By Paul’s telling of it, sin is sin. He lumps the obvious together with the less obvious. Rage and sexual dysfunction. Drunkenness and unforgiveness. Lying gets in pretty much every list. None of it is good for the soul. None of it fits through Heaven’s door. (more…)
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Man has, in Aldous Huxley‘s phrase, “an infinite appetite for distraction.” Thus, our pastimes have evolved into weapons of mass distraction: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, and on and on. Pascal told us “that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is calling on Uber to release its employee demographics and join the fight to "change the face of technology." (more…)
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At Pinterest's weekly staff meeting on the Friday after the presidential election, co-founders Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp and diversity chief Candice Morgan got up and reiterated the company's commitment to diversity and inclusion. (more…)
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Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That’s why today it will start showing shoppable tags on photos from 20 retail brands like Kate Spade and JackThreads to iOS users in the US. (more…)
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Ime Archibong was eating lunch on Facebook's Silicon Valley campus with former colleague Makinde Adeagbo last year when Adeagbo pitched the idea for /dev/color, a nonprofit organization to bring together and grow the ranks of African-American software developers. (more…)
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been targeted by hackers who were yesterday able to briefly gain control of several of his social media accounts, some of which were defaced. (more…)
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March 14, aka Pi Day (because 3.14 ... get it?) is officially here, and while that means different things to different people, if you ask us, it means just one thing: it's time to eat pie. (more…)
Read MoreGRILLED CHICKEN AND SPINACH QUESADILLAS Get the recipe. Click here for full list. SOURCE: MSN
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It’s hard to ignore the diversity discussion that’s sweeping through Silicon Valley. (more…)
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Young adults who spend a lot of time on social media during the day, or check it frequently throughout the week are more likely to suffer sleep disturbances according to a new study. (more…)
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Days after her conversation with President Obama, Jewel Burks still beams. (more…)
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On the night of May 27th, Charnice Milton, a twenty-seven-year-old journalist, was heading home from an assignment. She’d stopped to transfer buses in Anacostia, in Washington, D.C., after covering a neighborhood meeting for a Capitol Hill paper called the Hill Rag. According to police, Milton took a bullet aimed at
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Instagram is cranking up its money machine, and that means a lot more ads in your photo feed. (more…)
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Pinterest has raised $367 million in a new round of funding that more than doubles the website’s valuation to $11 billion. (more…)
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Facebook Inc. is getting less and less cool, at least among teens. (more…)
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If your house is anything like mine, the holidays are insane. Modern-day mommyhood looks less Martha Stewart and more circus clown during a juggling act. With work, school, and kids happening 24/7, I don't always have time to slow down long enough to look at Pinterest -- let alone attempt
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In the tense days after an unarmed black teen was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., Justin Edmund wondered why no one else in Silicon Valley was talking about it. (more…)
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When I was in high school, Bethany and I decided we wanted to do a really cool photo shoot of ourselves. (more…)
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Social media’s promise was that people with different views and political ties could mingle in digital bliss. But some social sites are more popular with one political party than another. (more…)
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