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Saturday, 29 February 2020
A delegate math silver lining for Sanders.
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Steyer drops out: ‘I honestly don’t see a path.’
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Buttigieg, in Raleigh, reacts to fourth-place finish.
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Tom Steyer Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race
By BY STEPHANIE SAUL AND MATT STEVENS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Tp7Rc8
Biden declares victory and swipes at Sanders.
By BY KATIE GLUECK from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3cmcEUk
Warren, speaking in Houston, picks up an endorsement and looks to Super Tuesday.
By BY MICHAEL HARDY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2wfeiGQ
Sanders congratulates Biden, and looks ahead.
By BY SYDNEY EMBER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2TbCl2l
For Buttigieg, a Search for Black Support That Never Arrived
By BY REID J. EPSTEIN AND TRIP GABRIEL from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2T8UTjV
Joe Biden Has Less Than 72 Hours to Savor His Big Night
By BY MATT FLEGENHEIMER AND KATIE GLUECK from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/32EfgbL
Mother and Daughter Attacked for Speaking Spanish, Prosecutor Says
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Trump Moves to Calm Fears as First U.S. Death From Coronavirus Is Reported
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This is how a race is called the moment polls close.
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Trump Repeats Lie That A Vaccine Will Be Ready "Fairly Rapidly"
During Trump's Wednesday press conference he said a vaccine would be developed "fairly rapidly." Then Dr. Anthony Fauci went to the podium and said we are moving fast, but it will still take a year to a year and a half for a working vaccine.
I watched Trump's eyes narrow as he figured out that Dr. Fauci had just contradicted him. It doesn't matter that Dr. Fauci is one of the country’s leading experts on viruses and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. What mattered to Trump was it looked like he wasn't in control.
With this White House it's not about trying to figure out best how to stop the spread of the virus. It's about how to stop the spread of "disloyalty" among people who work for Trump.
The next day in the New York Times we see how Trump punishes disloyalty, he told Pence to control the scientists and the message about the virus.
Pence Will Control All Coronavirus Messaging From Health Officials.
"Dr. Fauci has told associates that the White House had instructed him not to say anything else without clearance."
Watch the video where Trump says the vaccine is coming along well and that it's being developed very rapidly. Dr. Fauci explained that although the vaccine development is faster than ever before at the NIH, for them the term 'rapidly' means a year to a year and a half.
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Joe Biden Wins South Carolina Primary
As soon as the results started coming in news outlets like the AP, CNN, NBC, and ABC News announced that Joe Biden had won the South Carolina Democratic primary.
We will see how the rest of the state shakes out as the night unfolds in regards to the delegates, but Super Tuesday looms large for all the candidates.
Biden will speak shortly.
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Clyburn says the Biden campaign needs ‘retooling.’
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The Islanders Are Saying Goodbye to Brooklyn
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Rep.John Garamendi Did Not Take Kindly To Don Jr.'s Accusations About Coronavirus
Donald Trump Jr.'s despicable characterization of the Democrats' and media response to the coronavirus outbreak has made it back to the ears of one Rep. John Garamendi, of California. He did not take kindly to Junior's accusations that Dems were rooting for Americans to sick and die because it might make his criminal grifter psycho-dad-in-chief look bad. Hallie Jackson caught up with him and asked him for a response.
JACKSON: When you look at the discussion around coronavirus as it exists in the politics sphere, Donald Trump Jr. was on this morning and suggested, or said outright that Democrats are taking a pandemic, seemingly hoping, and I quote, it comes here to kill millions of people so it can end the president's streak of winning. He called that a new level of sickness. I want to give you a chance to respond to that comment from Don Jr..
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REP. GARAMENDI: He should not be near me when he says that.
JACKSON: Why not?
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Biden Wins in South Carolina, Adding New Life to His Candidacy
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Joe Biden wins South Carolina primary with overwhelming support.
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After 12 hours, the polls in South Carolina have closed.
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A crowd waits for Warren in Houston: ‘I just love her energy.’
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Looking to Super Tuesday, Buttigieg campaigns in Nashville.
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Friday, 28 February 2020
At a 200-person rally, the rapper Juvenile and DJ Jazzy Jeff get out the vote for Steyer.
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Lee Phillip Bell, Soap Opera Creator and Talk Show Host, Dies at 91
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When an Epidemic Looms, Gagging Scientists Is a Terrible Idea
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Joe Biden says if he wins S.C., ‘I think I’m going to be the next nominee.’
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Making Pitch to Voters, Bloomberg Peddles His Experience in a Crisis
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Closer to Home. But Maybe Not Close Enough.
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Warren supporter in S.C. says: ‘I can hear me in that speech.’
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Coronavirus Fears Reverberate Across Global Economy
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M.I.T. Researchers Cast Doubt on Bolivian Election Fraud
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L.G.B.T.Q. group seeks apology following report of Bloomberg staffer’s remark.
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Klobuchar kicks off a Southern swing without South Carolina.
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Amid Protests, Roman Polanski Wins Best Director at France’s Oscars
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Photo: Bernie Sanders high fives tiny supporter.
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Gerald Krone, a Negro Ensemble Company Founder, Dies at 86
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GDC 2020 has been canceled
Well, after what I’m sure was a hectic few days for the folks planning the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the team announced today that they have officially decided to cancel the event happening this March, saying in a blog post that they hoped they would be able to reschedule an event for “later in the summer.”
In recent days, nearly all of the event’s top corporate sponsors announced that they would not be sending employees to the event due to concerns surrounding coronavirus. Microsoft, Unity, Epic, Amazon, Facebook and Sony had all bowed out of the event. GDC’s statement did not reference the virus.
The company behind GDC detailed that they will be refunding conference and expo attendees in full, though a blog post details the group hopes to host a GDC even later in the summer, noting, “We will be working with our partners to finalize the details and will share more information about our plans in the coming weeks.”
GDC is just the latest tech conference to be shuttered in the wake of worldwide concern surrounding the outbreak of coronavirus. Yesterday, Facebook announced it would be canceling the in-person component of its F8 conference and we have already seen the cancellation of GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Lyft ramps up self-driving program
A year ago, Lyft submitted a report to the California Department of Motor Vehicles that summed up its 2018 autonomous vehicle testing activity in a single, short paragraph.
“Lyft Inc. did not operate any vehicles in autonomous mode on California public roads during the reporting period,” the letter read. “As such, Lyft Inc. has no autonomous mode disengagements to report.”
The 2019 data tells a different story. Lyft had 19 autonomous vehicles testing on public roads in California in 2019, according to data released earlier this week by the CA DMV. Those 19 vehicles, which operated during the reporting period of December 2018 to November 2019, drove nearly 43,000 miles in autonomous mode.
The report is the latest sign that Lyft is trying to ramp up its self-driving vehicle program known as Level 5.
The CA DMV, the agency that regulates autonomous vehicle testing on public roads in the state, requires companies to submit an annual report that includes data such as total AV miles driven and number of vehicles. It also requires companies to report “disengagements,” a term that describes each time a self-driving vehicle disengages out of autonomous mode either because its technology failed or a human safety driver took manual control for safety reasons.
That’s still far below established AV developers such as Cruise and Waymo, which accumulated 831,000 and 1.45 million autonomous miles, respectively. And it makes up just a tiny sliver of the total autonomous miles racked up by the 36 companies that tested on public roads in 2019.
The total number of autonomous miles driven in 2019 rose 40%, to more than 2.87 million, thanks largely to a notable uptick in public on-road testing by Baidu, Cruise, Pony.ai, Waymo and Zoox. While the number of companies with testing permits grew to 60 in 2019, the percentage of companies actually testing on public roads fell to about 58%. In 2018, about 62% of the 48 companies that held permits tested on public roads.
Other companies scaled back public testing in California. Some moved public testing outside of California, others retracted due to the high cost. Others said they were opting to place greater emphasis on simulation.
Still, the report shows Lyft is doing more than partnering with autonomous vehicle companies like Aptiv. Lyft and Aptiv launched a robotaxi pilot in January 2018 in Las Vegas. The program, which puts Aptiv vehicles on Lyft’s ride-hailing network, surpassed 100,000 rides this month. Human safety drivers are always behind the wheel and the vehicles do not drive autonomously in parking lots and hotel lobby areas.
Lyft’s Level 5 program — a nod to the SAE automated driving level that means the vehicle handles all driving in all conditions — was launched in July 2017. Today, Level 5 employs more than 400 people in the U.S., Munich and London.
Testing on public roads in California began in November 2018 with a pilot program in Palo Alto that provided rides to Lyft employees in Palo Alto. The pilot provided on-demand rides set on fixed routes, such as traveling between the Lyft office and Caltrain.
Since then, the company has expanded the scope and geography of the pilot. By late 2019, Lyft was driving four times more autonomous miles per quarter than it was six months prior.
Lyft is also testing on a dedicated closed-course track in East Palo Alto that it opened in November 2019. The company told TechCrunch it uses this facility, which can be changed to include intersections, traffic lights and merges, to test software prior to putting its vehicles on public roads.
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Who Will Care For Society’s Forgotten?
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Joe Biden Needs a Win in South Carolina. Will He Get It?
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We Don’t Really Know How Many People Have Coronavirus
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Tom Steyer showered South Carolina in political spending. Will it pay off?
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Thursday, 27 February 2020
In Syria and Libya, Trump Is Torn Over 2 Wars, and 2 Strongmen
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Coronavirus: HHS Whistleblower Says U.S. Workers Assisted Evacuees Without Wearing Protective Gear
A Department of Health and Human Services whistleblower is sharing potentially scary and dangerous concerns about what happened when federal workers greeted the Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China that returned to the United States in the last week. The Washington Post is reporting that over a dozen workers met the evacuees "without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear."
Thus far, the workers do not show symptoms of infection and have not been treated for the virus. The whistleblower is seeking federal protection, claiming that she was "unfairly and improperly reassigned after raising concerns about the safety of these workers to HHS officials, including those within the office of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. She was told Feb. 19 that if she does not accept the new position in 15 days, which is March 5, she would be terminated." It is reported that the whistleblower has "decades" of experience in this field and has received two HHS awards from Azar in 2019. She has also received the "highest performance evaluations."
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