October 18, 2021 Here’s Everything Apple Announced During Its MacBook Event Despite a seemingly endless string of leaks leading up to it, Apple still managed to pack a few surprises into its fall 2021 “Unleashed”…
October 18, 2021 Netflix Employees Protesting Transphobia Present Their Demands Ahead of Walkout Netflix’s trans employee resource group has sent the company a list of demands, among them, that the company acknowledges that transphobic content causes harm….
October 18, 2021 Facebook Announces Its Fake Ad Numbers Are Going to Get Even Faker It’s implicitly understood that the roughly $200 billion that folks are expected to spend on digital ads this year in the US will be…
October 18, 2021 Marvel’s Hit-Monkey Dares to Imagine a World Where Apes Shoot to Kill Watching the new trailer for Hulu’s upcoming Hit-Monkey animated series, it’s interesting to consider whether Guardians of the Galaxy represented the moment when Marvel decided…
October 18, 2021 The Possibilities and Limits of Individual Climate Action Here at Earther, I spend a lot of my time writing about the entities that are the most responsible for the climate crisis, like…
October 18, 2021 Where to Watch Dune (All of Them) The spice must flow, and flow it will when Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited adaptation of sci-fi grandmaster Frank Herbert’s Dune arrives in the U.S. on October…
October 18, 2021 Microsoft Knew Bill Gates Was Inappropriate With Female Staff as Early as 2008 Microsoft brass knew that founder and former chairman of the board Bill Gates was propositioning female staff at the company as early as 2008…
October 18, 2021 The Story of Marvel Studios’ Authors Want to Invert Your Notions About the MCU Fans are paying outsized amounts of attention the moment any tidbit of Marvel news breaks, and because the studio puts out so much information…
October 18, 2021 Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Into Hundreds of iCloud Accounts to Steal Nudes This week in creepy news: a Southern California man has admitted to conspiring with others to hack into hundreds of Apple iCloud accounts—mostly to…
October 18, 2021 New York City Hit by Spike of a Rare Disease Spread by Rat Urine New York City is dealing with an unusual outbreak of a rare, sometimes fatal disease spread through rat urine, called leptospirosis. At least 15…