all News of 07/18/19

Google Teams Up With Apollo 11 Astronaut To Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Moon Landing

It’s the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, so it’s no surprise that Google’s daily doodle celebrates this milestone today. To mark the event, Google teamed up with NASA and Michael Collins, the astronaut who piloted the remained ...

Inside Harley Davidson’S EV Shift With A Ride On Its LiveWire

Inside Harley Davidson’s EV shift with a ride on its LiveWire image Harley-Davidson will release its first production electric motorcycle in September, the LiveWire. Yes, the American symbol for internal combustion, chrome and steel is going all in on two-wheeled EVs. Founded in Milwaukee in 1903, Harley ...

Dennis Prager, Who Boasts 1 Billion Video Views A Year, Decries YouTube 'Censorship'

Dennis Prager, the right-leaning radio host and pundit who runs the widely successful nonprofit PragerU, testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. His subject was Google's alleged censorship of conservatives. "I ...

Storytelling Community Wattpad Launches Paid Stories And Its Ad-Free Subscription Globally

Storytelling community Wattpad launches Paid Stories and its ad-free subscription globally image Online storytelling community Wattpad, also now a content feeder for streaming services and other media companies, is taking its two consumer-facing paid products global. Wattpad Premium, the ad-free subscription tier, first launched in 2017 and ...

A Fire At Kyoto Animation Killed 33 People. Here’S What To Know About The Deadly Arson Attack In Japan

A Fire at Kyoto Animation Killed 33 People. Here’s What to Know About the Deadly Arson Attack in Japan image Thirty-three people have died and dozens have been left injured after a suspected arson attack in an animation studio in Kyoto, Japan. A man reportedly shouted “You die!” before setting fire to Kyoto Animation studio on Thursday, local ...

‘I Believe In My Work.’ How Rep. Ilhan Omar Rose From Refugee To Trump’S Top Target

‘I Believe in My Work.’ How Rep. Ilhan Omar Rose From Refugee to Trump’s Top Target image Dahabo Mohamed, a freshman at Richfield High near Minneapolis, is patiently waiting in the school’s auditorium to meet her Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar. Omar has just finished giving remarks to the student body on a Tuesday morning in late May, ...

The New Conservative Nationalism Is About Subverting Individual Liberty

You're probably old enough to remember a time when conservatives opposed the idea that it was the federal government's job to solve most problems. A time when they thought that individuals, families, and community groups, not politicians, were ...

Rand Paul Was Right To Delay Vote On Funding Bill For 9/11 First Responders

Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) is catching a lot of flak for demanding that the Senate actually debate an open-ended extension of the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund . On Wednesday afternoon, Paul objected to when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ...

Mississippi Gubernatorial Candidates Out-Billy-Graham-Ing Each Other

First, Mississippi gubernatorial candidate and state Rep. Robert Foster refused to have a female reporter accompany him on a campaign trip, an otherwise standard practice. Not to be outdone, his competitor Bill Waller Jr., the former chief justice ...

Slack Resets User Passwords After 2015 Data Breach

Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by a historical data breach that affected the company more than four years ago. In 2015, the company said it was hit by hackers who gained access to its user profile database, ...

VComply Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round Led By Accel To Simplify Risk And Compliance Management

Risk and compliance management platform VComply announced today that it has picked up a $2.5 million seed round led by Accel Partners for its international growth plan. The funding will be used to acquire more customers in the United States, open a ...

Toys ‘R’ Us Taps Tech Startup b8ta To Bring Its Stores Into The Future

b8ta, the retail as a service startup that has partnered with the likes of Google and Macy’s, is getting into the kids’ toys space. As part of a new joint venture with Tru Kids Brands, which owns Toys “R” Us, b8ta will bring ...

12 Israelis Detained In Cyprus For Alleged Rape Of British Woman

12 Israelis Detained in Cyprus for Alleged Rape of British Woman image (PARALIMNI, Cyprus) — A Cyprus court has ordered 12 Israelis vacationing on the east Mediterranean island nation to remain in police custody for eight days after a 19-year-old British woman alleged that she was raped. Judge Tonia Nicolaou ...

Could Your Cell Phone Really Crash Your Flight? On 2 Popular Boeing Jets, There’S A Risk

Could Your Cell Phone Really Crash Your Flight? On 2 Popular Boeing Jets, There’s a Risk image U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger cellphones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. More than 1,300 jets registered in the U.S. were ...

ISRO’S Chandrayaan-2 Moon Lander Mission Launch Reset For July 22

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was all set to launch its Chandrayaan-2 mission to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole last week, but a “technical snag” observed during the last hour of launch prep put a hold on ...

Intel Announces Deep, Multi-Year Partnership With SAP

Intel announced a deep partnership with SAP today around using advanced Intel technology to optimize SAP software tools. Specifically the company plans to tune its Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory for ...

Qualcomm Hit With $271m EU Fine Over Predatory Pricing Of Baseband Chips

A long-running European antitrust investigation into whether Qualcomm used predatory pricing when selling UMTS baseband chips about a decade ago has landed the chipmaker with a fine of €242 million (~$271M) — aka, 1.27% of its global ...

Dueling Superpowers, Rival Billionaires. Inside The New Race To The Moon

Dueling Superpowers, Rival Billionaires. Inside the New Race to the Moon image It’s easier to love Apollo 11 if you were around to see it happen. For those who didn’t camp along the Cape Kennedy causeway to watch the Saturn 5 liftoff on July 16, 1969, or huddle around a rabbit-ear TV to watch Neil Armstrong climb ...

After President Trump’S Racist Tweets, People Have Been Searching For The Definition Of ‘Racism’

After President Trump’s Racist Tweets, People Have Been Searching for the Definition of ‘Racism’ image As backlash and debate over a series of racist tweets posted by President Donald Trump continues, Merriam-Webster dictionary announced a big uptick in Americans searching for the definition of “racism.” “Tonight’s top ...

Plaid Introduces Liabilities To Create Debt-Tracking Apps, Starting With Student Loans

Plaid has always been about helping developers build financial applications. Up until now that has involved standard checking and savings, and more recently investments . Today, they are introducing a new product called Liabilities endpoint to ...