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Disney fans have defended Baymax following conservative outrage over a scene where a trans masculine character is seen shopping in a tampon aisle. The series, which is a spinoff based on the beloved inflatable robot hero from the 2014 animated film Big Hero 6, sees the robot turn into a “personal healthcare companion” who goes around San Fransokyo assisting those who need help.In the third episode, a girl named Sofia heads into an all-gender restroom and is horrified to discover she’s begun her first period right before…

Law Street Media (opens in new tab) reported that Japanese professor Masahiro Iida had sued (opens in new tab) Intel for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,812,737. The complaint accuses Intel of manufacturing, using, and selling Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and System-on-Chip (SoC) chips that employ Adaptive Logic Modules (ALM), a patent that Iida has held from 2004 to 2014.When Iida was a doctoral student back in 2001, he had discovered a method to configure large look up tables (LUTs) so that a single M-input…

Lucasfilm It’s a great time to be a Star Wars fan, what with all the TV shows, books, video games, and even movies that are in the wings. But many feel like we’re still missing something crucial. In fact, I think you wouldn’t be alone in thinking that it’s high time the purple hue of Mace Windu’s lightsaber graced the galaxy far, far away again. That’s what the ever-divisive fandom discourse has been pondering over at Reddit, debating what a story revolving around Mace Windu after his fall in Episode III –…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Police use of violence, especially against Black people, may threaten police agencies' effectiveness by reinforcing residents' legal cynicism and leading to disengagement from police. For example, after the killing by police of George Floyd, a Milwaukee police official said local residents cooperated less with police than they did before the killing.…

WASHINGTON: The US Transportation Department (USDOT) has proposed minimum standards and requirements for electric vehicle (EV) charging projects funded under a $5 billion government program. The rules would require government-funded EV charging stations use DC Fast Chargers and have at least four ports capable of simultaneously charging four EVs and each must be at or above 150 kW. It would also bar charging stations from requiring a memberships to use them. USDOT says requiring the fastest chargers currently available…

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court asked President Joe Biden's administration to weigh in on whether the justices should hear a case on whether Meta Platforms Inc's WhatsApp can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software. The justices are considering NSO's appeal of a lower court's decision allowing the lawsuit to move forward. NSO has argued that it is immune from being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments when it…

Image via Disney Plus Warning: This article contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obi-Wan Kenobi has unsurprisingly filled a lot of continuity gaps between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope so far, but one revelation, in particular, managed to raise a few eyebrows when the show premiered last week. We’re referring to the scene where the Third Sister (Moses Ingram) tries to agitate Kenobi by telling him that Anakin is alive. The titular Jedi Master is taken aback by this revelation, implying that he didn’t know…

Young Thug’s bond hearing is taking place today.Joe Coscarelli of The New York Times reports that the hearing faced some delays as prosecutors argued that Thug’s lawyer Brian Steel should be removed from the case due to an alleged conflict of interest. After some back and forth Steel was allowed to continue to act as Thug’s attorney. After that was settled, Thug’s team asked for their client to be released to home confinement. People who asked the court to allow for Thug to be released on bond included Machine Gun Kelly…

A 2018 lawsuit filed against French Montana over a dog bite has wound down to its conclusion, with a jury having determined the plaintiff should be paid tens of thousands of dollars in economic loss.Per a report from TMZ on Monday, a jury in California has awarded French’s former pool cleaner, Juan Lomeli, with a total of $129,500 in various damages in connection with the bite incident. In short, Lomeli previously accused French’s pet—identified in the report as a German Shepherd by the name of Zane—of “viciously…

eBay’s former director of global resiliency, David Harville, pleaded guilty to taking part in a bizarre harassment campaign, which involved sending live cockroaches, spiders, a bloody pig face mask, and other strange items to a Massachusetts couple (via The Guardian). Harville is the last of seven eBay employees to plead guilty to harassing and stalking the pair. In 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged former eBay employees Harville, James Baugh, Stephanie Popp, Brian Gilbert, Stephanie Stockwell, Veronica…