Tag Archives: Culture

If you didn’t know what Clubhouse was a week ago, there’s a decent chance you’re aware of the exclusive audio chat platform now — even if you haven’t been invited to join. In just the last few days, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, entrepreneur and activist Kim Dotcom, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke on the platform, collectively drawing tens of thousands of live listeners and sparking spillover rooms. While I first signed up for the app this summer, I finally… Source link

HOUSTON – Google has a sweet surprise when you visit its website today. Celebrating a quintessential element of Mexico’s cultural heritage, the search engine has created a video Doodle that greets users with Mariachi music. According to Google, during a session held the week of November 22, 2011, UNESCO inscribed Mariachi on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since its birth during the 19th century, Mariachi music has evolved, mixing itself with other… Source link

Richard Burke Shepherdstown This week, after Twitter, Google, and Facebook removed the New York Post article about corruption and graft among U.S. government elites, every U.S. citizen should be worried about the Cancel Culture. They even canceled the accounts of many who complained. The fact is you and I, regardless of political affiliation, should be very… Source link

Jul 30th 2020 IT MAY BE just 21 years old, but Google is in the midst of a mid-life crisis. As so often in such cases, all seems well on the surface. Every day its search engine handles 6bn requests, YouTube receives 49 years’ worth of video uploads and Gmail processes about 100bn emails. Thanks to its dominance of online advertising, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, made a profit of $34bn last year. Beyond its core operations, it is a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI),… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Don’t expect Joe Biden to weigh in on ‘cancel culture’  Yahoo News Source link

WASHINGTON — Don’t expect any Sister Souljah moments from Joe Biden regarding “cancel culture.” In 1992, Bill Clinton signaled independence from his party’s own base voters by rebuking Sister Souljah, a Black rapper and activist, in front of a majority Black audience at a meeting of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition. After the Los Angeles riots that year, Souljah was quoted as saying that “if Black people kill Black people every day, why not have a week and kill white… Source link

With the coronavirus surging and the economy in tatters, President Trump seems to have decided that his surest path to reelection lies in portraying Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, as a “puppet of the militant left” who will allow “thugs” and “angry mobs” to “tear down” monuments to “our heritage” — including Confederate symbols and statues of early slaveholding presidents. Trump’s latest campaign ad hits all these notes, claiming that “you won’t be safe in Joe… Source link

STAVROPOL, June 25. /TASS/. North-Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) and Yandex will open a joint educational initiatives center in the beginning of a new school year; the venter will focus on developing e-learning in Stavropol Region, the university’s press service told reporters on Thursday. “North-Caucasus Federal University is launching a center for educational initiatives NCFU-Yandex. NCFU and Yandex specialists are joining forces to develop and implement educational… Source link