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Image: AP Some things are sacred. Some things should only be touched by the meaty, all-knowing fingers of the men who know them best. Some things are just so pure and sacred and special that they’re worth getting all worked up over. Planet of the Apps, Apple’s extremely promising new reality show about apps, is…
The shortage of women in tech is troubling. What’s more troubling is a woman, in tech, trying to keep women out of tech. Sadly, that’s exactly what Gizmodo’s Sophie Kleeman did with her recent piece titled ‘Apple’s Decision to Cast Jessica Alba in Its Reality Show Is an Outrage.’ The piece pines over the admittedly-odd casting…
Even for someone who has been researching and writing about misogyny for over a decade, it is hard to comprehend the level of obsessive hate that had to go into the attack on actress Leslie Jones. The 48-year-old comedian and actress became a big star over the summer, with her breakout role in “Ghostbusters” and her…
For two years, the film Academy has been hit with fiery criticism over its all-white Oscar acting nominees. So when Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation premiered to cheers at the Sundance Film Festival in January and sold for a record $17.5 million to Fox Searchlight, it looked like a savior Academy voters could…
A Pin saved to Pinterest is much more than just an image. Each of the 75 billion Pins saved is a visual bookmark with dozens of signals, such as the website it originated from, as well as its country and language of origin. As more than half of all Pinners are outside the U.S.,…
At its milestone centennial, the National Park Service wrestles with how to diversify its visitors and workforce. Looking over the National Park Service’s first 100 years, we find a federal agency that, like many U.S. institutions, got off to a severely rocky start in terms of racial inclusion. These national parks were carved out, in…
In a sport as old as baseball, it had never happened before. Not once. But on Aug. 31, 1990, Ken Griffey Sr. and his son Ken Griffey Jr. made history when they both played for the Seattle Mariners in a game against the Kansas City Royals. At the time, Griffey Sr. was 40 years old,…
After running for 13 years on a subscription-only model, the spacefaring sim Eve Online will add an optional free-to-play mode with the game’s next expansion this November. ######## END SNIPPET ######## Developer CCP worked closely on the expansion and the free-to-play mode with the player-run representative body, the Council of Stellar Management, as they have…
But something changed in our relationship the day I switched jobs. I was working as a metro news reporter at The Chicago Tribune when I was offered a position on the paper’s food writing staff. I had zero experience, but I did have one advantage: I was Cantonese. We Cantonese have a love of eating…
Popular cloud storage firm Dropbox has been hacked, with over 68m users’ email addresses and passwords dumped on to the internet. The attack took place during 2012. At the time Dropbox reported a collection of user’s email addresses had been stolen. It did not report that passwords had been stolen as well. The dump of…