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The illustration by Marlena Myles is featured as the Google doodle to celebrate Indigenous North American stickball. Google hide caption toggle caption Google … Source link

Artwork by Steph Littlebird In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Yahoo commissioned Steph Littlebird, an Indigenous artist, curator and writer, to re-imagine the Yahoo logo. A member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde Confederated Tribe, Littlebird has received national recognition for her curatorial work, using design to call attention to issues related to present-day Indigenous identities, marginalized histories, and responsible land stewardship. “I hope people feel inspired and… Source link

Yahoo on Tuesday announced the promotion of Sebastian Graham to director of Native APAC, effective immediately. In his new role, Graham will oversee the strategy for native advertising through Yahoo’s unified ad tech stack in APAC, the company said in an official statement. “Graham’s remit will include strengthening Yahoo native ad product capabilities to suit APAC’s marketing landscape while building on strategic and technical global partnerships to create value through Yahoo native… Source link

When Hill was a young comic in the 1970s, he refused to deign to racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Rather, his material addressed bigotry toward Native Americans throughout history, taking aim at White viewers, the forced displacement of indigenous people and even the harmful history of Christopher Columbus and Plymouth Rock Pilgrims. In 1977, 26-year-old Hill appeared on “The Richard Pryor Show,” the first time a Native American stand-up performed on a program that aired across the… Source link

Google and SAP have partnered around a number of different projects over the years and Google Cloud, just like its competitors, is a strategic cloud partner for RISE with SAP, the German enterprise software company’s program to help its customers move to the cloud. Today, the two companies announced a rather substantial expansion of their partnership that introduces a deep integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP’s flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and Google… Source link

This has been a long time coming: Google today announced that it is submitting its Istio service mesh project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Google’s Kubernetes has long been the flagship project for the CNCF and the company recently also brought Knative, a project that aims to make it easier to build and deploy serverless applications on top of Kubernetes, to the CNCF as well. It’s maybe no surprise then that Istio,… Source link

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Eileen Gu is one of the finest freeskiers in the world, graceful and daring and utterly fearless. Off the skis, she possesses model-level poise, speaks two languages fluently, plays deft piano, is preparing to attend Stanford this fall, and exhibits the kind of compassion and empathy that allows her millions of social media followers to feel they truly know her. In an Olympics short on Phelps/Biles-style American athletic royalty, she would be at the forefront of Team… Source link

WASHINGTON – Bill Waawaate is Indigenous, smart, educated, and the millionaire-founder of a highly successful snowmobile company. He also is a comic book superhero from a First Nation in Canada. “The aim here is to help Canadians understand Indigenous culture and to erase the stereotypes about First Nations communities,” said Joseph John, the Montreal-based designed and publisher of the Citizen Canada comic book series. Graphic shows… Source link

WASHINGTON – Bill Waawaate is Indigenous, smart, educated, and the millionaire-founder of a highly successful snowmobile company. He also is a comic book superhero from a First Nation in Canada. “The aim here is to help Canadians understand Indigenous culture and to erase the stereotypes about First Nations communities,” said Joseph Johns, the Montreal-based designed and publisher of the Citizen Canada comic book series. Graphic shows… Source link

Terez Paylor, a Detroit native and Yahoo! Sports columnist who was among the top pro football reporters in the country as well as a Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, died Tuesday. He was 37. Yahoo! Sports announced his death through a statement from fiancee Ebony Reed, a former Detroit News editor. A cause of death was not given. “While we are shocked and saddened by Terez Paylor’s sudden passing, we also celebrate his extraordinary life that touched so many,” the statement read. “Terez was an… Source link