Google is facing a revised class-action gender-pay lawsuit that alleges Google underpaid women in comparison with their male counterparts and asked new hires about their prior salaries, The Guardian first reported. The revised lawsuit also adds a fourth complainant, Heidi Lamar, … | Continue reading
All week, the tech world has been piecing through rumors of a potentially catastrophic flaw in an entire generation of processors — but with all developers subject to a non-disclosure agreement, there were few hard facts to go on. Now, new details have emerged on how severe and f … | Continue reading
It may have been a rough 2017 for Tesla, but the Palo Alto-based automaker can boast about hitting one projection it made last year: more than 100,000 of its vehicles were delivered in the year.Tesla announced Wednesday it delivered 101,312 Model S and Model X cars in 2017, a 33 … | Continue reading
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has canceled plans to appear at CES next week, missing the show for the first time in five years and what would have been his first appearance as head of the commission.Pai was scheduled to appear next Tuesday, alongside the FTC’s acting chairwoman, Maureen … | Continue reading
GUEST: From Microsoft’s accidentally racist bot to Inspirobot’s dark memes, AI often wanders into transgressive territories. Why does this happen, and can we stop it? In science fiction, artificial intelligence is often characterized by amoral villainy. From 2001: A Space Odyssey … | Continue reading
Tesla produced a lot more Model 3 cars during the last quarter of 2017 than it did during Q3: it produced 2,425 cars during the quarter, adding to its production total of 23,565 vehicles overall, including Model S and Model X vehicles. That’s a significant increase from the 260 … | Continue reading
PharmaMar: Madrid (ots/PRNewswire) - PharmaMar (MCE: PHM) hat die Initiierung eines erneuten Überprüfungsverfahrens durch die Europäische Arzneimittelagentur (EMA) für das Medikament Aplidin® (Plitidepsin) angekündigt. Adiplin ist bei rezidivierendem oder ... | Continue reading
Every enthusiast in the crypto and blockchain space that has “seen the light” believes in a future that is collaborative, transparent and frictionless. Peer-to-peer and trustless technology will lead us to a decentralized utopia of equality and inclusion. While the ideals are no … | Continue reading
An Alaskan baby buried 11,500 years ago has clued scientists in to a forgotten branch of the Native American family tree. This child’s DNA is more genetically ancient than the ancestors of modern Native Americans — so it must have come from a previously unknown, even earlier popu … | Continue reading
Karl Pilkington, star of An Idiot Abroad and collaborator on The Ricky Gervais Show, is also almost eerily in tune with the TV series Black Mirror. A YouTube video maker dug up Ricky Gervais Show clips where Pilkington closely outlines much of Black Mirror’s season 4 finale, “Bla … | Continue reading
Microsoft is issuing a rare out-of-band security update to supported versions of Windows today. The software update is part of a number of fixes that will protect against a newly-discovered processor bug in Intel, AMD, and ARM chipsets. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tel … | Continue reading
If you live in the eastern US, from northern Florida all the way to New England, you’re in for some nasty weather: a massive winter storm called a “bomb cyclone” is hammering the coast, bringing snow, ice, flooding, and strong winds. That’s not a made-up click-bait term; it’s act … | Continue reading
This Alamo Square house embodies San Francisco’s contemporary culture: modern yet enamored with the city’s rich history. The setting is Alamo Square Park, a city-owned park built in 1857 and known for its “Painted Ladies,” the row of Victorian homes captured on many postcards. | Continue reading
For those who work for several gig economy platforms, like Uber, Airbnb or Turo, keeping track of earnings can be overwhelming when they are coming from so many different companies. Calculating tax rates on those earnings and filing them correctly can be even more daunting. That’ … | Continue reading
Intel is responding to claims that the company’s processors have a security bug, and software fixes could slow down PCs. Reports this week have suggested that a security flaw in Intel processors, and allegedly not AMD ones, has led to a redesign of Linux and Windows kernels to pr … | Continue reading
Reports this morning that Intel processors are affected by a serious flaw that may reduce performance significantly hit the company’s credibility and stock hard. Intel has now officially responded to these reports, calling them “incorrect” and “inaccurate,” and saying it had pla … | Continue reading
Bolt Threads, the startup making spider silk from microbugs, has raised a giant $123 million Series D round of funding. As we reported in November, an SEC filing showed the company had raised $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8. Bolt now tells TechCrunch it has … | Continue reading
The New York State Court granted a motion to dismiss a two-year one-man lawsuit that tried to overturn the existing New York bitcoin law. | Continue reading
Westfalenpost: Hagen (ots) - Es ist ungerecht, kontraproduktiv und rassistisch, pauschal jedem Flüchtling zu unterstellen, kriminell zu sein oder sonst irgendwie Böses im Schilde zu führen. Es ist allerdings auch umgekehrt falsch, allen, die zu uns kommen, ... | Continue reading
Westfalenpost: Hagen (ots) - Wann denn sonst, wenn nicht mit Klasse 7 soll die zweite Fremdsprache im G9 starten? Und auch die Schulministerin findet das "sinnvoll" - eine interessante Umschreibung einer Selbstverständlichkeit. Es zeigt, dass in den Diskussionen ... | Continue reading
According to Texas officials, Hurricane Harvey destroyed an estimated 800 homes in Houston alone and severely damaged another 119,000. However you cut it, the city will change over the coming years: If you’re a Bayou City urbanist, the wave of rebuilding could be good news, as th … | Continue reading
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung: Heidelberg (ots) - Dass bis Ostern, dem laut Seehofer "allerspätesten Termin", tatsächlich eine neue Regierung steht, das ist noch längst nicht ausgemacht. Auch wenn die Vor-Sondierer schon mal artig zu Papier gebracht haben, dass das Vertrauen ... | Continue reading
This expansion of a three-story townhouse located in Park Slope responds to the row house typology and its typical direction of front to back. | Continue reading
GUEST: If you’ve just unwrapped an Amazon Echo hub, now is the perfect time to connect it and its digital voice assistant, Alexa, to your home security system. With a two-year head start over the rest of the digital assistant market, Alexa’s repertoire of skills and compatible pr … | Continue reading
Rheinische Post: Düsseldorf (ots) - Die Tradition der Sternsinger ist weltweit beispiellos und gehört zu den größten Solidaritätsaktionen überhaupt. Jährlich kommen auf diese Weise weit über 40 Millionen Euro für notleidende Kinder zusammen. Das jahrhundertealte ... | Continue reading
Rheinische Post: Düsseldorf (ots) - Nordkoreas Diktator Kim eskaliert den Atomstreit mit den USA und sendet Entspannungssignale in den Süden. Er mag hoffen, Südkorea und die USA zu entzweien. Tatsächlich riskiert der Herr des Nordens seine Macht. Kim kann den ... | Continue reading
Eine ernstzunehmende Sicherheitslücke bedroht zahlreiche Generationen von Intel-Prozessoren. Gefährdet sind Daten, die im Arbeitsspeicher abgelegt sind. Dem Kernel ist eigentlich ein bestimmter Anteil des Arbeitsspeichers reserviert, dieser... | Continue reading
Rheinische Post: Düsseldorf (ots) - Der Umgang mit der Kriminalität von Flüchtlingen muss zugleich offensiv und differenziert sein. Die Studie des Kriminologen Pfeiffer zeigt einmal mehr, dass es dringend geboten ist, die nordafrikanischen Maghreb-Staaten zu ... | Continue reading
Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing giant of China and likely the most valuable startup in the world, just bought a controlling stake in 99, a leading ride-sharing app in Brazil. According to Reuters (citing a repot in Valor Economico, a leading financial newspaper in Brazil), the dea … | Continue reading
Westfalen-Blatt: Bielefeld (ots) - Erst die Abkehr vom »Turbo-Abi«, jetzt die Rolle rückwärts bei der zweiten Fremdsprache. Die schwarz-gelbe Landesregierung dreht in der Schulpolitik das Rad zurück, weil vor allem Eltern das so wollen. Schließlich war die ... | Continue reading
Westfalen-Blatt: Bielefeld (ots) - Ob die Einführung einer von der SPD gewünschten Bürgerversicherung tatsächlich strukturelle und finanzielle Probleme im Gesundheitswesen löst und zugleich für mehr Gerechtigkeit sorgt, ist fraglich. Zu viele Sachverhalte sind ... | Continue reading
Apple announced today it will begin allowing select publishers to waive the membership fees associated with its App Developer Program. Specifically, the new fee waivers will be offered to “nonprofit organizations, accredited educational institutions, and government entities,” sa … | Continue reading
Neue Westfälische (Bielefeld): Bielefeld (ots) - Endlich ist in die bislang oft von diffusen Argumentationslinien der Marke "die gefühlte Kriminalität ist durch den Zustrom von Flüchtlingen gestiegen" Struktur gekommen. Die Studie, die unter der Leitung des ... | Continue reading
Börsen-Zeitung: Frankfurt (ots) - Es ist mal wieder so weit. Rund um die Jahreswende kommt die große Zeit der Aus- und Rückblicke sowie der schier endlosen Empfehlungen an Politik und Wirtschaft. Angesichts der niedrigsten Jahresarbeitslosigkeit seit der ... | Continue reading
For the last two years, astronomers all over the world have been eagerly observing what is hailed as “the most mysterious star in the Universe,” a stellar object that wildly fluctuates in brightness with no discernible pattern — and now they may finally have an answer for its wei … | Continue reading
Earlier today, we reported that Didi was in the process of acquiring 99, a ridesharing company in Brazil, and now the two companies have confirmed the deal as part of Didi’s plans to expand its service into Latin America. Terms of the deal were not disclosed — we are asking — bu … | Continue reading
Faber were appointed to create a new bar and restaurant at Aston Marina in Stone, Staffordshire. Working with the owners of the marina, we helped them to develop a strategy, branding and venue to create a ‘foodie destination’ - Aston Marina restaurant. | Continue reading
A new report by a Royal Bank of Canada analyst outlines potential use cases for blockchain technologies while predicting a $10 trillion industry. | Continue reading
Stuttgarter Nachrichten: Stuttgart (ots) - Dass die große Koalition, an deren Neuauflage in Berlin gezimmert wird, diese Kurskorrektur hinbekommt, ist zu bezweifeln. Da ist zunächst Merkel, der FDP-Chef Christian Lindner wohl zu Recht unterstellt, "nach zwölf Jahren im Amt ... | Continue reading
Black Mirror’s fourth season episode “Black Museum” is set in a tourable collection of technological artifacts with horrible backstories. As shady proprietor Rolo Haynes puts it, “if it did something bad — chances are it’s in here.” And for longtime series viewers, some of those … | Continue reading
Last October, Google announced a redesigned look and feel for Google Calendar on the desktop. Not everybody loves the design (including me, though some people have told me I’m wrong), but soon your opinion won’t matter because Google is about to upgrade your Calendar to the new … | Continue reading
Finding a job can be a struggle, but it always helps to look in the right places. These are the ten best cities to try and land a job this year, according to WalletHub. | Continue reading
Logan Paul's video in which he filmed the body of a suicide victim continues to live on YouTube, even though the company has attempted to purge complete re-uploads from its site. A search this morning surfaced multiple re-uploads, including a few complete videos and many stitched … | Continue reading
Foresee Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.: Taipei, Taiwan, und Raanana, Israel (ots/PRNewswire) - Foresee Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (6576.TWO) ("Foresee"), ein in Taiwan und den USA ansässiges Biopharma-Unternehmen, und Megapharm Ltd. ("Megapharm"), ein führendes Biopharma-Unternehmen mi … | Continue reading
Mittelbayerische Zeitung: Regensburg (ots) - Mit der Verpflichtung von Hamadi Al Ghaddioui sind die Transferplanungen beim SSV Jahn Regensburg abgeschlossen. Die sportlichen Verantwortlichen um Geschäftsführer Christian Keller und Trainer Achim Beierlorzer sehen keinen ... | Continue reading
Mittelbayerische Zeitung: Regensburg (ots) - In der Branche ist es ein offenes Geheimnis, dass Ausrüster vielversprechende Fußballtalente schon mal mit Verträgen im zweistelligen Millionenbereich ködern. Teenager, wohlgemerkt. Hat der Lümmel dann mit 20 anderes im Kopf, war ... | Continue reading
Mittelbayerische Zeitung: Regensburg (ots) - Nichts ist schwerer zu ertragen, als eine Reihe von guten Tagen, meinte einst Dichterfürst Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Die guten Zahlen der Nürnberger Bundesagentur für Arbeit weisen sogar bereits seit einigen Jahren boomende ... | Continue reading