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Longtime Texas Rangers Radio Engineer Collapses Outside Ballpark, Dies
Ted Nichols-Payne, the Texas Rangers’ radio network engineer for nearly 30 years, collapsed in the parking lot of Globe Life Field before Sunday’s game against Minnesota and died at a hospital.
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The Stanford PhD Student With a Mission to Graduate 10,000 Black Engineers by 2025
Favour Nerrise of the National Society of Black Engineers is dedicated to seeing 10,000 Black engineers graduate annually by 2025.
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How Alicia Boler Davis Took on Amazon's Covid Crises and Became Part of Jeff Bezos' Inner Circle
Alicia Boler Davis discusses leading through Covid, representation in STEM, and why she wants today’s young Black leaders to dream big.
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Md. Engineers Converting Breast Pumps Into Ventilators
A group of engineers in Maryland says breast pumps — machines many moms have at home — could be a game-changer in saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic. “This has been really exciting for me,” engineer Rachel Labatt said. Labatt, Brandi and Grant Gerstner, Alex Scott and Director Tommy Luginbill are a team of engineers from southern Maryland. They say…
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Suspicious Company Dissolves Following NBC Bay Area Investigation Into Potential Student Visa Fraud
Less than a week after NBC Bay Area published an investigation finding more than a dozen possible shell companies may have provided false employment records to thousands of foreign students, one of those companies filed paperwork in Nevada to legally dissolve.
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Scientists Race to Document Puerto Rico's Coastal Heritage
A group of U.S.-based scientists is rushing to document indigenous sites along Puerto Rico’s coast dating back a couple of thousand years before rising sea levels linked to climate change destroy a large chunk of the island’s heritage that is still being discovered. Scientists hope to use the 3D images they’ve taken so far to also help identify which historic...
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Self-Driving Cars Were Supposed to Be Here Already — Here's Why They Aren't
More companies are trying to bring self-driving cars to the masses than ever before. Yet a truly autonomous vehicle still doesn’t exist. And it’s not clear if, or when, our driverless future will arrive. Proponents in the industry, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Waymo CEO John Krafcik and Cruise CEO Dan Ammann, touted an aggressive timeline but missed and reset...
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Suspicious Companies May Be Exploiting Student Visa Program
A months-long joint investigation between NBC Bay Area and NBC News found thousands of foreign students may have used false employment records at more than a dozen potential shell companies to illegally stay in the country after attending American universities. Stephen Stock reports on a story that first aired Wednesday, Nov. 27.
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‘Real Chill' Bobcat ‘Doing Bobcat Stuff' in Lake Murray
In typical feline fashion, humans were in awe and took photos, while the cat just tried to sleep.
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After Push From Perry, His Backers Got Huge Ukraine Gas Deal
Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from the Ukrainian government soon after Perry proposed one of the men as an adviser to the country’s new president. Perry’s efforts to influence Ukraine’s energy policy came earlier this year, just as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s new government was seeking military aid...
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Pence Takes Swipe at NBA, Nike in Critical Speech on China
Vice President Mike Pence took a swipe at Nike and the NBA on Thursday in a speech criticizing communist China’s record on trade and human rights, saying American corporations have been too willing to ignore censorship and repression in pursuit of profits. Pence singled out the shoe company for removing Houston Rockets merchandise from stores in China after the team’s...
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San Francisco Grapples With How to Fight Massive Firestorm Expected After Next Big Quake
San Francisco’s Marina was ravaged by fire during the Loma Prieta earthquake, centered 60 miles away. Thirty years later, experts say, as much as a third of the city is still largely unprotected against the massive fires they fear will be sparked by the Big One.
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How Technology Has Made the Bay Area More Earthquake Safe
The Bay Area will never forget how many lives were lost and how much damage was done during the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. Since then, the technology industry has taken on the challenge of making our workplaces, hospitals and houses more earthquake safe.
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How Technology Has Made the Bay Area More Earthquake Safe
The Bay Area will never forget how many lives were lost and how much damage was done during the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. Since then, the technology industry has taken on the challenge of making our workplaces, hospitals and houses more earthquake safe. Scott Budman reports.
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Engineer: Ethiopian Airlines Went Into Records After Crash
Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got...
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Protests Choke Communities in Haiti as Aid, Supplies Dwindle
Gabriel Duvalesse squatted slightly as he prepared to push 50 gallons (190 liters) of cooking oil in an old wheelbarrow to an outdoors market an hour away so he could earn $1. It was his first job in seven days as deadly protests paralyze Haiti’s economy and shutter businesses and schools. Opposition leaders and thousands of supporters are demanding the...
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Reports Say Boeing Insider Filed Safety Complaint About Max
A Boeing engineer filed an internal complaint alleging that company managers rejected a backup system that might have alerted pilots to problems linked to two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max jet, according to published reports. The Seattle Times and The New York Times reported Wednesday that an engineer who worked on the Max said managers were urged to consider...
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Engineer Admits Hacking Yahoo Accounts Searching for Images
A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos. The US Attorney’s Office says Reyes Daniel Ruiz admitted in court Monday that he mostly targeted accounts belonging to younger women, including his personal friends and work colleagues.
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Orange County Couple Celebrates 50 Years of Business and Culture
With their Orange County bakery’s recent 50th anniversary celebration, which marked half a century of making the kind of Mexican delicacies that connect them to so many people, they took a look back at when it all started.
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Vallejo Closes Mare Island Preserve After Fires This Week
The City of Vallejo has temporarily closed the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve for safety concerns after two fires on south Mare Island this week.