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Samsung top executive sentenced to 30 months in prison for corruption

[ad_1] Enlarge / Samsung vice president Lee Jae-yong, seen here leaving a hearing in January 2017. Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images He’s back in jail for Samsung frontman Lee Jae-yong (aka Jay Y. Lee). Lee was embroiled in a legal battle for his role in “Choigate,” a major South Korean political scandal of 2016 that … Read more

Google rejects claim of anti-competitive deal with Facebook

[ad_1] Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 22, 2020. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images) On Sunday, Google disputed claims by a group of attorneys general, led by Ken Paxton of … Read more

GitHub Apologizes For Firing Employee Who Warned Nazi Link Capitol Attack | Technology

[ad_1] Microsoft-owned tech company GitHub apologized on Sunday for what COO Erica Brescia called “significant errors in judgment” following outrage over dismissing an employee, Jewish, for warning that the “Nazis” were part of the Donald Trump mob that attacked the United States Capitol on January 6. “In light of these results, we immediately reversed the … Read more

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit sends satellites into space from 747

[ad_1] Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, with a rocket under the wing of a modified Boeing 747 airliner, takes off for a key drop test of its high altitude launch system for satellites in Mojave, Calif., July 10 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Virgin Orbit, the rocket company founded by billionaire Richard Branson, has successfully put … Read more

Man found ‘living at Chicago airport for three months’

[ad_1] (CNN) – A Californian who “was afraid to go home because of Covid” lived undetected at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport for three months, according to multiple reports. Aditya Udai Singh, 33, was arrested Saturday morning local time in O’Hare on charges of identity theft in a restricted area of ​​the airport and theft under $ … Read more