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DHL has agreed to pay $8.7 million to resolve a long running lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the delivery company discriminated against Black workers in the Chicago area. The EEOC accused the company of assigning Black workers to routes in neighborhoods with higher crime rates, segregating Black and white employees and assigning Black workers to move heavy packages while white employees were assigned to sort letters, the agency said in a news release Thursday announcing the agreement.

Threads has announced it has reached the milestone of 150 million active monthly users. The social platform from Facebook and Instagram owner, Meta, was introduced as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X and since its launch in July, it has maintained steady growth. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg provided the update during his company’s Q1 earnings call this week, as Threads begins to test a feature to let users auto-archive posts after a set time.

By far the driest chuckles, among those present for a sneak preview of F1 24, came at the mention of “secret meetings,” a new wrinkle that Codemasters is using to add flavor to an even bigger overhaul to its Driver Career mode. After all, we just saw a whopper of a secret meeting back in January, when seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton announced he would leave Mercedes to drive for Ferrari next year. It’s the kind of soap opera story arc that F1 fans find so titillating, even when it’s the off-season, that has been largely missing from the video game series’ otherwise deep driver career mode.

Eve has landed and Stellar Blade is attracting a huge amount of attention and not just for the obvious reasons. We have got a great game on our hands and it’s time to dig a little deeper and see what Stellar Blade is all about. If you want to see the kinds of review scores Stellar Blade has been getting you can check our review round-up if you need any extra convincing. Most games these days have a method of Fast Travel, enabling you to get around the game world in as quick a possible time and not get stuck in some kind of walking loop.

Total War: Warhammer III’s latest update, Patch 5.0, brings new content and characters to the Old World. Creative Assembly, the game’s developer, released a preview of the changes and introduced free playable campaign characters to pave the way for upcoming paid DLC. What do we get with the Total War: Warhammer III Patch 5.0 ? Creative Assembly’s legacy when providing update patches is to reward its loyal Warhammer community with a few expanded features.

NEW YORK — Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in the U. S. received President Joe Biden’s official signoff Wednesday. But the newly minted law could be in for an uphill battle in court. Critics of the sell-or-be-banned ultimatum argue it violates TikTok users’ First Amendment rights.