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Left-wing politics
Truthout
9 months ago
Left-wing politics

"Time for UPS to Pay Up": 97 Percent of UPS Teamsters Vote to Authorize Strike

If the strike takes place, it could be the largest strike against a single employer in U.S. history.A UPS worker delivers packages on April 29, 2020, in New York City.Stephanie Keith / Getty Images In a landslide vote on Friday, United Parcel Service workers represented by the Teamsters authorized a nationwide strike as part of their effort to win a strong contract in ongoing negotiations.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

"A Giveaway to the Rich": Progressives Slam Omnibus Retirement Provisions

"A multibillion-dollar tax cut for the rich should not be the last act of a Democratic Congress," said one critic.Charles Sicknick, the father of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick who died after the events of January 6, declines a handshake from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell during a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony for U.S. Capitol Police and D.C., on December 6, 2022.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Progressive advocacy groups and economic analysts on Tuesday denounced retirement savings-related tax changes embedded in Congress' end-of-year $1.7 trillion spending package, characterizing the pending reforms taken directly from the SECURE 2.0 Act as a "giveaway to the rich."
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
9 months ago
Chicago

Editorial: The Bears play hardball. Just leave taxpayers out of it.

Monsters of the Midway?Not lately.At least, not on the field after a 3-14 season that bestowed upon Chicago's beloved Bears the ignominious distinction of being the worst the NFL has to offer.Off the field, however, they're showing aggressiveness reminiscent of their yesteryear glory days.The Bears' bid to build a stadium-anchored megadevelopment in northwest suburban Arlington Heights recently got jolted by Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi's decision to assess the former Arlington International Racecourse site - now property of the Bears - at $197 million, roughly the price the team paid to buy the land from Churchill Downs and a far cry from the property's 2021 assessment of $33 million.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Laura Washington: If Pritzker doesn't win 'big' on Tuesday, White House plans will be history

What's next for Gov. J.B. Pritzker depends on the outcome of Tuesday's elections.From my perch, the one-term incumbent Democrat is likely to prevail over his arch-opponent, Republican state Sen. Darren Bailey.The slugfest will soon mercifully end and relieve us of their maddeningly negative TV ads.Pritzker's political future depends on how big he wins and how battered President Joe Biden emerges from the national midterm elections.
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AdExchanger
9 months ago
Marketing tech

Apple WWDC 2023: Low-Key Privacy News And A Mixed Reality Headset Debut | AdExchanger

There were no AppTrackingTransparency-level privacy bombshells dropped at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.But Apple does have a knack for making privacy-related product announcements that cast aspersions on the data practices of any company whose name isn't "Apple," and there were a handful of those.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Budget 2023: Jeremy Hunt says UK will avoid recession this year

Jeremy Hunt has said the British economy will avoid a technical recession this year while announcing an extension in financial support for households struggling with the cost of living crisis.In a statement to the Commons aiming to reboot Britain's faltering economy, the chancellor said he would prioritise support for parents with childcare costs alongside a multibillion-pound package of tax breaks for business to encourage investment.
The Motley Fool
1 year ago
Marketing

Shopify Just Threw a Big Lifeline to Meta Platforms and Alphabet | The Motley Fool

In early 2021, Apple turned the digital advertising world on its head.With a change to iOS 14, iPhone users were notified when an app wished to track their activities and were required to opt in to allow it to continue.This put a multibillion-dollar dent in the online advertising last year, disrupting companies including Alphabet's Google and Facebook parent Meta Platforms , which rely exclusively on targeted ads for the lion's share of their revenue.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Health

Why does the U.S. government lock medicine away in secret warehouses?

One of the warehouses where stockpiled medicine, and medical supplies, are kept.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Responses Surges in COVID-19, the flu and other respiratory illnesses are forcing the U.S. government to do something it normally reserves for emergencies: release hoards of stockpiled Tamiflu to states in dire need of more flu medicine.
the Guardian
1 year ago
London

The billion-pound battle over Claridge's hotel from Belfast to Qatar

As the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through London in spring 2020, the revolving doors at Claridge's stopped turning and its art deco lobby fell silent.
Digiday
1 year ago
Marketing

Digiday partners and invests in Marketecture, deepening its ad tech content and expertise

| By Staff report
www.space.com
9 months ago
Science

Crewed Starliner Launch Delayed by Flammable Tape, Botched Parachutes

Boeing is standing down from the first-ever crewed launch of its Starliner astronaut capsule for NASA, possibly indefinitely, due to safety issues with the spacecraft's parachutes and wiring that were discovered last week.The Starliner astronaut launch, already years behind schedule, was most recently targeted to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on July 21.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Science

Henrietta Lacks' hometown will build statue of her to replace Robert E. Lee monument

Artist Bryce Cobbs stands next to the drawing he created of Henrietta Lacks, which was unveiled in Roanoke, Va., on Monday.The drawing will be used in the design process of a larger-than-life bronze statue.Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP A statue of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were taken without her consent and subsequently used in several major medical breakthroughs, will be built in her hometown in Roanoke, Va.
www.dw.com
1 year ago
Science

NASA launches rocket for Artemis moon mission DW 11/16/2022

The Artemis I unmanned rocket will voyage to the far side of the moon and backImage: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images TechnologyUnited States of America 15 minutes ago15 minutes ago It was the third attempt to launch the unmanned rocket after a bad weather and a series of technical difficulties thwarted prior launches.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Families on benefits can claim hundreds of pounds more from June

Parents on Universal Credit will soon be able to claim back hundreds of pounds more in childcare from June, as plans announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt aimed at boosting the economy come into effect.Currently, those in receipt of benefits can claim a maximum of 646 per month for one child or 1,108 for two children, from the Department for Work and Pensions.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Campaigners bring High Court challenge over Sizewell C nuclear plant approval

The Government's unlawful decision to back the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant failed to assess possible environmental impacts and should be overturned, campaigners have argued at the High Court.Protest group Together Against Sizewell C has launched a bid to challenge development consent granted for the multibillion-pound project in Suffolk by then Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng in July 2022.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Billions spent to stop 15,000 workers retiring is huge giveaway to wealthiest'

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A multibillion-pound tax break to stop an estimated 15,000 high earners leaving the workforce has been criticised by Sir Keir Starmer as a huge giveaway to some of the very wealthiest.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Who will be eligible for extended free childcare and when will it start?

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to use a Budget for growth to boost efforts to get people back to work, with a major expansion of childcare support set to form a key part of the package.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Chancellor to announce multibillion-pound childcare boost with 30 hours a week free

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A multibillion-pound expansion of free childcare for one and two-year-olds is set to be unveiled in Wednesday's Budget.The plan is set to include 30 hours a week of childcare for parents in England with children in that age group.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Chancellor to announce multibillion-pound childcare expansion, say reports

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A multibillion-pound expansion of free childcare for one and two-year-olds could form part of a surprise announcement in Wednesday's Budget, according to reports.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Russian accused of money laundering lobbies to be included in potential US-Russia prisoner swap

Lawyers for an accused Russian money launderer in US custody are lobbying for their client to be included in any potential US-Russia prisoner swap for detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, according to new court filing.The Russian man, Alexander Vinnik, is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that allegedly did business with drug dealers and identity thieves.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Television

Opinion | On Succession,' This Season Has Turned Us All Into Tom

My friends who have never seen Succession, the hit HBO show that will soon come to an end, say that they have no interest in watching rich people behaving badly.The darkly comic series certainly fits that bill: It follows the travails of the Roy family, the patriarch of which, Logan Roy, is an avatar of Rupert Murdoch, and whose children, Shiv, Kendall and Roman, jockey endlessly, and haplessly, to inherit his throne.
Los Angeles Times
10 months ago
California

Weed war: Raids on licensed farms and dog shooting spark outrage

Video of a police raid on a Northern California cannabis farm earlier this month has set off outrage, in part because the 36-second clip shows an officer fatally shooting a grower's dog.That the target of the armed strike held a state cannabis license was equally upsetting for many growers in the region.
The Verge
10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft won't give salaried employees raises this year

Microsoft is skipping raises for salaried employees this year.In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees that only hourly workers will receive raises and blamed the move on the uncertain state of the economy."We are clear that we are helping drive a major platform shift in this new era of AI, and doing so in a dynamic, competitive environment while also facing global macroeconomic uncertainties," Nadella wrote.
ITPro
10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Can low-code development complement generative AI?

Generative AI is dominating conversations across the tech sphere right now, and even making its way into discussions in day-to-day life.But for the average IT team, large language models can still seem intimidating, and training or tweaking requires significant computing power and skill.Additionally, concerns around explainability and approachability are still a barrier to some regulated industries such as financial services or life sciences.
Futurism
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

GPT-4 Was Deeply Racist Before OpenAI Muzzled It

OpenAI's latest large language model GPT-4 was saying some deeply insidious and racist things before being constrained by the company's "red team," Insider reports, a taskforce put together to head off horrible outputs from the hotly-anticipated AI model.The group of specialists was tasked with coaxing deeply problematic material out of the AI months before its public release, including how to build a bomb and say anti-semitic things that don't trigger detection on social media, in order to stamp out the bad behavior.
The Verge
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer

Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a massive supercomputer to help power OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, according to a report from Bloomberg.In a pair of blog posts published on Monday, Microsoft explains how it created Azure's powerful artificial intelligence infrastructure used by OpenAI and how its systems are getting even more robust.
Amazic
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

8 AI Projects That Are Still Thriving Despite The Gloomy Economy - Amazic

Some startups are also unaffected by recent economic trends and have surpassed expectations with their funding rounds.Here are the top 8 AI startups to watch out for in 2023:
Chat GPT, made by Open.ai, has clearly been the most talked about AI project since its launch in November 2022 followed closely by DALL-E, their other AI project.
Futurism
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Sci-Fi Magazine Shuts Down Submissions After Onslaught of AI-Generated Spam

AI-Fi
With the likes of OpenAI's blockbuster AI tool ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing AI, machine learning-powered chatbots have officially landed in the hands of practically anybody with an internet connection.Now, the consequences of AI-generated text flooding the internet are already starting to show.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Sports

At Churchill Downs, Humans Failed the Horses Again

LOUISVILLE, Ky.The morning after the 2022 Kentucky Derby, horse racing took an exuberant and hopeful victory lap.Rich Strike had reintroduced the sport to the dreamer in all of us, winning at odds of 80-1.His trainer, Eric Reed, was an everyday Kentucky hardboot from the casino racetracks.His rider, Sonny Leon, had washed out on the more glamorous Florida circuit before finding success riding every race possible in Ohio.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Disney begins laying off 7,000 employees, CEO Bob Iger announces

Disney CEO Bob Iger on Monday said his company will begin laying off staff starting this week, the first of three rounds of expected cuts following his announcement in February that the company would axe 7,000 jobs.The cuts to Disney's global workforce are part of a multibillion-dollar cost-cutting initiative aimed at streamlining the company's operations in a period of media industry turmoil.
Engadget
1 year ago
Marketing

A TikTok ban is a lot more complicated than just shutting down the app | Engadget

Disentangling ourselves from TikTok is more complicated than simply banning the app, just ask the state of Maryland.According to a in The Wall Street Journal, it's one of several states that used TikTok's tracking pixel on a government website despite a statewide ban barring TikTok-related software from official devices and networks.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Path of error and danger': China angry and confused over Aukus deal

When the UK, the US and Australia announced the details of their multibillion-dollar deal to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines on Monday, the reaction in China was both outrage and confusion.The allies were walking further and further down the path of error and danger, said Wang Wenbin, China's foreign ministry spokesperson, on Tuesday.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Sunak flies to US for talks with Biden and Albanese on Australian submarine deal

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Rishi Sunak is flying to the United States for meetings with President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to flesh out a major defence deal.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Poland increases pressure to send German-made tanks to Ukraine

Poland says it is planning to send German-made battle tanks to Ukraine, but will first seek approval from Berlin.Poland has said it was willing to send German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine without approval, but would first seek permission from Berlin, as Kyiv presses its allies for heavy weaponry.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Sports

Mage Captures the Derby After an Agonizing Week at Churchill Downs

LOUISVILLE, Ky.The best thing you can say about the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby is that the 18 horses who made it to the starting gate on Saturday survived.That came as a relief after at least seven horses died at Churchill Downs in the past week, two of them on Saturday in races leading up to America's most famous race.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Sports

Art McNally, N.F.L.'s Father of Instant Replay,' Dies at 97

Art McNally, the first on-field National Football League official to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died on Sunday in Yardley, Pa.He was 97.The death, at a hospice near his home, was confirmed by his son Thomas.Mr. McNally was enshrined in the Hall of Fame, in Canton, Ohio, last year, along with, among others, the former Jacksonville Jaguars tackle Tony Boselli and the former coach and broadcaster Dick Vermeil.
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

Starmer says 1.7m face higher mortgages after Tories used money like casino chips'

Sir Keir Starmer said more than a million Britons face higher mortgage payments because the Tories treated their money like casino chips.The Labour leader blamed higher housing costs on the Conservatives for crashing the economy with last autumn's disastrous so-called mini-budget.Sir Keir said that as a result, 850,000 people are paying more on their mortgages each month.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Sunak hails UK's global alliances ahead of Aukus submarine announcements

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Rishi Sunak has hailed the UK's global alliances as its greatest source of strength and security as he prepared to meet US President Joe Biden to flesh out a major defence deal.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Why Malaysia Had Early Elections and What Is at Stake

Malaysia's early general election was called to try to end the messy politics that have plagued the Southeast Asian nation since the historic defeat of the long-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition four years ago.The opposition alliance that pulled off that shock victory fell apart after 22 months due to infighting, leading to the BN's eventual return to power.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Why Malaysia Has Early Elections and What Is at Stake

Malaysia's early general election was called to try to end the messy politics that have plagued the Southeast Asian nation since the historic defeat of the long-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition four years ago.The opposition alliance that pulled off that shock victory fell apart after 22 months due to infighting, leading to the BN's eventual return to power.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Why Malaysia Has Early Elections and What Is at Stake

Malaysia will hold an early general election on Nov. 19 to try to end the messy politics that have plagued the Southeast Asian nation since the historic defeat of the long-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition four years ago.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

It's too expensive to eat lunch and feed my children': Rise of the school food bank

The queue began 45 minutes before the opening of the weekly school food bank.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
10 months ago
Intellectual property law

Centripetal Tells CAFC Vidal Testimony Bolsters Mandamus Petition

"The only meaningful remedy is vacatur of the relevant decisions and reconsideration by a newly constituted impartial PTAB panel free of financial conflicts."One day after U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal testified during a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, Centripetal Networks filed a reply in support of its petition for a writ of mandamus in its patent dispute with Cisco.
Austin Monitor
10 months ago
Austin

Housing and Planning Committee weighs in on light rail design plans, preparing for challenging decisions - Austin Monitor

Photo by Austin Transit Partnership.Conceptual rendering of Guadalupe Street at Republic Square.Tuesday, May 2, 2023 by Kali Bramble
With the June deadline for a final proposal fast approaching, Austin's long-awaited light rail system is beginning to take shape.Austin Transit Partnership, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority and city staff all joined City Council's Housing and Planning Committee last week to discuss the five designs for the first phase of the multibillion-dollar infrastructure project, each prioritizing different service areas north and southeast of downtown.
Austin Monitor
1 year ago
Austin

Cap Metro set to choose Dottie Watkins as new president and CEO - Austin Monitor

Photo by Gabriel C. Pérez/KUT.Dottie Watkins began her career at Capital Metro in 1994.Monday, January 30, 2023 by Nathan Bernier, KUT
A bus driver who rose through the ranks of the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority over three decades is now poised to take the top job at the transit agency.
Austin Monitor
1 year ago
Austin

TxDOT narrows options for widening I-35 through Austin - Austin Monitor

Photo by Nathan Bernier/KUT
Friday, January 6, 2023 by Nathan Bernier, KUT
Lee esta historia en español.The Texas Department of Transportation has released the most detailed description yet of plans to widen Interstate 35 through the core of Austin, explaining how the agency believes its multibillion-dollar highway expansion could affect everything from parks to pollution.
Austin Monitor
1 year ago
Austin

Light-rail tunnel under downtown Austin might not happen after all - Austin Monitor

Some or all of Austin's light-rail system could be at street level downtown instead of  underground, which was the vision sold to voters when they  authorized Project Connect in November 2020.The Austin Transit Partnership, a local government corporation created to build the  Orange and  Blue lines, is considering ways to cut costs as  inflation eats into the budget for the multibillion-dollar system.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

Meet Kevin McCarthy's new wingman

"I'm watching it on TV," Graves said of the January stalemate over electing McCarthy, as he recalled thinking: "We look like idiots."So he began dialing conservative holdouts as well as GOP moderates resistant to the right's biggest demands.The 51-year-old even grew a beard that he refused to shave until McCarthy prevailed.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Centripetal Files Mandamus Petition Following PTAB's Retaliatory Sanctions for Questioning APJ Financial Interests

"One can fully accept that APJs are executive-branch officials and different from Article III judges yet still recognize that their adjudicative role necessitates some meaningful opportunity to raise concerns about the appearance of partiality that may be created by ownership of a party's stock."
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Supreme Court Denies Centripetal's Petition Asking for Clarification on Judicial Recusal Statue

"Centripetal noted in its petition that the [CAFC] decision, in addition to '[wiping] out a multibillion-dollar judgment without so much as considering the merits,' also 'gave short shrift to the district court's concerns that the outright sale of Cisco stock on the eve of a ruling against Cisco could create its own appearance problems.'"
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

SCOTUS to Consider Centripetal's Cert Petition in Patent Infringement Qua Judicial Recusal Case

"The decision below wipes out the largest patent damages award in U.S. history, without so much as a word addressing the merits . . .[and] cannot help but chill the enforcement of valid patents by small inventors."- Centripetal petition
Editor's Note: The author is a consultant to amici Eagle Forum ELDF and Committee for Justice, and lead amicus, Conservatives for Property Rights.
TechCrunch
1 year ago
Growth hacking

When it comes to early-stage growth marketing, it's often better to imitate than innovate

When you look at early Uber or Lyft, they were notorious for copying each other on offers, features and more.A recent look at Instagram reveals how they've added new features to their product over the last few years to fend off competitors such as Snapchat (Stories) and TikTok (Reels).There's a lesson here: If you're not imitating what growth marketing industry leaders are already doing in your vertical as a startup, you're going to be adding months and possibly years of unnecessary testing to your timeline.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Venture

Tell us: are you affected by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse?

We're keen to hear from investors who have been affected by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which failed after a run on the lender that was originally sparked by fears over the a multibillion-pound shortfall on the US parent company's balance sheet.We'd like to hear what investors, but also workers from the tech and start-up sectors, make of the bank's failure, and what they think the wider fallout of SVB's collapse might entail.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
Health

Clusters of eye drop-linked infections found in California and 3 other states

Madison Muller | (TNS) Bloomberg News Clusters of infections linked to the use of eye drops have been found in four states, according to U.S. health officials tracking the outbreak that's already led to the death of one person.At least 35 of 56 cases related to the recalled eye drops have been reported from California, Connecticut, Florida and Utah, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

5 Takeaways From ESPN's (Newest) Bombshell Dan Snyder Report - Washingtonian

Dan Snyder is reportedly big mad at the Washington Post for its ongoing reporting on the Washington Commanders' many-splendored scandals-so much so that he is allegedly stiff-arming potential team buyer and Post owner Jeff Bezos.When it comes to shooting the messenger, however, the embattled Commanders owner might want to save some of his ire for ESPN.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

Our Top DC Sports Moments of 2022 - Washingtonian

It was a rough year for area sports fans.The Nats were the worst team in baseball.DC United was the worst team in MLS.The Spirit were the second-worst team in the NWSL.Maryland men's basketball had its first losing season since the early 1990s, while Georgetown men's basketball set a record by going winless in the Big East.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

China censors women modeling lingerie on livestream shopping so men are doing it

Donning a sassy piece of silk lingerie, a male model grooves to the beat and forms a heart shape with his fingers during a livestreaming session on Douyin, one of China's most popular video-sharing platforms.His modeling performance is the latest illustration of the kind of entrepreneurial innovation sometimes needed to bypass China's rigorous internet censorship, a dragnet that can ensnare seemingly innocuous activities in this case retailers selling women's underwear online.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
France news

Qatar Airways, Airbus reach settlement in A350 legal case

Qatar Airways and Airbus have reached a settlement in a longstanding legal dispute over the safety of the A350 jetliner and billions of orders for other planes.The companies said in a joint statement Wednesday that the settlement was amicable and mutually agreeable.''A repair project is now underway and both parties look forward to getting these aircraft safely back in the air,'' the companies said in a statement.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
France news

6 European nations agree to step up anti-drug cooperation

Six European countries pledged Friday to beef up their cross-border cooperation and to work more closely with Latin America in fighting organized crime, especially drug barons battling for control of the lucrative cocaine market.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

What the papers say January 25

Financial concerns about the UK's future dominate the front pages.The Guardian and Financial Times report Germany has agreed to send battle tanks to Ukraine, in a move described by The Daily Telegraph as a hammer blow for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.Citing the statistic that every six days someone is killed by an offender on probation, the Daily Mirror asks when will the Government address these deadly failings?
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

Microsoft Services Back Online After Morning Outages

Microsoft restored access to its email and video conferencing tools on Wednesday after thousands of users were unable to connect to the services for hours.The outage, which affected Microsoft 365 products including Outlook and Microsoft Teams, began shortly after 2 a.m.Eastern time.The company said on Twitter around 5 a.m.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

Amazon and E.U. Reach Deal to End Antitrust Investigation

Amazon on Tuesday agreed to give merchants operating in the European Union more access to valuable real estate on its website, the European Commission said Tuesday, in a deal that ends antitrust investigations by regulators who said the company had used its size and power to stifle competition in the bloc.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

FTX chief: Company Appeared to Use Old-Fashioned Embezzlement'

The new chief executive of FTX answered questions about his efforts to recover customer funds from the collapsed crypto exchange during a lengthy hearing before lawmakers on Tuesday, saying his team had encountered an unprecedented lack of record keeping at the company.John J. Ray III, a lawyer who specializes in corporate restructuring, testified for roughly four hours, saying that he was in the early stages of sorting through the exchange to find money that could be used to repay creditors and consumers.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

Crypto Firm FTX's Ownership of a U.S. Bank Raises Questions

Image The bankruptcy of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange is exposing a number of odd assets.Credit...Marco Bello/Reuters Among the many surprising assets uncovered in the bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is a relatively tiny one that could raise big concerns: a stake in one of the country's smallest banks.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Tech industry

Facebook parent company Meta sheds 11,000 jobs in latest sign of tech slowdown

A car passes Facebook's new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.Tony Avelar/AP Facebook parent company Meta announced extensive layoffs on Wednesday, shedding 11,000 jobs, or about 13% of its staff, amid an industrywide slowdown that has rattled Silicon Valley in recent months.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Scottish shipyards need greater clarity' over future military orders, say MPs

Scottish shipyards need greater clarity from the UK Government over where contracts for new naval vessels will be placed in the coming decades, MPs have said.Members of the Scottish Affairs Committee made the plea as they challenged ministers to set out why a recent 1.6 billion contract for the construction of three naval support ships had gone to an international consortium which will see some of the building work take place in Spain.
Buffalo Business First
1 year ago
Marketing

Range Marketing in Buffalo talks weed, marketing and SEO - Buffalo Business First

If you're starting a cannabis business in New York, marketing might be the last thing on your mind.Real estate, banking, insurance, ever-changing regulations - there are a lot of things taking up a cannabis entrepreneur's time and wallet.But there's good reason for businesses wanting to succeed in New York's emerging recreational marijuana market to start thinking about marketing - SEO marketing, in particular - now.
www.kvue.com
1 year ago
Education

Texas teacher association urges more investment into schools from state budget surplus

AUSTIN, Texas Educators are eyeing the happenings of the 88th Texas Legislative session cautiously and optimistically, as bills surrounding public education are filed and have the potential to lift some burden off their career field.Among those is the Texas State Teachers Association, the biggest teachers union in Texas, and the state affiliate of the National Education Association.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Education

NYC schools budget violated state law, but is upheld by judge

An appellate court will officially allow the city Department of Education to move ahead with hundreds of millions in cuts to school budgets, new filings show.The decision on Tuesday found that the city "failed to comply" with procedures outlined in state law when it approved the city education budget.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Education

NYC schools budget violated state law, but is upheld by judge

An appellate court will officially allow the city Department of Education to move ahead with hundreds of millions in cuts to school budgets, new filings show.The decision on Tuesday found that the city "failed to comply" with procedures outlined in state law when it approved the city education budget.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Canada news

Geopolitical uncertainty will continue to fuel energy price volatility in 2023, report says | CBC News

Energy prices will likely be volatile in the first quarter of 2023 as geopolitical uncertainty continues, says a new forecast from Deloitte.Global factors including the war in Ukraine and China's rocky COVID-19 reopening will continue to contribute to tension between supply and demand, according to the firm's energy, oil and gas price forecast released Monday.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

The Second-Order Effects Of Advertising; Galloping Toward TV Audience Guarantees | AdExchanger

Launching an advertising business is almost always trickier than it might seem on the surface.Beyond the mechanics of ad serving, verification and measurement, introducing ads complicates a business model in unexpected ways.Take Netflix, which launched ads, like, a minute ago.It's obvious why ad tech vendors and agencies are amped up about AVOD Netflix, but by making revenue observable through ads, Netflix also gives stars and producers a way to claim a cut.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Is Sustainability The New Ad Tech Tax?; TV Faces An Advertising Comeuppance | AdExchanger

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up Going 'Green' Costs Green here.Digital advertising contributes to carbon emissions.Every programmatic ping, bid and load consumes electricity, and the overcrowded programmatic supply chain just makes the problem worse.One way to foot the bill, according to Jounce Media Founder Chris Kane, could be to transparently raise ad auction prices to fund carbon offsets.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Golden Gate Bridge, in 'fair' shape, gets $400 million to brace against earthquakes

The Golden Gate Bridge is set to receive $400 million from the multibillion-dollar infrastructure bill signed last year by President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday.For the record:
An earlier version of this story said the amount allocated for Golden Gate Bridge improvements was $400 billion.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Your guide to the L.A. city attorney election: Faisal Gill vs. Hydee Feldstein Soto

Faisal Gill and Hydee Feldstein Soto, who, respectively, came in first and second in the seven-person race in the June primary, are now facing off.Feldstein Soto, a finance law attorney and former neighborhood council member, was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.Positioned as the more progressive candidate in the race, Gill has said that, if elected, he will focus on holding the Los Angeles police accountable and implementing criminal justice reform.A former Republican, Gill says he turned away from the party years ago after experiencing discrimination for his Muslim faith and that he quickly became a "staunch Democrat."
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Exxon Mobil sues to try to block a European windfall tax.

Exxon Mobil has tried to block what it called a counterproductive new windfall tax imposed by the European Commission as part of efforts to ease the sting of soaring energy prices across the 27-nation bloc.The American oil giant's subsidiaries in Germany and the Netherlands filed a lawsuit in the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg on Wednesday.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Oleg Tinkov, Former Banking Tycoon, Renounces Russian Citizenship Over Ukraine.

Oleg Y. Tinkov, the former banking tycoon who broke with the Kremlin over the war in Ukraine, said on Monday that he had renounced his Russian citizenship.I can't and won't be associated with a fascist country, that started a war with their peaceful neighbour, Mr. Tinkov, who is also a citizen of Cyprus, wrote on Instagram.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Getting People Back on Trains, After the Pandemic Turned Many to Cars

The sleek stainless steel cars that Via Rail Canada uses for its cross-country trains and on some other routes have gained an embarrassing visual indication of their very advanced age.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Albert Reichmann, Patriarch of a Real Estate Empire, Dies at 93

Albert Reichmann, the billionaire patriarch of a real estate dynasty that built the World Financial Center, became the largest private owner of commercial property in New York City and began the transformation of London's derelict Docklands into the gleaming Canary Wharf cluster of skyscrapers, died on Dec. 17 in Toronto, the family's hometown.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Higher Pay for New York's Uber Drivers Is Temporarily Halted by Judge

A New York judge temporarily blocked the Taxi and Limousine Commission from raising the pay of ride-hail drivers while an Uber lawsuit opposing the increase was considered.Uber requested the move last week when it sued, claiming that the increase, approved by the taxi commission in November, was too high and could force the company to spend an additional $21 million to $23 million per month to pay its drivers.
Cointelegraph
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

10 crypto tweets that made a splash in 2022

Another year in the crypto space has nearly passed.As usual, Twitter has been a hotbed of crypto-related conversation during the turbulent year.From Terra's collapse and the whole situation with FTX to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, 2022 has played out like a television drama, keeping people on the edge of their seats.
SFGATE
1 year ago
SF real estate

Tech billionaire Meg Whitman lists California home for $5.5M

Getty Images / Realtor.comShe's a whip-smart executive, but she might take a loss this time.Meg Whitman, who helped turn eBay into a multibillion-dollar behemoth and later served as CEO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has listed her West Hollywood, CA, home for a million dollars less than what she paid for it, according to Dirt.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Here's How Hedge Funds Are Speculating on Justice

For centuries, turning other people's legal claims into moneymaking opportunities has been frowned upon.That started to change in the 1990s, when Australia allowed insolvent companies to engage outside funders to sustain legal claims they might otherwise have run out of money to pursue.Third-party funding of civil litigation caught on in the UK and some European countries in the 2000s.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Here's How Hedge Funds Are Speculating on Justice

For centuries, turning other people's legal claims into moneymaking opportunities has been frowned upon.That started to change in the 1990s, when Australia allowed insolvent companies to engage outside funders to sustain legal claims they might otherwise have run out of money to pursue.Third-party funding of civil litigation caught on in the UK and some European countries in the 2000s.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Promising Alzheimer's drug needs to be studied for safety, researchers say

Pedestrians walk past Biogen Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.(Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg)The makers of a highly anticipated experimental Alzheimer's drug said Tuesday that the medicine moderately slows cognitive decline, but that more study was needed to establish its safety.The details provided by Tokyo-based Eisai Co. and Cambridge, Mass.-based Biogen Inc., have been the subject of intense anticipation by doctors and Wall Street since they announced in September that the drug, lecanemab, had slowed cognitive decline by 27 percent compared to a placebo.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Albertsons, despite debt, will hand $4 billion to owners before merger

A Safeway grocery in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Oct. 18, 2021.(Ash Ponders/Bloomberg News) The 2,270-store Albertsons grocery company is facing mountains of debt.It owes about $4.9 billion to worker pension funds and another $7.5 billion to creditors.Credit rating agencies say the company has a substantial risk of being unable to repay.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

CVS agrees to pay $5 billion to settle opioid lawsuits

CVS Health said it has agreed to pay about $5 billion to state, local and Native American tribal governments to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids.CVS is not admitting wrongdoing and the company would make the payments over a decade.(Gene J. Puskar/AP)CVS Health, one of the nation's largest retail pharmacies, has agreed to pay nearly $5 billion to states, cities and Native American tribes to settle all opioid lawsuits against it.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Travellers warned rail chaos will continue until Easter

Travel chaos on the railway network is set to continue until Easter as engineers carry out full-scale open heart surgery on major lines connecting the north of England.The largest rail strikes since 1989 have frequently crippled services since they began in June this year, at points leaving just a fifth of trains running, while other lines have seen longlasting disruption since the emergence of Covid-19.
Eater
1 year ago
Food & drink

In 2022, Mushrooms Cured What Ailed Us

This year, one could hardly throw a canister of organic reishi capsules without hitting a bottle of vitamins or fizzy canned beverage touting the health benefits of mushrooms.To be clear, I'm mostly not talking about psilocybin, the "magic" mushroom known for sending people on trippy journeys into their psyche, though it was a big year for that too.
Food & Beverage Magazine
1 year ago
Food & drink

The Opportunity for Alcohol Companies in Cannabis: Why Petalfast's CEO Says the Time is Now

While alcohol plays a significant role in American culture, cannabis has largely been left out of mainstream commercial markets due to federal illegalities and widespread prejudice.
Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
1 year ago
Boston real estate

Will The Crypto Meltdown Impact The Boston Condo For Sale Market? Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

Will the Crypto meltdown impact the Boston condo for sale market?It feels like a Madoff-meets-millennial moment.The crypto party has come crashing down with the spectacular collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange.The fallout will be huge, with the company owing customers more than $8 billion.
www.kvue.com
1 year ago
Austin

Two years after voters approved Project Connect, here's where it stands

AUSTIN, Texas  Two years after Austin voters approved Project Connect, a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the city's transit system, local officials say the program is on track.We've had some early successes only two years in, but there's lots of work ahead, no doubt about it, Greg Canally, interim executive director of the Austin Transit Partnership, told KVUE's media partners at the Austin American-Statesman.
Theregister
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Nvidia bundling paid AI software with incoming H100 systems

Nvidia plans to bundle a five-year license of its commercial AI Enterprise software with every PCIe-based H100 GPU coming to servers soon.The GPU giant disclosed the plan on Monday at the Supercomputing 2022 conference ahead of the launch of its next-generation H100 datacenter GPU, which the company has promised will provide a substantial performance boost over the A100.
The Verge
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI opens up AI text-to-image generation to businesses with launch of DALL-E API

OpenAI is making its image generation software DALL-E much more widely available to businesses with the launch of an API in public beta.The API will make it easier for companies to add DALL-E's text-to-image functionality to their products, giving developers simplified tools to integrate and customize the software to their liking.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

The Guardian view on the Bank of England: on the side of profit, not people | Editorial

The Bank of England's monetary policy committee will almost certainly raise interest rates for the eighth time consecutively in a year on Thursday, despite the economy heading towards recession.It is not clear why Britain needs its biggest rate hike in 33 years.Making money dearer while the Treasury cuts spending and raises taxes will only deepen and prolong a recession that the country may already have entered.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Russia accuses UK of directing' Nord Stream blasts

UK dismisses allegations as false, says they are aimed at diverting attention away from military failures in Ukraine.Russia has again accused the United Kingdom of carrying out attacks on the Nord Stream undersea gas pipelines, with Moscow saying it is considering what further steps to take over the alleged acts of sabotage.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC real estate

The Golden Age of Dispensary Design Is Almost Here

As cannabis legalization has become more widespread, retailers are getting increasingly serious about the design and branding of their shops.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Not a single penny less' to NHS despite tax hike reversal, says minister

The NHS and social care will receive not a single penny less as a result of the Government repealing a multibillion-pound tax hike, according to a Treasury minister.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Alzheimer's drug slows cognitive decline in key study

"For Biogen, it puts them back in the Alzheimer's game."
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