Apple heads into developer conference under more scrutiny than ever
Apple needs a distraction, and it needs one fast. On Monday, the company will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2021) during one of the most fraught moments for…
New trailers: Roadrunner, Black Widow, Reminiscence
A trailer for the new documentary about the late Anthony Bourdain, Roadrunner, is among this week’s titles. | Photo by Mike Pont/WireImage It hit me this morning that there is…
Latinx and Low-Income Communities Are Paying the Costs of Plastic Pollution
All too often, the issue of plastic pollution is reduced to plastic straw bans led by clipboard-carrying college students, VSCO girls, and bracelets made with a promise of saving turtles.…
DNC and RNC Have Already Smashed Fundraising Records Ahead of 2022 Midterms
The two largest political party committees are stockpiling record amounts of cash ahead of the 2022 midterms and laying the groundwork for an expensive 2024 clash. The Democratic National Committee…
Water Protectors Converge on Minnesota for Massive Demonstrations Against Line 3
Thousands of people from across the nation are traveling to northern Minnesota this weekend to join Indigenous leaders in what organizers described as the “largest resistance yet” to Line 3,…
Refugees Insist Humanitarian Organization UNHCR Disregards Their Humanity
Since late 2019, waves of protests against the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the supranational branch of the United Nation that works to help displaced populations globally, have…
Some Prisons Reinstate Patdown Searches Although Guards Are Refusing Vaccination
Under the watchful eyes of gun towers above us, prisoners are ushered through the turnstile to enter the yard and then some of us are called over to receive a…
Nuclear Subsidies May Be Slowing Transition to Clean Energy, Advocates Say
The fight to define what counts as clean energy has grown more contentious as the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill takes shape. Many activists, scientists and lawmakers agree that nuclear energy…
Sunday Live: Experts Demand Investigation into Fauci and Wuhan Lab
Emails reveal Fauci lied about origins of COVID-19, had Big Tech run censorship interference, and misinformed the public about masks and lockdowns.
Fossil doesn’t plan to upgrade its existing watches to the new Wear OS
Fossil Fossil executives Greg McKelvey and Steve Prokup said in an interview with CNET that the company’s existing Wear OS watches won’t get upgraded to the new combined Wear software…