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Day: October 11, 2017
Air France – KLM: The friendlier skies of international travel
The difference between international carriers, even those flying from Italy to France, domestic carriers, traveling from Washington, DC to St. Louis, … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
Twitter says it may “refine” its policies after reversing position on Blackburn campaign ad
For the second time in less than three weeks, Twitter has said it will look at its policies following controversy over tweets by a politician. On Tuesday, Twitter reversed a decision it made the day before to block a campaign video from Rep. Marsha Blackburn, […]
New story in Business from Time: ‘I’m Not Just Some Silent Victim.’ The Model Featured in Dove’s Controversial Ad Speaks Out
Earlier this month, Dove drew backlash for a commercial it posted (and has since pulled) of a black woman taking off her brown shirt and revealing a white woman wearing a beige shirt underneath. Now, Lola Ogunyemi, who was featured in the ad, is speaking […]
New story in Business from Time: ‘I’m Not Just Some Silent Victim.’ The Model Featured in Dove’s Controversial Ad Speaks Out
Earlier this month, Dove drew backlash for a commercial it posted (and has since pulled) of a black woman taking off her brown shirt and revealing a white woman wearing a beige shirt underneath. Now, Lola Ogunyemi, who was featured in the ad, is speaking […]
Pizza Hut Parka keeps you as warm as a pizza
[embedded content] As with all our fast food gear, we have ultra-serious questions about this apparel. Will the iPhone X’s Face ID work through the clear smartphone case on the left wrist, ostensibly there to let you order pizza in the cold? For that matter, […]
Logistics on-demand startup Lalamove raises $100M as it approaches a $1B valuation
Unicorns are like buses for Hong Kong. After living in the shadow of other cities and waiting around for its first, it now has (almost) two billion-dollar companies within months… and in the same space. GoGoVan became the country’s first unicorn in September following a merger […]
Mattarella bacchetta i pm star: “La toga non è abito di scena”
Basta con i pm star, stop alla giustizia spettacolo. «La toga – spiega Sergio Mattarella ai tanti che ancora non l'hanno capito – non è un abito di scena. Non si tratta di un simbolo ridondante e viene indossata per manifestare il significato di … […]
This New Alzheimer’s Test Looks Beyond a Single Problem Gene
America is entering a period that may one day be known as The Great Forgetting. Alzheimer’s, a disease defined as much by the accumulation of mental lapses as by tangled proteins in the brain, is an ailment of the aging. Sixty-five-year-olds have a one in […]
Equifax hack included nearly 11 million US driver’s licenses
The latest news from the enormous Equifax hack is that the stolen records included 10.9 million driver’s licenses from U.S. citizens, according to The Wall Street Journal’s sources. This isn’t much of a surprise given how poorly all the other information was secured, but it’s […]