Emergency personnel updates SUV and truck crash in California that left at least 15 dead
The hospital that treats victims of a tractor-trailer accident in California provides information about the victims.
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West Tenth’s app encourages women to start home businesses, not join MLMs – TechCrunch
A new digital marketplace called West Tenth, now backed with $ 1.5 million in seed funding, aims to provide women with a platform to start and grow their businesses at home. Using the mobile app, women can promote their business to others in the local community, then answer queries and inquiries via the app’s integrated … Read more
Criminal Inquiries Loom Over al-Assad’s Use of Chemical Arms in Syria
PARIS – Chemical ammunition experts have been compiling information for years that the Syrian government used these banned weapons against their own people, a war crime that has not yet been prosecuted and has been derisively dismissed by President Bashar al-Assad. The first criminal investigations into Mr. al-Assad and his staff for the use of … Read more
Lime’s retired e-bike batteries are converted into portable speakers
Gomi, a UK company that makes sustainable chargers and other gadgets, has launched a range of portable bluetooth speakers made from old Lime e-bike batteries. As part of a partnership with Lime, Gomi will use 50,000 battery cells from 1,000 old e-bikes to build the Gomi speaker with a battery life of 20 hours. They’re … Read more
Seattle-area fintech startup Secure reveals secret: Suze Orman is part of the founding team
Sure had a secret. And a “secret weapon”. The Seattle-area fintech startup recently announced that TV personality and bestselling author Suze Orman is one of the company’s co-founders. A spin-off of Pioneer Square Labs, Secure helps employers offer employees a financial wellness benefit in the form of an Emergency Savings Account (ESA) on top of … Read more
Today in History for March 2nd
Highlights of this day in history: Rutherford B. Hayes declared US President after controversial elections, Mikhail Gorbachev born, “King Kong” and “The Sound of Music” premiered in NYC. (2nd March)
Square’s bank arm launches as fintech aims ‘to operate more nimbly’ – TechCrunch
Known for its innovations in payments, Square is now officially a bank. Almost a year after receiving conditional approvalSquare said Monday afternoon that its industrial bank has Square Financial Services put into operation. Square Financial Services has completed the charter approval process with the FDIC and the Utah Department of the Treasury, which means the … Read more
Ex-Times Reporter Who Used Racial Slur Publishes a Lengthy Defense
Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science and public health reporter for the New York Times who resigned last month after 45 years of pressure in the newspaper, published a four-part article Monday reporting the circumstances of his departure was often critical of the Times’s conduct. As the lead reporter on the coronavirus pandemic, McNeil announced … Read more
Google’s predictive ‘Smart Compose’ is coming to chat apps in Pixel phones
Google started a cycle of updates that began around the time the first Android 12 developer preview was released last week. Since then, a number of new features have been announced for Android devices, and today some more improvements for Pixel phones are being released. These features seem to be available now and include improvements … Read more
How unrest criminalized a generation
How six months of protestschanged Hong Kong forever By James Griffiths and Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Ivan had screwed up, and now he was trapped. A member of a small cell of frontline protesters — one of the many who have fought riot police across Hong Kong during the past six months … Read more