Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s decision to terminate protection of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer because he “woke up in a bad mood” could be dangerous to the future of free speech on the internet, he admitted. “Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet,” Prince wrote […]
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Van crashes into pedestrians in Barcelona's city center, injuring multiple people
Barcelona police said a van drove into pedestrians in Barcelona’s city center, injuring multiple people on Thursday. Law enforcement has not specified whether the incident was intentional or accidental in nature. Authorities are urging people to avoid the area around Placa Catalunya. A man on a bus tweeted out a video at the location of […]
Read moreA Virginia rally instigated by white nationalists over the weekend has escalated tensions between President Donald Trump and the business community. Many critics have perceived Trump’s responses to violence in Charlottesville as equivocating the actions of white supremacists with those protesting racism. The discord in Washington came amid a growing divide between the administration and […]
Read moreWal-Mart‘s second-quarter results make it crystal clear the retailer is committed to growing its e-commerce business, with Jet.com Founder Marc Lore at the helm of it all. Faced with the threat of Amazon encroaching on its turf, Wal-Mart has been rolling out initiatives like “easy reorder,” free two-day shipping with no membership required, and an […]
Read moreGiven a Cambrian explosion of digital data over the last decade, businesses are struggling to make sense of all the information in their possession and turn it into something comprehensible. On Thursday, a search start-up called ThoughtSpot revealed a new product called SpotIQ to automate that task. SpotIQ employs artificial intelligence to create hundreds of […]
Read moreCisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said Thursday that CEOs who abandoned President Donald Trump‘s special councils followed their conscience and now it is time for everyone to move forward. “As we look at what’s going on in our country today, we need to drive job growth, we need to drive GDP growth. …We need tax […]
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FIREWORKS detonated, smoke wafted over the stage and confetti began to fall. Seventeen thousand fans cheered the European players of Team Liquid, with monikers like “MinD_ContRoL” and “MATUMBAMAN”, who had just triumphed over a Chinese side to win The International, a tournament held in Seattle’s KeyArena on August 7th-12th. In the stands Max Martinez, a […]
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LAST year California Solar Systems (CSS), a small installer of residential solar panels, decided to “Buy American”. It turned to Suniva, a Chinese-owned firm that makes photovoltaic panels in Georgia and Michigan, rather than use cheap imports. But according to CSS’s boss, Bastel Wardak, Suniva was unable to deliver what it promised, leading to unacceptable […]
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THE Innovation, a 147-metre ship docked in Rotterdam, looks like a cross between an oil rig and a robot from a “Transformers” film. Her crane has been loading on giant pipes throughout the night. Soon the ship will travel to sea, where an automated hammer will drive the pipes into the ocean floor to support […]
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BEING tough on China was a constant theme of President Donald Trump’s election campaign. On August 14th he had another chance to wield his presidential pen to show that he is making good on his promises—in this case of a “zero-tolerance policy on intellectual-property theft and forced technology transfer”. With the cameras rolling, he formally […]
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