Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Silvana Tenreyro is the only female member of the Monetary Policy Committee Take a glance at a photo of the Bank of England’s influential Monetary Policy Committee and its problem is immediately clear. The nine-strong committee look pretty similar: eight white men and one woman. This is the body […]
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A group of Microsoft workers is demanding the company cancel a contract supplying the U.S. Army with HoloLens headsets that they say would turn real-world battlefields into a video game. Microsoft’s head-mounted HoloLens displays use augmented reality, which means viewers can see virtual imagery superimposed over the scenery in front of them. A letter signed
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Tennessee Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk has vouched for the character of first-round draft pick Jeffery Simmons, who was arrested three years ago on a simple assault charge against a woman. A tearful Simmons responded to Strunk’s words by vowing that he won’t let her down. “Our locker room is so important, and we
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“Under this president and this vice president,” Mr. Pence said, “no one is taking your guns.” The N.R.A. was hit with a rebuke for its lobbying tactics this month when the Democratic-controlled House approved a revamped Violence Against Women Act that would bar those convicted of abusing, assaulting or stalking a domestic partner from buying
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But anonymity presents a problem because of its inherent lack of transparency. “I’m concerned about the anonymity issue,” said Lawson Bader, chief executive of DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund. Knowing who a benefactor is helps build trust, he said, whereas anonymity can hide potential conflicts. For instance, museums are re-examining gifts from the Sackler family, a
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Image copyright PA Image caption The stencilled street art appeared at Marble Arch where climate activists had been based Speculation is mounting that Banksy was at Extinction Rebellion’s London protests after the appearance of a mural at the group’s Marble Arch base. The stencilled street art of a girl along with the words “From this
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NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has reached a deal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a dispute over Musk’s use of Twitter, Musk and the SEC said in a court filing on Friday. The agreement requires Musk to get prior approval from Tesla’s legal counsel
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Magic Leap, the maker of augmented-reality goggles, has already raised $2.3 billion, an extraordinary amount for a start-up. Now it has secured yet another investment — and could raise still more cash. The company said Friday that it had garnered $280 million from NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s biggest cellphone service provider, as part of a new
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The question of how many girls would play for an all-female high school team if given the chance took center stage Friday in a Utah lawsuit filed by a teenage female star. More than 400 girls have joined a league that 16-year-old Sam Gordon helped create, more than enough to get started in schools, lawyer
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The campaign group Operation Black Vote has exclusively told BBC 5 Live’s ‘The Sista Collective‘ podcast that all-black shortlists could be the answer to tackle a lack of diversity in local councils. It’s after figures gathered by the group suggest 1 in 3 ‘single tier’ local councils in England have no or only one black,
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