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Turkey marks one year without Wikipedia

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What you need to know about Captain Marvel, who will play a big role in the next 'Avengers' movie

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Warning: Do not read if you have not seen "Avengers: Infinity War" yet. The "Avengers: Infinity War" after-credits sequence teases Captain Marvel, who Brie Larson stars as in a solo movie in March 2019, before appearing in the "Infinity War" sequel next May. The character's real name is Carol Danvers, and after being exposed to alien technology, she becomes Ms. Marvel in the comic books. She has since become Captain Marvel.  Her solo movie takes place in the 1990s and also stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.   By the end of "Avengers: Infinity War," things don't look great for Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Thanos achieved his goal, and half of humanity is now gone, with many of the Avengers vanishing into dust. But Nick Fury has an ace up his sleeve. Right before vanishing, Fury places a distress call to an unidentified character in the film's after-credits sequence. The audience only sees a symbol on a pager that falls t

Jeff Bezos says his advice to Amazon interns and execs is to stop aiming for work-life 'balance' — here’s what you should strive for instead

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he believes the term "work-life balance" is a "debilitating phrase." Bezos revealed that one of the top pieces of advice he offers new Amazon employees is that they shouldn't view the two as a strict tradeoff. Instead, Bezos thinks of his personal and professional pursuits as a "circle" rather than a balancing act.  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn't a fan of the phrase "work-life balance." At a recent awards event hosted by Axel Springer and Business Insider US Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell, Bezos revealed the counterintuitive advice he offers new Amazon employees. Bezos believes that his new hires should stop attempting to achieve "balance" within their professional and personal lives, since that implies a strict tradeoff between the two. Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office. Historically, the world's richest man has a non-traditional

Spotify is a 'unique opportunity' to invest in an industry that's set to triple over the next decade (SPOT)

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Spotify is set to reap the rewards of a quickly growing music subscription industry, Morgan Stanley says. Consumer spending on recorded music has slumped in recent years, but Spotify is "leading a renaissance." The bank is bullish on Spotify, which went public in April, with a price target of $190. Morgan Stanley was a lead bank on Spotify's non-traditional direct public offering .  Follow Spotify's stock price in real-time here. Consumer spending on recorded music was decimated by the internet, but as the sector starts to rebound, it could propel Spotify to new heights, Morgan Stanley says. "We see Spotify leading a renaissance in consumer spending on music," analyst Ben Swinburne told clients Monday. "It is the market share leader with a near global addressable market and has already achieved meaningful scale." Morgan Stanley was a lead bank on Spotify's non-traditional direct public offering .  Here's just how dramatically c

Women of Color of Time’s Up asks the music industry to cut ties with R. Kelly

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For the first time since advocating for the prosecution of Harvey Weinstein, the Time’s Up collective has singled out an alleged abuser: R&B star Robert Kelly. Women of Color of Time’s Up, a subcommittee of the larger group specifically organizing around issues that affect women and girls of color, released a statement this morning announcing their support of #MuteRKelly , an online campaign asking Live Nation and Sony Music to cancel R. Kelly’s tour dates and drop his recording contract. Women of Color of Time’s Up, which includes Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rimes, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell, are also asking other “corporations and venues,” including Kelly’s record label RCA Records , to cut ties with the singer. Over the course of nearly two decades, Kelly has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, statutory rape, aggravated assault, and harassment. Journalist Jim DeRogatis at the Chicago Sun-Times first broke the story in 2000 that Kelly had been accused of statutory

Everything that’ll change for Sprint customers now that T-Mobile is taking over

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After a courtship that lasted longer than the last three seasons of  The Bachelorette , T-Mobile and Sprint have finally made their union official. The boards of both companies have agreed to merge, and assuming that the government doesn't stand in the way ( that's a pretty big if! ), Sprint and T-Mobile customers are going to have to stop making fun of each other. But it's not just the CEO that's going to change. Merging two multi-billion-dollar companies that have a combined 127 million  customers is undoubtedly going to bring about all sorts of changes over the next few years. While the bulk of the details are still left to be revealed, here's what we know will change for customers. Continue reading... BGR Top Deals: Your cable company’s worst nightmare is a little box that only costs $40 on Amazon Amazon just kicked off a huge sale on 38 different Fitbits Trending Right Now: Comcast’s wireless service is such a good deal it’s losing the company money

AMD Plans 7nm Chips for 2019 - PCMag

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PCMag AMD Plans 7nm Chips for 2019 PCMag In terms of chip manufacturing processes, smaller is better and AMD is already ahead of Intel in that regard. Intel's processors continue to use a 14nm process, while AMD's latest generation of Ryzen processors, both the Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X ... AMD 7nm Radeon Vega 20 GPU 32GB HBM2 Benchmarks Leak Hot Hardware AMD Radeon Pro vs NVIDIA Quadro – A Fresh Look At WS GPU Performance Techgage AMD is gearing up for 7-nanometer CPUs and graphics cards Engadget Hardware Secrets  - AMD all 50 news articles »

A physics PhD and startup founder explains how entrepreneurs can get the most basic business advice all wrong

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Happy Numbers is an artificial intelligence-enabled math education platform. CEO Evgeny Milyutin said the biggest lesson he's learned in his time in startups is the importance of knowing your customer. This is pretty common business advice — but he's probably not the only founder who initially went about following it all wrong. It took him a while to realize that meant visiting the classrooms where students and teachers would be using his product, talking to them, and watching them use it. When the iPad debuted in 2010, Evgeny Milyutin was a 26-year-old physics PhD student in France. On the side, he and his longtime friend Ivan Kolomoets had been tutoring their friends' kids in math. It occurred to them then that there was a prime opportunity to improve the quality of math education with emerging digital technologies. At the time, this was a truly novel idea: It was still seven years before Netflix CEO Reed Hastings would invest in a math education startup called