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Yellow Vests

French police break up yellow vest protest with tear gas

TOULOUSE, France: French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday (Sep 28) by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the southwest city of Toulouse. A police statement said officers made five arrests after being t…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Palestine

Israel says 3 suspects in deadly West Bank blast arrested

JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli officials say they have caught the Palestinian militants responsible for a bombing in the West Bank that killed a teenage girl last month. The Shin Bet internal security agency said Saturday the suspects were three members of the Popul…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Elon Musk

Court says Tesla and Musk’s tweet violated labor laws

Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare. —…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

eSports

Take a peek at the future of media and entertainment at Disrupt SF

Where does tech end and media begin? It can be hard to find the dividing line, particularly as tech companies move into the media business, and as big Hollywood blockbusters are increasingly created on computers. So even though TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF event …

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

VR

How to become a VC, Amazon’s voice play, Peloton stock, Facebook’s new VR environment and more

EC Editorial Announcements TechCrunch Disrupt SF is this week: join us on the Extra Crunch stage TechCrunchs biggest event of the year is happening this coming week at the brand-new Moscone North convention center in SF. We have wall-to-wall programming on …

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Elon Musk

Watch live as Elon Musk delivers an update on SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft

SpaceX is all set to deliver an update on the status of its Starship program, courtesy of CEO Elon Musk. Musk will provide new info about “the design and development of Starship” at 7 PM CDT (8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT) tonight, live from the company’s Boca Chica rock…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

SpaceX

Gallery: SpaceX’s Starship Mk1 spacecraft prototype in pictures

SpaceX is all set to show off its Starship Mk1, a orbital-scale prototype of the spacecraft it eventually plans to use to attain its goal of fully reusable commercial spaceflight. Starship is the key ingredient not only to fully reusable launch and cargo vehi…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Feudalism

Fairly Recently: Must- and Should-Reads, and Writings… (September 28, 2019)

Five Super-Musts: Remember: the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax cut did absolutely nothing to boost investment in America, and thus has no supply-side positive effects on economic growth. And it is another upward jump in inequality: Greg Leiserson: U.S. Inequality a…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Matteo Salvini

UN, coast guard: Boat with 50 migrants capsizes off Libya

At least 50 migrants are at risk after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya according to the UN relief agency and Libya's cost guard. Ayoub Gassim, a spokesperson for the coast guard confirmed that the incident had taken place off the western city of…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Large chunk of border wall funding diverted from tiny Guam

President Donald Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several military construction projects slated for Guam, a strategic hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific. This may disrupt plans to move Marines to Guam f…

bubmagSeptember 28, 2019

French police break up yellow vest protest with tear gas

Israel says 3 suspects in deadly West Bank blast arrested

Court says Tesla and Musk’s tweet violated labor laws

Take a peek at the future of media and entertainment at Disrupt SF

How to become a VC, Amazon’s voice play, Peloton stock, Facebook’s new VR environment and more

Watch live as Elon Musk delivers an update on SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft

Gallery: SpaceX’s Starship Mk1 spacecraft prototype in pictures

Fairly Recently: Must- and Should-Reads, and Writings… (September 28, 2019)

UN, coast guard: Boat with 50 migrants capsizes off Libya

Large chunk of border wall funding diverted from tiny Guam

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