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Four Tinder plaintiffs — Rosette Pambakian, Joshua Metz, Jonathan Badeen, and James Kim — are voluntarily withdrawing from their Match Group / IAC lawsuit today, claiming the company covertly tried to enact an arbitration agreement during their employment. All four plaintiffs worked at Tinder, which Match Group owns, up until they filed the lawsuit. At that point, Match / IAC placed them on administrative leave. They all seemingly signed the arbitration agreement.
In a comment to The Verge, Pambakian said:
“Just months after cheating Tinder employees out of billions of dollars, IAC / Match tried changing its policies in an attempt to force all current employees out of a public courtroom before a jury and into secret arbitration. IAC /...
One of Apple’s autonomous cars, which are currently driving around Sunnyvale, California and other nearby Silicon Valley cities, got into its very first crash one week ago, according to a report filed with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Like many self-driving car crashes, this one was not the software’s fault.
The Apple car, a modified Lexus RX450h SUV carrying special equipment and sensors, was traveling at just 1 mph while preparing to merge onto the Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale when a Nissan Leaf rear-ended it going around 15 mph. Apple’s Lexus and the Leaf sustained damage, but neither car’s passengers received any injuries, the report states.
This isn’t indicative of Apple’s progress on self-driving cars in any...
California’s legislature has approved a bill being called the strongest net neutrality law in the US. The bill would ban internet providers from blocking and throttling legal content and prioritizing some sites and services over others. It would apply these restrictions to both home and mobile connections.
That would essentially restore the net neutrality rules enacted federally under former President Barack Obama, which were later repealed by the Federal Communications Commission under the watch and guidance of current chairman Ajit Pai. But this bill actually goes further than those rules with an outright ban on zero-rating — the practice of offering free data, potentially to the advantage of some companies over others — of specific...
Google has confirmed to Tom’s Guide that it has no plans to release its own smartwatch this year. Earlier rumors had pointed to a likely release of a so-called “Pixel Watch” and many were expecting it would be announced alongside the Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, and whatever else Google has planned for an expected October 9th hardware event.
If you are still holding out hope for some reason, Tom’s Guide didn’t leave much room for doubt in Google’s plans, confirming the news with the company after interviewing one of its executives:
Miles Barr, Google’s director of engineering for Wear OS, said Friday during an interview that Google has no plans to release a smartwatch this year.
“To think of a one-size-fits-all watch, I don’t think we’re there...
Apple quietly announced the launch of a free repair program for the iPhone 8 this afternoon, revealing that a “very small percentage” of units need replacement logic boards due to a manufacturing defect. The logic board is essentially the main printed circuit board of a computing device, containing the CPU, device memory, and other integral components. Apple says its faulty logic boards may have been causing random restarts, screen freezes, and defective startup initiations that prevent the iPhone 8 from turning on properly.
The defect does not affect the iPhone X or the iPhone 8 Plus, and Apple says the affected units include only those sold between September 2017 and March 2018 in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Macau, New...
Sara Haider, Twitter’s director of product management, tweeted a couple screenshots today showing off changes the platform is considering to make things more “conversational.”
Their solution? Threaded conversations and status indicators. They make the app look a lot more like Facebook comment threads.
hey Twitter. we've been playing with some rough features to make it feel more conversational here. presence and reply threading. still early and iterating on these ideas. thoughts? pic.twitter.com/3U3NvpHWPy
— Sara Haider (@pandemona) August 31, 2018
The threading seems fine and like it could make following a conversation easier, just like threading within a user’s own tweets did when that feature launched back in December of last year....
Storing your most sensitive files locally on a hard drive is still (and probably always will be) the logical thing to do. But it’s not always the most convenient, which is why most of us look to cloud storage as a secondary option. It has its own set of benefits: it’s reasonably affordable, it makes sharing files easier, it’s ubiquitous across most operating systems and devices, and it’s just really nice to have a backup when your hard drive dies.
There are several services to pick from, and some of them are pretty similar. While common at their core offerings (to give you copious amounts of space to store files online), only a few go beyond that by giving users more free storage upfront, useful online productivity tools, and the option...
The news of Disney’s acquisition of Fox has fired up the imaginations of Marvel fans everywhere. As well as inspiring many a theory on when and how Kevin Feige and his team could integrate the X-Men and Fantastic Four properties into the MCU, the development has also encouraged a few artistically minded viewers to offer their creative contributions, including this new animation which offers a heart-warming suggestion of how the upcoming Avengers 4 could conclude the fight against Thanos.
With the rousing Avengers theme song playing in the background, the clip sees the Mad Titan cross paths once more with the heroic cast of Infinity War, all of whom seem to have made a full recovery after the genocidal dusting which concluded their last movie. But while Thanos has faced most of these characters previously and triumphed, the odds of winning Round 2 start to look a lot slimmer as the camera continues to pan, revealing not just some familiar faces from the Marvel Netflix shows, but also a whole host of heroes and villains soon to be acquired by Disney, all of whom look ready to join Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in battle.
This actually choked me up wow. I hope I live to see it. pic.twitter.com/mPFOx4icM0
— javier (@MidtownThwip) August 31, 2018
ComicBook.com has listed the formidable line-up as follows:
“Iron Man, Spider-Man, War Machine, Hulk, Wong, Doctor Strange, Thor, Groot, Mantis, Star-Lord, Drax, Captain Marvel, Gamora, Shuri, Black Panther, M’Baky, Okoye, Ghost Rider, Johnny Storm, The Thing, Silver Surfer, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Storm, Beast, Wolverine, Magneto, Jean Grey, Colossus, Deadpool, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil, the Punisher, Blade, Falcon, Quicksilver, the Vision, Scarlet Witch, Bucky Barnes, Black Widow, The Wasp, Captian America, and Ant-Man.”
And you thought Infinity War had a big cast.
Needless to say, there’s a slim chance of such a scenario actually playing out in next year’s movie (at the very least, that’s a huge number of characters to introduce in one film), but all signs point to us at least getting an all-star rumble on a scale unprecedented in superhero movies thus far when Avengers 4 comes out on May 3rd, 2019.
Avengers: Infinity War co-director Joe Russo is very proud of the time he made a 10-year-old boy cry. Relax, it’s not as bad as it sounds.
The whole climactic genocide of the Marvel mega-hit left many a viewer feeling pretty shaken, but if you had to single out one moment that really hit the audience where it hurt, it’d likely be the death of Spider-Man. Peter Parker’s futile pleading to Mr. Stark as he feels his body turn to dust earned a lot of tears from the fans, including one little boy who presumably isn’t used to seeing his favorite heroes perish before his eyes.
At a recent Q&A, Russo cited this story as evidence that the team at Marvel Studios must be doing something right.
“The best reaction was probably that 10-year old kid crying and asking us why we killed Spider-Man. From the time we came to Marvel, our goal was to surprise the audience and not give them the same thing but rather to challenge them.”
The director then went on to explain that there’s precedent for this grim moment in the Russo Brothers’ previous contributions to the MCU.
“That was our view on Captain America: Winter Soldier, and Civil War was also very controversial internally with the powers that be in turning Iron Man into the antagonist and severing the relationship between Cap and Tony Stark. Every Marvel film we’ve created had this controversy, like are we pushing this rabid audience too far? Are we making movies that could perhaps be too emotionally complex for the genre? That the audience has shown up wanting more is a testament to the hard work everybody has put in over those last ten years of films.”
Sure enough, as upset as this kid sounds, you can bet that he has no intention of missing Avengers 4 when the film arrives in theaters on May 3rd, 2019. And with Spider-Man: Far From Home due for release on July 5th that same year, something tells us that the follow-up to Avengers: Infinity War will end on a slightly more optimistic note for Peter.