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Stagnant iPhone X sales have prompted Apple to dramatically slice production of the tech giant’s latest and most advanced handset, according to a report from the Japanese financial newspaper The Nikkei Asian Review.
Apple initially planned to produce 40 million of these handsets at its Chinese factories between January and March 2018, but Apple has reportedly cut this goal in half to 20 million.
Apparently, major markets in the U.S., China, and Europe are to blame for the now-sluggish sales after an initial buzz following the phone’s release in November. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Slumping iPhone X sales may have convinced Apple to cut production
And now, a dispatch from our sad reality: women are farting — or pretending to fart — in order to stave off sexual harassers.
A particularly salient example comes from the r/TwoXChromosomes subreddit. In a post called “I got my sexual aggressor fired from work today. I’m quite satisfied,” user ThankCod details her use of the fart to repel a co-worker who’d been “accidentally” touching her at the office.
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“I walked by him and turned my butt right next to his hand and just full on farted,” she wrote. “Loud and angry. It’s gross, I know. But if he’s going to make me feel gross and ‘claim my ass’ I’m going to make him feel gross and ‘claim his hand.'” Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Women have resorted to farting to deflect sexual harassment
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Whether it’s the war torn world of Hunger Games, the socially stratified society of Divergent, or civilization in collapse of Delirium, the future depicted in YA is often bleak.
But for James Dashner, author of The Maze Runner series, there is a powerful undercurrent surging beneath the surface of a lot of the post-apocalyptic and dystopian stories popular in young adult novels: hope.
“There are a lot of places in the world that are in worse shape than even the books we’re writing. And with social media, kids are much more aware of it,” says Dashner. “Now kids see pictures of [real] places that are living in either in apocalyptic conditions or dystopian conditions. So I think [readers of the genre] love relating to the fact that our world could go that way, and that someone their age could make a difference in that world.” Read more…
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Source: Mashable | James Dashner reveals the secret element behind dystopian novels: hope