2019

Oil Giants Invest $110 Billion In New Fossil Fuels After Spending $1 Billion On Green PR

Business /

The world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies are increasing their investments in oil and gas, putting a combined $110 billion in new fossil-fuel production. Meanwhile, those firms are projected to spend just $3.6 billion on low-carbon investments, such as biofuels and renewables, according to a new analysis that Influence Map, a British nonprofit that […]

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Julia Angwin Is Out as Editor of New Tech Watchdog Site The Markup

Technology /

For the past year, the investigative journalist Julia Angwin has been busy building The Markup, a nonprofit news site dedicated to scrutinizing technology and its effects on society. The Markup raised more than $23 million in funding, a testament to the reputation that Ms. Angwin, the site’s editor in chief, and another of its founders,

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Hearing set over possible leak of Robert Kraft massage video

Sports /

Attorneys for two Florida massage parlor employees plan to ask a judge to hold police and prosecutors responsible for the possible unauthorized release of video that they say shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft paying for sex. The New York Daily News reported last week that someone anonymously contacted TheBlast.com saying they had video

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Democrats Seek Young Voters, and the Memes That Move Them

Politics /

Michael Bossetta, a fellow at the Center for European Politics at the University of Copenhagen, who specializes in new forms of political participation through social media, noticed through his research of Facebook ads that Mr. Buttigieg, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington were among the candidates aggressively targeting people

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Stephen Frears ‘to adapt’ Quiz play for ITV

Entertainment /

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Frears (left) will direct Quiz, based on the ‘coughing scandal’ involving former army Major Charles Ingram (right) Stephen Frears is to direct a forthcoming adaptation of James Graham’s Quiz for ITV, the BBC understands. The acclaimed director has been approached by independent television production company Left Bank Pictures. Twice

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