Colombia’s chief prosecutor is under increased pressure to recuse himself from the investigation into a plot to rig the 2018 election in favor of his friend, President Ivan Duque. The country’s congressional opposition called on Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa to remove himself from the investigation on Tuesday after announcing an investigation into Duque’s opponent in […]
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Rivian is hiring an insurance agency data manager, a job posting that suggests the all-electric automaker is planning to offer its own insurance to customers. The job was first posted by RivianForums, which also reached out to TechCrunch with the tip. Roadshow/CNET also reported about this new position. Rivian wouldn’t provide more details about its […]
Credit: Microsoft Windows 10 Today, May 27, is the day. Microsoft finally is kicking off the process to roll Windows 10 2004, a k a the May 2020 Update, to mainstream users. The move comes a couple of weeks after Microsoft made the May 2020 Update available to developers. Given the development process for Windows […]
In the book The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time, we learn about a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey, who lost a sale because he couldn’t accept American Express cards in 2009. McKelvey was frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting […]
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India may need to inject up to 1.5 trillion rupees ($ 19.81 billion) into its state-owned lenders as their pile of soured assets is expected to double during the coronavirus pandemic, three government and banking sources told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A cashier checks Indian rupee notes inside a room at a […]
Hospitality giant Marriott has told employees in the United States that furloughs and reduced work week schedules which began in April will be extended through to October. The decision was taken as the coronavirus pandemic continues to slow demand for travel. The financial impact of the pandemic is more severe than 9/11 and the 2008 […]
The BBC has said an introduction about Dominic Cummings on Tuesday’s Newsnight did not meet the required standards of due impartiality. The programme began with presenter Emily Maitlis saying “the country can see” Cummings had “broken the rules”. It should have made clear the remarks were “a summary of the questions we would examine” about […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. The SpaceX Crew Dragon, attached to a Falcon 9 booster […]
Issued on: 27/05/2020 – 18:36Modified: 27/05/2020 – 18:38 With Brazil sometimes recording more than 1,000 Covid-19 deaths per day, the World Health Organization has declared it the “most affected” country in South America, the new epicentre of the coronavirus. In this special edition of Inside The Americas, we see how the poorest and most isolated Brazilians are paying a heavy […]