Hello and happy hump day, readers. Perhaps it was inevitable in the face of lawsuits, regulatory crackdowns, reports of horrifying lung illnesses, and a general sense of unease—but Kevin Burns, CEO of the privately-held firm Juul, is stepping down from his perch. The Juul CEO's sudden departure is just one chapter in this rapidly unfolding…
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The star singer, accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, dropped out of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and indicated he would not return to the Met.ImagePlácido Domingo at the onstage ceremony last November honoring his 50th anniversary at the Metropolitan Opera.CreditCreditKarsten Moran for The New York TimesSept. 24, 2019Updated 7:33 p.m. ETIn an 11th-hour reversal, the superstar…
Google’s quantum computing competitors—including IBM, Intel, and Microsoft—say they’re not surprised by their rival’s apparent achievement of “quantum supremacy,” a demonstration that a quantum computer can perform a task infeasible for a traditional computer. Google’s milestone made waves after a research paper describing the potentially historic result leaked on the website of NASA, a Google…
Sen. Bernie Sanders rolled out a plan to tax the wealth of the nation's ultra-rich on Tuesday, going further than his Democratic primary rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren with his proposal that could greatly erode the fortunes of billionaires with steep taxes.Sander's wealth tax is more aggressive than Warren's given its scale.It would impact more households,…
ImageGerald Bostock, a former county government employee in Georgia, said he was fired for being gay.CreditCreditAudra Melton for The New York TimesSept. 23, 2019, 7:32 p.m. ETATLANTA — The Supreme Court has delivered a remarkable series of victories to the gay rights movement over the last two decades, culminating in a ruling that established a…
Facebook has announced it is acquiring neural software company CTRL-Labs to help advance its development of augmented reality glasses. The social media giant announced the purchase on Monday, and said it planned to fold the startup's team into Facebook Reality Labs, led by chief scientist Michael Abrash, as a part of the company’s augmented/virtual reality…
Adam Neumann has begun discussions with WeWork's board and investors about his future role at the company, according to sources. Neumann has not yet agreed to step aside as CEO of WeWork parent We Company, and there is no certainty he will do so, the sources said. A board challenge planned by investors, including SoftBank…
Sep 22, 2019 Emmy Awards Live Chat Tune into the Emmy Awards along with Dave Itzkoff, our pop culture reporter, and James Poniewozik and Margaret Lyons, our television critics, for live analysis of the awards. DIDave ItzkoffReporterSept. 22, 2019, 8:08 PM ETI thought Ben Stiller with the wax statues was bad, but then it turned…
Between Game of Thrones, Chernobyl and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the winner's circle at the 2019 Emmy Awards could look a lot different than it did just five years ago. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will once again honor television's best this Sunday, but the list of nominees underscores just how much the…
