CNN | She was the Jackie Robinson of tennis
Long before Venus and Serena Williams, another tall,
young Black woman shook up the staid world of tennis with her powerful serve
and brilliant play.
She was Althea Gibson, and tennis had long been a segregated sport when her
skill and strength broke the color barrier in the 1950s. –read
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CNN BUSINESS | Hyundai’s recall of 82,000 electric cars is one of the most expensive in history
New York (CNN Business) – Hyundai will recall 82,000 electric cars globally to replace their
batteries after 15 reports of fires involving the
vehicles. Despite the relatively small number of cars involved,
Hyundai’s recall is one of the most expensive in history, signaling how
electric car defects could create hefty costs for automakers — at least in the
near future.
The recall will cost Hyundai 1 trillion Korean won, or $900 million. On a
per-vehicle basis, the average cost is $11,000 — an astronomically high number
for a recall.
Replacing an entire battery is an extreme measure, requiring a similar amount
of work and expense as replacing an entire engine of a traditional internal
combustion-powered car. Very few recalls of gasoline powered cars require an
entire engine to be replaced. One of the few exceptions was a 2014 recall of
785 of the Porsche 911 GT3 sports cars. Porsche did not release the cost of
that recall, but it was certainly more expensive on a per-vehicle basis than
this Hyundai recall. —read
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CNN underscored | The best smart plugs of 2021
(CNN) — For those who want to enter the smart home realm without actually investing
in smart devices, a smart plug — which adds a touch of automation to lamps,
coffee machines and other everyday devices — is the way to go.
Essentially, a smart plug is a moveable outlet paired with connectivity to a
smart home ecosystem — be it Amazon’s Alexa, the Google Assistant or Apple’s
HomeKit. If you have multiple appliances you want to get online, there’s also
smart outlet strips, which turn one regular outlet into many with smart
control.
We researched hundreds of smart plug options — combing editorial and user
reviews — to pull together the 11 most highly rated options. After weeks of
testing, three options rose to the top:
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CNN | Owner plunges into frozen pool to save dog
A dog owner in Tennessee wasted no time jumping into a frozen pool to save her dog, Sid, who was stuck under a sheet of ice. —watch—
CNN | NASA’s DC headquarters is being renamed for ‘Hidden Figures’ scientist Mary Jackson
(CNN) – The name of Mary
Jackson, NASA’s first African American female engineer and one of the
barrier-breaking inspirations for the book “Hidden Figures,” will
officially adorn the space agency’s Washington, DC, headquarters Friday.
NASA announced its decision last year to name the building
in Jackson’s honor. Members of her family, including granddaughter Wanda
Jackson, are expected to be at Friday’s renaming ceremony along with Acting
NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk, the agency announced. Jackson died in 2005 at
the age of 83. –read
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CNN style Fashion | The club kid designer dressing the most powerful women in US politics
There are times in every successful designer’s
career when they find something they created at the center of a viral
sensation. For Max Mara’s creative director, Ian Griffiths, discovering that
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had ignited a global frenzy by wearing his
red “Fire Coat” for her infamous showdown with Donald Trump in 2018
was one of those moments. It was not, however, quite as he had imagined it.
“It was 7 in the evening and I got the phone call from our American
communications office. I had just got home from work and was in the middle of
getting changed with my trousers around my knees,” laughed Griffiths on
the phone from his office in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy. “They needed
urgent confirmation the coat was ours, then more and more calls came in to give
quotes. I spent the whole evening shuffling around my apartment with my
trousers around my ankles because I didn’t have time to take them off! —read
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CNN BUSINESS | Zillow will now make cash offers for homes based on its ‘Zestimates’
New York (CNN Business) – Zillow is no longer just an online platform for browsing available homes or for creeping on the value of your neighbor’s house. In recent years, the company has also begun actually buying, fixing up and selling homes itself through a new division called Zillow Offers — a major shift in its business model.
On Thursday, the company announced a new feature aimed at streamlining the process for homeowners considering selling to Zillow.
For certain homes, Zillow’s “Zestimate” — the online estimate of the home’s value — will now represent an initial cash offer from the company to buy the property. That could mean an even quicker timeline for homeowners looking to close a sale without going through the hassle of a formal listing, or a source of helpful data for would-be sellers who want to know how much money they’ll have to buy their next house. –read more—
CNN style Arts | Unseen Vincent van Gogh painting of Paris goes on public display for the first time
A painting of Paris by Vincent van Gogh,
which has almost never been seen by the public after being stashed within a
French family’s private collection for more than a century, has finally been
unveiled.
“Street scene in Montmartre” was painted in the spring of 1887, three
years before the Dutch master is believed to have died by suicide.
It shows Parisians walking through a rural and sparse landscape in Montmartre,
a historic district which today is one of the city’s most popular destinations.
The painting is set to go on public display for the first time, before being
sold at auction in Paris. It is expected to fetch between 5 million euros and 8
million euros ($6 million and $9.7 million) when it goes under the hammer in
March. –read
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CNN | Traumatized and tired, nurses are quitting due to the pandemic
(CNN) – Nursing was more than a career to Rachel Ellsworth. She
says she was “called” to the work.
For 10 of her 12 years in nursing, Ellsworth was an indefatigable intensive
care nurse. The work energized her, and she felt privileged to witness some of
the most important moments of people’s lives, when their worlds shifted for
better or worse. Though she did all she could to save them, she also found
purpose in giving her patients a “peaceful, dignified death” when it
was time.
“I was the kind of person who went into work every day, like, literally,
‘Let’s go save lives,’ for 12 years” she said. “I was just so excited
to be there, so full of hope and compassion.” —read
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(CNN) – Two years after Calvin Tyler first enrolled
at Morgan State College, he had to drop out because he couldn’t afford it.
He took a job as a UPS driver, one of the first 10 in Baltimore. Now —
almost 40 years later — Tyler has made the largest-ever private donation from
an alumnus to the historically Black school, now Morgan State University, it announced
Tuesday. —read
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