Asian American hate crimes not slowing down in 2021

Asian American hate crimes not slowing down in 2021

Attacks on the Asian-American community have not slowed down in 2021, despite heightened national awareness and policies against anti-Asian hatred, a new report released Thursday shows. From March 19, 2020 to June 31, 2021, there were more than 9,000 reports of anti-Asian hate incidents, reported Stop AAPI Hate. 4,548 of the attacks occurred in 2020 … Read more

Online gambling giant Entain to acquire Seattle esports betting startup Unikrn

Online gambling giant Entain to acquire Seattle esports betting startup Unikrn

Unikrn co-founders Karl Flores (left) and Rahul Sood. (Unikrn photo) Enttain, one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming companies, announced Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Unikrn, a Seattle-based startup that operates an esports betting platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Unikrn was founded in 2014 and was supported … Read more

Texas Hospitals Are Already Overloaded. Doctors Are ‘Frightened by What Is Coming.’

Texas Hospitals Are Already Overloaded. Doctors Are ‘Frightened by What Is Coming.’

Dr. Abhishek Patel, who works in the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit, walked in and out of a room where a 6-month-old and a 2-month-old child were battling severe Covid-19 infections and breathing with the help of supplemental oxygen. This week alone, he said, two teenagers with other underlying health problems succumbed to the virus. … Read more

Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI – TechCrunch

Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI – TechCrunch

Chip design is a long trial and error process that takes years to get a design to market. Motivo, a five-year-old chip industry veteran startup, is developing software to accelerate chip design with AI from years to months. Today the company announced a $ 12 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round together with … Read more

Best home products to buy at Anthropologie

Best home products to buy at Anthropologie

CNN – If colorful, playful and unique are three words to describe your furnishing style, then anthropologie should be your first port of call when it comes to finding home accessories that give you the space of your dreams. With everything from printed textiles and gorgeous mirrors to art you’ll treasure forever, you (understandably) don’t … Read more

Spotify’s latest Wear OS app supports direct streaming and downloads

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With the introduction of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 series and the new Wear OS version from Google, Spotify has introduced a significant update to its Wear OS app, the company said. Much like a feature added to the Apple Watch app last May, the updated Wear OS app from Spotify lets you stream and download … Read more

Clayton County deputy who punched Roderick Walker indicted

Roderick Walker is pictured with his children.  Walker was repeatedly hit by a Georgia sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop.

A former Georgia MP was charged Wednesday after video showed him repeatedly slapping a man in the face during an arrest last year. Brandon Myers, 25, who is white, was fired for “excessive use of force” shortly after a video went viral in September showing him and another deputy nailing and beating 26-year-old Roderick Walker, … Read more

Expedia Group pushes back its full return to the office to January 2022

Expedia Group pushes back its full return to the office to January 2022

At Expedia Group’s Seattle headquarters before moving to new premises in 2019. (GeekWire photo / Kurt Schlosser) This seems to be a trend: Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, has told employees that it will postpone the full return to the office until early next year. Expedia’s decision follows a similar announcement from Amazon … Read more

Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need

Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need

At the noisy premiere of her new show at the Beacon Theater on Tuesday, Ali Wong lamented the condition of male groupies, compared oral sex to a pepper mill and advised women to persuade themselves when talking dirty. “The lies,” she says, taking the voice of a preacher, “will set you free.” Too often, critics … Read more