The demise of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein today took down another powerful person. Joichi Ito, head of the prestigious MIT Media Lab, just resigned as director, following the publication yesterday of a New Yorker report showing that he was closer to Epstein than previously disclosed.
New York Fashion Week, now underway, is a celebration of creativity, crafts, imagination, and human ingenuity. But of course in the year 2019 one aspect of creation is integrating technology, so perhaps it’s little wonder that some designers are relying on data collected by the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to inform their looks.
Disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein left behind his many mortal woes when he hanged himself in a federal detention center in Manhattan last month while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The still-living individuals and institutions who associated with him, including MIT’s prestigious Media Lab and its leaders, are just beginning to contend with the problems created by their ties to Epstein, however.
For victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, where the storm wrought devastation and death, Donald Trump’s relentless tweets as weatherman-in-chief this week were a mere distraction from the hard facts of destruction. However, in the US, which was spared the worst of the storm, the president’s insistence on a previously unsupported claim that Dorian would impact Alabama appears to have led to a different kind of frightening development.
Long before humans adopted social media and a 24-hour news cycle, some creatures were already tuning in to tweets.
Although no one in the world may be as inclined to strike as the French worker, employees in France have exceptional legal protections, as a recent ruling from a Paris appeals court proves.
New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, has announced the launch of a multi-state investigation into Facebook’s market dominance and “potential anticompetitive conduct stemming from that dominance.”
Meditation isn’t the point of mindfulness practice. It’s just one way to become liberated, or more awake. There are other methods of cultivating that same freedom, however, that don’t demand the commitment of a monk or the funds and free time of a tech-company founder.
Washington governor Jay Inslee was a 2020 Democratic presidential contender but dropped out of the crowded primary race in August. As such, he was not at yesterday’s climate crisis town hall. Yet Inslee has never been as popular.
Today (Aug. 31) marks the 13th week of protests in Hong Kong and the five-year anniversary of a decision that sparked 2014’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, making the date especially poignant. Protesters took to the streets, despite being denied a permit to rally, and—as ever—police were present to meet them.
It’s easy enough to forge a signature for fraudulent purposes. However, until recently, some things—like our voices—have been distinctive and difficult to mimic. Not so in our brave new world.
On Saturday (August 31) in the northeastern state of Assam, in India, authorities published the latest version of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The list is pretty much what it sounds like—a compilation of names of local residents who are considered Indian. Almost 2 million people, including decorated war veterans and even a state legislator, were not listed and will now have to quickly prove their citizenship or risk detention.
On Sept. 1, at one minute after midnight Eastern Standard Time, new tariffs imposed on Chinese products go into effect as part of US president Donald Trump’s escalating trade war.
Hurricane Dorian has grown into a Category 4 monster and now threatens a wider swath of the US coast. It appears Florida may not be hit as badly as feared earlier, but the storm still looks likely to ravage the area, including Georgia and South Carolina now, with extreme weather.
US senators, Democrats and Republicans alike, are in a huff over a Second Amendment case in the Supreme Court. The gun-rights matter, raised by the New York Rifle and Pistol Association and stemming from a New York City law, is inspiring unusual writing from both sides of the political aisle.
New York congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t, at first blush, seem to have much in common with US president Donald Trump. In fact, the two politicians—who trade barbs regularly on Twitter—seem like total opposites.
It’s time to finally start paying attention to the 2020 US presidential primaries. As Democratic contenders drop out—Kirsten Gillibrand became the latest to announce her withdrawal yesterday—and Republicans are joining the fray (Joe Walsh announced his candidacy over the weekend), the real race is starting to take shape.
A case about the role of pharma company Johnson & Johnson in the Oklahoma opioid crisis may have just swayed the outcome of thousands of similar cases involving other drugmakers, including Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin.
Disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself in a New York federal detention center earlier this month. But his ghost is still haunting a lot of people, including Britain’s Prince Andrew, who today issued a statement about his longtime association with the controversial figure.
Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for 12 weeks. Today, a brief peaceful spell in the ongoing saga was broken.
Grab your gavel. The case is closed. Or so said Donald Trump in a tweet last night, ahead of today’s G7 summit in France, explaining what gives him power to order US companies to “start looking for an alternative to China,” as he did yesterday in an earlier tweet.
Tech companies employ an interesting logic when faced with liability issues. Although you may view online retailer Amazon as a seller, or Facebook and Google as media companies, or Uber as a taxi service—given that you may use them to buy items, access news, and get rides—when the corporations are sued, they commonly claim that the things they offer aren’t actually their responsibility because they’re merely facilitators, technology platforms rather than providers of goods and services.
Much is unknown about space. But one thing is sure: The laws of Earth still apply to astronauts who leave the planet’s bounds.
The US government is at war with itself over the definition of sex, and the Supreme Court will soon have to settle the dispute.
