Month: February 2021
Man who attacked Jew outside synagogue in Germany sent to psychiatric hospital
Hamburg district court says 29-year-old assailant of Kazakh origin mentally ill and suffering from religious delusions and therefore can’t be held legally accountable for incident
Read MoreWATCH: ‘Virus is not done with us,’ CDC director says amid rise in variants
Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the CDC is looking at data that COVID-19 cases have been increasing the past three days, but more time is needed to see if that is a blip or the start of a trend.
Read MoreDemocrats vow to penalize big corporations that don’t pay $15 minimum wage – CNBC
Democrats vow to penalize big corporations that don’t pay $15 minimum wage CNBC Senate parliamentarian strikes down minimum wage hike in latest COVID-19 relief bill CBS This Morning Senate parliamentarian rules against including minimum wage in Covid relief bill CNN A $15 minimum
Read MoreLabs can’t tell you if you have a COVID variant, a problem for tracking and prevention
As experts race to get an approved test for COVID variants, officials are severely restricted from sharing information about the cases. That makes it harder to protect others.
Read MoreOnly a few hours left to buy early-bird passes to TC Early Stage 2021
By now you probably know that we’re hosting two TC Early Stage events this year — one on April 1-2 and another on July 8-9 — each with its own set of topics, speakers and content — both designed to
Read More‘Red alert for our planet’: UN report warns governments ‘nowhere close’ to climate targets
A UN climate change report has found that global efforts to reduce CO2 emissions “fall far short of what is required” and that nations must “step up” to fulfil promises made under the Paris agreement.
Read MoreJamaica’s JamCOVID pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers’ data
Jamaica’s JamCOVID app and website were taken offline late on Thursday following a third security lapse, which exposed quarantine orders on more than half a million travelers to the island. JamCOVID was set up last year to help the government
Read MoreSaudi crown prince approved operation to ‘capture or kill’ Jamal Khashoggi, says US intelligence report
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is likely to have approved an operation to kill or capture a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly-declassified intelligence report.
Read MoreWe’re in the Third Quarter of the Pandemic. Antarctic Researchers, Mars Simulation Scientists and Navy Submarine Officers Have Advice For How to Get Through It
McMurdo Station, an Antarctic research base 2,415 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, is a strange place to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s been a home of sorts for Pedro Salom since he took a dishwashing job there
Read MoreAtlassian is acquiring Chartio to bring data visualization to the platform
The Atlassian platform is chock full of data about how a company operates and communicates. Atlassian launched a machine learning layer, which relies on data on the platform with the addition of Atlassian Smarts last fall. Today the company announced
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