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Related: Star Wars: The Force Awakens review – ‘what a Christmas present’ A group of Star Wars fans are threatening to spoil The Force Awakens, the latest episode in the franchise, on social media unless studio Disney agrees to film the saga’s abandoned “expanded universe” stories. Lucasfilm executives announced in April 2014 that only the six…
A delegation of human rights experts from Poland, the United Kingdom and Costa Rica spent 10 days this month touring the United States so they can prepare a report on the nation’s overall treatment of women. The three women, who lead a United Nations working group on discrimination against women, visited Alabama, Texas and Oregon…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** START Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges 32-year-old suspected of plundering Retrophin to pay debts By Christie Smythe and Keri Geiger | December 17, 2015 Photographs by Peter Bohler Video by David Nicholson From END BODY COPY CENTERED START Photographer: Francesco Nazardo END A…
page ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Will Effectively Ignore ‘Into Darkness’ INFOLINKS_ON While the action-packed first trailer for “Star Trek Beyond” was greeted with a mixed reaction from fans, it made clear the sequel won’t carry on the tone “Star Trek Into Darkness.” In fact, many franchise faithful will be pleased to know, it won’t even give…
Fans have complained that the recent Star Trek movies don’t do enough to explore the philosophical issues that were at the heart of classic Trek. But Justin Lin, the director of Star Trek Beyond, told us the new movie is all about debating Starfleet’s philosophies. io9 was among a handful of outlets that spoke to…
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Media, speaks during an interview in October 2015. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Bloomberg / Getty Images cache hit 281:single/related:badc38340fa71907b825e2f63cd2a7aa empty Internet radio services like Pandora will have to pay more to artists and their representative groups, according to a decision released today by the Copyright Royalty (CRB). The basic per-song rates paid by Pandora will…
From calls to ban non-American Muslims to pledges to carpet bomb densely-populated cities, the rise of hateful rhetoric among 2016 presidential candidates—and the real, violent consequences for those communities targeted—has raised widespread concern. But also on display during the fifth GOP debate on “national security” was the role of corporate media outlets such as CNN…
The trailer for Star Trek: Beyond crash landed this week amid the shouting of Beastie Boys and the moans of fanboys. No less than nerd icon and former Star Trek whipping boy Wil Wheaton found himself utterly baffled by this attempt to turn the long-running sci-fi series into a conventional Hollywood blockbuster. The trailer was…
For nearly a week, the media and political worlds have been wondering who paid $140 million to purchase Nevada’s largest daily newspaper, The Las Vegas Review-Journal. The primary buyer had taken great pains to remain anonymous, but Fortune has learned from multiple sources familiar with the situation that it is Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO…
In one of the best-telegraphed moves in history, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee has voted to raise the Federal Funds interest rate by 0.25%. The tiny rate hike is significant only because the Fed has kept the rate at 0% since 2008, part of its effort to keep the economy on life support in…