Now that TSA agents have missed their first paychecks, airports are starting to feel the squeeze of the partial government shutdown and are closing security checkpoints or entire concourses due to a lack of screening agents.
Driving the news: Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport closed one terminal’s security checkpoint on Monday due to a lack of screening agents. Miami International Airport closed one of its concourses on Saturday because too few TSA agents were showing up for work.
Apple CEO Tim Cook took home $137 million in the tech company's fiscal 2018, which ended in September. That figure — calculated from Apple's latest shareholder proxy documents — represents Cook's salary, cash bonuses and stock that vested in the year, and is far higher than the $16 million that made headlines and more than the $102 million Cook made in fiscal 2017.
Go deeper: Corporate CEOs make more than you think, largely because the amounts executives actually made from their stock are buried within proxy documents.
China sentenced Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian citizen, to death on drug trafficking charges in a case that has been widely linked to Canada's ongoing detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who could be extradited to the U.S. to face fraud charges, the Washington Post reports.
Why it matters: Schellenberg's case and death sentence are considered to be a public attempt by China to exert pressure on Canada to release Meng, as it has warned of "severe consequences" should she remain in Canadian custody.
Our phones' GPS and location capabilities are a key part of what make them magical — enabling them to speed our commutes, hail rides and find the devices when we lose them. These capabilities are also ground zero for the looming fight over defining the boundaries of privacy and acceptable uses of our personal information.
The big picture: Three recent stories show just how common problems with location data can be — and how thorny they've become.
A picture of an egg has become the most-liked picture in Instagram history, garnering more than 25 million "likes" in 10 days.
The big picture: The egg officially surpassed the previously most-liked picture, posted by reality TV star and businesswoman Kylie Jenner in February 2018 after the birth of her daughter, which had 18 million likes.
Slack is considering a direct listing at some point this year, according to reports in both the WSJ and the FT on Friday.
Why it matters: The move would allow Slack stock to be traded on the stock exchange, but it's not an IPO — no new shares would be issued, and the company would not raise any money.
