Between Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Black Panther and the announcement of Lashana Lynch, a Black woman, as the eponymous 007, discourse for years has revolved around the moves Hollywood has made towards representation on screen. Usually, the push for diversity is accompanied by critiques that representation is a manufactured issue — like how Lynch was...

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Last year the plummeting overall viewer count of the Oscars and the Olympics sparked concern around the entertainment industry, threatening the millions in advertisement dollars that top companies have put into these events for years, and the ecosystem's viability as a whole. This year, rising Oscars viewership has changed the narrative surrounding these relics of mass entertainment — could it...

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Over the last few months there have been hundreds of national attacks in conservative media about critical race theory, the boogeyman that has become a tenet of the Republican party platform ahead of the midterm elections. Critical race theory was brought up in the supreme court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings and was even considered worthy of martyrdom by...

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In case you’ve been living under a solar-powered rock for the last few weeks, you’ve almost certainly noticed that prices for gas have gotten more than a little absurd. Here in California, gas costs have risen to an average of $5.835 a gallon, per AAA, meaning you could fill your car with a venti pumpkin spice latte instead of a...

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I’ve always loved reading. If you talk to any of my teachers from elementary or middle school, they’d be quick to tell all about my sordid history of reading in class, openly ignoring whatever they were teaching and burying myself in a new book every other day. I devoured fantasy, science fiction and just about anything else in the fiction...

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With the release of its new flagship phone, the Pixel 6 Pro, Google has aggressively advertised its unique selling points — chief among which is the artificial intelligence (AI) integration through a new Tensor chip, a custom mobile chip designed exclusively for Pixel phones. This addition is in line with industry movement towards making computing chips in house (like Apple’s...

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Everyone knows the “green vs. blue bubble” debate. Apple users love leveraging it to demonstrate their superiority, and Android users are very familiar with being told they’ve ruined the group chat. The dreaded green bubble makes iMessage get rid of all the new bells and whistles that text messaging has seen develop in the last half decade, like read receipts,...

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