By AFRO Staff On June 22, nearly 200 people gathered at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, in downtown Baltimore to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the National Society of Black Engineers Baltimore Metropolitan Area Chapter (NSBE-BMAC). The chapter had a black tie gala fundraiser to support for their work […]
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Former Miss USA Brings STEAM to D.C. Kids
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com On June 1, District youth will be able to have fun while learning as former Miss USA (2017) Kára McCullough is offering her second annual, “Take Flight with SE4K,” a program to expose children to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) work in an interactive way. “The second […]
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PRESS ROOM: Walker’s Legacy, Comcast and Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Team Up to Celebrate Women of Color in Technology
Written by NNPA Washington, DC — Walker’s Legacy is proud to announce its ‘Women of Color in Tech’ tour powered by Comcast and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to showcase multicultural women in technology. The national event series will explore opportunities and resources for minority and women entrepreneurs to grow and expand their entrepreneurial endeavors […]
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NBA Legend Abdul-Jabbar Talks Auction to Help Kids in STEM
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia When Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left the NBA in 1989 at age 42, no NBA player had ever scored more points, blocked more shots, won more Most Valuable Player Awards, played in more All-Star Games or logged more seasons. NBA.com reported that Jabbar’s list of personal and team accomplishments […]
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Black Enterprise Magazine Selects Denise Cade to 2019 Most Powerful Women in Business List
By The Associated Press LAKE FOREST, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb 27, 2019–Black Enterprise magazine announced that it has selected Denise Cade, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX), to the publication’s 2019 Most Powerful Women in Business list. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190227005936/en/ Denise Cade, senior […]
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Basketball Players Sue ‘Fortnite’ Game Makers Over Dance
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN , Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Two former University of Maryland men’s basketball players are suing the makers of “Fortnite,” claiming the video game’s creators misappropriated a dance they popularized online. The federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Maryland, accuses Epic Games Inc. of unfairly profiting from the “Running Man Challenge” […]
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Apple Turns Off Group FaceTime Amid Reports of Bug
By The Associated Press Apple has made the group chat function in FaceTime unavailable after users said there was a bug that could allow callers to activate another user’s microphone remotely. The bug was demonstrated through videos online and reported on this week by tech blogs. Apple’s online support page on Tuesday said there was a technical issue with the application […]
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NASA Spacecraft Opens New Year at Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto
By MARCIA DUNN , AP Aerospace Writer LAUREL, Md. (AP) — The NASA spacecraft that yielded the first close-up views of Pluto opened the new year at an even more distant world, a billion miles beyond. Flight controllers said everything looked good for New Horizons’ flyby of the tiny, icy object at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday. […]
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Supreme Court Could Allow Suit Over Apple iPhone Apps’ Sales
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed ready Monday to allow an antitrust lawsuit to go forward that claims Apple has unfairly monopolized the market for the sale of iPhone apps. Apple faced skeptical questions from justices who seemed concerned about the control the Cupertino, California-based company exerts over iPhone users […]
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NASA Spacecraft Lands on Red Planet After Six-Month Journey
By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, 300-million-mile (482-million-kilometer) journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere. After waiting in white-knuckle suspense for confirmation to arrive from space, flight controllers […]
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Tech Company Innovates Foster Care
By J. K. Schmid, AFRO Staff A Falls Church non-profit has won first place at the inaugural Innovate for Good Challenge. The winner, Connect Our Kids, is developing data-driven intelligent software to enhance the abilities of social workers to place foster children in homes in a faster and scalable manner. Connect Our Kids Chief Technology […]
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iPads, Macs Get New Screens as Apple Pushes Creativity
By ANICK JESDANUN and MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Apple’s new iPads will more closely resemble its latest iPhones as they ditch a home button and fingerprint sensor to make more room for the screen. As with the latest iPhone models — the XR and XS —the new iPad Pro will use […]
