AI has a bias problem. Barring African experts from a conference in Canada won’t help
Some of the leading artificial intelligence experts from Africa and South America have been denied visas to attend a major industry conference in…
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ACLU and Michigan workers file sexual harassment suit against McDonald’s
Days after Steve Easterbrook was fired as McDonald’s CEO for engaging in what the company called a consensual relationship with an employee,…
Continue Reading Tesla is walking into the lion’s den
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Hong Kong stocks sink as unrest continues to grip the city
Hong Kong stocks tumbled on Wednesday as the city endured a third consecutive day of violent unrest. The Hang Seng Index ended the day down 1.8%. So…
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Disney+ launches Tuesday in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands. The streaming service represents Disney’s first charge into the…
Continue Reading Carl Bernstein’s advice for viewers watching the Trump impeachment hearings
A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The impeachment of…
Continue Reading Former HBO chief Richard Plepler in talks for production deal at Apple
Richard Plepler, the executive who helped make HBO the cable giant that it is today, is in talks with Apple for an exclusive production deal. Under…
Continue Reading Facebook bug accesses iPhone’s camera while user scrolls through News Feed
Facebook says a bug that inadvertently accesses a user’s iPhone camera while they’re scrolling through the News Feed will be fixed…
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Supreme Court allows Sandy Hook families to sue Remington
The Supreme Court won’t stop a lawsuit brought by Sandy Hook victims’ families against Remington Arms Co., the manufacturer of the…
Continue Reading Here’s what one of Apple’s first investors thinks went wrong at WeWork
This is not the year for unicorns. In 2019 alone, WeWork imploded before it even went public. Shares of Uber, Lyft, Slack and other ballyhooed…
Continue Reading JetBlue is rolling out cheaper fares. But there’s a catch
JetBlue Airways is following its rivals by rolling out a new basic economy fare. The tickets are cheaper, but they lack the perks that come with more…
Continue Reading Facebook Pay aims to make it easier to send money across all of its apps
Facebook is taking another step to tie its massive social media applications more closely together at a time when there are mounting calls for the…
Continue Reading Disney+ review: It’s a lot like Netflix, but with a few twists
I’ve been using Disney products my entire life. I go to Disney World nearly every year — a tradition that started when I was three years old.…
Continue Reading Apple Card is accused of gender bias. Here’s how that can happen
Some Apple Card customers say the credit card’s issuer, Goldman Sachs, is giving women far lower credit limits, even if they share assets and…
Continue Reading Google is collecting health data on millions of Americans
Google has confirmed it’s collecting health data on millions of Americans through a new partnership with Ascension, one of the country’s…
Continue Reading Hyatt is eliminating travel-sized plastic toiletries
Hyatt is the latest international hotel brand to ditch travel-sized toiletries from its rooms, following Holiday Inn-owner InterContinental Group and…
Continue Reading Carl Icahn warns it’s ‘extremely dangerous’ to own shares in Occidental Petroleum, the oil giant he owns a big stake in
Carl Icahn is no stranger to risk-taking. But even the legendary investor is uncomfortable with his exposure to Occidental Petroleum’s giant…
Continue Reading Puppies and Venmo: How the biggest store credit card company is surviving the retail apocalypse
Synchrony, the nation’s largest issuer of retail credit cards, is branching out from its retail roots into businesses that didn’t exist…
Continue Reading Richard Branson apologizes after tweeting photo full of white people to announce a South African project
Richard Branson apologized Tuesday morning after tweeting out a photo full of white people to announce the grand opening of his new Centre of…
Continue Reading McDonald’s workers strike in London to demand higher pay
McDonald’s workers have walked off the job in the United Kingdom to demand higher pay and better working conditions. The workers are asking the…
Continue Reading They left Facebook to make an app that will spice up your Instagram Stories
The lead developers behind social media tools like Instagram Stories and Boomerang left their jobs to build new features for the very tools they…
Continue Reading Disney+ launches, then crashes
Disney+ launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, and then immediately hit some bumps. Disney fans looking to enjoy all the content the company’s…
Continue Reading Urgency grows by the day for a trade deal with China. Will Trump speech today deliver?
President Donald Trump will address the Economic Club of New York later today and investors want to know one thing: When can a so-called phase-one…
Continue Reading America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
Dean Foods, America’s largest milk producer, is filing for bankruptcy. The 94-year-old company has struggled in recent years because Americans…
Continue Reading Juul is laying off 650 people in a $1 billion cost-cutting plan
Juul on Tuesday announced an update to its major restructuring effort that includes layoffs and deep cost cutting. It’s the latest development…
Continue Reading Adidas is closing hi-tech sneaker factories in Germany and the US
Adidas is shutting down two cutting-edge footwear factories in Germany and the United States and moving production to Asia. The German sportswear…
Continue Reading Americans think Microsoft is the most ethical company. Facebook, not so much
More than any other industry, technology companies prioritize ethical issues important to most Americans, according to a study released Tuesday from…
Continue Reading Fingerprints from right-wing media figures are all over the Trump impeachment depositions
The seeds of the Ukraine scandal were planted in the fertile soil of right-wing media many months before most people ever heard about an alleged…
Continue Reading Ford workers appear set to approve labor deal
Ford’s unionized employees appear ready to sign a new contract, a move that would allow the automaker to avoid the kind of strike that recently…
Continue Reading Burger King launches meatless burger across Europe and tests new US options
Burger King is going big on plant-based meat. In August, the burger chain started selling the Impossible Whopper throughout the United States. The…
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