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September 30, 2021 (Reuters) – Finding candidates from diverse racial, ethnic and gender backgrounds will be a “big focus” in the process of seeking replacements for the two regional Federal Reserve bank presidents who recently announced their departures, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday. “I can absolutely guarantee you that we will work hard […]

September 30, 2021 BANGKOK (Reuters) – Business owners in a province in central Thailand have been battling in vain to protect their stores from floodwaters. Video taken from a boat in the commercial areas of Nakhon Sawan, about 220 km (136.7 miles) north of the capital Bangkok, showed empty streets flooded with waist-high brown water […]

Kevin Ryan — the New York-based investor and entrepreneur who first rose to prominence as CEO of the early online ad business DoubleClick — could have launched or joined a traditional venture firm many years ago. Instead, he has launched one company after another with largely his own capital at the outset to get them […]

French startup Voodoo has made a significant acquisition in the casual mobile gaming market. The company is acquiring Beach Bum, a game studio based in Israel and specialized in tabletop and card games. It’s hard to get a clear number for this acquisition as Voodoo is offering both cash and shares and there are some […]

Igor Bonifacic Contributor Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins California makes zero-emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030 Sony has acquired Bluepoint Games, the Austin-based studio best known for remaking Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus. Financial terms of […]

September 30, 2021 CAIRO (Reuters) – The debt situation for poor countries could worsen due to volatile commodity prices and higher interest rates, World Bank President David Malpass said on Thursday, urging countries to begin a gradual fiscal consolidation to maintain investor confidence. As of mid-2021, over half of the world’s poorest countries “are in […]

September 30, 2021 By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) – Mayoral elections in Italy’s largest cities on Sunday and Monday are expected to illustrate Matteo Salvini’s weakening grip of the right and see centre-left wins in the most high-profile contests. A parliamentary by-election in the Tuscan city of Siena will also be closely watched because it […]

September 30, 2021 By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear the Federal Election Commission’s bid to restore a campaign finance law that caps the amount of money that candidates can be reimbursed for personal loans to their campaigns in a challenge brought by Republican Senator Ted Cruz. The justices […]

September 30, 2021 By Joanna Plucinska and Robin Emmott WARSAW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Poland carried out an unlawful pushback of a group of migrants camped out on its border with Belarus in late August, an analysis of satellite imagery and other photos and videos by NGO Amnesty International published on Thursday said. Amnesty said that using satellite […]

Blockchain cybersecurity startup OpenZeppelin this morning announced a $23 million investment in Forta, a security service aimed at smart contracts. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, which OpenZeppelin CEO and co-founder Demian Brener described as 3x oversubscribed. The investment also attracted capital from Coinbase Ventures, True Ventures and Blockchain Capital, among others. Per Brener, OpenZeppelin will […]

September 30, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted on Thursday that the Senate would pass a measure to avoid a partial government shutdown, signalling Republican support for a Democratic measure due to be considered later in the day. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) Source Link McConnell says […]

September 30, 2021 ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia is expelling seven senior United Nations officials, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday, two days after a senior U.N. official said hundreds of thousands of people in the northern region of Tigray were likely experiencing famine. The seven, who include the head of the United Nations […]

September 30, 2021 By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Leaving her homeland Afghanistan was painful, says 15-year-old Sarah. But now safely in Portugal, she hopes to pursue her dream of playing soccer professionally – and perhaps meeting her idol, star striker Cristiano Ronaldo. Sarah was one of several players from Afghanistan’s national female youth soccer […]

Chelsey Colbert Contributor Share on Twitter Chelsey Colbert is policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum. Chelsey leads FPF’s portfolio on mobility and location data, which includes connected and automated vehicles, ride-sharing, micromobility, drones, delivery robots and mobility data sharing. In recent years, rows of electric scooters and bikes lining sidewalks have become a […]

September 30, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) -Stalled talks between Iran and world powers to reinstate a 2015 nuclear deal will resume “soon”, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday, while Tehran said it was evaluating the previous rounds of negotiations. Speaking at a news conference in the Qatari capital Doha, Borrell was […]

At last year’s inaugural Sight Tech Global event, a virtual event dedicated to applications of AI and related tech to accessibility for people who are blind, one of the most popular sessions belonged to Saqib Shaikh. The Microsoft engineer co-founded and leads the Seeing AI mobile app, which embeds a remarkable number of services beneficial to people […]

September 30, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) -Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid flew to Bahrain on Thursday on the highest-level Israeli visit to the Gulf state since the countries established formal relations last year. Lapid, who landed at Bahrain’s international airport in an Israir plane with an olive branch painted on its nose, met Bahrain’s King Hamad […]

September 30, 2021 By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s first public oxygen plant opened on Thursday, in a ray of hope for a country where a lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus has been largely unavailable to patients during the pandemic. Global demand for medical oxygen has surged with the COVID-19 pandemic, and many countries […]

September 30, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Anthony Joshua said on Thursday he knew where he went wrong in losing his world heavyweight boxing titles to Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, and had learnt his lesson. Usyk took the Briton’s WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts on a unanimous points decision at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last Saturday. […]

September 30, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Motors Co said Thursday it will extend by two weeks a halt to Chevrolet Blazer sport utility vehicle production at its Ramos plant in Mexico because of the ongoing chips shortage as it resumes production at other North American plants. The largest U.S. automaker said production will resume […]