Monthly Archives: July 2022

Students in Florida’s largest school district have been left without a sex-ed curriculum after a school board rejected new textbooks on the subject

The Miami-Dade County school board voted 5-4 to ax its new sexual education textbooks, which were approved three months ago. Stella via Getty Images The Miami-Dade County school board has voted to ax its new sexual education textbooks. The board voted 5-4 in favor of not adopting the textbooks, which it had earlier approved.The decision was…

The head of Frankfurt Airport says the travel chaos is partially because so many people travel with black suitcases

Unclaimed luggage piles up at London Heathrow Airport on July 8, 2022. Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images The head of Frankfurt Airport said ubiquitous black suitcases are contributing to luggage chaos. He advises passengers to use suitcases that are easy to identify. The aviation sector is dealing with a messy summer travel season with chaos…

Reality Winner — an ex-NSA contractor jailed by the Trump administration for leaking a top-secret document on Russian election hacking — says she’s ‘not a traitor’

Reality Winner exits a courthouse in Augusta, Georgia, on June 8, 2017. Sean Rayford/Getty Images Reality Winner was jailed for leaking a US report on the Russian meddling in the 2016 election.She was released in June 2021 on good behavior, after four years of incarceration.Winner told CBS she is “not a traitor” and had leaked the…

Elon Musk denies having an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, adding he hasn’t ‘even had sex in ages (sigh)’

Elon Musk. Andrew Kelly/Reuters The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday Elon Musk had an affair with Sergey Brin’s wife. Musk called the claim “bs” and said he “hasn’t had sex in ages.” Musk and Brin, a co-founder of Google, were longtime friends. Elon Musk denied having an affair with the wife of Google co-founder and…

HR automation platform Omni wants to be the ‘Rippling of Southeast Asia’

Omni wants to be the human resources platform to rule them all—or at least all HR-related tasks. The software enables HR teams to digitize employee records, automate administrative tasks like employee onboarding and time-off management, and integrate employee data from different systems. Based in Singapore, it is currently active there and in Indonesia, and plans…