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- Bosses Forcing Women Into Heels Spark Revolt
A British woman who refused an employer's demand that she wear high heels has ignited a debate over discrimination — and a parliamentary inquiry. - China Has World's Largest Population, But Not Enough Babies
- Family of Fallen Braves Fan: 'He Was Doing One of His Favorite Things'
- How One Bank Teller Stole $1.25 Million Very, Very Slowly
Some bank robberies are committed with a gun, others with a ledger. - Trump Golf Club Loses Lawsuit, Must Pay Ex-Members $5M
- President Trump and the 'Shock and Awe' Doctrine
- Zika: The Virus That Came From Nowhere and Broke All the Rules
- Analysis: Trump's 'America First' Vision Could Upend Postwar Consensus
- NBCBLK28 List: Young, Gifted & Unapologetically Black
- Become a Space Archaeologist With New Online Platform
- Study Finds Link Between School Shootings and Jobless Rate
- Translator Who Risked Life in Iraq, Academic Among the Stranded
- NATO Shows Off Firepower at 'Not Just a Training Exercise'
- Americans Split Over How the Media Is Covering Trump
Perhaps unsurprising, the poll finds that views on the media split down ideological lines. - 9.2 Million Signed on to Obamacare, Feds Say
- Paul Ryan: Iran Nuclear Deal Likely To Stay In Place
- Howard Stern Opens Up About Concerns for President Trump
- Lawyers for 'El Chapo' Argue Jail Conditions Too Strict
- NBCBLK28: Marques Brownlee: The Technophile
- Something Tipped Off Al Qaeda Targets: Inside Yemen SEAL Raid
- Emails: Feds Warned Trump Against Skipping Ethics Vetting
- In Deeply Partisan Climate, These Super Bowl Ads Are Hitting a Nerve
- Trump's Wall Is Only One Potential Option for Border
- Why Dogs Are Better Than Machines at Guarding Borders
Specially-trained dogs are faster and more accurate than technology at the world's borders, according to their trainers. - 5 Things You May Not Know About Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks
- Human Trafficking: Flight Attendants Fight Back for Victims
- The Trump Effect? Alleged Terror Mastermind Finally Arrested
- Your Gate Is Now Open: Judge Halts Trump Immigration Order
- Beware: New Email Tax Return Scam Targets Employees
- Iranian Baby Needing Surgery Granted Docs to Come to U.S.
- White House Pick for Secretary of Army Withdraws
- Wayne's World Celebrates 25 'Excellent' Years
- U.S. Army Corps Orders Close of Pipeline Protest Camp
Tech News
- AWS still owns the cloud
When Amazon announced its earnings for its Amazon Web Services cloud division on Thursday, the results were hardly surprising. While AWS might not have the eye-popping growth percentages of its rivals, it still grew at a decent 47 percent, with earnings of $3.53 billion on an astonishing $14.2 bill... - GoPro stock crashes more than 10% after failing to meet Wall Street’s expectations
GoPro today reported its fourth-quarter and year-end earning results. And they weren’t good. The stock is currently falling like a recalled GoPro Karma drone. It’s down 10 percent in after-hours trading. The company reported $540 million in fourth-quarter revenue, with a net income loss of $.082 a ... - Amazon fumbles earnings amidst high expectations
- Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU
- This app uses spectral analysis to analyze objects and their makeup
- Snapchat paid Reggie Brown $157.5M to settle his ‘ousted founder’ lawsuit
Ousted Snapchat early employee Reggie Brown was paid $157.5 million in a settlement in September 2014 to close off a 2013 lawsuit he had brought against other co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, alleging that they had taken his original idea and run with it, pushing him out of the company wi... - Snap says “diversity is about more than numbers”
Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat and Spectacles, included in its filing to go public a brief tidbit on diversity. Unlike tech companies like Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook and several others, Snap has not released a diversity report. At the end of 2016, Snap employed 1,859 employees, but... - Snap sees risks in Brexit, hacking and China’s Great Firewall
- Snap will expand distribution of Spectacles in 2017, but hardware remains an experiment
- Snapchat international user growth slowed in the second half of 2016
- Snap Inc says cameras define smartphones in IPO filing’s tiny letter to investors
- Uber CEO Travis Kalanick quits Donald Trump’s business advisory council
- Snap has finally filed publicly for its massive IPO
- Google will soon integrate Progressive Web Apps deeper into Android
- Medium plans to launch a consumer subscription product this quarter
Medium CEO Ev Williams announced today at Upfront Summit that his company will launch a consumer subscription product, with the first version coming this quarter. This could help develop an additional revenue stream apart from advertisements. Finding a strong revenue source is critical, since Mediu... - Elon Musk says he’ll present objections to Trump’s immigration order at Friday advisory council meeting
Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a statement about his participation in Donald Trump’s economic advisory council, and a scheduled meeting of the group tomorrow. Musk said that he and others on the council will take the opportunity to voice their opposition to the president’s executive order on immigratio... - Team BlackSheep’s Vendetta is a fast racing drone with a high learning curve
- CEO Evan Spiegel’s Snap ownership is worth about $3.5 billion
- How WhatsApp is fighting spam after its encryption rollout
- Snap commits $2 billion over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
- Snap paid $114.5M to acquire Vurb and gives acquisition details for Bitstrips and Looksery
- Snapchat growth slowed 82% after Instagram Stories launched
- Microsoft is taking its Detroit operation downtown
- WhatsApp tests real-time location sharing in its app
Facebook may be distancing itself from location-sharing between friends in its own app, but Facebook-owned WhatsApp appears to moving in this direction. A new feature spotted in the beta version of the popular mobile messaging software shows that WhatsApp has developed a real-time location-tracking... - Information is garbage
I’ve been reading a lot of Neil Postman lately. It’s been one of those years and I’m writing a book about fake news. Postman, the nicest guy in cultural criticism, was a folksy, friendly thinker who imagined the future in which we now live. One of his most important points, made in 1992 before the ... - Watch Hulu’s Super Bowl spot for original series The Handmaid’s Tale
- Domino’s now lets you order from its full menu via Messenger – no setup or account required
- Chevrolet says in-car 4G LTE data use jumped almost 200% in 2016
- LG confirms 5K MacBook display router issue, will outfit new ones with extra shielding
- PlayStation 4’s 4.50 software update adds HDD support, 3D Blu-ray capability for PS VR
- Outdoor ad firm buys Swiss dating app Blinq to power beacon push
- Crunch Report | Snap files publicly for its massive IPO
- Ford’s new “hub” beneath the World Trade Center highlights a transportation future beyond cars
Ford opened a location that it’s calling the FordHub in the Westfield World Trade Center mall this week — but you won’t be able to buy any cars there. Instead, the location includes a large screen highlighting different ways (bike, subway and otherwise) to reach New York City landmarks, a ramp-and-... - Conductor’s new mobile app helps businesses understand what customers are searching for
Conductor is launching a new mobile app that co-founder and CEO Seth Besmertnik described as a way to get quick access to “the voice of the customer.” The New York-based company started with a focus on search engine optimization before broadening to offer a broader range of marketing tools. Now, Be... - With one foot in the past and the other in the future, India faces a digital paradox
- Weekly Roundup: Snap files for massive IPO, Uber CEO quits Trump advisory council
- Google selling Terra Bella satellite imaging business to Planet
- One of the worst comments sections on the internet is shutting down
- Apple offers a $199 app bundle for education with Final Cut and Logic
- Apply Now: Peter Thiel is hiring a personal assistant
- Snap stumbles toward a volatile IPO
- Crunch Report | Tech’s Rough Day on Wall Street
Travis Kalanick quits the Trump advisory board, Domino’s updates its Facebook Messenger bot in time for the Super Bowl, GoPro and Amazon have a rough day on Wall Street and Medium plans to monetize. All this on Crunch Report. Read More - Federal judge puts nationwide block on President Trump’s travel ban
President Trump’s executive order banning travelers from seven countries could be over just one chaotic week after its hasty introduction. That’s because a federal judge from Seattle has obtained a restraining order which looks set to overrule the order with nationwide effect. The ruling came after... - ChitChat is Silicon Valley’s spammiest new app
- Kill them with candor
- Thrive Capital hires Obama’s Director of Product Josh Miller to focus on tech for the underprivileged
- FCC performs midnight revocations of previous leadership’s ‘midnight regulations’
- Jawbone looks to drop consumer wearables for clinical services
- Greenlight is a debit card for kids that parents manage from their phones
- Trump’s FCC just dropped all investigations into zero-rating practices
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