Ruby Freeman and daughter claim they became center of unfounded conspiracy theories and were singled out by TrumpTwo former Georgia election workers have filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the rightwing One Ameri…
Ahmaud Arbery killing: prosecutor urges jury to ‘use common sense’
Jury asked to consider whether claims of self-defense and attempted citizen’s arrest were ‘completely made up for trial’As the trial of the white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery reached closing arguments on Monday, prosecutors urged the jury to …
Two stories of psuedo-European culture in Georgia
Bizarro Bavaria: The author of Southbound finds the town of Helen, Georgia, attractive and troubling — but she isn’t giving it up by Anjali Enjeti for The Bitter Southerner and The troubled triangle of Scottish heritage, Southern racial politics, and S…
‘Buckxit’: plan to split ritzy Buckhead from Atlanta faces expensive hurdles
Affluent suburb bids to become its own city to reduce taxes and crime – but critics say proposal would mean ‘a race to the bottom’A controversial plan to split Buckhead, an upscale district of Atlanta, from the Georgia city faces a number of expensive …
Chronosphere raises $200M at a $1B valuation for cloud-native monitoring, adds granular, distributed tracing to its dashboard
Data observability — necessary to keep tabs on infrastructure performing as it should; to see if apps are returning errors; and to ensure that critical business data is getting to where it needs to go — is becoming an evermore complicated task as organizations’ cloud-native data demands and data usage grow. Today a startup that’s […]
YouTube will now ban content with vaccine misinformation
YouTube expanded its medical misinformation policies today to include new guidelines that ban vaccine misinformation. The Google-owned video platform had previously banned over 1 million videos spreading dangerous COVID-19 misinformation. Now, YouTube says it will also remove content that spreads misinformation about vaccine safety, the efficacy of vaccines and ingredients in vaccines. The platform previously […]
GrubMarket gobbles up $120M at a $1B+ pre-money valuation to take on the food supply chain
When people talk about “online food delivery” services, chances are that they’ll think of the Uber Eats, Instacarts and Getirs of this world. But today a startup that’s tackling a different aspect of the market — addressing the supply chain that subsequently turns the wheels of the bigger food distribution machine — is announcing a […]
Thirteen gorillas test positive for Covid at Atlanta zoo
Western lowland gorillas are believed to have caught the virus from a zookeeperMore than a dozen gorillas have tested positive for Covid-19 at Zoo Atlanta, probably after contracting the virus from a keeper, zoo officials said.Staff were alerted when s…
Ex-prosecutor indicted for allegedly shielding men in Ahmaud Arbery case
Jackie Johnson accused of protecting ex-employee suspectArbery was killed after being pursued by a white father and sonA former Georgia prosecutor involved in the case of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing has been indicted on charges of misconduct for allegedly …
Please stop adding more lanes to busy highways—it doesn’t help
Why do highway planners refuse to accept that more lanes means more traffic?