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On the same day that Microsoft announced it would launch a team-based collaboration tool to compete with Slack, the messaging app’s maker released a full page ad in The New York Times that was a bit, shall we say, passive aggressive.

“Wow. Big news! Congratulations on today’s announcements. We’re genuinely excited to have some competition,” the ad began.... Read Original Article

When a company has two CEOs, it’s a pretty good sign it’s bloated. Whole Foods announced on Wednesday that it is job-eliminating one of its two Chief Executive Officers, Walter Robb, a decision made in the wake of its first annual decline in comparable sales since 2009.

Robb is expected to remain on the Whole Foods board of directors and serve as a senior adviser, but by leaving his position as co-CEO, it will end the six-year period in which Whole Foods was one of the few American companies with a dual leadership structure.... Read Original Article

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have kept his silence about Donald Trump through most of the election year, but now that he’s allowed his views to be known, they’re frankly terrifying.

“We need a new president, Donald Trump, to be the most powerful Republican in America,” the Kentucky senator proclaimed at a rally in Frankfort, Kentucky on Wednesday.... Read Original Article

David Duke, the former KKK Imperial Wizard running for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana, let out a string of bigoted and violent statements during a debate Wednesday night.

The debate started on a heated note when Democratic candidate Caroline Fayard referred to Duke as a “snake that slithered out of the swamp.”... Read Original Article

The white nationalist who sent robocalls earlier this week to Utah voters claiming independent candidate Evan McMullin was gay is now apologizing.

“I am sorry for the mean-spirited message and I humbly retract its contents,” said William Johnson “I sent the robocalls out because Utah is a strong family-values state and America and the West is gripped by an extreme and fatal malady: failure to marry and have children.... Read Original Article

A new report has revealed that North Carolina Republicans conspired to limit the operating hours of early voting polling places, in the hopes it would limit minority turnout.

Emails uncovered by Reuters through a public records request revealed that local Republican leaders lobbied at least 17 county election boards to limit the hours that voting sites could stay open — particularly to cut down on weekends and evenings, when Democratic voter turnout tends to be higher.... Read Original Article

‘We don’t operate on innuendo’ — President Obama discusses Hillary, emails, and the FBI in an exclusive interview with NowThis pic.twitter.com/0J6tJyEYSh

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 2, 2016

President Obama has joined the chorus of people criticizing FBI Director James Comey for announcing plans to revisit his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.... Read Original Article

The Chicago Cubs made history on Wednesday night — or actually, on Thursday morning — by winning their first World Series since 1908, and ending the longest championship drought in baseball. Naturally, celebrity Cubs fans across the world had quite a bit to say about it.

There were the ones who graced us with memorable pictures.... Read Original Article

Twitter may not be doing very well, but CEO Jack Dorsey can take comfort in the financial health of Square, a company that specializes in aggregating financial and merchant services.

During the third quarter, Square reported $439 million of revenue and only 9 cents lost per share, compared to Wall Street expectations of $431 million in revenue and a drop by 11 cents per share.... Read Original Article

In an interview on Tuesday with The Verge, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx discussed an ambitious vision for America’s future. His dream is one in which Americans drive autonomous cars and support infrastructure repairs that are long overdue.

“By 2021, we will see autonomous vehicles in operation across the country in ways that we [only] imagine today,” Foxx explained when asked about what kinds of changes he anticipates over the next five years.... Read Original Article

“Pokemon Go” may have introduced augmented reality to the general marketplace, but Google Tango intends on taking things to the next level.

The AR technology will be featured on ‘ Phab 2 Pro, giving consumers a new avenue for the tech. Although the Phab 2 Pro was in development long before “Pokemon Go” hit the market, Tango chief Johnny Lee readily admits that it paved the way for their new product launch.... Read Original Article

The new MacBook Pro isn’t just the latest product to be launched by Apple. It may also mark the beginning of the end for the period in which desktop and notebook computers were a staple of Apple’s product line.

The new MacBook Pro, however, seems to suggest a shift in the company’s thinking.... Read Original Article

“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade told his viewers on Wednesday that former Miss Universe Alicia Machado shouldn’t stump for Hillary Clinton because English isn’t her first language.

“Hillary Clinton, and to a degree, I think that she’s getting a little desperate,” he explained. “When you wheel out Alicia Machado, who can barely speak English, in Florida to plead your case not to vote for the other guy, instead of saying, ‘This is what I will do as president after the fireworks show when I celebrate, this is what I’m going to do.’... Read Original Article

When Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence told a campaign rally in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, that “Republicans across the country are coming home,” he may not have only been talking about GOP voters. Like kids staying out well past curfew, many of the prominent Republican politicians who renounced Donald Trump are now creeping back into the GOP nominee’s gold-plated house.... Read Original Article

Hillary Clinton may have an enormous edge over Donald Trump with non-white voters, but early voting suggests that turnout among non-whites is unusually low this year, which could be a serious problem for her campaign.

As Newsweek pointed out on Wednesday, only 15 percent of the early voters in Florida are African-American, compared to 25 percent in 2012.... Read Original Article

Former president George W. Bush may vote for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, according to a report Wednesday.

The news comes from George P. Bush, a Trump supporter the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and nephew of George W. Bush. The Texas land commissioner told a small crowd of Republicans in San Marcos that he believed he was the only person in his family voting straight-ticket Republican, the Associated Press reports.... Read Original Article

A newly discovered video released Wednesday seems to dispute Donald Trump’s claim to have never met notorious mob boss Robert LiButti.

The footage, surfaced by Yahoo News, shows LiButti standing next to Trump in the front row of a wrestling match for WrestleMania IV in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1988.... Read Original Article