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Netflix Cuts Controversial Suicide Scene From ’13 Reasons Why’

The show is centered around the suicide of a teenage girl, and the first season’s finale shows her taking her ...
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Congress’ Power Struggle With Big Tech Will Be On Display At Hearings

There are three congressional hearings scheduled on Tuesday — each exploring the growing influence that a handful of tech companies ...
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Opioid Case Against Johnson & Johnson Is In The Hands Of Oklahoma Judge

After a seven-week trial, a judge in Oklahoma is now considering whether Johnson & Johnson should be held responsible for ...
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News Brief: Trump Tweets, Asylum Rule, Big Tech Hearings

Trump doubles down on racist remarks directed at freshmen congresswomen of color. White House implements a new rule for asylum-seekers ...
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Trump Taps Health Care Expert As Acting Top White House Economist

President Trump has been expected to nominate Tomas Philipson as permanent chair of his Council of Economic Advisers. Philipson, an ...
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2 Major Airlines Cancel Thousands Of Boeing Max Flights Through November

The Federal Aviation Administration found a new problem in Boeing’s max plane last month, so it will like be several ...
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Amazon’s Prime Day Marked With Competing Sales And High Profile Walkout

More than 200 retailers are hosting sales to compete with Amazon’s two-day discount event, Prime Day. This year is also ...
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Alan Turing, Computing Genius And WWII Hero, To Be On U.K.’s New 50-Pound Note

For decades, Turing’s status as a giant in mathematics was largely unknown, thanks to the secrecy around his computer research ...
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Giant Shipper Bets Big On Ending Its Carbon Emissions. Will It Pay Off?

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has set a massive goal for itself: going carbon-neutral by 2050. This would ...
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China’s Economy Slows To Record Low, While Trump Pushes U.S. Iron And Steel

The pace of growth in the second quarter was at its lowest since 1992, when China’s records began. The National ...
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China’s Economy Falters; Slowest Growth In Nearly 3 Decades

The pace of growth in the second quarter was its slowest since 1992. The National Bureau of Statistics attributed the ...
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‘It’s A Career Ender’: 2 LGBTQ Former Dell Workers Share Their Stories

A former Dell worker said she had such a rough time at the company because of her appearance that she ...
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In Boston, Web App Matches Budget Renters With Senior Homeowners

In Boston, a web app called “Nesterly” matches would-be renters with people who have a room to spare and could ...
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Placing Facebook’s $5 Billion Fine In Context

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about Facebook’s $5 billion fine levied by the Federal Trade Commission ...
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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Boycotts

Americus Reed II, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School of Business, tells NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the effectiveness ...
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Business

Workplace, Facebook’s service for business teams, is raising its prices for the first time since launch

Three years into its life with 2 million paying users signed up, Workplace — Facebook’s platform for businesses and and other organizations to build internal ...
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Patreon raises $60M Series D, targets international growth and more customization

Patreon, the San Francisco-based platform that helps over 100,000 online content creators manage paid membership communities for their most dedicated fans, has raised $60 million ...
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Grammarly goes beyond grammar

Grammarly, the popular grammar and spellcheck tool, is launching a major update to its browser extensions, web app and native desktop apps today. In its ...
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