How China’s ban on ‘sissy men’ is impacting big tech – The Next Web
The Chinese government has recently taken action against what it calls “sissy men” – males, often celebrities, deemed too effeminate.On Sept. 2，2021, government regulators banned their appearance on both television and...
Switzerland votes to make same-sex marriage legal by near two-thirds majority – Reuters
ZURICH, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Switzerland agreed to legalise civil marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex couples by a nearly two-thirds majority in a referendum on Sunday, making...
Swiss approve same-sex marriage by wide margin in referendum – Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — Cheers rang out, hugs were exchanged and rainbow-colored flags waved overhead across Switzerland as the Swiss resoundingly voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, final results of a...
Swiss Voters Approve Same-Sex Marriage In A Nationwide Referendum – NPR
In this Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021 file photo, people take part in the Zurich Pride parade in Switzerland. Swiss voters...
Lil Nas X tops charts, trolls homophobes and expands HIV awareness “effortlessly” – The...
Three years ago Lil Nas X burst onto the scene with “Olde Town Road”, breaking a record for the longest charting number one song on the Billboard Hot 100. His music...
Delegation for 9.24.21: Busted — debt drama — floods — all apologies — gay...
Budget busterWhile much of President Joe Biden’s agenda coasted through the House, the high-priced Build Back Better budget has members of his Party balking. That includes several Democratic House members from Florida...
How Olympic Skateboarder Alexis Sablone Spends Her Sundays – The New York Times
Alexis Sablone doesn’t really have weekends. “It’s never like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to get back to work tomorrow,’” she said.That’s because — though she is a trained architect — she makes...
Adams, Coons, Hill Announce Milestone for Bipartisan HBCU Infrastructure Legislation – Congresswoman Alma Adams
WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC), Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), and Representative French Hill (R-AR) announced a significant milestone for the bipartisan IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act. Over 100 members of the United States...
Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror’ Divides and Conquers – The New York Times
“Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” the largest survey of the artist’s work anywhere to date, officially opens next Wednesday, and is designed to be not just a blockbuster, but a blockbuster x 2.The...
Utah’s Silicon Slopes Summit to feature a big name from Big Tech: Apple CEO...
Apple CEO Tim Cook will be the headline speaker at this year’s hybrid version of the Silicon Slopes Summit, to be held virtually and in person Oct. 13-14 in Salt Lake...
What do your Gen Z workers expect from HR? – Human Resources Director
Diversity and inclusion a personal issue Finally, an issue that Gen Zs wish to see prioritised in their workplaces is the fight for diversity and inclusion. Deloitte found that Gen Z-ers...
Mo Abudu Isn’t Waiting for Permission – The New York Times
LONDON — Mo Abudu has always understood the power of storytelling, and the impact of its absence. Growing up here as the daughter of Nigerian parents, she found herself being asked...
Tech billionaire: Facebook is what’s wrong with America – Local News 8 – LocalNews8.com
By Matt Egan, CNN Business From the climate crisis to Covid, Marc Benioff sees a common thread for what ails America today: deception that is allowed to spread like wildfire on...
Tech billionaire: Facebook is what’s wrong with America – KTVZ
By Matt Egan, CNN Business From the climate crisis to Covid, Marc Benioff sees a common thread for what ails America today: deception that is allowed to spread like wildfire on...
‘Sissy men’ and China’s campaign against Big Tech – Qrius
Shuaishuai Wang, University of Amsterdam The Chinese government has recently taken action against what it calls “sissy men” – males, often celebrities, deemed too effeminate. On Sept. 2，2021, government regulators banned...
iPhone apps can track you even after you tell them not to – The...
“In order for the game to function properly, some data is communicated to Ad Networks,” emailed Sybo, the company that makes Subway Surfers. “As a company, we do not track users...
Hate crime against gay man from Cameroon case dismissed – Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) — A hate crime case in Seattle involving a gay man from Cameroon has been dismissed and the people charged say they were blindsided by the arrests. Police had...
Pressure Grows on U.S. Companies to Share Covid Vaccine Technology – The New York...
Many of the donated doses bound for use in Africa, for example, were meant to come from the Serum Institute of India. But five months ago, the Indian government blocked the...
At Covid Summit, Biden Sets Ambitious Goals for Vaccinating the World – The New...
WASHINGTON — President Biden, declaring the coronavirus an “all-hands-on-deck crisis,” set out ambitious goals on Wednesday for ending the pandemic and urged world leaders, drug companies, philanthropies and nonprofit groups to...
Out in the World: Hungarian diplomats’ SF City Hall appearance draws ire – Bay...
The recent appearance of Hungarian diplomats at a San Francisco City Hall gathering has been criticized by Hungarian Americans and LGBTQ leaders, and has resulted in Mayor London Breed vowing to...
In ‘Nuclear Family,’ a Filmmaker Frames Herself – The New York Times
“It’s a win for all of us — not just me,” he told a reporter at the time. “It merely adds to the complement of people who are loving of and...
‘The Contrarian’ Profiles Peter Thiel, PayPal Co-Founder And Political Provocateur – Capital Public Radio...
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13 DC edtech companies shaping the future of learning – Technical.ly DC
The year of 2021 has been kind to many technology categories in the DMV, but one that’s been in the headlines almost more than any other is the city’s booming edtech...
Report: Social Media Can Identify Extremists in US Military – GovTech
Report: Social...
Peter Thiel’s Origin Story – New York Magazine
Peter Thiel at Stanford. Photo: Courtesy the author Sometime around the spring of 1988, several...
LTTE: Censoring Plaza preachers is not the right thing to do – The Rocky...
(Graphic Illustration by Christine Moore-Bonbright | The Collegian)Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by The Collegian or its...
A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage … – The...
“This show has been 10 years in the making,” the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo said recently.He was talking about “Only an Octave Apart,” an undefinable event — A staged concert? A...
Tim Cook on the ‘Basic Human Right’ of Privacy and the Technology That Excites...
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In Orange County, the Recall’s Defeat Echoes Years of G.O.P. Erosion – The New...
But a preliminary 2021 results map from Vance Ulrich, of the nonpartisan consulting firm Redistricting Partners, shows Mr. Newsom’s anti-recall campaign succeeding in places like Garden Grove, Westminster and Santa Ana,...
1 change that can fix the VC funding crisis for women founders – Yahoo...
The venture capital industry as we know it is broken. At least for women, that is.In terms of funding to women founders, 2020 was among the worst years on record. On...
Black Founders Are Missing Out On Venture Funding For Diversity Hiring Platforms – Forbes
Incredulous woman getty The inequities of venture funding are well known, with women receiving 2.3% and Black founders receiving 1.2% of venture dollars. The biases that...
She Changed Black Literature Forever. Then She Disappeared. – The New York Times
I had read accounts that Lucille aspired to be a writer, but my research uncovered that she actually was a writer. With Gayl’s support, Lucille Jones published stories and novels late...
Palette Life Sciences Launches Newly Branded Website Featuring United States Portfolio – GlobeNewswire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Palette Life Sciences, a fully integrated global life sciences company dedicated to improving patient outcomes, today launched its newly...
‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Review: Fall From Grace – The New York Times
If you were watching television in America in the 1970s and ’80s — the old three-network days that now seem as distant as the horse-and-buggy era — you could hardly miss...