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A family-owned pizza shop in small-town Indiana has become one of the first businesses to publicly show support for the state’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by making sure everyone knows they would never, ever, ever — not in a million years! — agree to cater a same-sex wedding. Crystal O’Connor says her family’s restaurant,…
Judge Reinhold HATES unlimited data throttling.Paramount Pictures cache hit 151:single/related:f4abdf163e42c664807821ea6f25a29b empty A federal judge has rejected AT&T’s claim that it can’t be sued by the Federal Trade Commission, which is trying to put a stop to the carrier’s throttling of unlimited data plans. The FTC sued AT&T in October 2014, saying the company deceived customers…
In 2003, a multifaceted lifestyle crisis that I’d been cultivating for two years went supernova. During a Top 5 of All-Time hangover, I hatched swift and irreversible plans to quit my nine-year career with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, sell my house, car and all my belongings, and flee the country. I told my…
Photo Houseboats are dwarfed by the steep banks of Lake Don Pedro in La Grange, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday to deal with the drought. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Video close media-action-overlay California’s Extreme Drought, Explained The state is experiencing the worst drought in its history. Find out just how…
Just in time for Holy Week, the State of Indiana has passed a new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law explicitly permits for-profit corporations from practicing the “free exercise of religion” and it allows them to use the “exercise of religion” as a defense against any lawsuits whether from the government or from private entities….
Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React’s composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It’s more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code. <br /> Flux applications have three major…
Introducing Dash Replenishment Service Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) enables connected devices to order physical goods from Amazon when supplies are running low—like a coffee maker that orders more coffee beans. By using DRS, device makers are able to leverage Amazon’s authentication and payment systems, customer service, and fulfillment network—giving their customers access to Amazon’s low…
In San Francisco’s “culture war,” both sides espouse oddly similar-sounding values. Credit Illustration by Christian Gralingen In the spiritual geography of San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall—a glass-and-concrete half rotunda much resembling R2-D2’s neckline—sits between hills steep with layered mansions and the urban basin where the city’s gritty elements now rest. John Adams’s “Harmonielehre” premièred here;…
Three women were arrested last week for selling churros in the station without a license, NYPD said. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland, Shutterstock/Glen Price UNION SQUARE — Police arrested three women in the Union Square subway station last week for peddling churros without a license, the NYPD said. The women were all arrested on the L…
I have never been so happy to see a Twitter notification. (Twitter) Twitter has taken its biggest step yet against harassment. And here’s the incredible thing — cue parades, confetti, brass bands, etc. — this new step actually works. Twitter is calling it a “quality filter,” and it’s been rolling out to verified users running Twitter’s iOS…