Why Women Should Boycott the Oscars, the New iPhone 5se and Donald Rumsfeld’s iPad App: Today’s Most Interesting News
1. At last year’s Academy Awards, Patricia Arquette spoke out about pay inequality. And just a few months ago, Jennifer Lawrence revealed her own difficulties dealing with the studios. How can women in show business fight for and earn equal pay? What if they boycotted the Oscars?
2. More details on Apple’s iPhone 5se emerged today. The new 4-inch phone, which will closely resemble the iPhone 5s, will feature an upgraded processor, new camera features and always-on Siri functionality.
3. Women in several Latin American countries have been asked not to have children until 2018. The request comes in response to an outbreak of the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness which has been linked to severe birth defects in South America. The World Health Organization yesterday said that the virus will likely spread across all of the Americas, excluding Canada and Chile.
4. Donald Rumsfeld made an iPad app, then blogged about it on Medium. Almost as weird as when my dad joined twitter to follow that hitchhiking robot.
5. A 17-year-old has been charged with murder in connection to last week’s school shooting in La Loche, SK.
