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Focus For New Miller Center Accelerator: Income Inequality In The U.S.
Forbes - 21 Feb 2020 21:47
To address income inequality in the U.S., Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship just launched a new accelerator to help social mission organizations working with poor, under-served or vulnerable populations, drawing ...
Turning billions of £20 notes into compost
BBC - 21 Feb 2020 02:05
Around two billion paper £20 notes will be replaced with polymer notes in the next few months.
Google secretly monitors millions of schoolkids: lawsuit
CBSNews - 21 Feb 2020 21:02
New Mexico AG claims the company uses its dominance in educational software to track millions of future customers.
As 'Birds Of Prey' Doubles Its Budget, Why An R Rating Was Always A Risk
Forbes - 21 Feb 2020 20:10
Even in the heyday of the R-rated action movie, a $200-$250 million gross was more common than a $300-$350 million finish.
WWE May Finally Be Moving Away From Scripted Promos
Forbes - 21 Feb 2020 17:38
WWE may be loosening the reigns on one of its most strict edicsts.
Mercedes-AMG's new GLE 63 S Coupe has 603 horsepower and sports-car acceleration numbers -- here's everything you need to know about the ultra-quick SUV
Business Insider - 21 Feb 2020 20:32
Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz released the full specs for its newest AMG-tuned SUV — the GLE 63 S coupe —and they're impressive. The fastback SUV is equipped with a 4.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V8 rated at 603 horsepow...
Seimone Augustus And The Minnesota Lynx: By The Numbers
Forbes - 21 Feb 2020 19:00
Last summer, I asked Seimone Augustus how many more years she wanted to play.
Insurance Tycoon Greg Lindberg's Bribery Trial Begins
Wall Street Journal - 21 Feb 2020 16:41
Lawyers for insurance mogul Greg Lindberg are fighting federal bribery charges by telling jurors that the executive believed he was staying within elections law as he made political contributions to counter what he perce...
Column: As Supreme Court considers its fate, Obamacare's popularity is higher than ever
L.A. Times - 21 Feb 2020 20:21
A new poll shows that the Affordable Care Act is more popular now than ever. Here's why.
Asia looks to safer shores in U.S. assets as virus spreads
Reuters - 21 Feb 2020 05:02
Asian shares were under water on Friday as fears over the creeping spread of the coronavirus sent funds fleeing to the sheltered shores of U.S. assets, lofting the dollar to three-year highs.
YouTube Might Win The Streaming Wars According To New App Annie Numbers
Forbes - 21 Feb 2020 02:21
Seven out of every ten minutes spent on one of the world's top five video streaming app is spent on YouTube making it the number one stream app for Andriod users worldwide.
Wall Street slides as gloomy data adds to coronavirus fears
Reuters - 21 Feb 2020 20:51
U.S. stock indexes fell on Friday after data showed U.S. business activity stalled in February, while a spike in new coronavirus cases in China and elsewhere sent investors scrambling for safer assets such as gold and go...
Why more issuers see profit in secured credit cards
American Banker - 21 Feb 2020 17:30
Ally Financial's recently announced $2.65 billion cash-and-stock deal for CardWorks, which offers unsecured credit cards among other products, places a high price tag on a traditionally risky product.
Column: Uber and Lyft increase traffic and pollution. Why do cities let it happen?
L.A. Times - 21 Feb 2020 16:00
Uber and Lyft bring plenty of drawbacks to cities, but solutions aren't easy to find.
Music industry fears bands will be unable to tour UK without visas
The Guardian - 21 Feb 2020 14:11
Professional body urges ministers to clarify proposed post-Brexit immigration rules The music industry has urged the government to clarify its proposed immigration rules amid fears that bands from the EU will not be able...
An impressive deepfake video of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in 'Star Trek' shows how far the technology has come
Business Insider - 21 Feb 2020 12:46
A new deepfake video puts Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk into an episode of "Star Trek." Deepfake technology works by training an algorithm on images of a person's face then transplanting their face onto f...
These works of art mess with our perceptions of AI and humanity
Fast Company - 21 Feb 2020 10:00
A new museum show in San Francisco rejects old tropes about artificial intelligence to explore the subtler but deeper ways that AI is changing our lives. Though we’re well into the age of machine learning, popular cult...
Coronavirus outbreak to cost airlines almost $30bn
BBC - 21 Feb 2020 04:53
Airline industry body IATA predicts global air travel demand will fall for the first time since 2009.
How SARS terrified the world in 2003, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing 774
Business Insider - 21 Feb 2020 01:52
Lo Sai Hung / AP In the first half of 2003, a deadly disease known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome spread from China into 28 other countries. SARS infected a little more than 8,000 people, and killed 774 people. The...
Zillow Founder Rich Barton Is A Billionaire One Year After Taking Back The Company
Forbes - 21 Feb 2020 01:26
Almost a year to the day since founder Rich Barton returned as CEO, a surge in Zillow's stock price has made him a billionaire.
Shifting Gears: Peeking behind the curtain at Uber and SpaceX
Business Insider - 21 Feb 2020 23:16
Joe Skipper/Reuters This week brought new details about the inner workings of two high-profile tech companies: Uber and SpaceX. The former saw the release of a book by a former employee, Susan Fowler, whose 2017 blog pos...
Microsoft's CodeBERT ingests public GitHub repositories to help you find code
Venture Beat - 21 Feb 2020 23:15
Researchers at Microsoft Research Asia trained a natural language model to search for code in a large data set with state-of-the-art performance.