NYC commuters in April 2020.Photo: Scott Heins (Getty Images) The New York Public Transportation Agency wants Apple to come up with a way to unlock phones where passengers do not lower their masks to use Face ID, according to ABC News. Face ID has run into problems in the new …
Read More »‘Dark new phase’ in Hong Kong as pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is arrested, robs his newsroom
Once seen as the bastion of free press and speech in Asia, Hong Kong now seems to be changing day by day. Police on Monday morning arrested Beijing’s most prominent media tycoon and critic of the city, Jimmy Lai, under the new national security law. Hundreds of police officers also …
Read More »CBS News mocked for ‘love fest’ feature on Jill Biden: ‘No puff piece on Melania’ in 2016
“CBS Sunday Morning” ran a glowing feature on Jill Biden on Sunday, but news analyst Media Research Center Nicholas Fondacaro called it a ‘gooey puff piece’ and criticized CBS correspondent Rita Braver for a ‘love party’ that Melania Trump never got. when her husband ran for president. “Between getting excited …
Read More »COVID-19 hospitalizations decrease in LA’s Inland Empire
While a resurgence in coronavirus cases continues to spread across California, the number of hospitals with COVID-19 in the U.S. has deepened after data on record settings was reported last month. In Riverside County – which has passed 400,000 cases and is approaching 800 deaths – public health officials reported …
Read More »FS has now seen 200,000 more deaths than in previous years, CDC estimates show
More than 200,000 deaths occurred in the U.S. by 2020 than would be expected according to trends from previous years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control. The figure includes all deaths that have occurred since March 15, including the roughly 162,000 who have been found dead from …
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