Supreme Court ruling lets states collect sales tax from online purchases

The online stores have contended that charging sales tax would be “burdensome” for small- to mid-sized shops. They often don’t have the resources to handle the patchwork of sales taxes across multiple states, according to the retailers, while larger outlets like Amazon don’t have that […]

SFGATE: Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations

Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations Published on June 21, 2018 at 05:32PM by By Aura Bogado, Patrick Michels, Vanessa Swales and Edgar Walters, Reveal Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion in the past four years to private companies operating […]

Saving a beloved home along the Luangwa River in Zambia

Saving a beloved home along the Luangwa River in Zambia <img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/15763/images/simple_style_full/Medium_WW248676.jpg?1529522379″ />What is home? For women like Helen, it’s a place by the river that she was forced to abandon. That’s where her husband fished, she gathered water, and family was […]

Facebook can predict a musician’s movement using only an audio clip

[embedded content] The research, completed in partnership with the University of Washington and Stanford, has just been presented by Facebook at the CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) conference. The team wanted to see if natural body dynamics could be predicted from music, and while […]