Power Boss Heavily Hints at [Spoiler]’s Return in Spinoff Book II: Ghost

Warning: This post contains a major spoiler from the premiere of Power Book II: Ghost.  Tasha’s Hail Mary attempt to avoid a prison sentence in Sunday’s premiere of the Power spinoff is likely to have one hell of a consequence, in the form of the return of certain volatile criminal whose name rhymes with “Shmommy Shmegan.” While on […]

Oracle founder Larry Ellison says its ’embarrassing’ for Amazon that it relies so heavily on Oracle’s technology (ORCL, AMZN)

Oracle Oracle founder Larry Ellison said “it’s kind of embarrassing” for Amazon that it uses Oracle’s databases to power its own business — especially considering Amazon offers its own databases that compete with Oracle’s.  Ellison was responding to a report from last week that Amazon intends to get off of Oracle’s products completely by 2020.  […]

The suspected shooter who opened fire at YouTube’s offices heavily criticized the video platform online

Screenshot via nasimesabz.com Nasim Aghdam, the woman suspected of firing shots at YouTube’s headquarters and wounding three people, had an active presence online. Images and videos uploaded to Instagram and YouTube accounts allegedly connected to Aghdam contained political messages and fitness tips — but also featured some heavy criticism of YouTube. Several of the social-media […]

Govt. shutdown: US military ops continue while civilian services heavily affected

Despite the US government shutdown, military operations will continue as normal while non-essential civilian services will be heavily curtailed, SpaceX launches will be postponed and the tourism industry greatly impacted. The US government shut down Saturday after failing to reach an agreement on an approved budget for federal agencies. Government funding expired midnight Friday, sparking […]

History Hangs Heavily Over Tulsa’s Lone Black Councilwoman

To engage with Vanessa Hall-Harper is to grapple with the tragic history of race relations in Tulsa. Reckoning is the only option when sitting down with the 46-year-old, who, within minutes, is digging into what was — and what could have been. They called the city councilor’s North Tulsa district “Black Wall Street” in the […]

Trump’s new health care decision disproportionately affects states that voted heavily for him

AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta President Donald Trump’s decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that was benefiting roughly 6 million Americans helps fulfill a campaign promise, but it also risks harming some of the very people who helped him win the presidency. Nearly 70 percent of those benefiting from the so-called cost-sharing subsidies […]

Nissan Mississippi workers vote heavily against unionization

Workers at Nissan Motor Co Ltd’s plant in Canton, Mississippi, voted nearly two to one against union representation, the company and the United Auto Workers said late on Friday. The vote at the end of a bitterly contested campaign extended a decades-long record of failure by the union to organize a major automaker’s plant in […]

Heavily armed police raid company that seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak

Enlarge (credit: National Police of Ukraine) The third-party software updater used to seed last week’s NotPetya worm that shut down computers around the world was compromised more than a month before the outbreak. This is yet another sign the attack was carefully planned and executed. Researchers from antivirus provider Eset, in a blog post published […]

89% of CIOs are investing more heavily in innovation due to uncertainty

Nine out of 10 chief information officers are investing more heavily in innovation, according to an annual survey by recruitment firm Harvey Nash Group and accounting firm KPMG. Two-thirds (64 percent) of organizations are adapting their technology strategies in the midst of unprecedented global political and economic uncertainty, the survey found. More than half of the […]

Airbase hit by US missiles ‘heavily involved’ in anti-ISIS campaign – relative of strike victim

The US bombardment of the Syrian airbase only serves to encourage Islamic State terrorists as the base was actively involved in the anti-terrorist campaign, including in Palmyra and Raqqa, a man whose relative was killed in the airstrike told RT. Read more RT spoke to Qusai Nasr from Homs, who lost a relative when the […]