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GUEST: The lack of diversity in tech has been front and center this past year. Large tech companies have publicly vowed to fix the problem. But how? One answer is recognizing, acknowledging, and eliminating unconscious bias from the hiring process. Three years ago, Cockroach Labs started the effort to create a more diverse workforce by focusing on building an inclusive environment. […]
Samir Hussein/Getty Images Singer-songwriter Tom Petty was hospitalized Sunday night after he was found unconscious and in full cardiac arrest in his Malibu home, TMZ reports. Law enforcement sources told the outlet that Petty was taken to the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, and he was reportedly put “on life support.” Authorities told The Hollywood Reporter they responded to a Malibu […]
British star Winslet, 41, stars alongside Idris Elba in the thriller, in which the two are stranded in perilous conditions following a plane crash. Speaking to Jimmy Fallon, Winslet revealed the funny reason why she was adamant to do one stunt – in which her character drops through ice into freezing water below – herself. […]
Bodycam video shows a Salt Lake City police detective grabbing a frightened nurse and twisting her arm before handcuffing her at University Hospital, all because she cited policy not allowing him to draw blood from an unconscious patient. “I’m just trying to do what I’m supposed to do,” nurse Alex Wubbels explained to Detective Jeff […]
Image: Apple When a young boy identified only as Roman couldn’t wake up his unconscious mother, he did what any astute, technologically-adept four-year-old would do: He used his mother’s finger to unlock her phone, and then asked Siri to call emergency services. The boy’s actions saved his mother, but the incident exposes some dark and […]
Sending a clear signal that it has no time for anyone who flies their drone irresponsibly, the Seattle Municipal Court last week landed a local man with a 30-day jail sentence. Paul Skinner was found guilty of reckless endangerment after an incident at a parade in 2015 where his drone fell from the sky before hitting a […]
(credit: Andrew Turner) The operator of a drone that knocked a woman unconscious was sentenced Friday to 30 days in jail, Seattle prosecutors said. The woman was attending a local parade when the drone crashed and struck her. Skinner (credit: KomoNews) Paul Skinner, a 38-year-old man from Washington state, was charged with reckless endangerment in […]
