“He’s the main reason why we won so many Super Bowls,” Rice said. “So today is a great day for him. I’m glad to be here and be a part of that. It’s just something I will never forget. This man, he has done so much in the community, has done so much in NFL football.” … [Read more...] about Trump pardons ex-San Francisco 49ers owner convicted in gambling scandal
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Leaked videos reveal MORE details of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 lineup just hours before unveiling at major event in San Francisco
In a tweet sent out just three days before Samsung's major product event, Max Weinbach of XDA Developers, who has leaked several other major details about Samsung's forthcoming products, showed off real glimpses of the company's new smart speaker, the Galaxy Home Mini, which will likely be unveiled today. … [Read more...] about Leaked videos reveal MORE details of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 lineup just hours before unveiling at major event in San Francisco
Steph Curry and his wife Ayesha double date with his Warriors basketball teammate Draymond Green and his fiancée Hazel Renee
The guys were seen sharing a laugh in the backseat of their town car, as Steph continued to recover from a broken hand, which has left him sidelined since October. … [Read more...] about Steph Curry and his wife Ayesha double date with his Warriors basketball teammate Draymond Green and his fiancée Hazel Renee
Street battle: the activists fighting to save their neighbourhood from the tech giants
The forces opposing big tech recently won a key victory in the New York borough of Queens, where Amazon’s plans to locate a huge chunk of the corporate office project it calls HQ2 in Long Island City – where 25% of the population is African American and 40% Hispanic or Latino – were so fiercely contested that the company beat a hasty retreat. In the midst of a somewhat absurd competition between US cities to attract Amazon to their locality, proposals had included a package of tax breaks and grants secretly negotiated by the New York state governor Andrew Cuomo and the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio that totalled nearly $3bn. It also raised the link between Amazon and the US’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice). The agency uses Amazon’s cloud computing services, and Amazon has tried to persuade its officials to use the company’s face recognition software: a huge issue among many of the communities often on the receiving end of … [Read more...] about Street battle: the activists fighting to save their neighbourhood from the tech giants
Search for hacker may lead police back to East Anglia’s climate research unit
Meanwhile as dawn broke in California, a link to a Russian server holding the FOA2009.zip file was posted to WUWT, where Charles the moderator held it and alerted his boss the California weatherman Anthony Watts, awaiting approval to put it on the site. By that evening links were also posted to Jeff id's Air Vent blog and to a blog site called Climate Skeptic, run by Warren Meyer out of Phoenix, Arizona. Online journalist Patrick Courrielche, who has investigated the affair, says Jeff id, an aeronautical engineer, was out deer-hunting and didn't notice the upload till he got an email from Mosher pointing it out. … [Read more...] about Search for hacker may lead police back to East Anglia’s climate research unit
