16 OSCAR-NOMINATED MOVIES YOU CAN STREAM RIGHT NOW
From Avengers: Infinity War to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018 was a game-changing year for comic book movies. Not only did superheroes continue to dominate at the box office, but they also, for the first time ever, found their way into the Best Picture Oscar race—thanks to the massively successful Black Panther.
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Lyft’s new ‘most affordable ride’ involves a lot of extra waiting and walking
Lyft — which may beat Uber in going public next month — is offering a new type of carpool service that it is calling its “most affordable ride,” but those savings may come at the expense of your patience. Riders who select Lyft’s new “Shared Saver” service in the app will have to wait a few extra minutes before being paired with a driver. After that, they’ll be directed to walk a couple of blocks to an optimized pickup location. Then, at the end of the trip, they’ll be dropped off a few blocks short of their final destination.
THE VERGE
YouTube axes hundreds of channels over child exploitation concerns
YouTube has removed more than 400 channels and disabled comments on “tens of millions of videos” over the last few days after reports suggested a child porn ring was persisting on the platform. In a comment on a video published by Philip DeFranco Wednesday, the service’s creator relations team said YouTube’s staff are working “incredibly hard to root out horrible behavior,” and have “reported illegal comments to law enforcement.”
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Tech giants called to testify in Ottawa in international probe of fake news
Executives from some of the world’s largest digital and social media firms have been invited to appear before an international committee on disinformation and “fake news” when it meets in Ottawa this May.
The “grand committee” of elected politicians from nine countries, including the U.K. and Canada, has already been stymied in its efforts to hear from some of them at earlier meetings in London.
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A Crucial Role for Human Resources
When you think about the future of work, your perspective may be shaped by the avalanche of material on technology that depicts a great battle between machines and humans, and widespread conversations about self-driving cars, drones, and job losses. There is no doubt that how we live our lives and how society is structured are going through multiple transitions. However, the fundamental forces shaping our lives do not simply concern technological innovation; they also concern the lengthening of healthy life and deep social changes in how we live and form relationships. It is the intersections, the subtle and often unexpected combinations of these forces, that are creating a new reality.
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