San Jose mayor pushes more dollars for short-term housing - San Jose Spotlight
San Jose's mayor wants to up the ante and divert millions more from Measure E funds toward homeless solutions.The City Council - at the direction of Mayor Matt Mahan - is considering whether to upend its original plans for Measure E spending.Last year, council voted to spend 75% of Measure E dollars on affordable housing development.
In platform collapse, an opportunity for community
We've been here before, but now the major social platforms are collapsing at once.Meta threatened to remove news from Facebook altogether and made business decisions to deprioritize news throughout the year.Twitter is making rapid changes under Elon Musk's leadership that will affect how creators and publishers reach their audiences on the platform.
This woman drowned while live streaming herself. Her family needs $50K to get her body home | CBC News
The family of a 24-year-old personal support worker is trying to raise thousands of dollars to bring her body home to Kenya after she drowned last week while live streaming herself swimming in a pool in southwestern Ontario.
More than 1,100 students to take part in young scientist exhibition
More than 1,100 school students will travel to Dublin's RDS on Wednesday for the 59th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE).he event, which showcases research and innovation in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), will be in person this year for the first time since the pandemic, following two virtual exhibitions.
Facebook to podcasting: We're out. Were they ever in? - RAIN News
Facebook is exiting the podcast space which the company was barely in.This news comes from Bloomberg, which says the company is "now focused on other initiatives, disappointing some providers."
Men who apologised over McAreavey video express concern over 'public witch hunt'
Three men who have apologised after an incident involving a chant mocking a murdered honeymooner have expressed concern about being subject to a "public witch hunt".
Facebook Live copied tech from war veteran's app, jury finds in $175-million verdict
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram was ordered to pay nearly $175 million for violating patents held by the maker of a push-to-talk app founded by a former Green Beret who had sought to solve battlefield communications problems he encountered in Afghanistan.
Travis County officials hosting summit on gun violence
TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas - Two weeks after the Uvalde school shootings, Austin Mayor Steve Adler and other Travis County leaders are hosting a town hall to discuss gun violence and hear from survivors of all gun violence incidents.