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News of 12/14/18
What Will Democrats Do With New California Supermajority? New At Reason.
If you needed more evidence that the California Republican Party is for all intents and purposes the equivalent of Monty Python's dead parrot (it's no more, it has ceased to be, it's kicked the bucket, its metabolic processes have stopped, it is ...
Michael Cohen Says ‘Of Course’ President Trump Knew Hush-Money Payouts Were Wrong
President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer said that “of course” Trump knew it was wrong to order hush-money payments to two women weeks before the 2016 elections. In an interview with ABC News recorded one day after he was ...
Why Are Conservatives Suddenly Supporting Mandatory Paid Leave? New At Reason
The economy is thriving, unemployment rates are low, and companies that have to compete for quality employees are expanding benefits, including paid time off. That makes this an odd moment for conservatives to shift their position on whether the ...
Kurt Loder Reviews Mortal Engines: New At Reason
This is not a Peter Jackson movie, if that's what you may have thought. It's a Peter Jackson- adjacent movie, adapted by the hobbity auteur and his longtime collaborators, Fran Walsh and Phillippa Boyens, from a fantasy novel—the first in a series ...
UK Video Games Workers Unionize Over “Wide-Scale Exploitation” And Diversity Issues
Working in video games might sound like a dream job to a 12-year-old Fortnight-loving kid but the day-to-day reality of grinding in the industry can be as unrelenting as fighting an end of level baddie. Games devs are routinely corralled to ...
China’S BYD Further Drives Into Chile With 100 Electric Buses
Over the past few years, Chinese automaker giant BYD has been on a partnership spree with cities across China to electrify their public transportation systems, and now it’s extending its footprint across the globe. On Thursday, BYD announced ...
Jack Dorsey And Twitter Ignored Opportunity To Meet With Civic Group On Myanmar Issues
Responding to criticism from his recent trip to Myanmar, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he’s keen to learn about the country’s racial tension and human rights atrocities, but it has emerged that both he and Twitter’s public policy ...
International Money Transfer Company TransferGo Scores $17.6m Series B
TransferGo , the London-based international money transfer startup, has raised just over $17.6 million in Series B funding, including an earlier tranche of funding closed in May. The round is led by Vostok Emerging Finance, and Silicon Valley’s ...
Brickbat: And What About The Students?
About 80 teaching assistants at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say they will not turn in final grades until the school abandons plans to return the statue of a Confederate soldier to campus. Silent Sam stood on the campus for more ...
Netflix Is Testing A New Feature That Lets You Instantly Replay Scenes (For Some Reason)
Netflix loves to test new ideas, and its latest experiment is an odd new feature that lets viewers watch a scene again. A selection of Netflix subscribers noticed the new addition, which serves a pop-up asking if they want to “watch this ...
A Former Ofo Exec Is Launching His Own Scooter Startup
The funding extravaganza may be approaching its end for scooter “unicorns” Lime and Bird, but smaller startups in the micro-mobility space have continued to close venture capital rounds at a consistent pace. See Grin , Tier and ...
Japan Begins Reclamation Work At A Disputed U.S. Military Base Despite Protests
(TOKYO) — Japan’s central government started main reclamation work Friday at a disputed U.S. military base relocation site on the southern island of Okinawa despite fierce local opposition. Construction workers dumped a truckload of ...
LemonBox, Which Brings US Vitamins To Chinese Consumers, Raises $2m
LemonBox , a Chinese e-commerce startup that imports vitamins and health products from the US, has raised $2 million to develop its business. The company graduated from Y Combinator’s most recent program in the U.S. and, fuelled by the demo ...
President Trump Said To Have Been In The Room During Hush-Money Meeting
Federal prosecutors said this week that at least one unidentified member of Donald Trump’s campaign joined his lawyer Michael Cohen and the publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer, David Pecker, in a 2015 scheme to kill unflattering news ...
Sri Lanka’S Supreme Court Says The President Violated The Constitution By Dissolving Parliament
(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that President Maithripala Sirisena’s order to dissolve Parliament and hold new elections was unconstitutional, a much-anticipated verdict that further embroils the ...
Distinguished VCs Back Wholesale Marketplace Faire With $100m At A $535m Valuation
A slew of venture capitalists known for high-profile exits — Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures, Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures, Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital and Alex Taussig of Lightspeed Venture Partners — have invested in Faire ...
IMAX Pulls The Plug On Its Dream Of VR Arcades
The company behind the biggest screens in cinema is giving up on bringing VR screens within a few inches of users’ faces. The company announced today in a SEC filing that it will be shutting down its three remaining virtual reality centers ...
These Face-Generating Systems Are Getting Rather Too Creepily Good For My Liking
Machine learning models are getting quite good at generating realistic human faces — so good that I may never trust a machine, or human, to be real ever again. The new approach, from researchers at Nvidia, leapfrogs others by separating levels of ...
Online Ads And Games Would Benefit From More Rewards, According To UCLA Survey
A new study from Versus Systems and the MEMES (Management of Enterprise in Media, Entertainment & Sports) Center at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management examines how gaming and advertising are evolving, and how one influences the other. ...
Tumblr’S Back In The App Store Following Porn Ban Announcement
Tumblr is back. Sort of. The social blogging platform reappeared on Apple’s App Store this week, some three weeks after being pulled over child pornography concerns . Ten days ago, the company adopted a scorched earth response to the issue, ...
