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Comment on this storyComment SAN FRANCISCO — Weeks after the Supreme Court restricted the consideration of race in college admissions, a group of Republican attorneys general warned the nation’s biggest companies that diversity quotas in hiring are “immoral” and said they would “vigorously” seek legal action against employers with such practices. The letter — sent Thursday to Fortune 100 companies …

Alex Mashinsky was charged with seven criminal counts – including securities fraud, commodities fraud and wire fraud. Alex Mashinsky, founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, pleaded not guilty Thursday to fraud charges that he misled customers and artificially inflated the value of his company’s propriety crypto token. Three United States federal regulatory agencies also sued Mashinsky …

Disclosure: Stray Gods is published by Humble Games which is owned by Ziff Davis, the parent company of IGN. Humble Bundle and IGN operate completely independently, and no special consideration is given to Humble Bundle announcements or promotions for coverage. A cascade of release date changes is currently underway as this holiday season’s most-anticipated RPGs seek to avoid running into …

As you brave the summer heat in New York City, keep an eye out for five replicas of the Trylon and Perisphere sculpture, which was at the center of the 1939 World’s Fair held in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Nicole Saraniero has the details for Untapped New York: This miniature replica of the Trylon and Perisphere was built as an information booth that …

Lisa Marie Presley died from small bowel obstruction … this according to the L.A. County Coroner. According to an L.A. Medical Examiner document obtained by TMZ … the exact name of the condition is sequelae of small bowel obstruction. Translation — Lisa Marie died of complications resulting from a small bowel obstruction. This document is not the full report, and …

Adam Birney / Android Authority Google’s YouTube depends on advertising revenue, which should come as no surprise if you’re regularly skipping two-minute ad breaks for products you have no interest in. Ads can be so pervasive that many people have turned to blockers to watch uninterrupted. More recently, however, Google has been testing warning messages threatening to limit web playback …

A Russian court has banned the use of Facebook and Instagram after labeling the activities of the apps’ parent company Meta as “extremist,” according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency. The move came after the Russian prosecutor general’s office appealed to the Moscow court for Meta to be designated an “extremist organization” for allowing users in some countries to …

Lego recently announced a new model kit of Wolverine’s iconic glove. The kit is based on Wolverine’s costume in the upcoming Disney Plus series, X-Men ’97, which finally brings the mutants into the Marvel Cinematic Universe while also calling back to the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series from the 1990s. The 596-piece kit features posable fingers and extended Adamantium claws, …

It’s not every single day somebody admits to going to Greggs, however Kara Rose Marshall is unnaturally unassuming, “I used to be in Gregg’s as a result of I used to be skint, I had no cash,” she tells Good day! Style of the situation that led to her being scouted at age 18.  It seems that as probability would have …

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: After the court ruling, Coinbase, Kraken, and Bitstamp resume XRP trading on their US exchanges, while Gemini is exploring the listing of the token  —  U.S. federal court ruled on Thursday that sale of XRP tokens on exchanges and through algorithms did not constitute investment contracts.