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Facebook Spends $US20 Million To Quiet Gentrification Critics Near Its Headquarters
Facebook is making good on its promise to build affordable housing near its headquarters in Menlo Park. The social media giant announced plans on Friday to build new housing in the area to offset concerns about the controversial 335,280m² expansion of its headquarters.
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George Lucas Helped Create Official Fansites
StarWars.com is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend and an oral history on the origins of the official Star Wars news and fan site basically shows how George Lucas was one of the first purveyors of official movie fan communities.
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VMware’s Rick And Morty-Influenced Sci-Fi Podcasts Are Surprisingly Good
I get it. You’re trying to market a product that’s inherently uninteresting or difficult to explain, so regular forms of communication are no good. This is the challenge VMware — a company that specialises in virtualisation software — likely faces on a daily basis. So what’s a sales department to do? Cook up a bunch…
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I Took The Official Phantom Menace Quote Quiz And Failed Miserably
Star Wars has some of the most iconic lines of dialogue in movie history. From the first “Use the Force, Luke” to the latest “Chewie, we’re home,” we will be reciting these lines long after movie theatres are replaced by VR implants. But, there’s still a sad truth we must face: Does anyone remember a…