Twitter Employees Search for Answers as the Musk Deal Takes Shape

In January 2020, thousands of Twitter employees gathered in Houston for a corporate summit called #OneTeam. During the event, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter at the time, announced that he had invited a surprise guest. Then, with a wave and a smile, Elon Musk appeared on the giant screens above the stage. The crowd cheered, …

‘Search and Hide’ Deals with the Complexity of the Right to Privacy

HIDE AND SEEKMixed History of the Right to Privacyby Amy Gajda376 pages. Viking. 30 dollars. In her sarcastic and captivating new book, Seek and Hide, Amy Gajda traces the history of the right to privacy and its (understandably full) relationship to the First Amendment in the United States. English common law includes the concept of …

Just Released From A Suburban Search To Seoul Florist

DISTRIBUTING ROOTS: Graphic Memoirs of an American from Wuhan, by Laura Gao. (Balzer + Bray, fabric, $22.99; paper, $14.99.) Writer-illustrator Gao traces his childhood move from Wuhan, China, to Coppell, Texas, and chronicles his adolescence in the United States. This hilarious first graphic moment grapples with weirdness, anti-Asian racism, and self-discovery as a diaspora kid. …

The Search for a Model Octopus That Will Not Die After Laying Its Eggs

🐙 Roy Caldwell, a behavioral ecologist at the University of California at Berkeley, first met the Octopus chierchiae, also called the small Pacific striped octopus, in Panama in the mid-1970s. He was pulling rocks from the ocean to find the praying mantis shrimp hiding in the cracks. “Every once in a while, this cute little …

Benevolent Forces Police to Search DNA Databases

Otram’s CEO, Mr Mittelman, said his company has received more than $400,000 from charitable donors. According to this CrunchbaseThe startup also raised $28.5 million from institutional investors to corner the market around this new research technique. Founded in 2018 in The Woodlands, Texas, the company now has 30 employees and, including five full-time genealogists, said …

Far-right complains after search engine DuckDuckGo promises

Far-right influencers often encouraged people Using DuckDuckGo, a small privacy-focused search engine instead of Google, saying that the giant search engine censors conservative ideas. Praise for DuckDuckGo turned to anger this week after the company said it would minimize Russian disinformation on its site. Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo tweeted out On Thursday, he said …

‘It Could Be Magic’ As Newbury Park Millers Search For Records

“They saw that it was possible and I think that’s what happened to these guys,” Brosnan said, referring to his own athletes. “We created this culture where I have three or four guys who don’t think four minutes is fast for a mile. One has already broken. And we’ll probably break even more this year. …