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Day: April 29, 2019

Zuckerberg builds a sleep box for his wife
America, Featured

Zuckerberg builds a sleep box for his wife

    Mark Zuckerberg has built an innovative "sleep box" for his wife Priscilla Chan to help with her recent bout of sleeplessness. On Sunday, the Facebook founder shared his invention on Instagram, explaining that Chan has had a hard time sleeping through the night since having the couple's two young children, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg and August Chan Zuckerberg, in 2015 and 2017 respectively. She'll wake up and check the time on her phone to see if the kids might wake up soon, but then knowing the time stresses her out and she can't fall back asleep, Zuckerberg wrote in the caption. The 34-year-old explained that the wooden box is placed on his wife's nightstand, and emits a faint, glowing light at the bottom between 6am and 7am. The light is visible enough that if she ...
Corbyn hit by 2nd referendum revolt
Featured, United Kingdom

Corbyn hit by 2nd referendum revolt

    Jeremy Corbyn was hit by a growing revolt today as four union bosses ratcheted up pressure on the Labour leader to clearly back giving the public another say on Brexit. They lined up with senior MPs to urge Mr Corbyn to come off the fence and throw his weight firmly behind a confirmatory vote on any Brexit deal. Ahead of a crunch meeting of Labour’s National Executive Committee, GMB general secretary Tim Roache told The Standard: “It must be the public who have the final say on Brexit. A grubby political stitch-up to meet the needs of internal Tory party politics, rather than the best interests of our country, won’t put this question to bed for a minute, let alone a generation. Unison general secretary Dave Prentis stressed: The Prime Minister’s deal and a no-deal ...