Summer Associate Allegedly Dismissed Over Wild Incident With Cocaine, Hookers

This is definitely a welcome vision from the halcyon Biglaw days of yore.

Gmail boosts its emoji game, adds themes you can edit

Google is constantly tweaking usability features on Gmail, but a new update focuses on fun — emoji style

Now, when you compose a Gmail message you'll have an even larger array of whimsical and descriptive emoji to accent your text-based missive

See also: How to make your Gmail address public without going nuts

Gmail has offered an emoji option for several years, but the expanded number of emoji characters puts the software, which is often used on desktops, more on par with the kind of mobile communications most texters are familiar with.

In addition to the emoji upgrade, Google has also added hundreds of new high-resolution themes to its existing bank of themes that place stuning photography and graphics unobtrusively behind your Gmail interface. The big difference now is that you can edit your theme's background photos Read more...

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How Boing Boing handles customer service on our Facebook page

We get complaints. We aim to please. (more…)

Scalia insult-generator

Justice Antonin Scalia's intemperate dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court's landmark marriage equality case included some epic old dude grumpery, including the phrases "pure applesauce" and "jiggery-pokery." Read the rest

Founder Stories: Webflow’s Y Combinator Journey

Watch Sergie Magdalin, the co-founder and creative director of the visual website building toolkit for professionals, Webflow, discuss some of his harrowing early days as an entrepreneur. Since raising funding at Y Combinator’s demo day, Webflow has acquired over 275,000 users, including Groupon, The New York Times, MasterCard, and others. But things weren’t always so easy for… Read More

The USA found its mojo just in time for the Women's World Cup final

The semifinal match women's soccer fans had circled on their calendars since well before the Women's World Cup got underway finally happened on Tuesday night in Montreal

The USA, ranked second in the world, and Germany, ranked first. A trip to Sunday's World Cup final on the line. As big as it gets

See also: How FIFA left France out of the Women's World Cup semifinals

A U.S squad that played with more drive and sharpness than we've seen so far had its way with Germany in a 2-0 win. Sunday's final in Vancouver will now pit the U.S. against the winner of Wednesday's semifinal match between Japan and England. In the meantime, here are three big takeaways from Tuesday's USA-Germany showdown Read more...

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Goblies: hand thrown paintballs

High school student Briana Gardell invented these colorful powder filled paintballs that you can throw by hand, instead of using a compressed air gun.

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Mark Zuckerberg takes questions from Stephen Hawking, Arnold Schwarzenegger in bizarre Q&A

Well, that got... weird.

Facebook held one of its regular Q&A Townhall sessions with Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday. Rather than a live event with Zuckerberg answering questions from a live audience, the question and answer session was in AMA format on the CEO's timeline.

But Tuesday's Townhall took a turn for the weird when a handful of Facebook's more high profile users, including Stephen Hawking, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffington, chimed in with their own questions for the Facebook boss.

See also: Facebook says your rainbow profile pictures won't be used to sell ads

In what must have been a well-orchestrated PR move from the social network, Hawking, Schwarzenegger and Huffington kicked things off by asking Zuckerberg about his take on science, workouts and journalism, respectively Read more...

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Apple Music Now Available On The Mac Via iTunes

Apple Music arrived earlier today on iOS, with the iOS 8.4 update, and now it’s coming to the desktop via a new version of iTunes. The launch has been going pretty well so far, with only a few hiccups including some early mic testing by Zane Lowe prior to the official launch of the 24-hour Beats 1 radio station. The update went out quickly and consistently, however, and streaming seems… Read More

'Creed' trailer is no schlocky 'Rocky' — this thing looks awesome

LOS ANGELES — Now we're ready to believe in Creed.

When it was announced in 2013 that MGM and Warner Bros. were training up a Rocky spin-off with Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan in the title role, we have to admit we were scratching our heads. Was another trip into the Rocky ring, which seemed out of gas after a wildly uneven six films, really the best move for one of Hollywood's brightest up-and-coming director/actor duos?

SEE ALSO: 'Terminator Genisys' review: With Arnold, it pops. Without him, it fizzles

Then along came this trailer, which first played at Cinemacon and was released Tuesday. No joke: This thing looks like it has a fighting chance at greatness. Read more...

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The Road Not Taken: How Long Must I Wait?

If an in-house career is what you want, don’t use the timeline of your career as your primary focus.

VMware Agrees To Pay $75.5M To Settle Illegal Pricing Allegations

In a significant settlement that could embolden American employees who witness company misconduct, VMware and government contractor Carahsoft Technology Corporation agreed to pay the $75.5 million today to settle illegal pricing allegations. The Department of Justice accused the companies of violating the Fair Claims Act and overcharging the government, in a case brought in conjunction with… Read More

The (Monday) Morning After: A Conversation About Obergefell With David Lat

ReplyAll conversationalist Zach Abramowitz chats with Above the Law managing editor David Lat about the Supreme Court's big gay marriage ruling.

Free-Range Kids Need This Lawyer

We talk with Matthew Dowd who represents the Meitiv family about Free Range Children.

Where Are The Invisible Apps?

More than a year ago, Matthew Panzarino wrote an article on TechCrunch in which he described a new type of mobile app experience that he coined the Invisible App. He predicted that we would imminently see the rise of a huge number of apps that would live in the background, anticipating our needs based on sensor and contextual data, and do things for us before we even had to ask. What an… Read More