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A Pulitzer Prize Was Just Given To The 1619 Essay The New York Times Admitted Was Historically Inaccurate 1619 Slavery

A Pulitzer Prize Was Just Given To The 1619 Essay The New York Times Admitted Was Historically Inaccurate

Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for an essay the New York Times corrected substantially after an array of respected academics disputed its grasp on history. That means the Pulitzers bizarrely rewarded inaccurate journalism with journalism’s highest prize. That Hannah-Jones’s article advanced historical inaccuracies is not a matter…
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May 4, 2020
Pulitzer Prizes awarded: USA TODAY Network’s Louisville Courier Journal wins for Breaking News Palestine

Pulitzer Prizes awarded: USA TODAY Network’s Louisville Courier Journal wins for Breaking News

Nathan Bomey USA TODAYPublished 4:56 PM EDT May 4, 2020The USA TODAY Network's Louisville Courier Journal won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on Monday for its coverage of last-minute pardons issued by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin before he left office. The Pulitzer board honored the staff of the Courier Journal…
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May 4, 2020
‘Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian’ reveals a hilariously awkward Dave Filoni story Star Wars

‘Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian’ reveals a hilariously awkward Dave Filoni story

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. By Alexis Nedd2020-05-04 20:53:03 UTC Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian is an eight-part docuseries about the making of Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Its first episode,…
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May 4, 2020
The Margin: The Twitter response to J. Crew filing for bankruptcy has been savage — but it has a point Michelle Obama

The Margin: The Twitter response to J. Crew filing for bankruptcy has been savage — but it has a point

The Margin Published: May 5, 2020 at 7:46 a.m. ET Many tweets note that the retailer’s problems were terminal long before the pandemic hit J.Crew filed for bankruptcy — and shoppers on Twitter have thoughts. Getty Images The unraveling of J.Crew has spun many Twitter threads, from fans mourning the…
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May 4, 2020
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly once told the US Army’s top special forces general ‘you absolutely suck’ at artificial intelligence Project Maven

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly once told the US Army’s top special forces general ‘you absolutely suck’ at artificial intelligence

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the US special forces' top general "you absolutely suck at machine learning," The New York Times reported Saturday.The comments came in 2016 during Schmidt's push to expand his influence over the US military's strategy around technology and innovation, The New York Times reported.Schmidt now sits…
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May 4, 2020
Colson Whitehead Wins Second Pulitzer Prize, A Strange Loop Wins for Drama 1619 Slavery

Colson Whitehead Wins Second Pulitzer Prize, A Strange Loop Wins for Drama

Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Photo: Joan Marcus The Pulitzer Prizes, the original remote awards ceremony, announced its winners today, including many groundbreaking works chronicling the African-American experience. Author Colson Whitehead won his second fiction prize in as many books with The…
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May 4, 2020
Intel buys Moovit (because self-driving cars can’t be everywhere) Self-driving Vehicles

Intel buys Moovit (because self-driving cars can’t be everywhere)

Intel has acquired Moovit, splashing out around $900 million on the public transit planning app, with plans to integrate it into what until now has been the chip-maker’s autonomous car business. Moovit offers multimodal trip planning, spanning trains, buses, scooters, and other methods, and Intel says it intends to combine…
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May 4, 2020