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Apparently Slack isn’t the bragging type. 

The company behind the collaborative workspace tool favored by tech and media companies around the world quietly ended its policy of making employees to agree to forced arbitration in cases of harassment claims. And it did so late last year, to absolutely zero public fanfare. 

So reports Yahoo! Finance, which notes that Slack announced the change internally in November, which is shortly after Google employees demanded a similar change at their company. Last November, Facebook also decided it would no longer force employees to take claims of sexual harassment and misconduct to a closed-door legal proceeding known as arbitration.  Read more…

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The entire John Wick franchise was set into motion by the death of a dog. Now, in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, the canine species finally gets a shot at revenge.

In footage revealed exclusively at CinemaCon, two Belgian shepherds owned by Sofia (Halle Berry) take an active role in the fight, bringing down the bad guys who would harm Sofia and John (Keanu Reeves).

The scene opens with the two human assassins in what looks like a desolate, deserted castle, preparing for some dramatic event to come.

Then the henchmen arrive and the shooting starts, and Sofia’s dogs spring into action. They race ahead to take down minions for Sofia to shoot. One mauls a guy, sending him off the side of a high wall.  Read more…

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Elon Musk will remain chief executive of his electric car company after appearing in federal court Thursday.

The title was on the line after he locked horns with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Committee over his tweets, specifically ones that the government agency felt could impact investment in Tesla, a public company. 

The tussle escalated all the way to federal court after the SEC claimed Musk continued to tweet out information that Tesla promised he wouldn’t — and that his posts relating to the business would be reviewed.

But as Musk and the SEC faced off at the Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, they both basically got a talking to from the judge, who ordered Tesla and the SEC to work this issue out amongst themselves.  Read more…

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Cinemax’s new series Warrior is a victory in nearly every sense of the word. Not only is it great TV, it also rights a wrong that has lingered over the legacy of cultural icon Bruce Lee for nearly half a century. 

In the wake of 2018 representation successes like Crazy Rich Asians and Killing Eve, it’s frustrating to imagine the legendary Bruce Lee being rejected from studios on the basis of race. But in the early 1970s, that’s exactly what was happening.

According to those close to Lee at the time, the master creator and philosopher, arguably at the height of his career, approached studio after studio with a treatment for a television series he had tentatively titled “Ah Sahm.” It told the story of a heroically skilled Chinese immigrant, written to be played by Lee, battling his way through the late 19th-century San Francisco Tong Wars. Read more…

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Not content to simply run the world’s largest online retailer, it looks like Amazon is ready to take its growing hardware division even further in an attempt to compete with Apple.

Amazon will bring its own version of the AirPods to market sometime later this year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Bloomberg’s sources said Amazon’s wireless earbuds will come with many of the same features that Apple’s AirPods have, but possibly in grey or black color configurations.

That means they will fit into users’ ears without clips just like AirPods and will work with a combination of voice control and physical gesture support. Users will be able to use their voices to work with Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant, similar to the hands-free Siri support in the new AirPods released last week. Read more…

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51 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. But he continues to inspire change and empower people to fight injustice. 

On the anniversary of his assassination, you’re likely to see more of his quotes than usual, which of course, is inspiring. But it’s important to remember to go beyond the tweets and shares and put those words into action. 

Here are seven tweets from politicians, activists, and others sharing his famous words and opening up about how the civil rights leader inspired them to make a difference.  Read more…

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Like the Terminator himself, Terminator is the franchise that just won’t die. 

At CinemaCon Thursday, Paramount Pictures presented the very first footage from their latest attempt to breathe new life into this classic series, Terminator: Dark Fate.

Directed by Tim Miller (Deadpool), the new film picks up after T2 and brings back not only Arnold Schwarzenegger but Linda Hamilton, who remains every bit as cool as she ever was.

The new footage, which Miller cautioned did not have complete sound or VFX, began by introducing us to Mackenzie Davis’ Grace, whose naked body we first see falling to the ground from a ball of electricity that’s formed in the middle of a Mexico City bridge. A young man and woman see the apparently injured woman and try to help, only for the cops to show up and try to arrest them.  Read more…

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Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary of Robert Mueller’s almost two-year investigation is a little too short for many, as the House Judiciary Committee approved a subpoena to obtain the full report on Wednesday.

It’s hard to relate to exactly how long that kind of read is, but The Late Show host Stephen Colbert put it into terms we’d understand.

“Barr’s summary was not quite four pages long, while the full Mueller report is nearly 400 pages. That’s Harry Potter length,” he quipped in Wednesday night’s monologue.

“Everybody wants to read Donny Trump and the Idiot of Azkaban! And the Goblet of Covfefe.”  Read more…

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The Lincoln Aviator SUV is back and making some noise after the American car maker pulled the three-row SUV back in 2005. 

The noisy return might have something to do with its revamped sound system. As part of a collaboration with audio company Revel, the car interior features 28 speakers dispersed nearly everywhere throughout the car, including the doors and seats. Eight speakers sit above passengers’ heads in the ceiling.

This makes for what the company calls a 360-degree listening experience, and it can be customized into three modes: stereo with the listener between the speakers; audience for a wider sound; and on-stage with an all-round experience. It’s basically like a concert blasted into your car and you’re on the stage. Read more…

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If you’ve ever wished that sweet family films would have more existential despair in them, Toy Story 4 may be for you. And not just because of Forky.

At Disney’s CinemaCon presentation Wednesday, producer Jonas Rivera revealed that the Pixar sequel would see Tom Hanks’ Woody “questioning everything — maybe even his own purpose.” 

The first 17 minutes of the film, screened at CinemaCon, certainly seem to bear that out. 

The film opens “nine years ago,” when Woody was still Andy’s toy. He successfully spearheads a rescue mission for a toy lost outside in the rain, but the adventure comes to a bittersweet end when he discovers that Bo Peep (Annie Potts) is being given away. Read more…

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