Mayors and state governors, colleges, and other organizations have already taken down or are considering removing Confederate monuments, banning Confederate flags, and renaming places currently named after Confederate leaders.Protesters and other Americans have called for these monuments and symbols to be removed as one way to address racial issues in the US. The Southern Poverty Law…
Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A site for developers, surveyed 65,000 users about what programming languages they use and their salaries.Based on those responses, Stack Overflow compiled a list of which programming languages are associated with the highest salaries.This survey was conducted in February, before the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic in March.Visit Business Insider’s…
Rosa Leyva (R) and her nephew Viridiana wait for customers at her stall where she sells plastic flower arrangements and religious images, outside the San Rafael cemetery, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on May 7, 2020. Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters With the seventh-highest global death toll in the world, Mexico is catching up to Brazil as one…
A district in Beijing discovered a cluster of novel coronavirus cases tied to a major wholesale market this week and said it was going into “wartime emergency mode.”Out of 517 people tested at the Xinfadi wholesale market in the southwest district of Fengtai, 45 tested positive but were not showing symptoms, according to Beijing’s Center…
Activists have campaigned for years against the police having access to facial recognition software. Matthew Horwood/Getty Images IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft have all committed to not sell facial recognition to law enforcement at least temporarily.While activists have been campaigning for the companies to do this for years, the Black Lives Matter movement appears to have…
President Donald Trump is pushing back his rally in Tulsa from June 19 — Juneteenth — to June 20. He tweeted the announcement on Friday night, saying he made the decision “out of respect” for the holiday.The president told Fox News that his choice of the date and location weren’t deliberate, but two campaign officials told…
The three-layer Sportsmask is designed for athletic activities. Under Armour Under Armour’s new Sportsmask sold out in less than an hour after its release this week, according to Under Armour CEO Patrick Frisk.The $30 mask is specially designed for athletes, and is Under Armour’s first commercially available mask.Take a look at photos of the Sportsmask…
Protesters gather in Harlem to protest the recent death of George Floyd on May 30, 2020 in New York City. David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Getty Images The United States has seen nationwide protests for weeks over the death of George Floyd in police custody, and the frustration that racism and racial inequality still persist throughout modern American…
Reuters Hertz surged as much as 68% on Friday after the company revealed plans to sell up to $1 billion in new stock. The move could raise much-needed cash for the company while its shares enjoy a sharp run-up from their late-May lows, the car-rental firm said. Hertz stock skyrocketed as much as 1,460% from…
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