all News of 04/20/19

All The Top Democrats Running For President Favor Legalizing Marijuana

All the Top Democrats Running for President Favor Legalizing Marijuana image "Marijuana legalization," declared a Vox headline last month, "is winning the 2020 Democratic primaries." A quick scan of the field indeed shows how far we've come since even 2011, when " Choom gang " alum Barack Obama was still cracking down on ...

Northern Irish Police Arrest 2 Teenagers Over Killing Of Journalist

Northern Irish Police Arrest 2 Teenagers Over Killing of Journalist image LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of a journalist during rioting in the city of Londonderry. The men, aged 18 and 19, were detained under anti-terrorism ...

Paris Yellow Vest Protests Mix Anger With Notre Dame Mourning

Paris Yellow Vest Protests Mix Anger With Notre Dame Mourning image PARIS — French yellow vest protesters set small fires as they marched through Paris on Saturday to drive home their latest message to the government: that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem the nation ...

Ontario’S Glacial Booze Reforms Aren’T Enough

In Canada, a new Ontario provincial budget released last week proposes to loosen alcohol consumption rules in the province, including allowing licensed establishments to start serving alcohol at 9 a.m., legalizing tailgating, letting local ...

Foggy Sex Trafficking Stats Pop Up In The Bay Area

Many people warned that the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) would endanger the lives of adults who consensually exchange sex for money. Ten months after its passage, CBS San Francisco reported that the city saw a whopping 170 percent "spike ...

Notes From The Samsung Galaxy Fold: Day Four

Apologies for skipping day three. This kept me extremely busy yesterday. Though the Galaxy Fold remained a constant companion. Before you ask (or after you ask on Twitter without having read beyond the headline), no it’s hasn’t broken yet . ...

Boston Dynamics Showcases New Uses For SpotMini Ahead Of Commercial Production

Last year at our TC Sessions: Robotics event, Boston Dynamics announced its intention to commercialize SpotMini. It was a big step for the secretive company. After a quarter of building some of the world’s most sophisticated robots, it was ...

If You Watch One Celebrity-Filled, Anally Obsessed Charity Video Before Earth Day, Make It This One

Lil Dicky, the white comedy rapper with questionable taste but an impressive rolodex, has come up with a millennial’s Earth Day answer to the 80s celebrity-studded, charity hit “ We are the World “. Dicky isn’t tackling ...

Caterina Fake Is Known For Her Trend-Spotting; Here’S Some Of What She’S Chasing Now

Roughly a year ago, entrepreneurs Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström decided to form a traditional venture outfit called Yes VC . Fast forward, and the duo has nearly closed on $50 million for their debut fund, including backing from Supercell founder ...

Tesla’S Board Is About To Get A Lot Smaller

Tesla is cutting its board down by more than 36 percent to seven directors by 2020, a move that includes the loss of some CEO Elon Musk’s early advisers and allies, according to regulator filings posted Friday. The filing comes days ...

Fastly, The Content Delivery Network, Files For An IPO

Fastly , the content delivery network that’s raised $219 million in financing from investors ( according to Crunchbase ), is ready for its close up in the public markets. The eight-year-old company is one of several businesses that improve ...

Equity Shot: Pinterest Zooms Into The Public Markets (And Yet Another Tech Company Files For An IPO)

Hello and welcome back to  Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is a relaxed, Friday, Equity Shot. That means Kate and Alex were on deck to chew through the latest ...

The Mueller Probe Made Them Famous. They Plan To Keep Cashing In

The Mueller Probe Made Them Famous. They Plan to Keep Cashing In image During Robert Mueller’s investigation, consultant Eric Garland charged hundreds of fans $10 per month for access to his locked Twitter feed promising “troll-free, disinformation-free” insight into Russia’s 2016 election ...

5 Times The Mueller Report Showed Trump And His Associates Didn’T Tell The Truth

5 Times the Mueller Report Showed Trump and His Associates Didn’t Tell the Truth image President Donald Trump and his staff misled the public on a number of important matters, and even at times on minor details, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. After issuing thousands of subpoenas and interviewing hundreds ...

Elizabeth Warren Demands Trump’S Impeachment In Wake Of Mueller Report

In the wake of the Mueller report's release, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) has called for starting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. In a Friday afternoon Twitter thread , the senator and 2020 presidential contender laid ...

Harvey Weinstein Is Terrible. Calling Him A Sex Trafficker Is Absurd

According to a vast array of evidence, movie producer Harvey Weinstein is not a good man. After all, dozens of women have accused him of abuses ranging from pressuring women into sexual activity in exchange for movie roles to forcible sexual assault. ...

What A Watergate Expert Thinks Of The Mueller Report

What a Watergate Expert Thinks of the Mueller Report image The release on Thursday of a redacted version of Robert Mueller’s full report on the Russia probe represents a major moment in the history of special counsels in the United States — but no use of that office looms as large in the ...

New Federal Immigration Guidance Says Stoners Lack ‘Good Moral Character’

Today the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency, which processes citizenship applications and is part of the Department of Homeland Security, released a policy alert saying that consuming state-legal marijuana could still be ...

Simon Abundance Index Launch On Monday At The Cato Institute

The Limits to Growth in 1972 featured calculations of "exponential reserve index" for important nonrenewable resources that assumed exponential growth rates in consumption while multiplying known reserves of each resource fivefold. After crunching ...

Malware Researcher Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty, Ending His Legal Case

Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins has pleaded guilty to two counts of creating and selling a powerful banking malware, ending a long and protracted battle with U.S. prosecutors. Hutchins, a British national who goes by the online handle ...