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When cisgender writers co-opt the experiences of trans folk as Matthew Rosenberg did in Uncanny X-Men #17 without bothering to depict us, we are not helped.

A mutant's death in UNCANNY X-MEN #17 from Marvel Comics is explicitly framed as a trans panic murder. This is a problem. Here's why.

Riot Games, maker of the worldwide hit video game League of Legends, will keep its requirement that employees’ sexual-harassment or discrimination complaints be handled via arbitration, rejecting demands from workers who walked out over the issue last week.

Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data.

My intention was always to find a way for our Playdates to co-exist joyfully. I was worried we would overshadow yours. That sounded entitled — I'm sorry. I thought your idea to add "pop up" was great, but we remain fine with you using the name Playdate. Please, keep using it.

The developers behind the upcoming Playdate quickly backed off their request, but not before completely stepping in it.

Zuckerberg may not have been aware of the allegations

“Facebook likes to make a PR move and say that they’re doing something, but they don’t always follow up on that.”

Last Day at L2 Today is my last day at L2, the firm I founded a decade ago and that was sold two years ago. One of the many rewarding things about starting a company is you feel tremendous maternal/paternal reward (and sometimes disappointment), as you have conceived and raised the organism, and it begins […]

The site’s automated recommendation system, at times drawing on home movies of unwitting families, created a vast video catalog of prepubescent children.

When I entered Ubisoft’s The Division press event on February 2nd in New York, I was greeted by a display of an NYPD patrol car that had crashed into a lightpost, with smoke bellowing from its engine and its lights still flashing. Machines in the rafters vigorously blanketed the room in snow. Caution tape separated visitors from the staff-only areas. A street marker for Madison Avenue with a “Closed” sign attached to it overlooked the game’s demo stations. A Do Not Enter sign sat in the distance. I had entered a New York that felt like it had been thrown into…

Unity Technologies, the multibillion-dollar gaming engine, is facing a lawsuit from its former VP of global talent acquisition, Anne Evans, who accuses CEO John Riccitiello of sexual harassment. The sexual harassment allegedly took many forms — ranging from making sexist jokes to propositioning her and other employees for sex, to making references to his erect […]

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Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets...

It’s not breaking news that Chelsea Cain, author of Marvel’s Mockingbird, has seen her share of criticism lately for her new comic, Man-Eaters, published by Image Comics. Hailed by some as feminist critique, numerous aspects of Man-Eaters have also been slammed by critics for being insensitive to various groups of people. Cain has acknowledged these...

In her time at Facebook, Losse saw the ideas behind Lean In take root. The book's goals become legible when understood to be as informed by Silicon Valley business tactics as by feminism. What exactly are we leaning into?

"A sweatshop in America"

A leaked internal memo has Googlers concerned about whose free speech the company is protecting

To date, I’ve always been honest about the joy of writing Iceman’s journey as an out gay superhero, but I’ve skirted around the challenges that came along with it. This is partially because I prefer...

Workers hear drug deals, medical details and people having sex, says whistleblower

Thousands of Facebook workers have viewed the letter on an internal message board.

Users of credit monitoring site Credit Karma have complained that they were served other people’s account information when they logged in. Many took to a Reddit thread and complained on Twitter about the apparent security lapse. “First time logging in it gave me my information, but as soon as I refreshed the screen, it gave […]

Developers of Facebook's ReactJS framework, which powers much of the web, have a bro culture that isn't welcoming to traditionally underrepresented groups.

The tech company issued the statement after numerous people gathered outside the company's headquarters on Thursday to demand "justice for Qin."

Facebook employees are frustrated with the direction of the company, and they’re pressing Zuckerberg for answers.

Facebook encouraged developers to let children charge credit cards without parental permission on games like Ninja Saga, PetVille, Happy Aquarium and Barn Buddy. The company calls it “friendly fraud.”

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Kathryn Spiers says tech company is targeting employee activists who are pushing back against recent policy changes

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An Avast antivirus subsidiary sells 'Every search. Every click. Every buy. On every site.' Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey.

In January 2017, when the Trump administration first unveiled a travel ban targeting seven majority Muslim countries, the tech industry took up arms. This time around there's mainly been silence.

Nearly 1,000 people flooded our inbox with their stories. We found some patterns.

Williams, whose long tenure at Fox News included several years at 'Fox and Friends,' will work on editorial video strategy at the social network.

The mishap happened for five days last year and has since been fixed by Google

More than $5,000 had been unpaid for years

Who’s at fault when something you buy on Amazon goes bad?

A CAH creator wrote on Friday that a former classmate had come forward and publicly accused him of rape.

Each season, I write short, one-sentence summaries of upcoming anime. Here is the one for Interspecies Reviewers: “An elf and a human visit various brothels to see which humanoid species they like best.”

Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda

The whodunnit ride is fun in and of itself, but 'Knives Out' stands out for what it has to say about the people at the heart of it.

FindFace's technology may one day allow anyone to identify you with their phone.

The app also collects a host of personal information, including user images, location, and browsing data. It’s then able to share this information with third-party websites and services.

Since we're talking about it openly, I had some really awful experiences with Matilde Park of Aether Interactive that I documented last year. Not to relitigate, but the accusations were basically ignored in the indie games world after all of her targets spoke. It took me yrs to https://t.co/UDT8iMJ19s

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Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build insi…

In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived.

The California Supreme Court has made a decision in a class-action lawsuit against Apple that dates back to 2013. According to today’s decision, Apple is required to pay its retail workers for the time it takes for their bags to be searched after their shifts. Apple retail workers filed the class-action suit against Apple in […]

The guidelines can be useful, but they can become oppressive to women, too.

Cash advances hit the digital age.