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Monday, 31 August 2020
What’s on TV Monday: ‘All or Nothing’ and ‘American Ninja Warrior’
By BY PETER LIBBEY from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/34Mhclz
Meet Germany’s Bizarre Anti-Lockdown Protesters
By BY ANNA SAUERBREY from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3gDgNnS
Kymeta raises $85M led by Bill Gates as it prepares to launch a flat panel antenna for cellular and satellite broadband connections (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Kymeta raises $85M led by Bill Gates as it prepares to launch a flat panel antenna for cellular and satellite broadband connections — Bill Gates is boosting his bet on next-generation satellite broadband technology, leading a new $85 million funding round for Kymeta as the Redmond, Wash. …
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As Japan’s Abe Leaves, ‘Abenomics’ Will Remain, for Good or Ill
By BY BEN DOOLEY AND HIKARI HIDA from NYT Business https://ift.tt/31G9QxZ
The Runway Lights Failed, So Villagers Used Their Headlights to Aid an Airlift
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How the startup Farmers Business Network is trying to disrupt the largely brick-and-mortar $40B US farm supply business, while agri giants refuse to play along (Jacob Bunge/Wall Street Journal)
How the startup Farmers Business Network is trying to disrupt the largely brick-and-mortar $40B US farm supply business, while agri giants refuse to play along — Farmers Business Network faces pressure from big suppliers as it tries to grow its online platform
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Quotation of the Day: As China Flexes, Taiwan Revamps Its Military
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How to Help Someone Who Lost Their Job
By BY DORIE CHEVLEN from NYT Smarter Living https://ift.tt/2YPiDMn
Think You’re Making Good Climate Choices? Take This Mini-Quiz
By BY VERONICA PENNEY from NYT Climate https://ift.tt/2YOnXj6
I’m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan. But I Can’t Defend Him.
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Portland Shooting Amplifies Tensions in Presidential Race
By BY MIKE BAKER, THOMAS KAPLAN AND SHANE GOLDMACHER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/32EEtTN
Jon Rahm Sinks a Big Putt to Win Playoff at the BMW Championship
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Norway bunker partygoers poisoned with carbon monoxide
More than 20 people were hospitalised after attending the party in the Norwegian capital Oslo.
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Profile of cloud database company Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman, hired sixteen months ago, as he takes his third startup public (CNBC)
Profile of cloud database company Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman, hired sixteen months ago, as he takes his third startup public — - Frank Slootman is preparing to take Snowflake public 13 years after his first tech IPO, Data Domain, and eight years after his second, ServiceNow.
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Stories of 2020: Five Lives Caught in a Year of Upheaval and Pain
By BY PETER BAKER, JOHN BRANCH, JOHN ELIGON, REID J. EPSTEIN, DAN LEVIN AND MARC STEIN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3gJPdVW
Mauritius oil spill: 'We want to protect our island'
Young locals are helping to prevent environmental damage after an oil leak from a ship that ran aground.
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Europe's migrant crisis: The year that changed a continent
More than a million people arrived in Europe in 2015. Five years on, we reflect on what's changed.
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The search engine boss who wants to help us all plant trees
Christian Kroll is the boss of Ecosia, which donates 80% of its profits to tree-planting projects.
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Letter from Africa: Why Kenyans are no longer cheering their constitution
It is a time of reflection 10 years after the country was promised a rebirth, writes Waihiga Mwaura.
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Sunday, 30 August 2020
US election 2020: Intelligence chief ends face-to-face security meetings
Democrats cry foul over the move, saying the public had a right to know about foreign interference.
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Construction of a $20B chip manufacturing plant in Wuhan stopped due to lack of funding, the latest example of China's semiconductor efforts failing to take off (South China Morning Post)
Construction of a $20B chip manufacturing plant in Wuhan stopped due to lack of funding, the latest example of China's semiconductor efforts failing to take off — Construction on a US$20 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing plant in Wuhan has stalled due to a lack of funding It's …
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Deadly Shooting in Portland After Pro-Trump Ralliers Clash With Protesters
By BY MIKE BAKER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3jmJHKA
Shinzo Abe Is Ill. But Is That the Only Reason He’s Quitting?
By BY KOICHI NAKANO from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3gIeYG8
How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5 (Dara Kerr/CNET)
How a law professor became the target of posts on conservative sites, social media harassment, and PR firms hired by gig economy companies, for supporting AB5 — Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees.
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With a Wary Eye on China, Taiwan Moves to Revamp Its Military
By BY STEVEN LEE MYERS AND JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/3hUcFS5
Jacob Blake: Donald Trump to visit Kenosha amid unrest
The president is due to visit the city of Kenosha on Tuesday to meet local police.
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Medium says it had 1.2B page views in Q2 and now has "several hundred thousand" paying subscribers, and will start offering custom domains again (Ev Williams/The Official Medium Blog)
Medium says it had 1.2B page views in Q2 and now has “several hundred thousand” paying subscribers, and will start offering custom domains again — Upcoming features and a status update — We've had a busy summer. — Last month, we announced new features coming to our publishing tools …
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Quotation of the Day: District by District, a Plan for In-Person Schooling Falls Apart
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Amid Tennis’s Swirling Storms, a Stubborn Djokovic Claims a Title
By BY CHRISTOPHER CLAREY from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3jvpHWv
How to Build a Catapult From Newspaper
By BY GODWYN MORRIS AND PAULA FRISCH from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/2GaP7dz
Phoenix Settles With Black Family After Police Drew Guns Over Reported Doll Theft
By BY CHRISTINA MORALES from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/32BL69E
ReliaQuest, a managed cybersecurity and intelligence services provider, raises $300M led by KKR, says its revenue grew more than 450% in the past three years (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
ReliaQuest, a managed cybersecurity and intelligence services provider, raises $300M led by KKR, says its revenue grew more than 450% in the past three years — ReliaQuest, a company developing a cybersecurity managed service and intelligence platform for global enterprises …
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‘It Was Challenging’: Bucks Return, Balancing Basketball and Activism
By BY MARC STEIN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/31GQF7a
‘Enough Is Enough’: New Racial Justice Leaders Rise in Kenosha
By BY JOHN ELIGON from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/34LP95G
Searching for the lost dogs of the Beirut blast
Many pets ran away after a massive explosion in Beirut, leaving Leila Molana-Allen pining for a missing puppy.
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'They wanted to drown me at birth - now I'm a poet'
Kuli Kohli has always used writing as a means of escape from the prejudice she has experienced as an Asian woman with cerebral palsy.
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Begum Rokeya: The forgotten 19th Century feminist
Begum Rokeya was a writer, educationalist and reformer who tirelessly fought for women's rights.
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Algeria's lessons from The Plague in the age of coronavirus
Finding parallels between the famous novel and how Algeria is coping with coronavirus amid political upheaval.
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ICYMI: Aquarium art and crop portraits
Plus a newborn puma and pioneering women statues in our round-up of stories you may have missed this week.
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Saturday, 29 August 2020
Pinterest is canceling its 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco's unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward remote work amid the pandemic (Roland Li/San Francisco Chronicle)
Pinterest is canceling its 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco's unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward remote work amid the pandemic — Pinterest terminated its massive 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco's unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward more remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Neuralink, Musk's brain-computer interface company, revealed a prototype showing readings from a pig's brain using a coin-shaped device implanted under skull (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Neuralink, Musk's brain-computer interface company, revealed a prototype showing readings from a pig's brain using a coin-shaped device implanted under skull — During a press conference held virtually this afternoon, scientists at Elon Musk's Neuralink gave a progress update.
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Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay Tough It Out, Sharing BMW Lead
By BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3hDuNzr
Hurricane Laura Was Powerful, but Louisiana Was Prepared
By BY MANNY FERNANDEZ AND RICHARD FAUSSET from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3b7k6Tl
Sarah Palin’s Suit Against New York Times Will Go to Trial, Judge Rules
By BY NIRAJ CHOKSHI from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2EAiS76
Quotation of the Day: ‘Panting for Air’ Under Smoky Western Skies
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