Vice digital editorial staffers join union
Vice Media's digital editorial staff are joining a union—the latest in a wave of digital staffers voting to unionize.
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News tagged with writers
Engineer produces free Braille-writer app
Three years ago, Sohan Dharmaraja was a Stanford engineering doctoral candidate in search of his next project when he visited the Stanford Office of Accessible Education, which helps blind and visually challenged students ...
Software
Feb 11, 2015
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Writers and readers go mobile and social at Wattpad
Allen Lau considers himself living proof that love of good writing is alive and well in the age of streaming video and terse text messages.
Internet
Sep 28, 2014
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German authors protest to Amazon over e-book price war
More than 1,000 German-language writers have signed a petition protesting against the methods used by online retailer Amazon in its e-book price battle with Scandinavian publishing house Bonnier.
Business
Aug 18, 2014
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World's biggest book fair explores self-publishing trend
Authors are increasingly opting to self-publish as a way to reach readers and sidestep potentially thorny relations with a publisher, industry players at the world's biggest book fair said Thursday.
Business
Oct 10, 2013
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Study finds TV shows with ethnically diverse casts, writers have higher ratings
Television viewers are more likely to watch shows that employ racially diverse casts and writers, according to a new study done at UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2013
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Doubt cast on Sir Bernard Lovell's 'brainwashing'
In this month's edition of Physics World, science writer Richard Corfield casts doubt on the alleged "brainwashing" of the late British astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War and explains ...
General Physics
Feb 8, 2013
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Providence theater experiments with 'tweet seats'
(AP)—Sarah Bertness slipped into her seat at a recent staging of the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" and, when the lights dimmed, started doing something that's long been taboo inside theaters: typing away at her iPhone.
Other
Jan 28, 2013
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Supercapacitors hailed as potential answer to greener public transportation
(Phys.org)—Imagine a bus that uses electrical storage that costs much less than traditional batteries, can fully charge each time the bus stops, and has enough power to easily get to the next stop. The supercapacitor, once ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 3, 2012
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Chinese writers say Apple is online book pirate
(AP) -- A group of prominent Chinese writers have demanded millions of dollars in compensation from technology giant Apple Inc. for allegedly selling unlicensed versions of their books in its online store, a lawyer said ...
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Mar 19, 2012
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