BabyNames.Com Makes Powerful Statement In Support Of Black Lives Matter

“I am a parent, and it just came from my heart,” said founder Jennifer Moss.

NY Police Union Boss Demands Respect For Officers After Brutal Protest Crackdowns

Mike O’Meara demanded people “stop treating us like animals and thugs and start treating us with some respect.”

Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s Mother, Qualifies To Run For Public Office

Fulton became a gun reform advocate after a white man killed her 17-year-old son in 2012.

The ‘Me Too’-Style Reckoning For Racism Has Begun

“Black folks are having a moment where they say, I have my stories, too.”

Inside the Culture of Racism at Bon Appétit

For many fans of Bon Appétit’s wildly popular Youtube channel, its bustling kitchen filled with bickering and highly collaborative chefs and editors can feel like a food utopia: junk food is turned into gourmet delicacies, carbonara pasta is experimented with, and Snoop Dogg recipes are reverse-engineered via smell…

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Los Angeles Has Turned Scooters Into Data-Mining Machines, According To A New Lawsuit

This week, the EFF announced it’d be partnering with the California-based branches of the ACLU in filing a joint lawsuit against the entire city of Los Angeles for collecting “detailed trip data,” along with the “real-time locations and routes” for the tens of thousands of scooters that LA residents ride each day.

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#8CantWait Won't Change the Police, Says Human Rights Watch

As cities are making big pledges for police reform, the viral #8CantWait campaign has become city officials’ go-to atonement manual. When Campaign Zero launched it on June 3rd, they initially made the striking claim that the proposed set of eight policies could reduce police killings by 72 percent, by, among other…

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The Last of Us Part II has a ton of accessibility options

The Last of Us Part II is right around the corner, and today, Sony and Naughty Dog are detailing the accessibility options that will be present in the game. There are a lot of them too, with Naughty Dog detailing over 60 individual settings. Those should hopefully be enough for most people to tailor their gameplay experience to suit their … Continue reading

Facebook News section rolls out with local news for all users in the US

Facebook News, the feature first introduced in October 2019, is rolling out to all users in the United States. With Facebook News, users in the US get access to a dedicated news portal featuring articles from a variety of publishers, including local news agencies. The portal is found within its own dedicated tab, though news stories will still appear in … Continue reading

Two Las Vegas casinos want to join the Boring Company’s tube system

The Las Vegas Convention Center’s underground loop transit system is slated for completion in January 2021, and two resorts want to get in on the new Boring Company transit system. Wynn Las Vegas and the under-construction Resorts World Las Vegas are…