Yearly Archives: 2020

Georgia murder case tests whether a Black man can stand his ground against whites

William Marcus “Marc” Wilson believed he was standing his ground when he fired at a pickup truck he says was trying to run his car off the road as he drove home with his girlfriend one night last month. He had a licensed handgun with him, and he might have assumed that he was covered by Georgia’s “stand your ground” law, which reads, in part, “A person who uses threats or force … in defense of self or others … in defense of a habitation, or … in defense of property other… Source link

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‘The Future Of Work Will Be More Digital’

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the coronavirus pandemic has reaffirmed what the technology giant has believed since its early days: Employees don’t have to be at their desks to get work done, and work is not defined by a physical place. “It can happen anywhere,” Pichai said, noting that, in a recent survey of U.S. chief financial officers, most said the coronavirus will have a lasting impact on improving their work flexibility. “As we adapt to new models of working,… Source link

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UNC, Google team on mental health app for healthcare workers

UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health on Tuesday launched a mobile app that’s designed to provide healthcare workers with mental health resources amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Heroes Health app, a part of UNC School of Medicine’s Heroes Health Initiative and developed with volunteers from Google, is meant to help healthcare workers better understand their own mental health, said Dr. Samuel McLean, an emergency medicine physician at the medical school who founded the initiative. There’s also… Source link

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Browns, Myles Garrett close to $125M extension

Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry spent 2019 with the Philadelphia Eagles, a franchise that has often been aggressive about getting ahead of market prices on star players and signing them to deals a year earlier than typically expected. It appears Berry is sticking with that formula. The Cleveland Browns are close to reaching a long-term contract extension with star defensive end Myles Garrett, sources told Yahoo Sports. The deal is valued at $125 million for five seasons and… Source link

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Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out

FILE PHOTO: Google Chrome logo is seen near cyber code and words “spy” in this illustration picture taken June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on Tuesday. The data privacy lawsuit is the second filed in as many months… Source link

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House Oversight Lawmaker Wants Apple, Google to Step Up Security on Apps With Foreign Ties

Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee continue applying pressure to Google and Apple, seeking—at a minimum—commitments from the tech giants to be more transparent with users about the applications in their app stores. In separate letters to Google and Apple Tuesday, Rep. Stephen Lynch, chairman of the subcommittee on national security, sought assurances that the companies would warn users about applications that are developed, operated or owned by foreign entities and… Source link

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Ivanka Trump tells workers to ‘Find Something New’ — because old jobs aren’t coming back

With millions of Americans put out of work by the worsening coronavirus pandemic, Ivanka Trump unveiled a new jobs initiative Tuesday titled “Find Something New,” which encourages the country’s laid-off workers to consider alternative career paths. “There has never been a more critical time for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to be aware of the multiple pathways to career success and gain the vocational training and skills they need to fill jobs in a changing economy,” Trump,… Source link

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Google fined $670K for violating GDPR’s ‘right to be forgotten’ | Article

The APD announced the fine Tuesday as punishment for Google Belgium’s “serious breach” of the GDPR for refusing to delete search results, known as dereferencing. The fine is the largest ever levied by the APD; the previous high was a fine of €50,000 (U.S. $56,000). The public official had appealed to the APD to force Google Belgium to delete two search results after the internet giant’s subsidiary refused to do so. In response, the APD issued the fine regarding Google Belgium’s… Source link

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