Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott ensures that her exorbitant wealth reaches well-intentioned institutions. This week, one of the richest women in the world announced that she had gifted $ 1.7 billion of her fortune, and a large chunk of it went to historically black colleges and universities. “I have no …
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Gustavo Cárdenas and Jorge Toledo were released under house arrest Thursday night, days after a humanitarian visit to Caracas by former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and a team of non-governmental negotiators. Richardson said in a statement that it is “a positive and important first step” and thanked Maduro for …
Read More »Amazon Gets FCC Approval for $ 10 Billion Satellite Internet Project
Amazon also posted record profits on Thursday. AFP / Getty Images Amazon.com Inc. obtained approval from the Federal Communications Commission to build a $ 10 billion satellite internet network that would rival SpaceX’s Starlink network. In documents released Thursday, the FCC authorized Amazon’s request to build a network of more …
Read More »What a 12-game schedule could look like for Texas in 2020
Texas head coach Tom herman Now he has to deal with Longhorns, he has an open date for September 12. The SEC going to a 10-game conference-only schedule has taken the return of a scheduled home-and-home series with the LSU off the board and it will probably be a while …
Read More »Twitter says a high-profile hack was the result of a phishing attack
“This attack was based on a significant and concerted attempt to trick certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to our internal systems,” Twitter said in a tweet. A phishing attack is a type of cyber attack in which hackers try to trick victims into opening malicious emails …
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