10:45 ET Emily Rand ESPN SANTA MONICA – Close to 200 current Riot Games employees went out Monday afternoon and gathered at the company's parking lot to express their concerns and disagreements with the way Riot has handled ongoing claims of sexual harassment and discrimination. 2 Related "I love my job. I love what I do here. And that's why …
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Dow Jones futures solidly late Monday, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures, as top U.S. Officials said China tariffs will jump on Friday as China trade talks sourced over the weekend. That echoed and expanded on President Donald Trump's threats in recent tweets. The current stock market showed resilience on Monday, rebounding from steep opening losses. Apple (AAPL), …
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U.S. Safety regulators are investigating reports that side airbags can inflate for no reason on some Mazda CX-9 large SUVs Documents posted Monday at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say two owners have complained about the problem. Four people were hurt in one of the cases Mazda logo (Photo: Gene J. Puskar, AP) left and right airbags go off …
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The product will only enter the market "on a rather limited basis," said CEO and President Noel White during an analyst discussing the company's second-quarter results on Monday. He added that Tyson is planning to roll out its meat substitute "on a much larger scale" in the fall. The plant-based fake meat flow is growing rapidly. Demand is driven by …
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Charlie Munger, billionaire investor and vice president of US holding conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, again criticized bitcoin (BTC), financial market-oriented news store Markets Insider reported on May 4. Munger – who was invited to an event by an unnamed digital currency investment group but did not participate in it – stated that bitcoin investors "celebrate Judas Iscariot's life and work." Thus, …
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Uber reps talking to protesters in New York Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty) A broad coalition planning action against ridesharing giant Uber in over a boxing cities just received some international reinforcements: Australian drivers have announced their intention to join this Wednesday's mass strike. The Rideshare Driver Cooperative and Transport Workers Union have decided that, like workers elsewhere take to the …
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The origin of the term "cloud computing" has long been debated. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services (AWS) certainly deserves credit to popularize the cloud as an alternative to traditional storage. The concern about operational efficiency and a natural extension of their business models has led many a supplier to enter the room. There are thousands of public cloud providers where …
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A "voice here" draws the entrance to an early mood station in downtown Minneapolis in 2018. Steve Karnowski / AP hide caption change caption Steve Karnowski / AP A "voice here" draws the entrance to an early mood station in downtown Minneapolis in 2018. Steve Karnowski / AP From checking into a polling station on a tablet, registering to vote …
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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during an event at the site of the company's manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, on Monday, January. 7, 2019. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla is raising $ 2.7 billion in fresh capital but that is only "a 12-month bridge," Morgan Stanley said on Monday, as the firm thinks …
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Photo: Getty When you privately share something to a specific group of friends on Facebook, there is a chance other people will read it. Reuters reports that Facebook employs a couple of contractors to read all Facebook posts, including the private ones, in order to train the company's software. The outsourced team mentioned in the report works out of India …
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