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Happy Equal Pay Day! Facebook and Microsoft just announced that their companies have closed the wage gap; both have announced that they pay all employees the same wages for the same work. Let’s give them a firm pat on the back for catching up to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, shall we? Only 53 years and the tech industry finally…
This article contains spoilers for comics in the Civil War arc of Captain America, so if you haven’t read that arc and you want to remain potentially unspoiled for the upcoming film, maybe don’t read this one! We talk a lot about what’s expected of girls, right from the time they’re born. We give them…
First Look: Scarlett Johansson In ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Is A Stone Cold Killer https://t.co/qqGnB5ClyK — Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) April 14, 2016 This morning, Deadline shared a first peek at Scarlett Johansson as the lead in the upcoming live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. As we’ve said many, many, many times before, this is a casting decision that…
Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, a day to protest the profound gender and racial gaps in working wages: compared to what white men make, white women make 78%, Black women make 64% and Latina women just 54%. Predictably, tech companies took what should be a moment of reflection and resistance to go on a press…
At BuzzFeed, a 32 percent miss in 2015 revenue and a halving of its 2016 revenue target, according to the Financial Times. At Mashable, a massive layoff after the company failed to sell itself. At Yahoo, an upcoming sale of its news-producing assets, portending great uncertainty for journalists employed there. At Medium, a new way…
Courtesy of 20th Century Fox Start Article Post Content UPDATED: James Cameron will make four “Avatar” sequels, promising that the films will start hitting theaters in 2018. The creator of the original “Avatar,” the 2009 fantasy epic that remains the all-time worldwide box office champion, said that his vision for a followup has expanded over…
Image: Playdek Of all the modern board games that constitute the current golden age of tabletop gaming—your Settlers of Catans, your Ticket to Rides, your Pandemics—one looms larger than all the others, like a mythical icon made of dice and cardboard. That game is Twilight Struggle, a behemoth of a board game famous for…
“Throughout Lin’s six years in the N.B.A., we have continuously witnessed Lin as the recipient of numerous hard fouls with unnecessary and excessive force by other players,” the letter reads. “In these cases, the referees either didn’t make the calls or made incorrect calls.” The N.B.A. responded with a statement. It was a notable victory…
A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code. By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers. Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts…
Begin: WordPress Article Content After laying off staff in December as it shifted business models to find a sustainable operation, Dinner Lab has officially shut down, according to a blog post on the company’s site. Dinner Lab, like many startups, is facing a challenging environment for startups that lately have to find their way to…