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While tech companies' racial and gender disparities are grave, Reveal found many firms haven't been held back by conventional excuses.

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MEET THE NEW BOSS THE PIPELINE NEEDS A PIPE Here's The Clearest Picture Of Silicon Valley's Diversity Yet: It's Bad. But Some Companies Are Doing Less Bad revealnews.org While tech companies' racial and gender disparities are grave, Reveal found many firms haven't been held back by conventional excuses. A GROWING PROBLEM Meet The 'Kratom Warriors' Who Say This Plant Will End The Opioid Epidemic buzzfeed.com Is kratom the answer to the opioid crisis — or the start of a new one? FINALLY! WATCH: DARPA Literally Just Reinvented The Wheel digg.com The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is always inventing crazy new stuff. The Reconfigurable Wheel Track is crazy because it's two things — a wheel and a tread — and it can seamlessly switch between them. 100% A LUNCH FOR THE 1% Wall Street's Newest Hot Commodity: The $185 Wagyu Steak Sandwich bloomberg.com The cheapest, made from a hybrid of Japanese and American cows, Washugyu, will cost about $25. TECH WE DIGG ǀ SPONSORED Slack Helps You Talk Less And Do More slack.com Slack integrates with the apps and services you already use every day. Pipe in performance data, support tickets, budget approvals, code reviews, sales leads, bug reports, press mentions — it all flows into the stream of conversation. SOMETHING AWFUL VERIFIED NIGHTMARE Terrible Brand Puts Up A Security-Guarded Mural In LA Just For Verified Social Media Influencers digg.com This is an outrage. NEFARIOUS NEIGHBORS The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight US Cities theintercept.com Thousands of people pass by the buildings each day and rarely give them a second glance, because their function is not publicly known. OH, I KNOW: PEOPLE WHO MAKE $90K OR MORE Who Gets To Live In Silicon Valley? theatlantic.com Google and San Jose hope to make the city more affordable for working- and middle-class families. DIGG GIVEAWAYS Why Pay For $2000 A Gaming PC And Oculus Rift When You Could Win It For Free? dojomojo.ninja We're giving away a $1200 Acer Aspire gaming PC, a $400 Oculus Rift VR headset, a $300 Asus gaming monitor and a $100 gaming keyboard and mouse. Enter here to win. VIDEO OF THE DAY 'NEVER DO THIS TO A WOMAN' Reporter Firmly Dresses Down A Man Who Attempted To Kiss Her During World Cup Broadcast digg.com Julia Guimarães, a reporter with TV Globo and SporTV in Brazil, says this is the second time she has been sexually harassed during the Russia world cup. This particular incident occurred before the Japan vs. Senegal game. IN THE NEWS Border Officials Suspend Handing Over Migrant Families To Prosecutors Republicans Press Ahead With Narrow Fix To Migrant Crisis Created By Trump Harley-Davidson Will Move Some Production Out Of US After Retaliatory Tariffs With CBD, Marijuana-Based Medicine Gets Its First Greenlight From The FDA Do We Need Civility In Politics? DIGG PICKS An Automatic Toothbrush For People Who Are Curious (Or Lazy) indiegogo.com If you value dental hygiene but not enough to regularly floss or brush for the full dentist-recommended two minutes, there's CHIIZ. It's a sonic-powered, retainer-like automatic toothbrush that enables you to "optimize your morning" or "be as lazy as possible" depending on how you want to look at it. You don't need 20,000 followers to have a place in Digg's heart. <3 View the Edition at Digg.com »

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