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As some have pointed out, Altman's company has its own ties to President Trump. Peter Thiel, a Trump transition team member is a part-time partner at Y Combinator. |
On Sunday Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, another well-known tech investor, wrote a post on AVC, his widely-read blog, entitled "Make America Hate Again," where he pledged to donate "a nice chunk of change to the ACLU" every month to help the organization "fight the institutionalized hatred, racism, and bigotry t... |
"I’ve kept my mouth shut about President Trump since he was elected in early November," wrote Wilson. "I figured there were other things to focus on where I could have an impact and so I did that. But friday’s executive orders are too much for me." |
Manan Mehta, the founder of Unshackled, a VC firm that backs immigrant founders, spoke with BuzzFeed News about the ban, on Saturday afternoon. The firm has 35 founders from 15 countries, including two from Iran as well as India, China, Japan, and Australia. According to Mehta, founders inside Unshackled are on a varie... |
"A lot of our founders are focused on ensuring that they can legally stay here. They're up to speed on it," Mehta said. "What I would advise is that, by and large, they operate with the best knowledge of the law as it evolves. If they know that it may be challenging to come back in, then they should probably not leave.... |
Similarly, Chris Wright, a well-known Silicon Valley immigration lawyer told BuzzFeed News that he is currently advising clients who may be affected by the ban to stay in the United States. |
"I am telling people with any connection to the designated countries to remain within the US, even if they already have visas or green cards; the events at US airports today make it clear that's vital," he said. "And the connection can be remote: one of my clients was born in Iran, but left as an infant and has been a ... |
In a company-wide memo sent on Monday morning, CEO Bill McDermott shared the message that SAP had previously sent directly to affected employees. "[E]very single one of us, all 84,000 people of SAP, will always stand up for each other. We will protect each other’s human rights and reject any attempt to discriminate on ... |
I wanted to reach out in light of Trump's most recent executive order on immigration. |
The United States of America is a nation of immigrants, and should continue to be a symbol of freedom in the world. Instead, the President has decided to let fear drive our government policy. Our thoughts are with the victims of this recent executive order, our employees around the world, including Muslims and their fa... |
These changes in government policy do not change BuzzFeed's ongoing commitment to support and respect all of our employees and our diverse audience around the world. |
This post is being continually updated. |
Additional reporting by Priya Anand, Caroline O'Donovan, Mat Honan, and Blake Montgomery. |
Gun theft is on the rise in the US, fueling violent crime across the country. |
A wide-ranging investigation by The Trace and NBC analyzed 800,000 police records. In 2016, more than 237,000 guns were reported stolen nationwide, a 68% increase from 2005. |
The problem is exacerbated by legal gun owners who fail to secure their firearms, making it easy for criminals to steal them. |
Criminals are stealing guns from legal owners in increasing numbers, fueling violent crime in America. |
In 2016, more than 237,000 guns were reported stolen in the US, a more than 68% increase from 2005, an investigation from NBC and The Trace found. |
In the last decade alone, 2 million guns were reported stolen, although that number is likely higher because many incidents of gun theft are never even reported. One estimate from the nonpartisan think-tank Center for American Progress puts the number of stolen guns per year at 380,000. |
"The impact of gun theft is quite clear," Frank Occhipinti, an officer with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told The Trace. "It is devastating our communities." |
In the wake of mass shootings that have become all-too common in the US, gun control advocates typically push for enhanced background checks and tighter legal restrictions on the kinds of weapons citizens can buy - but gun theft from everyday owners is often left out of the discussion. |
For more than a year, NBC and The Trace analyzed police records in hundreds of jurisdictions and cities across America in 36 states. All in all, they assessed roughly 800,000 records from more than 1,000 local and state law enforcement agencies. |
In two-thirds of the 80 cities analyzed, gun theft rates increased substantially over a five-year period. In St. Louis, for example, 843 firearms were reported stolen in 2015, a 27% increase from 2010. |
The Trace points out the irony in the increasing number of gun thefts around the country. While many law-abiding Americans buy guns for self defense, those guns often end up arming the very same criminals they fear. |
From carjackings to kidnappings, armed robberies to sexual assaults, criminals use stolen guns in a variety of situations. |
In one case that The Trace/NBC investigation highlighted, criminals stole four shotguns and two handguns that an Arizona couple left stuffed in their dresser drawers. |
When they returned home one day, all the guns were missing. Eight months later, police recovered one of the guns on the floor of a getaway car three robbers used after holding up a gas station and leading police on lengthy chase. |
The source of the problem, experts say, is negligence on the part of many gun owners. Criminals are able to rob legal owners of their guns in many cases because their weapons are simply not secured in safes or lock boxes. |
"It comes down to basic human responsibility," Occhipinti, the ATF official, told The Trace. "If a gun owner doesn't do what he's supposed to be doing, that obviously makes our job a lot harder." |
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Roger Ailes' tenure as the leader of Fox News may be coming to an end, according to a report by Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine. |
According to Sherman, it is no longer a matter of if Ailes will be dismissed but rather when it will happen in the wake of a sexual harassment lawsuit by former Fox show host Gretchen Carlson. |
U.S. China Film & TV industry expo coming to L.A. |
Who will replace Anne Sweeney? Jimmy Fallon on a roll. |
Cisco this week is unveiling a switch and a router designed to help utilities construct IP-based infrastructures for power delivery, monitoring and control. |
Cisco has said it expects the market for smart grid communications infrastructure to be $20 billion annually over five years. |
The new products are the Connected Grid Router 2010 (CGR 2010) and Connected Grid Switch 2520 (CGR 2520). Both run Cisco's IOS software and are based on existing Cisco products for enterprise networks, but support power utility-specific standards and protocols, such as supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA... |
The CGR 2010 is based on Cisco's Integrated Services Router, of which 8 million are installed. It features four slots for housing Gigabit Ethernet fiber or copper LAN and WAN interfaces. |
The switch, the CGS 2520, comes in two four-slot versions: one sports 24 10/100BASE-TX ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks; and the other features 16 Fast Ethernet SFP ports, eight 10/100BASE-TX and Power over Ethernet ports, and two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. These switches are based on Cisco's Catalyst 2000 and 300... |
Two software images are available for the CGS 2520 -- one for Layer 2 services only and the other for Layer 3 IP services.The products also support cybersecurity features to help utilities comply with North American Electric Reliability Corp. / Critical Infrastructure Protection standards. They include Cisco's Intrusio... |
The products also adhere to IEEE 1613 and IEC61850-3 standards for utility substation environments, including the ability to withstand a broad range of temperatures, as well as extended protection against electrical surges and electromagnetic interference. |
For network and power distribution management, both products are designed to capture and analyze information from multiple intelligent electronic devices in the substation. This helps utility operators identify, isolate, diagnose and, in some cases, automatically repair faults. |
Citing industry research, Cisco says implementation of smart grid technologies could reduce carbon emissions globally by 12%. |
Pricing for both products start at about $6,000. The router will be available in July while the switch will be available in August. |
Toronto police have identified the victim of a shooting at took place near Danforth Rd. and Warden Ave. Friday morning as Alpha Conteh, 24, of Toronto. |
Around 5 a.m. Friday, Toronto police received a call about a shooting at Burnhill Rd. and Warden Ave. |
A man in his 20s was rushed to a trauma centre with multiple life-threatening gunshot wounds, where he died a short time later, police said. |
The suspect is described as male, wearing a light-coloured hoodie, possibly grey, and blue jeans, police said. He was seen getting into the front passenger door of a waiting vehicle. |
The vehicle is described as a four-door light-coloured sedan, possibly a grey Nissan Altima that was last seen travelling south on Warden Ave. towards Danforth Rd. |
Several security camera videos were also included and sent out by police. |
Conteh is the city’s 71st homicide victim of 2018. |
Det. Andy Singh from Toronto Homicide said that there did not appear to be any provocation for the shooting, as there was only a brief interaction between Conteh and the suspect before he opened fire on Conteh. |
However, he said that police are not informed on the background of the situation, and is asking the public to come forward if they saw Conteh in the area earlier that morning or interacting with anyone. |
Singh is also asking anyone who may recognize the vehicle or the suspect to come forward, as well. |
Asaf Darash, an Israeli entrepreneur, has created 15 jobs in San Francisco, yet the U.S. immigration system still places high hurdles for him to stay. |
It doesn't matter that Asaf Darash started a U.S. company and created 15 jobs here. Federal immigration officials might kick him out anyway. |
It's not that he did anything wrong. Rather, he's tangled in a web of immigration policies that are tough on entrepreneurs. |
Darash, 38, originally came here from Israel for college and returned in 2010 to launch Regpack, a software company in San Francisco. It's growing so fast, the company already needs to add another 10 workers. |
But instead of focusing on expanding his company, Darash has been fighting to stay in the country. |
To fulfill requests by immigration officials, he's spent half of every day since August searching for bank statements, invoices, payroll, board meeting records and more. |
"I'm in bureaucratic hell," he said. "All I do is find documents all day and deal with lawyers and accountants." |
That's because he is caught in the immigrant entrepreneur trap. There's no such thing as a U.S. entrepreneur visa, so immigrants are forced to find other solutions. |
What results is a messy process. In Darash's case, he initially came as a visiting scholar, which allowed him to start the business. He then applied for an H-1B, the standard professional worker's visa. |
The catch is, there has to be an employer-employee relationship. Although Darash is the employer, he would also need to prove he's an employee. For example, that might work if he could show that he can be fired by his board of directors. But that detail wasn't in the company's bylaws. |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services declined to speak about Darash's case. However, agency spokesman William Wright said immigration officials are reviewing their policies "to ensure that the visa process is as streamlined as possible" for entrepreneurs. |
It'll be too late for Darash, so he's now pursuing another option. |
One would be the EB-5 visa, but it too has obstacles. It requires that an immigrant invest at least $1 million in a project, a high bar for most startups. Consider that Darash started Regpack with $75,000 in savings. |
Darash has opted for the hurdles of the E-2 treaty investor visa. It requires "a substantial amount of capital." Immigration officials offer no dollar figure to define that, so to be safe, Darash placed a second mortgage on his home in Tel Aviv and invested another $400,000. |
He's also had to submit every expense the company has ever had, a total Darash estimates at nearly $2 million. |
All the hoops have left Darash little time to run his company, which makes software that cuts through bureaucracy and simplifies the college class enrollment process. |
When Regpack's quality assurance manager pleaded for him in October to be more involved in directing workers, Darash barely looked up from the stack of papers near his desk. |
"I'm sorry," he said. "I can't. I just can't." |
Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, said Darash's experience is anything but unique. |
"The American immigration system treats entrepreneurs like dirt," Nowrasteh said. "These immigrants are investing money here that is making Americans wealthier. There's no cogent economic justification for banning investment by foreigners." |
As for Darash, his brush with the immigration system might convince him to give up on the United States. |
"Regpack is not going away," Darash said. "It's going to grow. But the question is, will it grow here or in Israel?" |
An Australian company thinks it knows how to overcome the innate unreliability of quantum computers. |
"Quantum systems are extremely fragile," University of Sydney professor of quantum physics and quantum technology Michael Biercuk told the locknote audience at Oracle CloudWorld Sydney. |
"Everything around tends to destroy the quantum information we're trying to store", through a process known as decoherence. |
The result is that the likelihood of a hardware error is around 0.1% per qubit. So a 1000-qubit system — a size thought to be sufficient to do useful work — would be expected to encounter one error for every step in its program, he explained. |
Q-Ctrl — founded and led by Professor Biercuk — thinks it has a solution for this problem. |
To explain the company's approach, he drew a parallel with the Wright Brothers, who were the first to achieve manned, powered, controlled flight. Where others were trying to design an inherently stable aircraft, they realised that the answer was the ability to control the plane in every axis. |
Q-Ctrl, which received one of the first investments made by Main Sequence Ventures - is developing quantum firmware - is developing quantum firmware to suppress this problem. |
Its Black Opal product is "coming soon," according to the Q-Ctrl website. |
Disclosure: The writer attended Oracle CloudWorld Sydney as a guest of Oracle. |
Lets keep the money it cost to go out of state to race here on LI. Motorsports Complex will keep drag racing off the streets, and generate plenty of revenue for Long Island. |
Nascar…Indy…dragstrip…..Let’s get it done ! |
Recently hosted a track rental at Atco raceway in New Jersey and wanted to provide some real figures a single day of racing generates in revenue.$200 to race,$100 in diesel to get there and back, $50 for race fuel, $75 for the hotel,$100 for Dinner the night before at resteraunt( 4 people),$50 breakfast at the diner,$5... |
My vote is also for a motor sports facility…But,for God’s sake do it right! An oval track (NASCAR has tried for years to get a track built in the NY Metro area–first in Jersey and then in Staten Island) AND a drag strip. It’s only a matter of time before Riverhead Raceway succumbs–once the economy gets better–to the ne... |
Can a tempory drag strip be built on one of the runways ? Just to see how it would work out. The logistics and all. |
I do think we need a drag strip and an oval, maybe a half mile, for the future. |
Can we ride now legally please? Im so tired of having to look over my shoulder n cop cars are getting smarter(damm helicopters). They don’t even need to do anything, we will make our own tracks n trails jus need a occasional bulldozer n some dirt. hmm that should be hard. |
The Calverton complex has two large runways. If one runway is closed and used for a drag strip and the other maintained as an airport, a new race track could have world class potential. We need to allow visitors and competitors outside the New York area easy and speedy access to the facility and bring their $$ into Riv... |
The area could use a 1/4 mile drag strip.Good for the community. |
The Rexcorp concept for EPCAL included a Equestrian Facility. NASCAR and Equestrian Facilities co partner all over the US. Syracuse in NY for one. |
http://www.epcalcentre.com/home.html was a great concept by a US company that has track record and the MONEY to get the job done. Motorsports folks started this and if Horse People have any sense they will this time back them up. When they rally we need to rally with them. |
We have more horses per square acre on LI than any Place in the US and 24% of the show horses in the State of NY are on LI and we rank 2nd in districts and 4th in counties in Equine Wealth. We need a Indoor Facility for over night shows with stalls and such Like Syracuse . |
Bring Long Island back to it’s aerospace heritage by opening a worldd class airliner maintenance and overhaul facility. Plenty of high paying jobs and revenue from foreign and domestic airlines. |
A motorsports facility would be a welcomed addition to LI. I lived in Suffolk for years and the closest thing I would see to motorsports is people racing every night on the L.I.E. Service Road. The area desperately needs a place for automotive enthusiasts to stretch their legs and enjoy their cars safely. I say if this... |
Long Island can use the jobs a cargo hub will bring not to mention homeland security (SAFETY)by moving dangerous cargo away from the general public. Also it can serv as a motorsports recreation area on the weekends like many other airports around the world and country. Just my two cents. |
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