3rd may 2023,the leadership of azimio la umoja one coalition party met and agreed to suspend the mass protests that was to happen on may 4. The post Azimio La Umoja Coalition suspends countrywide protests scheduled for Thursday, may 4 appeared first on Wilson Digest ..read more

Raila Odinga allied legislators were on Tuesday teargassed by the police as they attempted to deliver a petition at President William Ruto’s Harambee House office. The lawmakers were led by Nairobi senator Edwin Sifuna and his Kilifi counterpart Stewart Madzayo. The lawmakers peacefully marched from Parliament Buildings to the head of state’s office but their plans were thwarted by police who dispersed them. “My 50 colleagues and I have been teargassed outside the Office of the President as we marched peacefully to deliver the People’s Petition. Gachagua told us we know where to find them. We ..read more

Genius doesn’t recognize borders, and neither do we when it comes to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200). The global search continues for the top early-stage founders building the next generation of startups with world-changing impact. Europe: The Startup Battlefield 200 wants your startups Today, we’re urging early-stage startups across Europe to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023. The application window closes on May 15 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. SB 200 is the startup world’s preeminent competition, and it has a global reach. The inaugural cohort, which debuted last year at Disr ..read more

Many employee engagement and retention tools were created with the assumption that workers spent most of their time at desks. But the majority of the global workforce is deskless, meaning that they are usually on the move and don’t have constant access to a laptop. A lot of them are also dissatisfied with their jobs, which means companies need to deal with high churn and low retention rates. Based in Singapore, Mercu wants to help with a platform designed specifically to reach deskless employees. Launched in November 2022, Mercu announced today it has raised $1.6 million in seed funding from ..read more

Temu, a fast-growing ecommerce platform known for cheap deals, is making inroads into new markets as its parent firm sets up a base in Dublin, joining a raft of tech giants including Meta and Twitter that have opened offices in the tax-friendly Irish capital. PDD Holdings, the Dublin-based corporate entity behind Temu,  also owns Pinduoduo, which has become one of China’s largest online marketplaces since its launch in 2015 by ex-Google engineer Colin Huang. From the sound of it, PDD Holdings was created to separate the branding and some of the operational efforts between globally-facing ..read more

Brooklyn resident Fabian Rogers knew he had to act in 2018 when his penny-pinching landlord suddenly attempted to install a facial recognition camera in the entrance of a rent-stabilized building he’d called home for years. Under the new security system, all tenants and their loved ones would be forced to submit to a… Read more… The post These New Yorkers Want to Stop Landlords From Using Facial Recognition appeared first on Wilson Digest ..read more

His comics bona fides have long since been impeccable—for Marvel, he drew 1991’s record-selling X-Men No. 1, written by Chris Claremont and inked by Scott Williams—and now the great Jim Lee has another link in his impressive chain. He’s just been promoted to president of DC Comics. Read more… The post DC’s Jim Lee Now Has the Job You Already Thought He Had appeared first on Wilson Digest ..read more

Google has announced what it calls the “beginning of the end” for passwords, rolling out a new security mechanism that it says will ultimately come to replace PWs in the years to come: the passkey. “We’ve taken a giant step forward on the journey towards a passwordless future,” Google said in a blog post published… Read more… The post Google Rolls Out Passkeys to (Eventually) Kill Passwords appeared first on Wilson Digest ..read more

A small suborbital rocket from Colorado-based company UP Aerospace failed shortly after its launch on Monday, exploding seconds after liftoff over the New Mexico desert. The rocket was carrying over a dozen student experiment payloads for NASA, as well as the cremated remains of a late NASA astronaut. Read more… The post Rocket Carrying NASA Astronaut’s Cremated Remains Blows Up After Launch [Updated] appeared first on Wilson Digest ..read more

Most people in the U.S. pay private or investor-owned power companies—fueled by profit motives—for their electricity. It’s a system that makes advancing renewable energy secondary to advancing corporate revenue. But public utilities offer an alternative that divorces peoples’ energy needs from companies’ bottom lines.… Read more… The post New York Gets a State-Level Green New Deal appeared first on Wilson Digest ..read more