Enlarge / / Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends an opening ceremony for Tesla’s Model Y program, made in China, in Shanghai, east China, on January 7, 2020 Xinhua / Ding Ting via Getty Images On Wednesday afternoon, Tesla CEO Elon Musk answered questions from investors following the release of the …
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TikTok plans to add 10,000 jobs in the US, as Trump administrator considers banning it
The announcement comes as the company faces mounting criticism of its handling of user data and its ties to China through its parent company, ByteDance. “These are well-paying jobs that will help us continue to build a safe and fun experience and protect the privacy of our community,” a TikTok …
Read More »QAnon has just started, despite Twitter crackdown
Twitter announced Tuesday that the QAnon conspiracy theory has stopped working on its site, setting the stage to ban 7,000 QAnon accounts and limit the voice of approximately 150,000 more. But the Twitter crackdown comes too late to stop QAnon’s growth. While QAnon’s presence on Twitter will almost certainly decrease …
Read More »Don’t wait for the first COVID-19 vaccines until early 2021: WHO’s Ryan
FILE PHOTO: Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) attends a press conference on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 3, 2019 REUTERS / Denis Balibouse GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – Researchers are making “good …
Read More »The rediscovery of a lost planet paves the way for the detection of a habitable world of “Goldilocks zone”
The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. This long exposure night view shows the telescopes during testing. The very bright moon appears in the center of the image and the VISTA (right) and VLT (left) domes can also be seen on the …
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