Category: 2018

2018 Black Panther Box Office Diversity Representation

Study confirms women and people of color crushed it at the 2018 box office

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

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The future is female, diverse, and lucrative as hell.

A new study conducted by USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has revealed what many 2018 moviegoers already knew: Women and people of color crushed it at the box office.

Looking at the 100 highest-grossing films from each of the past 12 years, USC’s research team broke down 2018’s diversity gains by comparing last year’s casting stats with previously established casting trends.

 Here are a few of the study’s major finds about the top 100 films of 2018, compared to the top 100 films of each year since 2007:  Read more…

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2018 app-store Apple Holidays Iphone

Apple sets App Store sales record during holidays, despite disastrous quarter

sudshr47 January 3, 2019

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In the wake of a historic stock price drop, Apple surprised investors with some good news on Thursday.

Customers helped Apple set an App Store sales record during the 2018 holiday season. This news comes just one day after the company lowered revenue expectations for its holiday quarter, resulting in a loss of $57 billion in market value.

According to Apple, App Store customers spent more than $1.22 billion on app and game downloads and subscription purchases between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

This is the most money ever spent in the App Store in a single week. In addition to the $1.22 billion record, Apple customers set a new single-day record. iPhone and iPad users spent more than $322 million on New Year’s Day. Read more…

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2018 Cardi B Culture End Of Year 2018 Memes

15 of 2018’s most exceptional memes

sudshr47 December 26, 2018

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In a less than stellar year, memes were a saving grace in 2018.

Like a lighthouse, bringing us to shore, memes truly rescued us from the dark abyss of the internet bringing us hilarious and utterly absurd content. 

Just take a look at these 15 incredible memes that graced our eyeballs this year, and never forget the sacred power of the meme:

1. Moths

y’all got any fuckin lamps? pic.twitter.com/aTpxQdNz7G

— jon (@jonwadec) August 7, 2018

This delightful, surrealist meme, revolved heavily around a moth’s love of lamps and lights. In most of these memes, moths are either looking for lamps, fantasizing about them, or embracing them tenderly — despite how deadly they are to moths. Read more…

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2018 American Horror Story Controversial Sacha Baron Cohen The Handmaid S Tale

9 of the most irresponsible TV moments of 2018

sudshr47 December 22, 2018

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A grab bag of 2018 TV spoilers lies ahead. You have been warned.

We’re not mad. Just disappointed. 

The past twelve months of TV gave us killer comedy specials, incredible new series, and a whole lot of (positive) NOPE. Unfortunately, in the words of renowned television critic Isaac Newton, what goes up must come down. Hard.

From Pete Davidson mocking a veteran on SNL to the hellscape that was the Season 2 finale of 13 Reasons Why, here are 9 of the most irresponsible TV moments of 2018—in ascending order of do better-ness

Note: We’re keeping this list in the entertainment realm — hard news obviously had its own host of issues this year. Read more…

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2018 Climate Change Global Warming Nasa Science

2018 takes the podium as one of the hottest years on record. Let’s look deeper.

sudshr47 December 20, 2018

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“We’ve known since the 1980s that Earth has had a fever,” stressed Sarah Green, an environmental chemist, in a recent interview.

That fever continued, undiminished, in 2018. 

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies keeps track of Earth’s changing temperatures with a data bank that reaches back to the 1880s. This year will end up as the 4th-warmest year in recorded history, Gavin Schmidt, the director of the NASA program, said over email.

“I’d emphasize that any one year’s temperature is not that important, but the long-term trends are — and they are unmistakable and furthermore, exactly in line with predictions made years ago,” Schmidt, a climate scientist, said. “The trends are due almost entirely to us (and specifically the fossil-fuel related increases in CO2).” Read more…

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2018 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Mashable Video money

Mark Zuckerberg is apparently set to lose more money this year than any other billionaire

sudshr47 December 19, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg had a pretty interesting year, battling privacy and political scandalsTime reports he is set to lose more money this year than any of the world’s other richest billionaires.  Read more…More about Facebook, Mashable Video, Money…

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