Twitch today released its first-ever transparency report, detailing its efforts to safeguard the 26 million people who visit its site daily. When it comes to transparency, the decade-old, Amazon-owned service had a lot of catching up to do. Twitch…
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Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw
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This story is adapted from Bring Back Our Girls, by Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw. On Friday, hundreds of schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria. This excerpt tells the story of a similar incident in 2014. Russell Simmons was…
On July 31, 1697, Jacques Sennacques sent a letter to his cousin—one Pierre Le Pers, a French merchant living in The Hague—begging him, for the love of Pete (that's paraphrased), to send him a death certificate for his relative…
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Eric Berger, Ars Technica
– Mar 2, 5:00 AM
This story is adapted from Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, by Eric Berger. Before she would become one of two principal leaders at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell worked with Hans Koenigsmann at a much smaller company…
