The Yankees were savages in the box in both games of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Rays at Yankee Stadium. Just ask Aaron Boone. It was much as they have been all season. Boone made that point to young umpire Brennan Miller in Game 1 and was tossed for his second-inning outburst, which was filled with Read more about The Yankees really are savages[…]
The Oakland City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to prevent city employees, including the police, from using or acquiring facial recognition technology. Amid increasing scrutiny of the technology, which has been labeled as biased by lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Oakland joined San Francisco and Somerville, Mass., which both passed similar bans this year. Read more about Oakland bans use of facial recognition, becoming third US city to do so[…]
More than 413,000 pounds: That’s the estimated total weight of all man-made items left on the moon since Apollo 11 astronauts became the first to land there in 1969. This “lunar litter,” as documentary filmmaker Arlen Parsa called it in his 2012 short film, is itemized in a 22-page document from NASA. Here, highlights of Read more about Here’s what we’ve left behind on the moon[…]
Democrats see your paycheck as fair game for their endless social-improvement projects. Every Democrat vying for the White House backs federal legislation that would guarantee workers nearly three months of paid family medical leave every year. Sounds wonderful. We all favor caring for newborns and sick relatives. And working nine months while getting paid for Read more about The high hidden price of paid-family-leave laws[…]
When people talk about "the good old days," they're mourning the death of simplicity. For San Diego Comic-Con attendees, nostalgia has always rested with the diehards who haunt the floor of the Convention Center, lining up to buy artwork from their favorite illustrators or hunting down a copy of that formative book from their childhood. Read more about The Paradox of the Incredible Shrinking Comic-Con Expansion[…]
Today’s younger, more tech-savvy breed of House Democrats may spend a lot of their time online, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy with the tech companies they rely on. In fact, it seems the more testimony they hear from top Silicon Valley executives, the louder their calls to regulate these behemoth technology firms become. This Read more about Tech Giants Claim Competition Exists. House Dems Don't Buy It[…]
Elon Musk unveiled a plan to thread wires through your brain, there's finally a way to automatically cancel free trials, and tech execs took the congressional stand. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today's Headlines Read more about Elon's Brain Computer, Big Tech's Big Day in Congress, and More News[…]
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are in talks to sell their Westchester estate to Aussie cardboard billionaire Anthony Pratt, of Pratt Industries. The power couple bought it for around $11.25 million in 2014 and are in contract to sell it for around $15 million in an off-market deal, Gimme Shelter has learned. The palatial 15,458-square-foot Read more about Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas secretly selling NY estate[…]
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is destined to live out his days at the country’s only supermax prison in Colorado — and he’ll never get to see his beauty-queen wife again, The Post has learned. “That’s where he’s going. I know for a fact that’s where he’s going,” a source with knowledge of Guzman’s case said Read more about El Chapo will never see his beauty-queen wife again[…]
Had Travis d’Arnaud’s fly ball to right field died on the warning track Monday night instead of crawling into the seats for what turned out to be a game-winning, three-run homer, Aroldis Chapman getting beat on a slider wouldn’t have been the hot topic it was Tuesday. Before Tuesday night’s 8-3 win over the Rays, Read more about Why Yankees haven’t lost faith in this Aroldis Chapman pitch[…]