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In a week when 400-pound hackers had their 15 minutes of fame — and Yahoo and Wells Fargo had a lot more than 15 minutes of infamy — we also saw:
The Carnegie Deli, a Manhattan landmark for decades (at least for tourists), is closing at the end of the year, the New York Post reported. The Post said that the deli will keep licensing outposts in various other places, including Las Vegas.
Public agencies and businesses soon may face pressure from InjusticeBoycott.com, a national group created by Shaun King of the New York Daily News that already has more than 80,000 people signed up. The group will identify companies and agencies that are actively or passively supporting police brutality and racial violence. The boycott begins Dec. 5.
1 One company unlikely to get hit by that boycott is AT&T, as CEO Randall Stephenson drew attention from the Washington Post for his comments on Black Lives Matter .A
YouTube video shows Stephenson, who is white, defending the movement in a speech to hundreds of staff members: “When a parent says, ‘I love my son,’ you don’t say, ‘What about your daughter?’ When we walk or run for breast cancer funding and research, we don’t say, ‘What about prostate cancer?’ When the president says, ‘God bless America,’ we don’t say, ‘Shouldn’t God bless all countries?’ And when a person struggling with what’s been broadcast on our airwaves says, ‘Black lives matter,’ we should not say ‘All lives matter’ to justify ignoring the real need for change.”
From now until Election Day, the
Amazon Echo will give bite-size answers to questions like, “What’s the latest with Donald Trump?” and “What’s the latest with Hillary Clinton?” Yeah, but does it understand the phrase “lesser of two evils”?