technology
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10 Life-Essential Questions Grown-ish Hilariously Addresses in ‘If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late’
Aaron keeps sending Zoey “u up” texts, and she’s perplexed as to whether it means that he’s in love with her or that she’s just the “‘u up’ bitch.” This sets off an interesting discussion about the romanticness of such a text. See, depending on who you are and where you grew up, the infamous…
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Apple’s Diversity Chief Apologizes After Being Called Out for Saying a Team of White Men Can Be ‘Diverse’
Denise Young Smith, Apple’s vice president of inclusion and diversity, sent out an apology to her team Saturday after being dragged for comments she made on diversity at a conference in Bogota, Colombia, last week. “I regret the choice of words I used to make this point,” said Smith in the memo, referencing the comment…
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I Bought an Apple Watch 2. I Wasted $399 (Plus Tax) on an Apple Watch 2
I’m an Apple products guy. I’ve been exclusively an iPhone user since 2008 (I believe) when I chucked my T-Mobile Sidekick LX. My personal computers of choice are all Apples. There are three iPads in my home. I own an Apple TV, and when I’m hungry, I eat apples. We don’t play with our Apple…
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Gambian High School Robotics Team Will Attend Global Contest After All
It seems that the United States has had a change of heart. The Gambian high school students competing in an international robotics contest will be attending the event after all. The five teens were granted U.S. visas after initially being rejected for unknown reasons. According to the Associated Press, Mucktarr Darboe, a director at Gambia’s…
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Watch the Drones: Can Black Folks Benefit From the New World Order?
American business history is littered with stories of businesses that were started by, or profit off of, black folks but ritually lock us out. The black community spends billions on hair-care products, but most of the stores and companies we buy from aren’t for us or by us. African Americans drive the music industry, but…
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14-Year-Old Graduating From Texas Christian University With Physics Degree as Brother, 11, Prepares to Start TCU
There’s intelligent, and then there’s Carson Huey-You intelligent. Carson just wrapped up his last final exam at Texas Christian University on Tuesday and is all set to graduate Saturday with a degree in physics and a double minor in math and Chinese. Carson is also only 14. “It didn’t come easily. It really didn’t,” Carson…
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#HairInspo: How 3 Black Female Techies Are Hoping to Cater to All Your Black Hair Needs
If you’re on this website, I’m going to take it as a given that I don’t need to tell you about the relationship between black women and their hair. And I don’t mean in a political kind of way. I mean the sense of culture and community that surrounds how we groom our luscious locks,…
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Will Driverless Vehicles Put Black People Out of Work?
Driving while black in America has always been fraught with peril. During the Jim Crow era, African Americans traveled the highways by night to avoid harassment by law enforcement and packed extra fuel and food because they could not stop at gas stations and restaurants that served only whites. Today, encounters with police that are…
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Tech Needs to Do the Work to Find Black Excellence, but You Can Do Your Part, Too
The Uber fallout of recent weeks makes something my grandmother used to tell me more important than ever now: “To get something you don’t have, you’ll have to do something you haven’t done. You’re a black woman. So, to do that, you’ll have to work twice as hard to get half as far.” However, the…
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#BlackGirlMagic: Children’s Book Little Professor Skye Shows Girls Endless Possibilities Through Learning
It’s not a book about princesses, castles or your regular fantastical adventures. Instead, in the first book of an anticipated series, Munson Steed, CEO of Steed Media Group and the publisher of Rolling Out, depicts young black girls as doing and being anything they want—including doctors, scientists, artists and more. Little Professor Skye: Favorite Things…