San Francisco Forces Out Police Chief After Officer Kills Black Woman – NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — Police Chief Gregory P. Suhr was forced out on Thursday after a fatal shooting of a black woman by a police officer, the third killing since December involving the police force, which is under federal investigation because of complaints of racial bias. Mayor Edwin M. Lee said he had asked for Chief…

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More Comedies Should Be As Progressive As ‘Neighbors 2′

I was kind of dreading Neighbors 2. Yes, the first Neighbors was a refreshing surprise. But at first glance, the sequel looked dispensable and derivative. By replicating and gender-swapping the original movie’s premise, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising seemed like worrisome territory for stereotyping and villainizing young women, ridiculing them for cheap laughs, and subjecting them to dick jokes. But Neighbors 2 turned out to be…

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Apple sent engineers to home after iTunes bug

Apple#tbt.Apple sent two engineers to a customer’s house to troubleshoot after he wrote about how iTunes deleted swathes of his music collection, and his story subsequently went viral. The Cupertino, California-based company is now rolling out an update to iTunes in an attempt to solve the issue. James Pinkstone had detailed his frustrating experiences with…

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Coder Dilemma #9 – The Upgrade | CommitStrip

The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers #third .widget-area #branding CommitStrip is off this week (April 18-22th) for Devoxx France! If you’re going too, let’s meet at our booth! #nav-single .entry-header .entry-content   #author-avatar #author-link #author-description #entry-author-info   .entry-meta #post-15623 ← Previous Random Next → #nav-single Newsletter Every sunday, receive not only…

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