Robotics Q&A with UC Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew …
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Palo Alto High grad loses Senate staffer job after allegedly filming sex tape in Senate hearing room
CNN — A Senate staffer is out of a job after the publication of a video appearing to show two men having sex in a Senate hearing room. Police are …
US college campuses have embraced the Palestinian cause like never before. The story began six decades ago
Jenny Jarvie | (TNS) Los Angeles Times The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was best known for its sit-ins against segregation in the Deep South. But in the summer of 1967, …
Why universities from UC Berkeley to Harvard are teaching courses on Taylor Swift
By Scottie Andrew | CNN Taylor Swift once said that if she were not a record-breaking, hit-making, three-time-Grammy-album-of-the-year winning superstar (our adjectives, not hers), she would’ve liked to have returned …
Backlash to anti-Israel protests threatens free speech
If you want to understand the wrenching generational rift over Israel among many left-leaning American Jews, the documentary “Israelism,” which came out this year, is a good place to start. …
University of California professors push back on UC president’s call for ‘viewpoint-neutral’ history of Middle East
By Eric Levenson | CNN A group of University of California professors signed a public letter pushing back on the UC president’s efforts to develop what he described earlier this …
UC Berkeley, law school sued over ‘unchecked’ antisemitism
By David Voreacos | Bloomberg Two Jewish groups sued the University of California at Berkeley and its law school over the “longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism” they say has escalated …
An astronaut gets a celestial burial
Space scientist Michael Lampton, on the far right, inside NASA’s Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) Module, which was carried by the Space Shuttle in 1992 during its STS-45 …
Can housing crisis be alleviated by upzoning overhaul?
BERKELEY — Roughly three years ago, Councilmember Rigel Robinson and his team conceptualized a vision to legalize 1,000 new residential housing units in the city’s Southside. “But I didn’t think …
Why Bay Area protesters have increasingly become government disruptors
Mention government shutdowns and most people think about standoffs in Congress. But in the Bay Area, which has long been synonymous with protest, a different kind of government shutdown has …