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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…
Clean Room # 11 (DC Comics – Writer: Gail Simone, Artist: Jon Davis-Hunt) Clean Room is an absolute fever dream. The premise is simple: But what if the Scientologists are right? What if their endgame isn’t to take celebrities money, it’s to funnel it into projects to fight crazy demons or something! That’s Clean Room. But…
Dear Mark, We get it. We understand why you don’t want to call Facebook a media company. Your investors don’t want to invest in a media company, they want to invest in a technology company. Your best-and-brightest engineers? They don’t want to work at a media company. And we’re not even going to mention Trending…
Amazon is gearing up to join the music streaming business. – David McNew/Getty Images Amazon plans to a launch a music streaming service as early as next month, according to the Financial Times. The company is reportedly wrapping up deals with the world’s largest record labels. In terms of price, Amazon would charge subscribers $9.99 a…
Imagine if the president of the United States forced America’s biggest banks to funnel hundreds of millions—and potentially billions—of dollars to the corporations and lobbyists who supported his agenda, all while calling it “Main Street Relief.” The public outcry would rightly be deafening. Yet the Obama administration has used a similar strategy to enrich its…