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Exclusive: Google Workers Revolt Over $1.2 Billion Israel Contract
  In midtown Manhattan on March 4, Google’s managing director for Israel, Barak Regev, was addressing a conference promoting the Israeli tech industry when a member of the audience stood up in protest. “I am a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance,” shouted the protester, wearing an orange t-shirt emblazoned with a white Google logo. “No tech for apartheid!”
Editor's Note: Hatfield is part of a growing movement inside Google that is calling on the company to drop Project Nimbus, a .2 billion contract with Israel, jointly held with Amazon. The protest group, called No Tech for Apartheid, now has more than 200 Google employees closely involved in organizing, according to members, who say there are hundreds more workers sympathetic to their goals. TIME spoke to five current and five former Google workers for this story, many of whom described a growing sense of anger at the possibility of Google aiding Israel in its war in Gaza. Two of the former Google workers said they had resigned from Google in the last month in protest against Project Nimbus. These resignations, and Hatfield's identity, have not previously been reported.
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A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs | TechCrunch
 The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok. It remains to be seen if this year’s layoff trends follow last year’s, in which layoffs slowed down in the summer, before cuts began ramping up yet again toward the winter.
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Is the Boom-and-Bust Business Cycle Dead?
 “But one point to keep in mind,” Mr. Rieder continued, “is that satellites don’t land and maybe that is a better analogy for a modern advanced economy” like the United States. In other words, dips in momentum will now happen within a steadier orbit.
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Fed likely to cut rates before ECB blinks, former BOE member says
 \"The resilience in services prices remains a sore point though. The message from the surveys on firms\' price future price behaviour, and still anaemic domestic demand, are however reassuring for the quantum of inflationary pressure still in the pipeline. It seems the European economy is for now stabilising in low gear,\" he added.
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Interest rates need to stay higher for longer, says Bank of England policymaker
 The difference in labour supply between the two countries was stark and UK services inflation remained much higher than in the US, she said, adding: “Overall labour market participation in the UK has not recovered to the pre-pandemic trend. Participation in the US, on the other hand, has exceeded the pre-Covid trend.”
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‘Save Democracy’ Democrats Look to Win Primaries on Anti-Trump Sentiment
 For many voters, partisan celebrity is virtually the only factor in their support for candidates like Mr. Dunn, who played a starring role in the Jan. 6 hearings, and Yevgeny Vindman, who goes by Eugene and along with his identical twin brother, Alexander, played a key role in highlighting Mr. Trump’s effort to strong-arm Ukraine into digging up dirt on Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Biden Administration Approves Expansion of Background Checks on Gun Sales
 Unlicensed private sellers in many states have been able to legally sell at gun shows, out of their houses and through online platforms without having to submit to the background check system created to prevent sales to children, criminals, domestic abusers, and people with mental illnesses or drug addictions.
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Tracing Charleston’s History of Slavery, From a Burial Ground to a DNA Swab
 Even if he wasn’t related to any of them, Mr. Lee figured, maybe a DNA test could still provide other answers that had eluded him. He could trace his ancestry to a great-great-grandmother on one side, but no further. So last spring, he sat still as a researcher gently swabbed the inside of his cheek.
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Soft Landing or No Landing? Fed’s Economic Picture Gets Complicated.
 “Persistent buoyancy in inflation numbers” probably “does give Fed officials pause that maybe the economy is running too hot right now for rate cuts,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide. “Right now, we’re not even seeing a ‘soft landing’ — we’re seeing a ‘no landing.’”
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Computer Theorist Wins $1 Million Turing Award
 The ultimate lesson of this work, said Madhu Sudan, a theoretical computer scientist at Harvard University, is that computers can resolve many complex problems that humans will never completely understand, but some things will remain a mystery, even to machines.
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24 Hours at a Makeshift Refuge for Migrants in the California Wilderness
 At this site and others along the border, migrants have waited for hours or sometimes days to be taken into custody, and a Federal District Court judge ruled last week that the Border Patrol must move “expeditiously” to get children into safe and sanitary shelters. But unlike outdoor waiting areas that had arisen in more populated areas, Mr. Fink’s site had no aid tents or medical volunteers, no dumpsters or port-a-potties — just a hole that he had dug as a communal toilet, and Mr. Fink himself.
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Herbert Kroemer, 95, Dies; Laid Groundwork for Modern Technologies
 The postal service had created a small laboratory and research group to look into how to improve telecommunications, staffed with experts in designing experiments. But they needed a theoretician to help them understand what was happening. Dr. Kroemer’s job, as he explained it, was to poke his nose into everyone else’s business, so long as he did not touch any of the equipment.
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What’s Next for Jane Goodall? An Immersive Spectacle in Tanzania.
 But she has never been presented like this — in an immersive tribute by African artists and Disney veterans. Disney has called Imagineering the “blending of creative imagination with technical know-how.” But “Dr. Jane’s Dream” is not a Disney project; rather, it taps into storytelling techniques by some of its former innovators.
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At the Japan State Dinner, Jill Biden Makes an Entrance
 And it suggested that Dr. Biden, who has not always seemed interested in the game of fashion diplomacy, is gearing up with every means at her disposal to help amplify her husband’s message, not just as president but as the Democratic presidential nominee as he faces off against an opponent who revels in the reality TV nature of politics — complete with costumes.
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Hamas Leader Defiant After Israeli Strike Kills 3 of His Sons
 Mr. Haniyeh, who has long shuttled between Qatar and Turkey, said in the statement that 60 members of his extended family had been killed by Israel over time and that the strike on Wednesday had killed some grandchildren in addition to the three sons.
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Akebono, First Foreign-Born Sumo Grand Champion, Dies at 54
 Taro Akebono was born Chad George Ha’aheo Rowan in Waimanalo, Hawaii, in 1969. He played basketball in high school and briefly at Hawaii Pacific University before moving to Japan in 1988 at the invitation of a fellow Hawaiian wrestler who had become a trainer.
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Opinion | The Very High Stakes of Failing to Help Ukraine
 Ukraine’s effort to defend itself against Mr. Putin’s advance has degraded Russia’s military more than anyone thought possible when the full invasion of Ukraine began just over two years ago. In blunt dollar terms, helping Ukraine in that defense is by far the least expensive way to weaken Russia’s military and discourage Russian aggression, thereby protecting ourselves and our allies.
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Opinion | Israel’s Security Depends on Rafah
 Second, for months Egypt has been telling Israel to stay out of Rafah. Cairo fears that an Israeli assault will spill over into the Sinai Peninsula and result in Palestinians pouring into Egypt. That could engender both a fresh humanitarian crisis and a political challenge, given Hamas’s kinship with Egypt’s powerful, though now banned, Muslim Brotherhood movement. Egypt has hinted that such an Israeli campaign could even subvert the 45-year-old Israel-Egypt peace treaty, seen by the Israeli government as a foundation stone of its national security.
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Opinion | Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
 Neglecting this fact can make otherwise meticulous care fail. That’s why, on one busy night, a medical student on my team is scouring websites and LinkedIn. She’s not shirking her duties. In fact, she’s one of the best students I’ve ever taught.
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Trina Robbins, Creator and Historian of Comic Books, Dies at 84
 Trina Perlson was born on Aug. 17, 1938, in Brooklyn, the younger of two daughters of Jewish immigrants from what was then Russia but is now Belarus. Her father, Max Bear Perlson, worked as a tailor until Parkinson’s disease forced him to retire; her mother, Elizabeth (Rosenman) Perlson, was a second-grade teacher.
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Turkey seizes its third largest haul of cocaine, says interior minister
 The operation was led by anti-narcotics officers based in Kocaeli, which lies south-east of Istanbul, but also included investigations in Tekirdağ to Istanbul’s north-west and in the Mediterranean province of Antalya.The gang used vineyards in Tekirdağ and Antalya to store chemicals and process the cocaine, which had been disguised in fertiliser, according to Yerlikaya. A shotgun was also recovered by police, he added.“We will not tolerate poison traffickers, organised crime groups and gangs, whether national or international,” the minister wrote.
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Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine
 According to the report, “civilians and civil infrastructure are also often targeted”. It cites a strike that damaged 15 high-rise buildings, injuring 16 civilians, including two children, in Kurakhove, in the Donetsk region, on 3 March, and strikes in the Kharkiv region on 7 and 27 March that killed two and injured 17.
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Man Ray friend to sell collection of 200 works including 'iconic' image
 After Man Ray's death, Juliet was inundated with requests for certification of his work. Meyer, whom the artist had asked to look after his wife, set up the international association to document his art. "It has been an enormous project, but it is done now," she said. "There is very little out there that we don't know about."
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IDF colonel discusses 'data science magic powder' for locating terrorists
 Speaking eight months before the IDF commenced operations in Gaza after the Hamas-led 7 October attacks, the colonel spoke optimistically about how the IDF is moving "from the postcard age to the digital era" where "suddenly you can react during battle with applied data-science driven solutions".
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Heathrow urges government to scrap £10 fee for transit passengers
 The chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, said: "The government needs to exempt airside transit passengers from the ETA scheme to avoid encouraging passengers to spend and do business elsewhere. We need to level the playing field, so the UK aviation industry continues to be world class."
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Why stocks could still rise even as rate cut hopes fade
 He added, \"Downside in rates could further catalyze a rotation to a broader group of cyclicals and even lower quality ones with poorer balance sheets. Conversely, a break higher in yields could take us back into a narrow market regime.\"
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