How To Go To Palm Springs For Free

Dear Friend-of-Digg, It's February, which means you're cold, cranky and in desperate need of a trip to the Golden State. And it just so happens that's exactly what we're giving away: a fully-loaded trip for two to Palm Springs. With the help of some of our friends, we're hooking you up with flights, hotels, the works. Here are the deets: Roundtrip travel to Palm Springs Three nights at the Hilton Palm Springs Access to the Hilton's LED Day Club pool parties Sounds dope, yes? Yes. Enter here for your chance to win. Love, The Digg Team

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Your Frequent Flier Status Is A Sham

Frequent Flier Status Is A Scam And Other Facts, The Strange Case Of The Man With No Name, Learn How To Build Your Brand Through Social Media (Without Screwing It Up Big Time), Just The Good Stuff From Thursday's GOP Debate, Will Virtual Reality Make Life Better?, Come Talk About Weather With Meteorologist Eric Holthaus The Daily Digg Friday, February 26, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Frequent Flier Status Is A Scam And Other Facts digg.com ​​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Your elite flier status just isn't worth it, you shouldn't trust BMI, and you should know all of Italy's pizzas. GIVE UP THE GHOST The Strange Case Of The Man With No Name features.wearemel.com In life, Lyle Stevik went to extraordinary lengths to keep his identity a secret. In death, he was analyzed, dissected, and scrutinized. And beyond that, he became a 9/11 terrorist, a ghostly apparition and an internet superstar. EBOOKS WE DIGG SPONSORED Learn How To Build Your Brand Through Social Media (Without Screwing It Up Big Time) sysomos.com Social media can be your brand's best friend or worst enemy. This e-book makes sure it's the first one. 'SOMEBODY ATTACK ME PLEASE?!' Just The Good Stuff From Thursday's GOP Debate digg.com The last Republican debate before Super Tuesday was Thursday night. Whether you were looking for a Rubio-Cruz showdown or Trump's latest incendiary remark, we've got you covered with all the highlights. A NEW AVENUE OF ESCAPE Will Virtual Reality Make Life Better? wired.com Virtual reality will dramatically transform movies and gaming, but some see an even loftier goal for the burgeoning technology: Providing the world's poor and underprivileged with a better life. DIGG DIALOG Come Talk About Weather With Meteorologist Eric Holthaus digg.com Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist who writes about weather and climate for Slate. He is also an advisor to Poncho. He'll be here at 12pm EST to talk about all things weather. Leave your comments now! Get more stories on Digg.com CANYON YOU DIG IT? On Thursday, NASA released another beautiful photo that details more of Pluto's dreamy surface. This time, The New Horizons Team has captured long vertical canyons that run across Pluto's polar area. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

Skin Deep

Inside The Topless Sisterhood, Apple Is Said To Be Working On An iPhone Even It Can't Hack, A Touchscreen Universal Remote Designed For The Internet Generation, Inside The Controversial World Of Competitive Yoga, How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable, Meet The Mad Scientists Of Video Game Sound Design The Daily Digg Thursday, February 25, 2016 PLAY OUT OF YOUR SKIN Inside The Topless Sisterhood bbc.com As a young dancer with feminist tendencies, Bee Rowlatt was scandalized to find herself on stage alongside topless dancers. Many years later, after writing a book about early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she visited the Moulin Rouge in Paris to talk to dancers who bare their breasts in this unforgiving industry. LOCK IT UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY Apple Is Said To Be Working On An iPhone Even It Can't Hack nytimes.com Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts. TECH WE DIGG SPONSORED A Touchscreen Universal Remote Designed For The Internet Generation ray.co Not only does The Ray Super Remote replace all the remotes cluttering up your coffee table, it's got a lightning-fast search function and adaptive software that helps you discover new content based on your tastes and preferences. THE ZEN MASTERS Inside The Controversial World Of Competitive Yoga racked.com Picture this: a hundred people sitting around a boxing ring at a Brooklyn gym one snowy evening in late January. Instead of gathering to watch people fight, they are there to watch people bend, twist, and fold their bodies into contorted yoga poses. COULD SHOOT SOMEONE AND NOT LOSE A VOTE How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable rollingstone.com He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever. SOUND AND THE FURY OF HELLFIRE Meet The Mad Scientists Of Video Game Sound Design polygon.com Chris Kowalski arrived at the Aliso and Wood Canyons Regional Park with two Blizzard team members and a duffel bag in tow. The bag barely contained its bizarre contents, and it certainly couldn't conceal them: swords, sticks, tubes and poles jutting out at every angle. The guys would need them all. Get more stories on Digg.com NEVER BACK DOWN ​Government workers protest recent layoffs during the current administration of President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. In the first strike against Macri's government, workers blocked streets in the capital and across the country. Credit: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002

The Robots Are Watching

Is Predictive Policing Ethical?, A Tipping Guide For The Sharing Economy, When Cozy As Hell Is Also Chic As Hell, Inside the World's Most Ambitious Urban Surveillance Program, How The Internet Is Trying To Design Out Toxic Behavior, WATCH: Boston Dynamics' New Robot Doesn't Give A Shit About Your Weak Human Attacks The Daily Digg Wednesday, February 24, 2016 BROUGHT TO YOU BY   DIGG DIALOG Is Predictive Policing Ethical? digg.com Welcome to the first installment of our Justice Talk series with the Marshall Project. This month is all about predictive policing. We'll be holding a live Dialog today about predictive policing with a host of experts, law enforcement officials and journalists who've written about the topic. Check out the reading list and leave your comments now! SHARING IS CARING A Tipping Guide For The Sharing Economy features.wearemel.com Plenty of guidelines govern tipping etiquette for the usual suspects: waiters, hotel housekeeping, taxis, etc. But what about for the dude who's delivering your laundry as a contractor with a third-party app? Or the "driver partner" who's paid through an app that explicitly prevents you from tipping him? COMFORT WE DIGG SPONSORED When Cozy As Hell Is Also Chic As Hell onepiece.com Onepiece has somehow managed to create clothing that's stylish enough for the club and comfy enough for even the longest Netflix marathon. Check out their new Spring/ Summer line which dropped this week. ALL EYES ON YOU Inside the World's Most Ambitious Urban Surveillance Program placesjournal.org A low-tech visit to Mexico City's high-tech urban surveillance center. PLAY NICE! How The Internet Is Trying To Design Out Toxic Behavior theguardian.com Online abuse can be cruel — but for some tech companies it is an existential threat. Can giants such as Facebook use behavioural psychology and persuasive design to tame the trolls? THEY WILL NOT FORGET THIS RIDICULE WATCH: Boston Dynamics' New Robot Doesn't Give A Shit About Your Weak Human Attacks digg.com A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings, can withstand both difficult terrain and stupid humans taunting it with a hockey stick. Get more stories on Digg.com NO MORE MORALES ​A demonstrator shout slogans against Bolivian President Evo Morales, demanding he concede, while waiting for the official results of a constitutional referendum outside a vote counting center in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. With 95 percent of the vote counted Tuesday, results showed 52 percent of voters rejecting Morales' bid to change the constitution so he can run for a fourth consecutive term in 2019. Morales said Monday he was not abandoning hope despite indications Bolivians had rejected the referendum by a slim margin. Credit: AP Photo/Juan Karita Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 News.me Inc. 29 Little West 12th Street, NY, NY 10014

Violent Crime And The Worst Video Game Ever Made

What You Need To Know About Predictive Policing, What Kalamazoo Says About Uber Background Checks, This LED Light Will Change How You See Things, Making Cars That Go 180 Miles Per Hour More Safe And Other News, Straight From The Mouth Of El Chapo's Wife, The Man Who Made 'The Worst Video Game In History' The Daily Digg Monday, February 22, 2016 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MARSHALL PROJECT What You Need To Know About Predictive Policing digg.com Welcome to the first installment of our Justice Talk series with the Marshall Project. This month is all about predictive policing.Crime-predicting software is no longer a sci-fi fantasy, it's here. Here's everything you should read to get up to date about the future of policing. NOT-SO-DEEP BACKGROUND What Kalamazoo Says About Uber Background Checks washingtonpost.com Authorities say Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton might have picked up fares in the middle of his rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday night. So what are Uber's background checks really checking for? GADGETS WE DIGG SPONSORED This LED Light Will Change How You See Things igg.me Creating customized lighting in three-dimensions, Tittle Light is a new kind of lighting experience. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Making Cars That Go 180 Miles Per Hour More Safe And Other News digg.com The dog days of winter are here. Why is it that February, on average 28.25 days long, feels like it takes forever? Digg doesn't know the answer to that question. We do, however, know what happened in the news this weekend, and we'd like nothing more than to tell you all about. 'I'M AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE' Straight From The Mouth Of El Chapo's Wife latimes.com The former beauty queen describes a life in the heart of the Sinaloa drug cartel. 'ET' PHONED IT IN The Man Who Made 'The Worst Video Game In History' bbc.com The video game of Steven Spielberg's "ET" is considered to be one of the worst of all time and has even been blamed for triggering the collapse of Atari. The game's programmer, Howard Scott Warshaw, explains where everything went wrong. Get more stories on Digg.com MAYA HANSEN, SO HOT RIGHT NOW Here's a model rocking threads from designer Maya Hansen at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion week in Madrid. Credit: AP Photo/Francisco Seco Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002