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Google wants more professional women… depicted as emoji. The tech giant issued a proposal at the Unicode Consortium this week to create a new set of emoji that would represent women in a variety of job roles, ranging from doctor to mechanic to chef. Its goal is to see the emoji implemented by the end…
Kolé Life Foods doesn’t really stand out at first glance. These days, lots of companies are trying to ride the wave of popular interest in neuro-everything, and Kolé, a Baltimore-based supplement manufacturer, is no exception. The company’s four “tonics” offer a variety of benefits, its website claims: one “is designed to support alertness, focus, healthy…
render left third party share bar style=”background: url(../images/patterns/paper-noise.png) top left white;” story headline PPress Herald gets push-back from North Woods story. Portland, ME (NEWS CENTER) — The Maine Warden Service today released a seven page document disclaiming an investigative report by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. The Service defended the actions of an undercover…
This tweet from Doctor Vox wonderfully underscores a point I’ve been making for years now: liberal discourse politics ensures a permanent erasure of the lower classes. This is so for two reasons: Lower class people, almost by definition, cannot engage in The Discourse. They do not have the education, credentials, or jobs necessary to do…
T hey swept in after dark on a cold winter’s night: some 30 armed wardens backed by state troopers and shadowed by two film crews from the television show “North Woods Law.” Riding in two dozen vehicles, lights flashing, they rushed up the only road into Allagash as a convoy, then began peeling off in…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen A little bit more than four months from opening, a thin film of dust covers everything. Only a handful of exhibits have been installed. Still, it is already clear that the National Museum of African American History and Culture is stunning. A Smithsonian more than…
Police come to shoo away panhandlers, referee parking disputes and check on foul-mouthed teenagers. They are called to arrest the man who drinks a 98-cent iced tea without paying and capture the customer who joyrides on a motorized shopping cart. BODY CAM VIDEO The calls eat up hours of officers’ time. They all start…
So much for best-laid plans. After hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal and public-relations fees, Jian Ghomeshi once again looked to be riding high, his reputation, if not fully rehabilitated, at least rejuvenated. He’d made some smart moves. Rather than rushing forward with an ill-fated attempt to come at the CBC seeking arbitration for…
Illustration by: Angelica Alzona Most players attempting Fallout 4’s Survival mode will just get their ass kicked. One player, however, has already managed to beat the entire thing on a single life. Funnily enough, the toughest challenge Kyle Hinckley faced along the way wasn’t something like starvation or damage, but rather a nearly catastrophic glitch….
Photo: iStockphoto uBeam, a high-profile startup backed by some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors, has become a tech-industry sensation because of the wireless charging technology it claims to have in its labs. Scheduled for delivery next year, uBeam promises to use ultrasound to charge a mobile phone wirelessly, as you go about your…