carnegie mellon university

Professor Uju Anya has said her job at Carnegie Mellon University is safe.Photo: Ronny Hartmann / AFP (Getty Images)Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya, who unleashed a social media storm last week when she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death in a tweet, is back on Twitter. In an update, she thanked the people who supported her, and assured them that nothing was going to happen to her job at the university. 02:49Guess How Much Crypto's Been Stolen Lately? Part 2Today 10:45AMAnya had been locked…

Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya’s tweet wishing the late Queen Elizabeth II excruciating pain in death incensed swaths of the internet.Photo: Suzanne Plunkett / WPA Pool (Getty Images)Hundreds of students have signed an open letter condemning Carnegie Mellon University for publicly throwing professor Uju Anya under the bus after tweeting that she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death for serving as the head of a “thieving raping genocidal empire.” Coincidentally, Carnegie Mellon actions came…

One of the people said Tesla has shuttered its office in San Mateo, California and laid off roughly 200 employees working on its Autopilot driver-assistant system there, in a move seen as accelerating cost-cutting. Most of the laid-off people had been hourly workers, that person said. Early this month, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk told top managers he had a "super bad feeling" about the economy and that the maker of electric cars needed to cut staff by about 10 percent. Later, the billionaire said that the 10 percent…