A demonstrator (click here) in Minneapolis injured by rubber bullets during protests Thursday over the death of George Floyd.
Microsoft (click here) is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report.
The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists.
Artificial intelligence will perform these news production tasks, sources told the Seattle Times.
Microsoft said it was part of an evaluation of its business.
The US tech giant said in a statement: "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time to time, redeployment in others. These decisions are not the result of the current pandemic."
Microsoft, like some other tech companies, pays news organisations to use their content on its website.
But it employs journalists to decide which stories to display and how they are presented.
Around 50 contract news producers will lose their jobs at the end of June, the Seattle Times reports, but a team of full-time journalists will remain.....
The driver is unarmed.
This is outrageous. The driver drove home to avoid being killed. Police are out of control. The driver allegedly ran a stop sign in Midland, Texas. The police reaction is insane. The officer involved is suspicious of everyone, including neighbors, in the area. This is a traffic violation. The driver is so fearful of police he solicited a witness in his grandmother in order that he wasn't killed. The five minutes the driver sat in the car were probably calling his grandmother and waiting for her to come to the front door. Police are ineffective if the trust by the people is so low that every interaction with an African American turns into a confrontation.
This entire interaction is wrong. A ticket for a traffic violation could have been mailed to the driver with the license plate number on the car. This is not the way to resolve a traffic violation. Something is very wrong in this country between African Americans and the police.
May 30, 2020
Bodycam footage (click here) shows a woman, dressed in a nightgown, seem to fall onto her grandson during the incident.
