Mad Linx got back on the decks to keep the festivities going into the early morning hours. 

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Maxim teamed up with speakeasy gallery Good Luck Dry Cleaners (GLDC) to transform the venue into a visual wonderland decked out with luxurious one-of-a-kind installations made on location, like a 24k gold Pool Cabana Installation, complete with GLDC magnum bottles by Edward Acosta. Modern artist Jeremy Penn and contemporary stencil artist Lambros displayed stunning 8 foot tall canvases inspired by Carter’s cover shoot that enthralled the 600-plus guests. 

Hotel walls, bathrooms, doors were brought to life with custom artwork and signature details by prolific artists JPO, sacsix and Phil Reese.

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Event partners included Blu e-cigs, Skycraft Studios, Maestro Dobel Tequila, Roc Nation, CMG, The Plymouth Miami and Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill. Attendees sipped specialty cocktails by Maestro Dobel tequila and savored delicious bites from Blue Ribbon Sushi.

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If you missed the hottest Art Basel bash of the year, check out the highlights in the photo galleries above. 

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Sundar Pichai had to explain to Congress why Googling ‘idiot’ turns up pictures of Trump

In a House Judiciary Committee hearing today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was asked to explain why a Google image search for “idiot” turned up pictures of Donald Trump — and whether that was a case of intentional bias.

The question came from Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who was trying to refute the idea that Google is politically manipulating search results. “Right now, if you google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that,” she said. “How would that happen?”

Pichai offered a long, general explanation of how Google search works:

Any time you type in a keyword, as Google we have gone out and crawled and stored copies of billions of [websites’] pages in our index. And we take the keyword and match it…

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RavPower’s thin, powerful USB-C wall charger is cheaper for Verge readers

If you own a device that gets its power via a USB-C port — like a Google Pixel 3, a new MacBook, a 2018 iPad Pro, or a Nintendo Switch — your charger should be three things: powerful, low-profile by design, and inexpensive. RavPower’s 45W gallium nitride (GaN) wall charger fits these criteria better than most other options, and it has the distinct advantage of being on the bleeding edge of fast charging speeds even within a smaller form factor than standard silicon wall chargers have been able to accomplish.

RavPower is offering an exclusive discount on its latest charger for readers of The Verge, and you can take advantage of this deal until the end of the year. Normally $54.99, this GaN wall charger sits almost flush with your wall…

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Google Lens can now be accessed directly from the search app on iOS

Google Lens, the search giant’s visual identification tool, can now be accessed directly from within the Google app on iOS (via 9to5Google). To do so, simply hit the Lens icon to the left of the microphone in the app’s search bar, at which point your phone’s camera will open, and Google will attempt to identify whatever you point it at — whether it’s a plant, an animal, or just some text you want to copy and paste elsewhere.

Previously, this image recognition service could only be accessed via Google Photos on iOS, which had the annoying side effect of forcing you to take a photo before Lens could perform its image recognition magic. This move makes the service a lot quicker and easier to access, allowing you to tap on an object to…

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