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 …
Continue ReadingBrookfield Asset Management, one of the largest mall operators and retail landlords in North America, is demanding retailers pay rent they owe even for months were their respective malls were closed. All while negotiating better terms from their lending companies…
Continue ReadingThe American Hospital Association says that U.S. “hospitals and health systems face catastrophic financial challenges in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
According to a new report the AHA says medical facilities are expected have lost over $200 billion just in …
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StopCovid, France’s new contact tracing app released just weeks ago, has been downloaded 1.9 million times according to the French government. It has been activated by a little more than 1.8 million for those users.
If you are diagnosed with …
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration stunningly reversed itself this week when it announced U.S. companies would be able to work with Huawei on setting standards for equipment and networks used to implement 5G. 5G is an ultra-fast data network. Critics say it …
Continue ReadingDid your phone act up with no service a few days ago? What if I told you they secretly added #covid19 trackers. iPhones: settings/privacy/health. It’s there. Awake yet?
— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) June 19, 2020
iPhone users have recently noticed …
