Author: insighter

If you’re living the digital nomad life and are curious about where to go next – I highly recommend considering Bangkok. It’s vibrant, it’s fun, and it’s a haven for online workers. What’s more, they have the best cafes in Bangkok for you to open up that laptop while enjoying some seriously great coffee. Bangkok is a city unlike any other I’ve ever been to, and I’m not lying when I say it changed my life. Not only was everyday life exciting, but working in this massive city was comfortable and easy. No matter what area you base yourself in,…

Google employees based in the United States staged protests at the tech giant’s offices in New York City, California and Seattle last week to oppose a $1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. Known as Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military, which has faced condemnation for its ongoing war on Gaza. Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians, and destroyed vast swaths of the Palestinian coastal enclave since it launched the military offensive…

Screenshot: Freedomnews.tv Twitter By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics “Death to America!” We are used to that chant. Maybe too used to it. If you are old enough, you heard it in 1979 during the Iranian hostage crisis when supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Since then, it has been a recurring theme of Islamic fundamentalism, along with “Death to Israel.” Khomeini even went so far as to declare the United States “The Great Satan” in order to goad Muslims into a religious fervor aimed at destroying America. Since then, we have heard “Death to America” shouted…

In December, Samsung delayed a Texas-based chip manufacturing facility’s start date. In January, the Taiwanese chip manufacturing company TSMC pushed back one of its planned Arizona plants. The reason? Workforce shortages. Two years after the U.S. passed legislation providing $280 billion over the next decade to spur the development of its semiconductors industry, such delays represent significant hiccups in America’s plan to boost our ability to build advanced computer chips. The U.S. has provided significant investments and support for chip manufacturers in financial terms. However, you need more than financing to run a business. An often-overlooked reform to boost manufacturing in the high-tech sector…

Protesters at NYU and Yale are arrested while Columbia cancels in-person classes for safety.

Twelve jurors seated. He just needs one.

Fortnite is rolling out an update on Tuesday that includes a new setting that filters out “confrontational” emotes. The v29.30 update will let players “choose not to see” the following emotes: “Laugh It Up”, “Take the L”, “Whipcrack”, and “Make it Plantain.” The four emotes won’t exactly be hidden per se, they’ll appear as still images in the game — but players performing them won’t dance and they won’t play music. Players can opt to only see these emotes from friends, or hide them altogether. Though Fortnite has hundreds of different emotes, this group of four are controversial because of how…

  The owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month should be held fully liable for the deadly collapse, according to court papers filed Monday on behalf of Baltimore’s mayor and city council. The two companies filed a petition soon after the March 26 collapse asking a court to cap their liability under a pre-Civil War provision of an 1851 maritime law — a routine but important procedure for such cases. A federal court in Maryland will ultimately decide who’s responsible and how much they owe in what could become one of…

Could a crackdown on Clear be brewing in the nation’s most populous state? On Tuesday, California lawmakers will begin considering a bill that, if passed, could place serious new regulations on the expedited airport security service. Critics say it could effectively force Clear out of many Golden State airports. At issue is the fact that Clear allows members a fast track to the front of the Transportation Security Administration’s screening lines. The bill would specifically prohibit airports from allowing third-party companies to give certain travelers expedited access to the existing TSA lines — in essence, what Clear does for its…

NewsFeed Opening statements and testimony from the first witness was heard by the jury at Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial. Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey is following the first ever criminal proceedings against a former president from New York. Published On 22 Apr 202422 Apr 2024

Screenshot/Michael Tracey X As both establishment Democrats and Republicans – including GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson – pushed for the U.S. to give Ukraine $61 billion in aid over the weekend, some of the things they said were mind blowing. Never mind the fact that after giving Ukraine well north of $100 billion already and their chances of defeating Russia getting worse by the minute, some lawmakers go beyond even that absurdity with their words. Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly might have stole the show, claiming that the Russia-Ukraine border was “OUR Border.” ‘You mean like the border between…

For a little while now, a quiet revolution has been under way in France Inc.: Foreign-born CEOs are running some of the country’s most-strategic companies, something that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago.  With some of them succeeding in the briefs they’ve been given, the trend may be here to stay. The flag bearer Air France-KLM, the symbol of the country’s manufacturing industry Renault SA, the nation’s biggest pharmaceuticals company Sanofi and its troubled tech champion Atos SE that serves the critical nuclear and defense industries are all being helmed by executives who are not French. Although…