Ten head coaching hires, none of them Black. Why?

Is college football going to hire any African American coaches this year? Just wondering, because the trend certainly isn’t headed in that direction. Last season, the 120 FBS schools employed 13 Black head coaches. Three were fired and no African Americans have been hired yet this year (10 open positions have been filled by 10 white men). And, yes, we know, “college football” isn’t a singular entity. Individually, each hire can be justified (well, unless you read fan message boards)…. Source link

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Google reportedly asked employees to ‘strike a positive tone’ in research paper

Google has added a layer of scrutiny for research papers on sensitive topics including gender, race, and political ideology. A senior manager also instructed researchers to “strike a positive tone” in a paper this summer. The news was first reported by Reuters. “Advances in technology and the growing complexity of our external environment are increasingly leading to situations where seemingly inoffensive projects raise ethical, reputational, regulatory or legal issues,” the… Source link

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Second top Black female Google employee says she was recently ousted

On Monday night, April Christina Curley, a diversity recruiter at Google, announced on Twitter that she had been fired in September. She started at Google in 2014, helping the company improve its relationships with historically Black colleges and universities. Before taking the job, Curley tweeted that the company had not “hired a single HBCU student into a tech role.” Six years later, Curley tweeted that she had “brought in over 300 Black and Brown students from HBCUs who were hired into… Source link

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Apple Car would take the tech giant to the next level — even if it’s a long shot

Wednesday, December 24, 2020 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe In the next few years, you could be driving an Apple car Like aliens, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster, the long-fabled Apple (AAPL) Car is once again said to be on its way. According to Reuters, the tech giant is now targeting 2024 to build its own self-driving,… Source link

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Millions of U.S. vaccine doses sit on ice, putting 2020 goal in doubt

By Rebecca Spalding and Carl O’Donnell Dec 23 (Reuters) – Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government’s target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt. As of Wednesday morning, only 1 million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had been given, about one-third of the first shipment sent last week. Over 9.5 million doses of vaccines, including Moderna’s, have now been sent… Source link

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The 5 most anticipated debuts

Despite the near-constant upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 will go down as one of the best performing years for initial public offerings (IPOs). Over the last 12 months, a stunning 216 companies went public, the most since 2014, with firms raising an astonishing $78.1 billion in the process. Consistent with previous years, healthcare and technology were the most popular sectors of the IPO market. Airbnb (ABNB), Doordash (DASH), Snowflake (SNOW), Lufax Holding (LU), and… Source link

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Tua Tagovailoa, Dolphins battle Raiders on Yahoo Sports app

The decision to start the fifth pick of the draft probably got more scrutiny than it deserved. When Brian Flores announced earlier this season that the Miami Dolphins were switching quarterbacks from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Tua Tagovailoa, it was far from an easily accepted decision. People wondered how the Dolphins could bench Fitzpatrick, especially with the Dolphins on a two-game winning streak and holding a 3-3 record. It has turned out pretty well. The Dolphins have gone 5-2 in Tagovailoa’s… Source link

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