'We are not going to stop,' student says after MIT encampment cleared
Police are clearing the pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of MIT early Friday, as protesters demanded that the school cut financial and research ties with Israel.
Police are clearing the pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of MIT early Friday, as protesters demanded that the school cut financial and research ties with Israel.
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President Biden spoke about the Israel-Hamas war during his commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday.
Calls for divestment have been one of the most consistent demands at demonstrations on campuses across the country. Critics say it won't do anything to change the course of the war.
The plan includes a six-week ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal.
Simone Biles extended her record with another all-around title at the U.S. championships on Sunday night
Last year, the energy industry spent $234 billion on M&A, the highest amount since 2012 when adjusted for inflation.
Wesley Chan is often seen in his signature buffalo hat; however, he may be even more well-known for his ability to spot unicorns. Over the course of his career in venture capital, he’s invested in over 20 unicorns, including AngelList, Dialpad, Ring, Rocket Lawyer and Sourcegraph. After working at Google in its early days as an engineer, he became an investor.
Nissan has delayed the start of production for two EV sedans at its Canton, MS plant, choosing to get two or three EV crossovers to market first.
Not everything is looking great within the record-setting Nasdaq.
Having stepped out as CEO in 2014, Helgason still sits on the board of the now-listed company he co-founded in Copenhagen in 2004; but most of his time is dedicated to Transition Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm he launched in 2021 to focus on the climate. It's a tell that the fund is called "transition" and not, say, "apocalypse." In an interview at his home near Reykjavík, the entrepreneur-turned-VC shared thoughts on his ventures and the journey that led him from Unity to climate tech, a homecoming of sorts.
Payton Henry, a Blue Jays minor leaguer, is reportedly doing well.
A total of 37 candidates have been assassinated ahead of Sunday’s vote in Mexico, a security consultancy says.
Great for trimming in the garden or clipping fresh flowers, these No. 1 bestselling snippers have nearly 35,000 five-star fans.
SPVs are generally formed by investors who have direct access to the shares of these startups and then turn around and sell a part of their allocation to external backers, often charging significant fees while retaining some profit share, known as carry. While SPVs aren’t new – smaller investors have relied on them for years – there’s a growing trend of SPVs successfully getting shares from the biggest names in AI. Rather than giving up the shares because the early investor can’t afford them, they’ll create the SPV, fund it by raising money from others, and, in most cases, charge additional fees.
Billionaire Lawrence Stroll put his money where his mouth is and believes others should do the same with his latest endeavor.
Meta is looking to revamp Facebook's image as a place for younger Gen. Z users.
Mike Brown could make up to $10 million annually with the Kings.
The Yankees slugger was struggling massively in April. He now leads MLB in home runs.
Jasper Health, a cancer care platform startup, laid off a substantial part of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Engineering and product design were among the departments impacted by the cuts, according to posts on LinkedIn from impacted employees. TechCrunch was unable to independently verify the exact number of people who were cut, but an industry source who knew impacted people believes it was approximately half of Jasper Health's small team.
A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds, but that a small group of committed "supersharers," predominately older Republican women, were responsible for the vast majority of the "fake news" in the period looked at. The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. In the MIT study led by Jennifer Allen, the researchers point out that misinformation has often been blamed for vaccine hesitancy in 2020 and beyond, but that the phenomenon remains poorly documented.