Elon Musk’s Tesla has agreed to build mobile molecule printers that will help make a potential vaccine for Covid19 being developed by CureVac, a German biopharmaceutical company.
CureVac says it is developing portable machines, which it calls printers, that will …
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The Covid19 pandemic is seemingly claiming another group of victims: quarters, pennies, nickels and dimes.
The country is facing a coin shortage because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell.
“With the partial closure …
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America’s first retail store dedicated entirely to personal protective equipment opened recently in the Columbia, MD. It is the brainchild of former advertising executive Chris McCormick.
McCormick’s advertising firm collapsed during the early days of the Covid19 outbreak. He furloughed …
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President Trump said yesterday that he supports larger direct payments to Americans in the next stimulus bill.
“I support actually larger numbers than the Democrats, but it’s got to be done properly,” the President told Blake Burman of Fox Business.…
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials seized a shipment of 13 tons of hair and weave products suspected to be made out of human hair today. The source of the products is believed to be prisoners of Chinese internment …
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Florida will no longer be imposing lockdowns despite a recent surge in Covid19 cases. Doing so would damage the economy without saving lives, he said.
“We’re not going back, closing things,” DeSantis told reporters yesterday. …
Continue ReadingJB Neiman, a managing partner of a Texas-based company that owns 13 clinics in Texas, wrote to a former NYT reporter, Alex Berenson, on Twitter about what he sees as being truly behind the recent uptick in Covid19 cases in …
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A large jewelry manufacturer and wholesaler in China has been discovered to have counterfeited 83 tons of gold bars in an effort to secure loans from financial institutions to fund their operations.
The company, Wuhan Kingold Jewelry, used the loans …
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Organizers of the boycott against Facebook are trying to get the social media giant to do more to stop hate speech on its platform. They are now set to take their efforts global, they say.
The campaign, “Stop Hate …
Continue ReadingInternational digital health firm Circle Pass Enterprises has contracted with technology firm VST to integrate its VCode technology into biometric “passports.” The passports, dubbed Covi-Pass, can be accessed via mobile phone and are going to be used to show an …
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Qianxi Robot Catering Group, a subsidiary of Country Garden, opened the world’s first completely automated restaurant this week.
The restaurant, 2,000 square meters (more than 6,000 feet) decorated in pink and futuristic-looking metals, has been outfitted with 20 robots that …
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A Japanese startup, Donut Robotics, has developed a face mask that can transcribe speech into text messages, make phone calls and even amplify the wearer’s voice.
The “smart mask,” which fits over standard face masks, can also translate from …
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Singapore’s biggest telecomm companies have selected Nokia and Ericsson to build it’s next-generation 5G network. China’s Huawei had also been in the running to land the project.
Singapore didn’t exclude any company from consideration but had rather clarified its …
Continue ReadingFast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has debuted a futuristic restaurant model where little, if any, contact exists between workers and customers.
Orders are delivered by conveyor belt and travels to the front of the store. Once there, a robotic …
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The U.S. government could begin loaning billions of dollars to companies in a bid to get them to return supply chain manufacturing to the United States.
The U.S. International Development Finance Corp. is talking to companies about bringing manufacturing back …
Continue ReadingA small town in eastern Australia is waging a war against 5G installation and it’s causing quite a bit of controversy in the village. Australia’s The Feed news magazine takes a look at the dispute and chronicles several activists and …
Continue ReadingAn employee who worked as a comment moderator on Facebook claims that the platform unjustly targets conservatives and supporters of President Trump with community standards violations, but rarely targets left-leaning comments for the same types of infractions.
Ryan Hartwig, who …
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