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Entry Text NEW YORK (AP) — While saying that it still a music company at heart, Spotify says it is expanding is lineup to include podcasts, news radio and video streaming.The company says it wants to help people create a soundtrack for their day that includes not only music but videos, newscasts and other content….
Among singles and those who enjoy judging them, there is now a consensus: Tinder is gross and should not be used in public. Sure, lots of people do use it, but by themselves, or sneakily. Our Tinder habits are sad, contextless, and unforgivably thirsty, the accepted wisdom goes. It’s an activity we keep mostly to…
In a television commercial from a few years ago for Abilify — one of the world’s top selling drugs — a sad cartoon woman looks down at the ground and sees an expanding black hole with bulging eyes. “Here’s my depression,” she says. Regular antidepressants weren’t working to keep her depression in check, she explains….
Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million. Now the publishing software company is spending some of that money, by acquiring WooCommerce, an e-commerce tools company. Sources say Automattic will spend more than $30 million in cash and stock to buy the 55-person company. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg wouldn’t comment on the price…
Entry Text Last week, the City Council of Berkeley, California, unanimously voted for a new ordinance that would require cell phone retailers to advise customers to keep their handset out of pockets or bras when the device is connected to a wireless network. The rationale for the warning, which is based upon federal guidelines for…
Tyler Kost appeared in court on Monday after being arrested last year when he was accused of a series of sexual crimes against 13 girls aged between 13 and 17. The Associated Press said that most of the girls were former classmates at his school in Arizona. But lawyers filed documents with the court that…
Seeing the world’s favorite classic video game characters come to life sounds like it should make for an amazing movie, but Pixels‘ latest trailer is basically an enumerated list of how it can all go wrong. It’s strange, because the film even has a decent core conceit: that the world’s best retro game nerds have to…
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark and Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy in “Game of Thrones.” (Helen Sloan/HBO) Plenty of viewers have declared themselves done with “Game of Thrones” after the May 17 episode in which Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) was raped on her wedding night by her new husband, Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon). They join the ranks of defectors…
M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” video M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” video May 19, 2015 1:40 PM Pop music and cultural appropriation usually go together like Katy Perry and kimonos, but record labels may finally be wising up to the fact that there’s a difference between appreciating and appropriating a culture. Or, at the very least, they’re concerned about…
In fact, the award-winning singer describes the movement for gender equality as “probably the most important” that a woman can be part of. But she has an interesting theory as to how negative attitudes towards women actually manifested in the first place. “Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born,” she told…