For the first time during the pandemic, weekly unemployment claims dipped below 1 million, but there are likely to be many more Americans eligible for unemployment benefits that were not applicable. When the $ 2 trillion CARES law was passed in March, the self-employed, self-employed, gig workers and other non-traditional …
Read More »Maker ‘Fortnite’ accuses Apple of illegal monopolistic practices in battle royalties that appear on the way to a courtroom
The maker of “Fortnite” has launched a Battle Royale against Apple Inc., accusing the tech giant of seeking to “maintain its legitimacy of its monopoly.” Epic games said Thursday it has filed legal papers against Apple AAPL, + 1.77% after the iPhone maker launched the company’s hit game “Fortnite” from …
Read More »‘It should have been mandatory from the start’: Ireland says people should wear masks in shops to stop COVID-19 – but why did it take so long?
DUBLIN – Ireland is a nation of saints, scientists and the status quo. This small island in the northwestern periphery of Europe is ruled by two old enemies: the right-wing Republican Fianna Fáil party and the fellow Christian-Democratic Fine Gael, which since independence in 1922 on opposite sides of ‘ …
Read More »Why are some people asymptomatic with coronavirus – and why are they so contagious?
How contagious is someone who has contracted COVID-19 – showing no symptoms yet – and what makes them asymptomatic while other people suffer so terribly from the disease? This study, published this week in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides one theory for the first question. It isolated 303 …
Read More »