Mexico’s Department of the Interior reportedly revoked funding on Friday for a conference on the government’s violent anti-insurgency policy from the 1960s to the 1980s, raising claims of censorship. The conference had been scheduled to begin in two days time. Organizers said they were forced to cancel the event, which would have focused on the … Read more
The top non-English language film on Netflix last week was The Conference—a Swedish horror movie that’s no doubt drawing viewers in with its thumbnail of a ghoulishly grinning, dirt-stained mask. Those who click on it will be rewarded with a blend of corporate satire and campground slasher, filled with some of the most creative gore … Read more
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) dug into the eight Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), claiming the lawmakers “unleashed furies” in the GOP conference. “Well right now, [the House] can’t govern, and I think that the eight people who betrayed the conference and joined the Democrats to defeat the 96 … Read more
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X / Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has just canceled her appearance at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference next week, saying “with the global crisis unfolding, Linda and her team must remain fully focused on X platform safety.” The “global crisis” in question is almost certainly a reference to the war in Israel, which … Read more
ROME — The Vatican secretary of state on Monday strongly defended World War II-era Pope Pius XII as a friend of the Jews as he opened an historic conference on newly opened archives that featured even Holy See historians acknowledging that anti-Jewish prejudice informed Pius’ silence in the face of the Holocaust. Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s … Read more
Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Facebook, speaks during Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California on September 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images At Meta’s annual Connect conference this week focused on virtual reality and the metaverse, one word was on everyone’s lips: Apple. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg … Read more
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On Wednesday evening, X CEO Linda Yaccarino appeared on stage at the Code Conference with frustration and protest. “I think many people in this room were not fully prepared for me to still come out on the stage,” she told interviewer Julia Boorstin, senior media and tech correspondent at CNBC. Yaccarino sounded rattled. She’d found … Read more
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Allen Media Group CEO and founder Byron Allen is coming to the Code Convention this month, the place he’ll be speaking in regards to the state of the media business with CNBC senior media and tech correspondent Julia Boorstin. Allen’s sprawling media firm contains native broadcasters throughout the US, cable networks together with Automobiles.TV and Comedy.TV, … Read more
White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sunday abruptly ended a information convention with President Joe Biden in Hanoi, Vietnam, at one level taking a microphone and saying the occasion had concluded even because the president was nonetheless answering questions from reporters within the room. Because the president was responding to shouted questions from the … Read more
Welcome, people, to Week in Evaluation (WiR), TechCrunch’s publication that recaps the most important happenings in tech over the previous few days. When you’ve been too slammed to observe the developments play-by-play, you’ve come to the fitting place. That’s what WiR is for. On this version of WiR, we cowl Teamshares, a New York–based mostly … Read more