“The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional government agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, voted Wednesday to move forward with a proposal to require people at large, office-based companies to work from home three days a week as a way to slash greenhouse gas emissions from car commutes,” reports NBC News: It’s a radical suggestion that likely would have been a…
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Coca-Cola, Hershey’s, Starbucks: More Major Advertisers Are Now Boycotting Facebook
Some of America’s biggest brands — Coca-Cola, The Hershey Company and the Levi Strauss & Co. — “are among the latest in pledging to halt advertising on Facebook as part of a growing boycott,” reports USA Today: Despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlining several steps the social network will take to combat hate speech ahead of the 2020 presidential election Friday,…
Coursera Appoints Sabrina Simmons to Board of Directors
Coursera’s mission is to transform lives through learning. In addition to equipping 47 million learners with skills of the future, we are advancing our mission by partnering with institutions and communities around the world as they tackle challenges posed by digital disruption. Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of our Board as they […]
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Bizarre ‘Big Tech’/Matrix Cartoon Used to Mock San Francisco’s Football Team
The social media team for a Minnesota football team playing against San Francisco’s 49ers just incorporated “big tech” into its online trash talk, reports the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate site. They call the resulting video “incredibly weird.” The video in question depicts a time-lapse of [San Francisco’s] Levi’s stadium with two cartoon characters in the foreground that are basically team helmets…
145 Executives Demand Senate Action on Gun Violence
In a direct and urgent call to address gun violence in America, the chief executives of some of the nation’s best-known companies sent a letter to Senate leaders on Thursday, urging an expansion of background checks to all firearms sales and stronger “red flag” laws. From a report: “Doing nothing about America’s gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable and it is…
Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
Mexican physicist Rafael Gonzalez has found the solution to spherical aberration in optical lenses, solving the 2,000-year-old Wasserman-Wolf problem that Isaac Newton himself could not solve. Newton invented a telescope that solved the chromatic aberration, but not the spherical aberration. PetaPixel reports: Fast forward to 2018 when Hector A. Chaparro-Romo, a doctoral student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),…
‘Shazam!’ Solidifies a Superhero Turnaround at Warner Bros.
As the No. 1 movie at the domestic box office, “Shazam!” collected nearly $54 million. “Pet Sematary” was second, while “Dumbo” dragged its trunk behind. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/movies/shazam-box-office-pet-sematary.html?partner=rss&emc=rss