connive: Word of the day for September 12, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

connive , v : (intransitive) Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; […]

WeWork loses its chief communications officer ahead of planned IPO

It could just be a better job offer, but WeWork’s top communications executive, Jennifer Skyler, has announced to her contacts that she is leaving the co-working giant to become the chief corporate affairs officer at American Express later this fall. Skyler joined WeWork four years […]

connive: Word of the day for September 12, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

connive , v : (intransitive) Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; […]

Wikipedia article of the day for September 12, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

The Wikipedia article of the day for September 12, 2019 is Chevauchée. Lancaster’s chevauchée of 1346 was a large-scale mounted raid directed by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, in south western France during the Hundred Years’ War. The main English army had defeated the larger French […]

California Bill Would Halt Facial Recognition on Bodycams

Last month, members of the California legislature were subject to a surveillance experiment, courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union. Their portraits were fed into Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition software and compared with a database of 25,000 arrest mug shots. Twenty-six lawmakers were incorrectly identified […]