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Twitter is down to fewer than 550 full-time engineers
Twitter’s full-time headcount has dwindled to approximately 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title, according to internal records viewed by CNBC. Around 75 of the company’s 1,300 employees are on leave including about 40 engineers. The company’s trust and safety team, which makes policy recommendations, design and product changes with the aim of…
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Whittaker-Costa off UFC 284 card, sources say
Whittaker-Costa off UFC 284 card, sources say
Dec 19, 2022 A highly anticipated middleweight bout between Robert Whittaker and Paulo Costa will not happen at UFC 284 as planned, sources told ESPN. The UFC still has the 185-pound contest officially listed on its website for the UFC 284 event, which is scheduled to take place on Feb. 11 in Perth, Australia, but efforts have fallen through to finalize the bout. Costa (14-2) referred to the…
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China’s Zero-COVID U-Turn Reveals Xi Jinping's Deep Paranoia
China’s Zero-COVID U-Turn Reveals Xi Jinping’s Deep Paranoia
Even for China, where the distance between official narrative and empirical evidence is often a chasm, the last few days have been jarring. On Tuesday, officials announced five deaths from COVID-19—up from two the previous day, which were the first recorded in the country since Dec. 3. On Wednesday, there were officially none. But a glance online tells a different story. Dozens of hearses line up…
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Shapps orders oligarch-backed firm to sell UK broadband provider on national security grounds
Shapps orders oligarch-backed firm to sell UK broadband provider on national security grounds
The business secretary has ordered an investment firm backed by sanctioned Russian oligarchs to sell regional broadband provider Upp, citing national security concerns. Grant Shapps ruled that the ownership of LetterOne, known as L1, was a national security risk. Its investors include the sanctioned Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman. The decision was made under the provisions of the National…
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Rooftop solar: How homeowners should do the math on the climate change investment
Rooftop solar: How homeowners should do the math on the climate change investment
Solar panels create electricity on the roof of a house in Rockport, Massachusetts, U.S., June 6, 2022. Picture taken with a drone.  Brian Snyder | Reuters When Josh Hurwitz decided to put solar power on his Connecticut house, he had three big reasons: To cut his carbon footprint, to eventually store electricity in a solar-powered battery in case of blackouts, and – crucially – to save money. Now…
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Global coal use is on course to hit all-time high this year, IEA says
Global coal use is on course to hit all-time high this year, IEA says
Workers photographed on top of a train loaded with coal in China. Global use of coal is projected to increase by 1.2% this year and hit a record high, according to the International Energy Agency. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Global coal use is on course to increase by 1.2% to hit a record high this year, according to a report from the International Energy Agency. It comes at a time…
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Innovation Can Build the Future Our Grandchildren Deserve
Innovation Can Build the Future Our Grandchildren Deserve
I’ve been saying for years that the world is getting better. I’ll point out that, for example, the number of young children who die before their fifth birthday has fallen by more than half in just two decades—from 10 million in 2000 to just over 4 million today. But current events are making it harder to argue that the future will be better than the past. Russia’s war on Ukraine is inflicting…
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Don’t Look Now, But the Culture War Is Turning Back to Covid
Don’t Look Now, But the Culture War Is Turning Back to Covid
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For a brief moment, there seemed to be a lull in the politicization of a plague. Sure, there were still the anti-vaxxers showing up at school board meetings—and sometimes running them—and the occasional kerfuffle over mandates boiled over. Dr. Anthony Fauci remained a…
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Bowl season takeaways: Boise State’s win caps a seven-game Saturday
Bowl season takeaways: Boise State’s win caps a seven-game Saturday
1:13 AM ET Bowl season is finally upon us! Our reporters are breaking down the best of the games from notable performances, breakout players and so much more. Full schedule | Results Saturday, Dec. 17 Frisco Bowl: Boise State Broncos 35, North Texas Mean Green 32 In his first season at Boise State, freshman running back Ashton Jeanty had only crossed the 100-yard threshold in a game one time.…
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Pitch invader images released after Australia football violence where goalie attacked
Pitch invader images released after Australia football violence where goalie attacked
Australian police have released images of people they want to trace after “shocking” violence erupted at a football match. Fans invaded the pitch and Melbourne City’s goalkeeper was hit in the face with a sand-filled bucket and needed hospital treatment. The trouble erupted during the derby against Melbourne Victory on Saturday, with players and the referee fleeing down the tunnel. Victoria…
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Binance's native BNB token plunges to lowest since July as concerns mount about withdrawals, FTX ties
Binance’s native BNB token plunges to lowest since July as concerns mount about withdrawals, FTX ties
Binance’s Co-founder & CEO Changpeng Zhao has given several interviews discussing the outlook for cryptocurrency following a turbulent couple of weeks in the market. NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images Over a month after the collapse of FTX, investor concern over crypto exchange Binance isn’t fading. Binance’s native token, BNB, has fallen 15% in the past week, including a drop of over 6% in…
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Unions criticise plans to use troops to cover strikes but PM hits back by calling them 'Grinches' who 'want to steal Christmas'
Unions criticise plans to use troops to cover strikes but PM hits back by calling them ‘Grinches’ who ‘want to steal Christmas’
Union bosses have criticised plans to deploy 1,200 troops to cover strikes, but the prime minister has hit back by calling them “Grinches” who “want to steal Christmas”. Union chiefs claim the military are not “sufficiently trained” to guard the country’s borders or drive ambulances, and that they should not be put in such an “invidious” position when they already have “enough on their…
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Sam Bankman-Fried will now surrender himself for extradition before Bahamian court Monday: Source
Sam Bankman-Fried will now surrender himself for extradition before Bahamian court Monday: Source
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (2nd L) is led away handcuffed by officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force in Nassau, Bahamas on December 13, 2022.  Mario Duncanson | AFP | Getty Images FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried will no longer contest extradition to the U.S., an about-face just days after he was remanded to Bahamian jail pending a hearing, a person familiar with the matter…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 17, 2022
Quick Charge Podcast: December 17, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as…
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Jim Cramer’s Investing Club meeting Friday: Weak PMI data, oil stocks, Estee Lauder
Jim Cramer’s Investing Club meeting Friday: Weak PMI data, oil stocks, Estee Lauder
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. Weak PMI data is good for Fed When to add to energy stocks Stay bullish on Estee Lauder 1. Weak PMI data is good for Fed Stocks fell Friday , as recession fears persisted on Wall Street and put the market on track for back-to-back weekly losses. The…
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Ukraine ‘preparing’ for Russia to invade from north, top commander says
Ukraine ‘preparing’ for Russia to invade from north, top commander says
Ukraine is preparing for Russia to try again to invade from the north – maybe around the anniversary of its first, failed attempt to seize Kyiv last February, a top commander has said. President Vladimir Putin could even ultimately order millions of soldiers into the war as Russia’s offensive falters in the face of fierce and enduring Ukrainian resistance, Major General Andrii Kovalchuk, one of…
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Former Tory minister calls on PM to ‘chart a middle course’ with nurses over pay dispute
Former Tory minister calls on PM to ‘chart a middle course’ with nurses over pay dispute
Former Conservative cabinet minister Robert Buckland has called on Rishi Sunak to “chart a middle course” with striking nurses after the first NHS-wide walkout took place on Thursday. The former justice secretary told Sky News there is “a big gulf” between the NHS pay review body’s (PRB) July recommendation of around 4% pay increases for nurses – which the government has offered – and the 19%…
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