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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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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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Court Rules Against Warrantless Searches of Phones, Laptops at Airports and Other U.S. Ports of Entry
A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. Tuesday’s ruling in U.S. District Court came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of 11 travelers whose...
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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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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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Officials Push for Replacement of Cape Cod Bridges
The Army Corps of Engineers says the iconic Bourne and Sagamore bridges need to be replaced.
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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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Hingham Town Engineer Resigns Amid Double-Dipping Probe
Hingham Town Engineer Roger Fernandes resigned Friday after an investigation launched by the town found he was paid for private consulting work in Quincy during his regular business hours in Hingham.
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Hingham Town Engineer Resigns Amid Double-Dipping Probe
Hingham Town Engineer Roger Fernandes resigned Friday after an investigation launched by the town found he was paid for private consulting work in Quincy during his regular business hours in Hingham. The probe, spurred by reporting from the NBC10 Boston Investigators, also found evidence that Fernandes used his town-issued computer for private work.
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Potential Evidence Out the Door
Videos show a Hingham employee removing boxes from a public building just before he was sent home on paid leave amid a double-dipping investigation.
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Surveillance Video: Did Potential Evidence in Double-Dipping Investigation Walk Out the Door?
Surveillance video the NBC10 Boston Investigators obtained shows the town engineer in Hingham removing boxes from his public office building hours before town leaders placed him on paid administrative leave. Town security cameras captured Roger Fernandes wheeling out boxes on a dolly on April 30, just hours before an NBC10 Boston investigation detailed allegations of double dipping against the town...
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Vinyl Records on Track to Outsell CDs for First Time in 33 Years
This past week, the Recording Industry Association of America released its mid-year report. It showed that 80% of the of music industry’s revenue comes from streaming, but it also showed that revenue from sales of vinyl records is on track to overtake that of compact discs by the year’s end, should current trends continue. When the compact disc was introduced...