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| 19.06.2025 | The Unraveling Threads of Support: A Crisis for LGBTQ+ Youth and Global Tensions | In a world where safety and support should be a given, the recent decision to dismantle the 988 hotline service tailored for LGBTQ+ youth feels like a cruel twist of fate. This service, a lifeline for many, is being pulled just as the natio... |
| 18.06.2025 | ‘Nobody knows:’ Trump won’t say whether he will move forward with US strikes on Iran | Trump also offered a terse response to Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s refusal to heed to his call for Iran to submit to an unconditional surrender.
“I say good luck,” Trump said.
Khamenei earlier Wednesday warned that any Unit... |
| 02.01.2025 | The Trust Crisis: Media and Justice in America | In the landscape of American democracy, trust is the currency that fuels the engine of society. Yet, this currency is rapidly devaluing. The news media and the judicial system, once revered pillars of democracy, now face a crisis of confide... |
| 01.01.2025 | Editorials | Editorial: Eroding trust in the courts can be solved at the voting booth | By contrast, those identifying as Republicans saw their trust in the court increase from 61% to 67% between 2021 and 2022 and jumped to 71% in 2024.
Too many judges’ poor ethics add to Americans’ misgivings about our criminal justice system... |
| 16.10.2024 | Tap-to-Earn Games Are Realizing Satoshi’s Dream
What's Driving Bitcoin's Recent Price Rise? | If media reports and anecdotal information is to be believed, we are on the cusp of a massive wave of crypto adoption from a group of people who don’t know they are even using the technology despite reaping the benefits.
Tap-to-earn games a... |
| 17.04.2024 | Vacations, planes, and high-speed trains are off limits if you're in too much debt in China | Tech Vacations, planes, and high-speed trains are off limits if you're in too much debt in China
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| 05.04.2024 | For AI firms, anything "public" is fair game | Leading AI companies have a favorite phrase when it comes to describing where they get the data to train their models: They say it's "publicly available" on the internet.
Why it matters: "Publicly available" can sound li... |
| 04.03.2024 | Бигтех, о котором вы вряд ли слышали. Как локальные IT-компании подвинули Google, Amazon и других гигантов | Google захватил мировой рынок поиска, Amazon подмял под себя весь ecommerce, а местным онлайн-кинотеатрам сложно тягаться с Netflix? Чаще всего - да. Однако, в некоторых странах и регионах локальные tech-компании отвесили смачного пинка гло... |
| 04.03.2024 | Бигтех, о котором вы не слышали. Как локальные IT-компании подвинули Google, Amazon и других гигантов | Google захватил мировой рынок поиска, Amazon подмял под себя весь ecommerce, а местным онлайн-кинотеатрам сложно тягаться с Netflix? Чаще всего - да. Однако, в некоторых странах и регионах локальные tech-компании отвесили смачного пинка гло... |
| 27.02.2024 | A 13-year-old built a 'death ray' using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes | Science A 13-year-old built a 'death ray' using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes
Jenny McGrath
2024-02-27T11:00:01Z
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| 16.02.2024 | The wild life of Alexey Navalny, who challenged Putin and appears to have died in prison | Military & Defense The wild life of Alexey Navalny, who challenged Putin and appears to have died in prison
James Pasley and Sinéad Baker
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| 30.12.2023 | 23 lasting images from a chaotic year in politics | Politics 23 lasting images from a chaotic year in politics
Brent D. Griffiths
2023-12-30T13:06:01Z
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| 20.12.2023 | 2023 was the year of generative AI – what’s coming in 2024 | In 2023, artificial intelligence truly entered our daily lives. At first, many people used these tools because they were curious about generative AI or wanted to be entertained. Now people ask generative AI for help with studies, for advice... |
| 30.10.2023 | Every single Tim Burton movie, ranked | Entertainment Every single Tim Burton movie, ranked
Meghan Cook
2023-10-30T20:14:20Z
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| 23.10.2023 | I was born and raised in Montana. These are the 10 most common mistakes I see tourists make when visiting the Big Sky state. | Travel I was born and raised in Montana. These are the 10 most common mistakes I see tourists make when visiting the Big Sky state.
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| 06.10.2023 | France Enforces €3 Minimum Fee on Amazon for Book Deliveries, Protecting Indie Bookstores | John Lopez, Tech Times 06 October 2023, 08:10 am
(Photo: DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images) In this photograph taken on November 18, 2020, in Lille, a person poses with a smartphone showing an Amazon logo, in front of a computer screen dis... |
| 21.07.2023 | Every single Matt Damon movie, ranked | Entertainment Every single Matt Damon movie, ranked
Kirstie Renae
2023-07-21T19:47:58Z
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| 05.07.2023 | How Paul Childs' death changed policing in Denver | Former state House Speaker Terrance Carroll calls Paul Childs' death a formative moment in Denver — though Carroll hasn't lost sight of just how tragic the teenager's shooting was.
Why it matters: Protests over his death led to major change... |
| 23.05.2023 | Alarming Report Reveals Russian Government's Surveillance Grip | John Lopez, Tech Times 23 May 2023, 10:05 am
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In an alarming twist of events, Russian journalist and activist Yekaterina Maksimova finds herself entangled in... |
| 09.05.2023 | An ominous policy change is a sign Russia is preparing for a long, bloody war in Ukraine | Reservists drafted during Russia's partial mobilization at a departure ceremony in Sevastopol in September. STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images
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| 05.05.2023 | Why Fair Housing is Key to Systemic Equality | Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair and stable housing. When Martin Luther King, Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle to obtain decent housing with the need to... |
| 15.04.2023 | Ни санкции их не берут, ни протесты | Десять лет назад, 14 апреля 2013 года, бывший водитель автобуса без высшего образования Николас Мадуро одержал победу на президентских выборах в Венесуэле. Тем самым он подхватил знамя, которое упало из рук скончавшегося незадолго до этого ... |
| 11.04.2023 | Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: Ceding control of zoning; ending book banning | Sara Mitton: Development: Do we really want to cede zoning to the state?
There is no doubt that zoning has been used in the past to discriminate in some communities, but it was only weaponized by certain groups for that. It was not inherent... |
| 07.04.2023 | Newsom’s threat to Walgreens fizzles | On March 6, Gov. Gavin Newsom sent the policy world into a frenzy when, without any notice, he tweeted that “California won’t be doing business with Walgreens,” because of the company’s decision to not distribute an abortion pill in states ... |
| 29.03.2023 | Why To Invest In Your Brand During Times Of Economic Uncertainty | Michael Benedek is CEO of Datonics, an online data company and pioneer in the integration of audience data into programmatic platforms. |
| 14.02.2023 | Nikki Haley is running for president in 2024. Meet her family. | Nikki Haley with her husband, Michael, daughter Rena, and son Nalin in the drawing room of the Governor's Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2015. Richard Shiro/AP
Former governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley is running for president ... |
| 10.02.2023 | 13 surprising things you probably didn't know about the Super Bowl | Entertainment 13 surprising things you probably didn't know about the Super Bowl
Louis Baragona
2023-02-10T16:52:38Z
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| 09.02.2023 | Nikki Haley and her husband, Michael, have been married for 26 years. Here's a timeline of their relationship. | Former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley is widely expected to announce a 2024 run for president. Brett Flashnick/AP
Nikki Haley is widely expected to announce a 2024 run for president.
She and her husband, Michael Haley, met in colleg... |
| 15.01.2023 | Who Are You Calling a Great Power? | Editor’s Note: The United States is in the throes of a new era of great power competition, but few analysts or policymakers pause to consider which countries count as great powers and, perhaps more importantly, why. Dana Stuster, the Foreig... |
| 28.09.2022 | Free Music Land empowers musicians | Milwaukee native Ian McCullough is the creative entrepreneur behind Free Music Land, a peer-to-peer music licensing platform. The company was one of the eight Milwaukee-area startups to receive a $10,000 grant through the MKE Tech Hub Coali... |
| 23.09.2022 | From Dr. Oz to Hillary Clinton, a tour of 'carpetbagging' politicians past and present | Mehmet Oz, former Sen. Hillary Clinton, Herschel Walker, and former President John F. Kennedy are among the notable political candidates accused of "carpetbagging." Mark Makela/Getty Images; Scott Olson/Getty Images; Megan Varner/... |
| 23.09.2022 | Why Marvel’s Mossad superheroine Sabra is all kinds of wrong | Over a period of two days just outside Beirut in September 1982, Israeli-backed Lebanese militiamen slaughtered up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians in what became known as the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Pregnant women w... |
| 12.09.2022 | 100 must-see movies from the 2000s, according to critics | Entertainment 100 must-see movies from the 2000s, according to critics
Meghan Cook
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2022-09-12T16:31:55Z
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| 29.08.2022 | Greenland's Melting 'Zombie Ice' Will Raise Global Sea Level By 10 Inches, Scientists Warn | Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker ar... |
| 29.08.2022 | "Zombie ice" from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches, study warns | "Zombie ice" from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached t... |
| 22.04.2022 | Putin’s war on Ukraine hasn’t affected populism. These leaders and their tactics show why | Governments described as populist are now in power in Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, Hungary, Italy, Venezuela, and Russia. Experts say populist leaders from Donald Trump in the US to Marine Le Pen in France have fundamentally alt... |
| 22.04.2022 | What is Proposition 65 in California and will my phone kill me? | After buying one of the best smartphones, you may have been given pause during the glorious unboxing process by a California Proposition 65 warning. Big exclamation marks and warnings about cancer and birth defects and reproductive health c... |
| 30.03.2022 | The Military Is Making Progress in Its Counter-Extremism Efforts, but Gaps Remain | The Department of Defense released its Report on Countering Extremist Activity Within the Department of Defense in December 2021. The report is the product of a months-long effort by the Countering Extremist Activity Working Group (CEAWG), ... |
| 28.03.2022 | What Happened to Post-Trump Reform? | Listen to the authors talk about the article on The Lawfare Podcast.
“I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President.”
So said Donald Trump in 2019, reflecting on his perception of the powers of his office. ... |
| 14.03.2022 | Как устроен интернет в Иране | Начало: интернет-кафе и «Блогистан»
Иран стал одной из первых стран Ближнего Востока, где появился интернет. Страна была подключена к сети в 1992 году, однако широкого распространения он достиг лишь в конце 1990-х — начале 2000-х годов, ког... |
| 13.02.2022 | Zach George: From Wall Street to investing in African startups | 2010 was a watershed moment in football. For the first time, the World Cup was hosted by an African country. 3.2 billion people watched the matches from their homes while 3.18 million fans attended the matches live in South Africa—Zach Geor... |
| 11.02.2022 | Zach George: From Wall Street to investing in African startups | 2010 was a watershed moment in football. For the first time, the World Cup was hosted by an African country. 3.2 billion people watched the matches from their homes while 3.18 million fans attended the matches live in South Africa—Zach Geor... |
| 02.02.2022 | 20 самых интересных коллабораций зарубежных брендов | Смотрите также: Без матрешек и хохломы: какие коллаборации создают российские бренды. DIY Dolce & Gabbana x Smeg
Smeg — итальянский производитель бытовой техники премиум-класса. Компания основана в 1948 году как металлургический завод, ... |
| 22.11.2021 | Every single Mark Ruffalo movie, ranked | Mark Ruffalo has acted in films across a number of genres. Warner Bros. Pictures; Marvel Studios; Paramount Studios
Mark Ruffalo is known for playing Bruce Banner in the MCU, but his career goes back decades.
His lowest-rated films are “The... |
| 10.11.2021 | Tips To Minimize The Costs Of Business Trips For Your Company | Business travel is essential for many businesses, although the costs of sending employees abroad can be pretty hefty.
While your employees should stay focused on making the trip a success, you and your team can also consider these money-sav... |
| 25.10.2021 | State Anti-Protest Laws and Their Constitutional Implications | In the past several years, state legislatures across the country have passed laws designed to curb the rights of political protesters and increase their exposure to criminal penalties. Though a few members of Congress have introduced federa... |
| 14.09.2021 | Every single Megan Fox movie, ranked by critics | Megan Fox is best known for the ‘Transformers’ series. 20th Century Fox; DreamWorks; Image Entertainment
Megan Fox is best known for her work in “Transformers” (2007) and “Jennifer’s Body”(2009).
Fox’s best-reviewed films are “Till Death” (... |
| 18.07.2021 | Giving Diplomacy a Chance in Yemen | Editor’s Note: One of the knottiest foreign policy problems facing the Biden administration is the civil war in Yemen. Biden vowed a departure from the Trump administration’s uncritical embrace of Saudi Arabia, but how much can the United S... |
| 30.06.2021 | Why Defining ‘Extremism’ Matters to the U.S. Military | On April 9, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin directed “immediate actions to counter extremism in the department,” to include a review and update of the Department of Defense’s definition of extremism. U.S. military members can’t fight... |
| 27.05.2021 | Shareholder activists demand reforms from Amazon, Google, and Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Investors and activists are presenting Alphabet, ... |
| 27.05.2021 | Shareholder activists demand reforms from Amazon, Google, and Facebook | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
Investors and activists are presenting Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter with a list of shareholder resolutions... |
| 10.04.2021 | Как космонавтика совмещается с религией | «Гагарин летал, бога не видал». Эта крылатая фраза — почти ровесница первого полета человека в космос. В Советском Союзе космические полеты активно использовались в антирелигиозной пропаганде. А в США, наоборот, был случай обвинения астрона... |
| 02.04.2021 | There are no victories left to win for US troops in Iraq and Syria. It’s time for Biden to bring them home. | US soldiers walk to an oil production facility to meet with its management team, in Syria, October 27,2020. US Army/Spc. Jensen Guillory
The US still has 3,500 troops in Iraq and several hundred more in Syria.
Any benefit the US may get fro... |
| 23.03.2021 | 12 surprising things you didn’t know about ‘The Hunger Games’ | ‘The Hunger Games’ is a book trilogy and film series. Lionsgate
Suzanne Collins got the idea for the books while flipping between war coverage and reality shows.
Many actors, including Emma Roberts and Evan Peters, reportedly tried to get c... |
| 16.03.2021 | Trying to manage curiosity-driven science risks limiting discoveries | Ever since Arthur D. Little created the first consulting firm in 1886, management consultants have turned their attention to nearly everything from advertising to education to statecraft. They and their management principles are now insinua... |
| 09.03.2021 | Remembering the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: 10 Years Later | Ten years ago the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck off the northeast coast of the Tohoku region 24 kilometers below the surface of the water. The ground started to shake at 2:46 pm on March 11, 2011, and lasted around ... |
| 24.02.2021 | The Last Time the Justice Department Prosecuted a Seditious Conspiracy Case | Lenawee County, Michigan, had an apocalyptic Christian nationalist militia problem about a decade ago. The group called itself the Hutaree, a name that members said meant “Christian Warriors,” though the FBI said it didn’t mean anything at ... |
| 21.02.2021 | Why Management Is A Branch Of Narrative Economics | Robert Shiller; Narrative EconomicsWikpedia, Yale |
| 11.01.2021 | A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? | The Sun setting into a pall of forest fire smoke over Alberta from fires in BC and elsewhere, on ... [+] August 17, 2018 This shows the dimming and reddening of the Sun as it set, with it disappearing from view long before it reached the ho... |
| 11.01.2021 | We Can’t Debate ‘Meritocracy’ When Our Education System Stifles So Much Merit | Recent attacks on the idea of meritocracy rest on the mistaken assumption that education has done ... [+] all it can to level the playing field.getty |
| 04.01.2021 | Resolved To Make A Difference In 2021? This Book Can Help | If 2020 left you wanting to do more to help others in need, you’re not alone. Record amounts of charitable donations were made last year and tens of millions volunteered their time. And with the deadly pandemic raging across the country and... |
| 31.12.2020 | Here’s how 20 real-life first ladies compare to the actors who have played them | Jackie Kennedy and Ginnifer Goodwin. Getty Images; National Geographic
There have been 42 official first ladies, and 11 acting first ladies, as not all 45 of our presidents have been married.
We’ve found 20 that have been portrayed in movie... |
| 20.11.2020 | Obama's Memoir Glosses Over His Horrific Drone War | In A Promised Land, former President Barack Obama’s new 768-page memoir, the word "drone" only appears eleven times. Of those instances, only six are direct references to his drone war, in which he ordered hundreds of strikes and ... |
| 11.11.2020 | 50 must-watch films starring Hollywood’s most popular actors | Hollywood’s biggest actors have been in a wide range of successful films. A24; Chuck Zlotnick/Sony Pictures Entertainment; New Line Cinema; Universal
Insider rounded up the highest-rated films of 50 popular Hollywood actors, according to cr... |
| 03.11.2020 | How tech firms have tried to stop disinformation and voter intimidation — and come up short | Neither disinformation nor voter intimidation is anything new. But tools developed by leading tech companies including Twitter, Facebook and Google now allow these tactics to scale up dramatically.
As a scholar of cybersecurity and election... |
| 09.10.2020 | Cash-strapped local officials reportedly rushed to secure part of Mark Zuckerberg's $250 million donation to cover debt and other costs incurred ahead of the election | Nearly 2,000 of the nation's election offices are seeking part of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's $250 million donation to help offset election costs, per a Recode report.
Zuckerberg and his wife donated the funds to help local and state off... |
| 29.09.2020 | For First Time In Six Years A Carbon Tax Won’t Be On The Ballot, But Politicians Supporting One Will | Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and vice presidential ... [+] running mate, US Senator Kamala Harris, arrive to conduct their first press conference together in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 12, ... |
| 17.09.2020 | Assessing China and Russia’s Moves in the Middle East | Recent news that China and Iran are close to finalizing an economic and security partnership, initially proposed by Beijing in January 2016, has renewed anxieties among some U.S. observers that Washington is gradually ceding the Middle East... |
| 13.09.2020 | Would The Use Of Chemical Dispersants In Mauritius Oil Spill Be Considered An Ecocide? | 2 Sep 2020: Mauritian fishermen employed by Floch Depollution clean the jetty from the Wakashio oil ... [+] spill in Bois des Amourettes, Mauritius.AFP via Getty Images |
| 02.09.2020 | Police use footage from Amazon's Ring doorbells for investigations, but leaked documents reveal the FBI is concerned that homeowners could spy on officers | The FBI is worried that personal home-security cameras, like Amazon's Ring doorbell camera, could be used to tip off homeowners to police searches, according to a leaked report.
Since Ring was bought by Amazon in 2018, the service has becom... |
| 19.08.2020 | Электронное голосование: технологии на выборах в разных странах | Николай Чикишев 19 августа 2020, 19:19 Электронное голосование: технологии на выборах в разных странах
Современные избирательные технологии разнообразны: от привычных бумажных бюллетеней до онлайн-выборов. В начале 2000-х люди не задумывали... |
| 28.07.2020 | U.S. Interests in Negotiations Between Serbia and Kosovo | The Kosovo-Serbia conflict ended formally on June 20, 1999, but tensions have nonetheless percolated from time to time in the intervening 21 years. The journey to a permanent resolution to the conflict faced another roadblock a few weeks ag... |
| 28.07.2020 | Agroforestry Is Profitable & Climate-Friendly, So Why Don’t Farmers Plant More Trees? | 54 5
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In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the U.S. to interview farmers. Their goal was to solve a riddle that had been bothering each of... |
| 10.07.2020 | The Strategic Logic of Russia’s Bounty Policy | On June 26, the New York Times reported that Russian military intelligence (known as the GRU) had paid bounties to the Taliban in exchange for Taliban fighters targeting and killing U.S. and coalition forces. Other news organizations quickl... |
| 30.06.2020 | After switching to ARM, expect Apple to buy TSMC too | Readers have been asking me to comment on Apple’s decision, announced at last week’s World Wide Developers’ Conference, to start switching to Apple-designed ARM processors for its Macintosh computers. I usually don’t like to do second-day (... |
| 25.05.2020 | Мировая карта применения распознавания лиц | Александра Кукуть 25 мая 2020, 17:28 Мировая карта применения распознавания лиц
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| 15.05.2020 | Subsidizing The Slaughter: Big Wind Kills Another Bald Eagle, Gets More Federal Subsidies | A bald eagle flies over Mill Pond in Centerport, New York in 2018. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ... [+] Images). Getty Images |
| 02.05.2020 | A New Vision For Farming: Chickens, Sheep, And … Solar Panels | 2
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When Jackie Augustine opens a chicken coop door one brisk spring morning in upstate New York, the hens bolt out like windup toys. Still, as their faint barnyard scent testifies, they aren’t batt... |
| 17.04.2020 | Election Modifications to Avoid During the COVID-19 Pandemic | As we approach the presidential election this November, election officials are developing plans to deal with the unique risks posed by the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. I have written about how states have grappled with past elect... |
| 03.03.2020 | How Democracy Breaks: Everything That Could Go Wrong With the Election | Russia is at it again. U.S. intelligence officials warn Moscow is trying to interfere with the 2020 election – allegedly to help both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
This raises the question: How safe is the election? How worried should we... |
| 20.02.2020 | Take Greenland Seriously and Literally as a Vital National Security Issue | It is tempting to dismiss talk of Greenland’s significance for defense and foreign policy simply because President Trump infamously made it a punch line last year.
The world’s largest island, after all, had generally stayed off the public’s... |
| 21.01.2020 | Internet Freedom 10 Years In | Hillary Clinton gave her first speech on internet freedom 10 years ago today. When I started my job at Facebook nearly a year later, in January 2011, you could still feel its reverberations.
Egypt shut off the internet during my first week ... |
| 17.01.2020 | How an insecure teenager became a NASA-trained Navy SEAL, and convinced his Korean-American mom to allow him to join the military | Advertisement
US Navy Lt. Jonny Kim, a former Navy SEAL with a Harvard medical degree and NASA training, struggled throughout high school, despite receiving good grades.
"I remember lunch time in high school being one of the worst time... |
| 01.01.2020 | The decade of 'millennials killing' things has come to an end, but it wasn't the generation's fault in the first place | Advertisement
Millennials have been blamed for killing everything from beer to napkins over the last decade.
"Millennials are killing" headlines faced backlash as it became clear that the generation wasn't choosing to kill industr... |
| 03.12.2019 | Should There Be a War Crime Pardon Exception? | In May 2019, President Trump pardoned former 1st Lt. Michael Behenna for crimes committed while deployed in Iraq. Behenna, who had served less than five years in prison by that point, had executed an unarmed Iraqi he believed was responsibl... |
| 08.11.2019 | U.S. Launches National Security Probe Into Chinese-Owned App TikTok | U.S. Launches National Security Probe Into Chinese-Owned App TikTok
The Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has reportedly launched a national security investigation into TikTok, a rapidly grow... |
| 29.10.2019 | Women CEOs are judged more harshly than men for corporate ethical failures | Originally Published by:
Personality stereotypes about female and male leaders can impact how their companies weather a major setback, a new study suggests.
Consumers are less likely to buy products from female-led organizations than they a... |
| 13.09.2019 | Security on the road: Locking down tomorrow’s connected vehicles | This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel.
The kinetic energy of a 3,500-pound Toyota Camry barreling down the freeway at 75 miles per hour is roughly 200 times that of a 12-gauge shotgun b... |
| 08.09.2019 | Al-Qaeda’s Continuing Challenge to the United States | Editor’s Note: To the surprise of many observers, the al-Qaeda core under Ayman al-Zawahiri has not launched a major terrorist attack in the West for years, and the rise of the Islamic State seemed to signal the group’s further decline. Asf... |
| 25.07.2019 | A reprieve for Huawei, and farm goods purchases | |
| 24.07.2019 | Fitbits and other wearables may not accurately track heart rates in people of color | An estimated 40 million people in the United States have smartwatches or fitness trackers that can monitor their heartbeats. But some people of color may be at risk of getting inaccurate readings.
Nearly all of the largest manufacturers of ... |
| 20.07.2019 | The case for a U.S. federal green bank | By Ilmi Granoff
Public activism has supercharged the federal climate policy discussion and pushed the issue high on the political agenda. Politicians have been clamoring to offer their version of ambitious climate policy action since Democr... |
| 16.07.2019 | Congress Should Think Twice Before Expanding the Intelligence Identities Protection Act | In 1975, Philip Agee, a former CIA case officer who claimed he had become disillusioned with the CIA’s support for right-wing dictators in Central and South America, published “Inside the Company,” a tell-all memoir of his service, which in... |
| 24.06.2019 | Donald Trump and the Politically Weaponized Executive Branch | There is no reason to doubt that in seeking reelection, President Trump will consider once more breaking or skirting laws or ethical limits to win. He has already proclaimed a willingness to accept campaign support from a foreign government... |
| 21.06.2019 | What money should be | Nik Milanovic Contributor
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Nik Milanovic is a fintech and financial inclusion enthusiast, with a decade of work across mobile payments, online lending, credit and microfinance. The opinions expressed in his articles do not r... |
| 10.06.2019 | The future of television | How is a television like a fax machine? They are both obsolete.
Remember a time when nobody had a fax machine? Then suddenly everybody had a fax machine. And now nobody again has a fax machine. What would have previously come by fax today i... |
| 30.04.2019 | Instagram tests making Like counts private in Canada | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Earlier this month, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong uncovered evidence that Instagram was experimenting with concealed Like counts in ... |
| 20.03.2019 | There Are Too Many Red Lines in Cyberspace | U.S. officials increasingly express old frustrations about the lack of standards for appropriate state behavior in cyberspace. As U.S.-China trade tensions soar, cybersecurity firms have reported that China is renewing its cyber-enabled eco... |
| 13.02.2019 | The Office Supply Store in the House of Reps. Will Now Stock Tampons | The office supply store in the United States Capitol dedicated to the House of Representatives will soon begin stocking menstrual products, which House lawmakers can pay for with their Members' Representational Allowance.
The decision came ... |
| 25.01.2019 | U.S. Military Operational Activity in the Sahel | In the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the Department of Defense announced a shift away from counterterrorism operations around the world to focus on major state power competition. One year on, as the United States seems poised to wind down... |
