Monthly Archives: October 2020

GlaxoSmithKline asks staff to stop contact-tracing application at work

View of the headquarters of the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in west London. Ben Stencil | AFP | Getty Images LONDON – UK-based drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has asked Britain to shut down the Covid-19 contact-tracing application when about 2,500 employees are at work. The pharmaceutical giant, which is working on …

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Climate change is a problem for cows and worms

A new study shows that cows with stomach upsets can be a big problem for the environment. This is because cattle and other livestock with worms and other parasites produce a more powerful greenhouse gas, methane, than healthy animals. Methane is 28 to 36 times more powerful than carbon dioxide …

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I believe Big Tech will not break

Former Microsoft .ft CEO Steve Burmer on Wednesday commented on a no-confidence report by the House Judiciary Subcommittee, which found Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Facebook and Google to have a monopoly power. “I bet the money won’t break,” Balmer said. Ballmer, who sued MicroStft in an anti-trust lawsuit in the early …

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