Monthly Archives: September 2022

You should be discussing your salary with coworkers if you want to be paid what you’re worth, according to TikTok creators

Courtesy of Ryan Stygar TikTokers are encouraging salary transparency among coworkers to identify wage gaps and prevent discrimination. A recent survey found 15% of Gen X is comfortable talking money with close friends compared to 37% of Gen Z. Discussing your salary is a federally protected right under the National Labor Relations Act.  While some…

Hillary Clinton said she’d sometimes have a ‘wry’ exchange with Queen Elizabeth about how ‘as a woman leader you always had to have your hair done’

The Queen And Prince Philip With President Bill Clinton And His Wife Hillary At Buckingham Palace. Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared some of her memories with Queen Elizabeth II. Clinton said she and the late Queen had privately remarked on being women leaders. The late Queen’s…

Here’s our first look at The Division Heartland’s gameplay

As part of last night’s Ubisoft Forward presentation, Ubisoft has revealed the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming The Division game, The Division Heartland. A standalone, free-to-play addition to the The Division series, Heartland is a survival-action multiplayer shooter “set in small-town America within the Division universe”. While initially it was expected to release in…

Zoom vs. Adobe Connect

The need for webinar software picked up during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains an important tool for many businesses. Both Zoom and Adobe Connect can fill the gap, enabling remote learning, teaching, and working. Released in 2011, Zoom is a well-known platform for webinars as well as video calls and call recording. Adobe has…

Ikea’s Swedish House Mafia record player is actually going on sale next month

Ikea’s Obegränsad record player. | Image: Ikea Ikea’s record player made in collaboration with music supergroup Swedish House Mafia is set to go on sale in October. The all-black device sports an unsurprisingly minimalistic look and will cost you $159.99 once it hits Ikea’s maze-like stores. The record player is part of Ikea’s overarching Obegränsad…

‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ spoiler-free review: Rian Johnson delivers a superb whodunnit

Rian Johnson is single-handedly reviving the whodunnit genre. Sure, Kenneth Branagh’s been churning out Hercule Poirot adaptations busting at the seams with big names. But where Branagh’s detective movies are fondly looking back at the past through a tediously romantic (and self-indulgent) lens, Johnson’s original stories use the framework of an Agatha Christie novel to create…

Who is Werewolf by Night? Everything you need to know about the MCU hero and what it means going forward

At this year’s D23 Expo, Marvel finally unveiled the official trailer for its Halloween special, Werewolf by Night. Directed by Michael Giacchino, not much is known plotwise but from the trailer, it looks to be a group of monster hunters fighting to find the werewolf among them. To a more casual fan of the MCU,…

Airline CEO under fire for pay bump, $2.1 million salary after flight cancellations left thousands of passengers stranded in Bali

Alan Joyce, CEO of Qantas, speaks in front of the Qantas Boeing 747-400, registration VH-OEJ. David Gray/Getty Images Qantas CEO Alan Joyce received a $287k pay raise over the past year, company documents show.  The CEO and other top execs were not awarded cash bonuses, bringing his base salary to $2.1 million.  The airline stranded…