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Google honors billiards great Masako Katsura. Google On March 7, 1952, Masako… Source link

Current Kansas coach Les Miles was banned from being alone with female students while he was the coach at LSU following allegations of inappropriate behavior. LSU released a 2013 internal investigation into the coach’s behavior after USA Today sued to make it public. Its release comes after the investigation’s existence became known in late February. Per USA Today’s summation of the report, Miles was issued a letter of reprimand for his behavior in addition to being ordered to not be alone… Source link

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

Nearly 800 Google employees have joined a solidarity campaign in support of one of the company’s top female executives, a known advocate for diversity in the industry who said she was fired after what her boss described as a dispute over a research paper. The executive, Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team, announced on Twitter late Wednesday that she had been fired after sending an email to co-workers stating that the company’s leadership had… Source link

The Telegraph Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player demand action to curb striking distance at Augusta After hitting the opening ceremonial drives at Augusta on the first day of the 84th Masters, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player used their legendary status to demand action from the game’s governing bodies to stop the ball going so far. In an impassioned set of pleas that will surely make the R & A and US Golf Association sit up and take notice as the distance issue intensifies, Player expressed his… Source link

Blake Bolden didn’t expect her job to involve bubble hockey. No one who works in the NHL did. For Bolden, as just the second woman scout in the NHL and the first Black woman, her first season with the Los Angeles Kings was a whirlwind in particular. “It’s like being on a new team,” she said. “And it is a new team, it’s like it’s been my whole life. This time you’re not playing, but you are aiming for a common goal.” It’s not often scouts in any sport are asked to do their… Source link

It’s the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Google Doodle program is celebrating by commemorating the scientific legacy of Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt. Eryurt lived from 1926 to 2012, studied in Turkey, and worked at, among other institutions, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the University of California, according to a brief biography compiled by a group of astrophysicists. Eryurt’s research focused on stellar astrophysics, in particular of