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all News of 10/21/19
Brickbat: I Put A Spell On You
Eliana Bauta, a former employee of New York City's Human Resources Administration, has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the theft of more than $300,000 in emergency benefits money. Bauta used part of the money she stole to pay ...
Commercetools Raises $145m From Insight For Shopify-Style E-Commerce APIs For Large Enterprises
Global retail e-commerce is expected to be a $25 trillion business this year, and today one of the companies that has built a set of tools to help larger enterprises to sell to consumers online has raised a large growth round to meet that demand. ...
Hong Kong Leader And Police Chief Apologize To Muslim Community For Spraying Mosque With Water Cannon
(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong officials apologized to Muslim leaders Monday after riot police sprayed a mosque and bystanders with a water cannon while trying to contain pro-democracy demonstrations in the semiautonomous Chinese city. The ...
American Ambassador Defends New Rules For Chinese Diplomats
(BEIJING) — The U.S. ambassador to China defended plans to require Beijing’s diplomats to report contacts with some Americans and said Monday that Washington is considering additional rules for employees of entities controlled by the ...
Gojek Founder And CEO Nadiem Makarim Resigns To Join Indonesian Cabinet; Soelistyo And Aluwi To Be New Co-CEOs
Nadiem Makarim, founder and CEO of Gojek, said on Monday he has stepped down from his role at the ride-hailing startup to join Indonesia president Joko Widodo’s cabinet. The announcement, which has taken many by surprise, comes a day after Widodo ...
What To Know About Blizzard, Hong Kong And The Controversy Over Politics In Esports
Though video game culture is seldom a quiet, peaceful place, the uproar over Blizzard Entertainment punishing a popular gamer for showing support for Hong Kong protesters has shaken the whole industry. Ng Wai Chung , a Hearthstone player from ...
Indonesia’S Joko Widodo Begins Second Term Promising To Champion Democracy And Boost Development
(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo was sworn in Sunday for his second and final five-year term with pledges to champion democracy and take bolder actions against poverty and entrenched corruption in the world’s most ...
Chile Violence Continues Despite Government’S Retreat On Fare Hike
(SANTIAGO, Chile) — Protests and violence in Chile spilled over into a new day and raged into Sunday night despite the president cancelling a subway fare hike that has prompted violent demonstrations. Officials in the Santiago region said ...
In A Big Reversal, Libra Reportedly Could Peg Its Cryptocurrencies To National Currencies
Facebook is willing to reverse course on its plans to tie its digital currency project to a synthetic currency tied to a basket of global currencies. Reuters is reporting that Facebook’s head of the Libra project, David Marcus, told a group ...
Should We Rethink The Politics Of ‘Blocking’?
Jillian C. York Contributor Share on Twitter Jillian C. York is the director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation . Years ago, I wrote a piece ...
Original Content Podcast: ‘El Camino’ Provides A Quiet Coda To ‘Breaking Bad’
When a TV show gets turned into a movie, it often represents a big change of pace, with a standalone plot, a bigger budget, all made for a bigger (or at least more casual) audience. “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story” — which premiered a ...
Obama, Trudeau, And The Morality Of Electoral Interference
Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau (2016). Over the last three years, many Americans have been angered and distressed at Russia's efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election, and concerned about future foreign interference. The ...
Maui Mayor Won't Settle Clean Water Act Case
On November 6, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund , easily the most significant environmental case on the Supreme Court's docket this term (at least so far). At issue is whether the Clean Water ...
The Los Angeles Fire Department Wants More Drones
As it looks to modernize its operations, the Los Angeles Fire Department is turning to a number of new technologies including expanding its fleet of drones for a slew of new deployments. One of the largest fire departments in the U.S. next to New ...
Max-Q: This Week In Space
Space is becoming a major area of startup and commercial investment, and so I’ve decided to start providing a weekly round-up of the biggest news in aerospace, space science and space-related technologies. Let me know if you appreciate this or ...
Week In Review: The Web’S Free Speech Conundrum
Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inbox yet again. Last week , I talked about the eternal dumbness of the smart home and how Google had a big chance to lay out their vision this past week. Guess what? They did not, instead we got a ...
Experts Defuse 500-Pound American World War II Bomb Found In Northern Italy
(MILAN) — Italian authorities evacuated 4,000 people from the center of the northern city of Bolzano on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction. Three experts defused the 500-pound American bomb during a three-hour ...
Kurds Begin To Evacuate Besieged Syrian Border Town
(AKCAKALE, Turkey) — Kurdish fighters and civilians began evacuating from a besieged Syrian town on Sunday, the first pullback under the U.S.-brokered cease-fire deal, opening the way to a broader withdrawal of the Kurdish-led forces from parts ...
U.S. Troops Leaving Syria Will Move To Western Iraq, Defense Secretary Says
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under current plans all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the American military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent ...
Defense Secretary Mark Esper Visits Afghanistan To Chart A Path Forward
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived Sunday in Afghanistan, where stalled peace talks with the Taliban and persistent violent attacks by the insurgent group and Islamic State militants have complicated the Trump ...
