We talk to the Sklar brothers about their movie “Poop Talk”, in which Kumail Nanjiani and a load of other comedians discuss our relationship with digestion.
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A recent patent awarded to Microsoft describes a pen-based peripheral aimed to eradicate the mouse. It’s likely slated as the new Surface Pen providing a touch-capable retention clip for scrolling and zooming, and two buttons.
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Google released the former senior software engineer last August after he wrote a ten-page memo arguing that biological differences between men and women accounted for the gender disparity in software engineering.
Source: Wired
Here are the details on how to watch a super-deluxe edition of the daily podcast on Wednesday.
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You’ve got more lighting options than ever before, but that also means that the lighting aisle is a lot more complicated than it used to be. We’re here to help.
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Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt + F4 trick and a script kiddie stunt, and it ranges from being annoying to rendering a device unusable, depending on the tenacity of the troll. Read More
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A federal judge from New York ruled that embedding a tweet containing an image in a webpage could be considered copyright infringement.
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A federal body overseeing labor disputes advised the dismissal of Jeremy Damore’s claim that Google fired him unjustly for his controversial memo regarding inclusion and diversity programs at the company. Citing similar precedents, the NLRB counsel deemed parts of the memo “so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive” as to shed their status as protected speech in the workplace. Read More
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A new Justice Department indictment alleges Russia’s disinformation operations created bank and social media accounts using the stolen identities of real US citizens.
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This week, our guest Nick Thompson talks about Facebook, fake news, Russian propaganda, politics, and journalism.
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