Ray Holgado, a former employee of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, recently filed a racial discrimination complaint with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Holgado, who is Black, worked at CZI from September 2018 through August 2020. "Despite its social justice rhetoric,...
The PlayStation 5 is scheduled to launch this Thursday, November 12, in North America. The only way to get the console on launch day is by pre-ordering - you can't walk into a store and buy one like in years past.
President-elect Joe Biden has given few hints at how he would approach concerns around the tech industry but his transition agency review teams are filled with several tech employees -- as well as a few prominent advocates of reform. The transition team disclosed the members of its agency review groups on Tuesday.
Drs. Özlem Türeci and Ugur Sahin are partners at home and in the lab.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Far more executives from technology companies than outspoken tech critics were named to President-elect Joe Biden's transition team on Tuesday, offering clues on who will decide on filling key roles and ultimately influence his administration's thinking in coming years.
On Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden announced a roster of policy experts who will help ensure "a smooth transfer of power" and enable the new Biden administration to "hit the ground running." The list has more than 500 members, and technology companies are well-represented on the list.
Global stocks edged higher on Wednesday, with Wall Street was poised for an upbeat opening, as investors basked in the news that scientists were making progress toward a coronavirus vaccine. The benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.7 percent, and other major European indexes were all about 0.5 percent higher.
Developer CRG on Monday announced a plan to produce $1 billion in new residential developments across the country over the next three years It's a strategy that the company, the St. Louis-based real estate development and investment arm of Chicago-based Clayco, says is targeted at middle-income earners in a post-pandemic era.
If the Proposition 15 commercial property tax increase remains behind and ultimately is rejected when all votes have been tabulated, pro-taxers in the legislature will look for other avenues to increase revenue. One such approach might be taxing big tech, which has weathered the pandemic storm better than most industries.
Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote a blog post to offer congratulations to the new President- and Vice-President-elect. By | Published: 2:44 pm San Francisco: Tech honchos including Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after their victory in the US presidential election.
Tech CEOs and Silicon Valley luminaries congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after their victory in the U.S. presidential election Saturday. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos celebrated Biden and Harris' win in an Instagram post. Bezos said their victory signifies that "unity, empathy and decency are not characteristics of a bygone era."
Proposition 15, a ballot initiative to raise taxes on commercial properties in California, has failed to secure a majority of votes in the state as of Friday, November 6, and appears unlikely to be written into law. As of 9:15 am Eastern Time, it is down 51.8% to 48.2%, with 76% of the results already tallied.
By Angel Au-Yeung, Deniz Cam, Chase Peterson-Withorn, Michela Tindera While we don't yet know who will win the presidency-and which of the 250-plus billionaires and spouses who donated to Trump or Biden will emerge victorious-a handful of clear billionaire winners and losers of Election Day 2020 have already emerged.
Gut-trained immune cells at CNS borders guard against meningitis and other infections. The membranes surrounding our brains are in a never-ending battle against deadly infections, as germs constantly try to elude watchful immune cells and sneak past a special protective barrier called the meninges.
The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)'s RareLaunch training program will host two days of free virtual workshops in December, with the aim of empowering leaders to start non-profit organizations and research programs to help people with rare diseases. "The RareLaunch program is...
Oregon on Tuesday became the first US state to decriminalize hard drugs, including the possession of small amounts of heroin and cocaine, and to legalize access to "magic mushrooms" for therapeutic use. Some other states, including Arizona and Montana, meanwhile appeared poised in early results to legalize recreational marijuana in line with a trend sweeping the country in recent years.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A ballot measure to partially dismantle California's longtime system of tying property taxes to the last sales price was trailing narrowly Tuesday with several million votes still to be counted. No votes on Proposition 15 were ahead by about 2.5 percentage points with 11 million votes counted.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon became the first state to decriminalize hard drugs like heroin and methamphetamine and to legalize therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms on Tuesday, with two ballot measures passing by large margins. Measure 110 would completely change how Oregon's justice system treats those who are found with personal-use amounts of the hard drugs.
If there is a silver lining to the heavy emphasis on remote and hybrid instruction during the pandemic, it is this: Students are getting more opportunities to work independently and at their own pace-and in the process, they are becoming better problem-solvers.