Google sued by female ex-employees over pay discrimination
Google's salary practices are back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Three women who worked for the company are suing over gender-based wage discrimination. The plaintiffs claim Google knew...
View ArticleLightweight Markup Languages: This Is Why You Should Use AsciiDoc Over...
As you’ve likely seen from past articles, here at MakeUseOf we’re fans of Markdown. By learning this simple and intuitive format, you’re able to easily create nice-looking output. From PDF’s to web...
View Article‘Star Trek: Discovery’ spaceship flies over New York – CNET
The USS Discovery takes off for real in Manhattan the night before the show’s premiere. Well, sort of. CNET News
View ArticleRoku’s IPO pushes its value to over $2 billion
When Roku announced it was chasing an IPO, its sights were to raise $ 100 million. The end result is more than double that, according to Bloomberg. As of press time, investors had bought some $ 219...
View ArticleXiaomi shipped over 10 million phones in September – CNET
It still has some catching up to do to beat Huawei, but Xiaomi is regaining some of its lost momentum. CNET News
View ArticleSnap CEO: Spectacles sales are ‘over 150,000 units’
Now that the hype around Snap's Spectacles has died down, there is the question of how many units the company actually sold. In a conversation today at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, CEO...
View Article‘Rick and Morty’ fans are fried over lack of Szechuan sauce – CNET
McDonald’s apologizes after sauce vanishes quickly, ending up on eBay. Some fans are still unhappy. CNET News
View ArticleEU raids banks over attempts to block financial tech rivals
You'd think that governments were waging a war against financial technology given reports of crackdowns and tighter regulation, but the opposite is true in Europe. EU officials have confirmed that...
View ArticleGreenpeace blasts Amazon over poor environmental practices
Greenpeace has made a tradition out of raking companies over the coals when their environmental practices fall short of its standards, and that's truer than ever in the activist group's latest...
View ArticleMicrosoft drops its lawsuit over gag orders on DoJ searches
It's been more than a year since Microsoft sued the government (with backing from Amazon, Apple, Google and many others) over the right to tell its customers when the authorities ask it to hand over...
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