The California Supreme Court sided with Apple Store employees in a ruling yesterday, stating that unpaid mandatory bag or iPhone searches at the end of retail workers’ shifts are a violation of state law. The class-action suit in question represents over 12,000 workers employed at the company’s retail locations from…
Yesterday, the internet was split asunder by a great moral conundrum over a viral video of a man punching a woman’s seat when she tried to recline. Some people took the man’s side—tall people have knees and it’s rude to recline! Others took the woman’s side—she paid for her seat, and has every right! Well everybody…
Google has released an open-source tool, Autoflip, that could make bad cropping a thing of the past by intelligently reframing video to correctly fit alternate aspect ratios.
The event will honor Kobe, his daughter Gianna and the seven other people killed in a helicopter crash last month.
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The New York City mayor had endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016.
If you live in a house constructed with a wood frame or wooden siding, this is the last thing you ever want to buy. But if your dwelling is made from brick, concrete, stone, metal, or glass, read on…
Do you want to see what termites can do to a piece of wood? With the Termitat, you can grow your very own termite community, and observe the destructive little buggers as they chew through a slice of wood. They’re like Sea Monkeys, but with wood instead of water!
This see-through container comes pre-loaded with a hunk of wood, and an already-installed Pacific Dampwood termite community. Simply give them a weekly dribble of water, and the wood-eaters will gradually bore their way for all to enjoy. The makers of the Termitat claim the acrylic desktop habitat is “escape-proof,” so theoretically wood structures will be safe from a termite invasion, but I’d rather not take the risk.
Still, the Termitat is a cool desktop novelty for those interested in insect behavior, or science in general. If you’re ready to raise your very own termite community, prices range from $125 to $150. Once your community runs out of wood – in about 2 to 3 years, you can send it back to Termitat, and they’ll rejuvenate the environment for another $75.
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The problem with the internet is that people can use screen names to hide who they are, which in turn creates issues as these users can simply keep creating new accounts to harass people online, leave fake negative reviews about a business, and so on. However, sometimes users just want to be anonymous for the sake of privacy, and that not all reviews are necessarily fake.
However, over in Australia, it seems that one dentist isn’t too pleased with a review that he received from an alleged patient, where they wrote that they should stay away from his dental practice because the dentist had make it “extremely awkward and uncomfortable”. So much so that a judge had ruled that the dentist in question, Dr. Matthew Kabbabe, had the right to pursue a defamation case and has ordered Google to hand over information about the reviewer.
This includes personal details such as the name, phone number, and location metadata. According to Kabbabe’s lawyer, they are calling this a groundbreaking situation because it effectively signals that Google is ultimately responsible for dealing with these types of posts made online. There has been some debate about posts made on social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, and whether or not these platforms ought to shoulder some of the responsibility.
Whether or not the Australian courts can force Google to hand over information about the reviewer remains to be seen, but it is expected to be a lengthy process.
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