Up to 1.1 million barrels of oil could spill into the Red Sea causing a disaster four times worse than the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, the United Nations Security Council heard on Wednesday. Time is running out to prevent a ruined oil tanker near Yemen from causing an “impending …
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Image copyright fake pictures Russian hackers are targeting organizations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, security services warned. The UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) said hackers “almost certainly” operated as “part of the Russian intelligence services.” He did not specify …
Read More »The Trump team circular firing squad goes after Fauci (opinion)
That is what happened on Tuesday when Peter Navarro attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci on USA Today, writing that Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with.” That’s Peter Navarro with a Ph.D. in economics who is President Donald Trump’s top business adviser. Navarro’s skeptical views on free trade …
Read More »The painstaking, hypergranular process behind Amazon’s ingenious Undone
Shot by Justin Wolfson, edited by Jeremy Smolik. Click here for the transcript. Let’s be the 47th point of sale to say it: nothing else on TV or broadcast is alike Undone. The Amazon Prime sci-fi animated series centers on a woman named Alma (played by Rosa Salazar of Alita …
Read More »US coronavirus data has already disappeared after the Trump administration switched control from CDC to HHS
Previously, public data had already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website after the Trump administration quietly transferred control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services. Since the pandemic began, CDC has regularly released data on the availability of hospital beds and intensive …
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