Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, Bits readers, I’m Erin Griffith, a tech reporter filling in from New York. Here’s what happened this past week in tech: The Chinese government has increased pressure on foreign companies that don’t toe the party line […]
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The kid’s a little Knute Rockne. Video of 10-year-old Lane Bridges went viral this week for the pep talk he delivered to his Mavericks youth football team of Eastland, Texas, before the big game. (See the clip below.) Lane weighs just 66 pounds, but his words packed an inspirational wallop. The team won, 6-0, the
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“Throughout our history, Congress, the President, and the courts have insisted upon maintaining the separation between the legislative and impeachment powers of the House and recognized the gravity and accountability that follow impeachment,” she argued, echoing House Judiciary Committee Democrats who have said an impeachment inquiry would have legal powers unavailable to other investigations. As
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When you are pregnant, employers, colleagues and clients may start making judgments about your ability to work ― even today in the supposedly enlightened year of 2019. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s story of being “shown the door” at a teaching job in 1971 for being visibly pregnant has prompted a flood of people to come forward
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The “Sky Is Pink” star and host Jimmy Fallon attempted to climb the spice scale of hot sauces on spicy chicken wings with “Hot Ones” personality Sean Evans. Chopra noted that husband Nick Jonas had taken the “Hot Ones” challenge before, with his brothers, and “did me very proud.” “I love spice, but the escalation
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Image copyright Getty Images More than 900 people have had their travel plans disrupted after last-minute cancellation of FlyLolo flights from Glasgow Airport. The airport said four flights – three to Tenerife and one to Lanzarote – with about 230 passengers booked on each would not go ahead. The operator apologised but said it was
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The golden angel once glimmered majestically from Notre Dame’s vault. Now, with a broken nose, chipped gold-leaf and a smashed bust, it stares up blankly at a warehouse roof in the outskirts of Paris where blackened fragments of the famed cathedral’s stained glass mingle with organ pipes and jagged vault stones. Scientists at the French
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Rugby players don’t scare easily. Not even when there’s a super typhoon heading for them. Some of sport’s toughest guys are waiting for the arrival of Typhoon Hagibis, which is bearing down on Japan and its ongoing Rugby World Cup and set to arrive during a weekend of crucial games. Two matches have been canceled
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President Trump will travel to Lake Charles, La., on Friday evening for his second rally in two days. But while the president will continue to excoriate the impeachment process, House Democrats continue to move steadily forward with fact-finding. After issuing a raft of new subpoenas on Thursday, Democratic leaders are waiting for word on whether
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Time is running out for Thailand’s dwindling population of helmeted hornbills thanks to poaching of the exotic birds for the ivory-like casques atop their big red and yellow beaks. The species, known by the scientific name Rhinoplax vigil, is listed as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. “Currently, there are fewer
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