On the eve of Super Bowl LV, "Saturday Night Live's" cold open satirized how some of the big game’s TV advertisers might try to capitalize on the politics of the moment -- in a misguided attempt to make "all viewers feel welcome."
Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, one of just 10 Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump over the deadly attack on the Capitol, defended his decision while taking pointed criticism from voters Wednesday night.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Andy Jassy is said to be “warmer and fuzzier” than Bezos, but as Amazon's next CEO, he faces many hurdles if he wants its tech to manage workers more humanely — One secret of Amazon's ability to grow rapidly: software and algorithms that manage its millions of employees and marketplace sellers …
Will Oremus / OneZero : Unlike established social media platforms, Clubhouse is built to replicate real world social structures, norms, and status hierarchies rather than collapse them — The hot new social app has found success by replicating real-world social structures rather than exploding them
Washington Post : Jody Williams, the owner of TheDonald's domain name, explains why he pulled the plug on the pro-Trump forum that became a staging ground for the Capitol attack — The Army veteran, a site moderator who owned its domain, watched with growing alarm as racism, threats and QAnon references flourished on the pro-Trump site.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to release guidelines on how to safely reopen schools nationwide next week, but some Republican lawmakers are frustrated the Biden administration has not taken a more decisive action.
The ongoing challenge to Iowa's second congressional district race is poised to soon heat up when the House committee charged with investigating the matter will officially get to work.
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review : Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent — The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. — hide
Suzanne Somers was confronted by a nearly naked intruder at her California estate on Friday night while the “Three’s Company” star was home with her husband — and right in the middle of a Facebook Live session with her fans.
Republicans are promising a “huge push” to pressure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to pay the fine she imposed for bypassing magnetometers installed after the Capitol riot to enter the House floor.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is taking on right-wing extremism in the military, ordering all commanding officers and supervisors to issue a one-day stand-down order, to address extremism in the ranks.
A spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s potential gubernatorial challenger wants Twitter to know his boss responds to interview requests and isn’t trying to break major news on TikTok – unlike the incumbent, according to some critics.
Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair : Profile of BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes, who remains at large after the CFTC filed a suit against BitMEX for allegedly running an unregistered trading platform — The BitMEX cofounder created a cryptocurrency exchange that has traded trillions. Now he's wanted by U.S. authorities …
Leading environmental groups have been mostly mum when it comes to what many have described as a hypocritical use of private aviation by the nation's top climate adviser.
China pushed back Friday on calls from the Biden administration to address growing concerns about Beijing's nuclear stockpile, calling Washington's worries "groundless" and a "vilification."
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign of California Gov. Gavin Newsom as an effort to remove the Democrat from office nears the required number of signatures to trigger a mid-year election.
A group of House Republicans wasted no time in going after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for allegedly breaking the new security measures she pushed to have passed earlier this week.
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Google says it paid $6.7M in 2020, up from $6.5M in 2019, to 662 researchers from 62 countries as part of its bug bounty program — Sum is up from the $6.5 million the company paid security researchers a year before, in 2019. — Google said today it paid more than $6.7 million …
Osato Avan-Nomayo / Cointelegraph : The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered all banks to close accounts belonging to crypto exchanges or businesses transacting in cryptocurrencies in the country — Nigeria's central bank has prohibited commercial banks from providing account services to crypto exchanges. — 4326 Total views
A recall election of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, which appears increasingly likely to take place, will lead to a "California comeback," Republican former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer told "Fox News Primetime" Friday.
Michael McSweeney / The Block : 0x Labs, the startup behind the 0x exchange protocol and a provider of decentralized exchange infrastructure, raises $15M Series A led by Pantera Capital — Quick Take — 0x Labs has raised $15 million in a Series A equity round — Pantera Capital led the round …
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : DTC health insurance service Oscar Health files S-1 for its IPO, reports 2020 revenue of $1.67B, up from $1.04B in 2019; David Plouffe joins board — Oscar Health, the health insurance company co-founded by Jared Kushner's brother, Joshua, has filed for an IPO and announced …
Sam Shead / CNBC : Graphcore, which designs chips for AI applications, asks UK regulator to block Nvidia's acquisition of Arm on the grounds that it is anti-competitive — - Graphcore has objected to Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of Arm Holdings, according to a key member of the British chipmaker's early developments
A trio of Senate Democrats is pushing a bill that aims to reform Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which offers liability protections for Big Tech platforms on the Internet.
A Senate panel in Arizona approved on Thursday sweeping abortion legislation that would, among other things, prohibit the procedure from being performed based on an unborn child's Down syndrome diagnosis or other genetic abnormality.
On Friday dozens of progressive nonprofits wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanding he take steps to eliminate the Senate filibuster.
A group of 42 House Republicans has sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanding the removal of “the militarized Capitol fencing” that authorities installed in the wake of a “horrific” riot on Jan. 6.
Kevin Collier / NBC News : Medical records “in the tens of thousands” from two U.S. hospitals have been published on the dark web, including diagnoses and other personal identifying info — Hackers have published extensive patient information from two U.S. hospital chains in an apparent attempt to extort them for money.