Hundreds of Tesla Workers Tested Positive At Reopened Plant
By: The Hill March 14, 2021 Hundreds of workers at a reopened Tesla plant in California tested positive for COVID-19 between May and December, according to data released by a transparency website on Friday. The website PlainSite released data from the Alameda County Department of Public Health that found 440 workers at the […]
Chief executive of Jack Ma’s Ant Group steps down
By: City AM March 12, 2021 Simon Hu has reportedly resigned as chief executive of Ant Group after just over a year in the role. Hu resigned for personal reasons according to Bloomberg, and he will be replaced by Ant Group chairman Eric Jing with immediate effect. He joined Alibaba in 2005 before […]
Amazon Removing Books That Frame LGBTQ Issues As Mental Illness
By: The Hill March 12, 2021 Amazon has made the decision recently to remove books from its catalog that frame transgender and other LGBTQ identities as mental illnesses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The move came after four Republicans — Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Mike Lee (Utah), Mike Braun (Ind.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) — sent a letter on Feb. 24 to chief […]
Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here
By: NPR March 11, 2021 In a crop of viral videos featuring Tom Cruise, it’s not the actor’s magic trick nor his joke-telling that’s deceptive — but the fact that it’s not actually Tom Cruise at all. The videos, uploaded to TikTok in recent weeks by the account @deeptomcruise, have raised new fears over the […]
China Creates a Digital Vaccine Passport
By: New York Times March 10, 2021 China on Monday introduced a digital vaccine passport to track its citizens’ medical history as they begin to travel abroad. The health certificate, which runs on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app, will include a user’s Covid-19 test and vaccination history, and is intended to enable international travel, according to a […]
America Grapples With Regulating Surveillance Technology
By: The Economist March 9, 2021 AMONG THE most pernicious aspects of the range of surveillance technologies available to the average police force is how they can render the visible invisible. For instance, you would notice if a police officer walked down your street every day, writing down the licence plates of every car. A police […]
How to Make a Social Safety-Net for the Post-Covid World
By: The Economist March 6, 2021 Governments must remake the social contract for the 21st century After the Depression and the second world war, voters and governments in rich countries recast the relationship between the state and its citizens. Now the pandemic has seen the old rules on social spending ripped up. More than […]
‘The East Is Rising’: Xi Maps Out China’s Post-Covid Ascent
By: New York Times March 3, 2021 Xi Jinping has struck a confident posture as he looks to secure China’s prosperity and power in a post-Covid world, saying that the country is entering a time of opportunity when “the East is rising and the West is declining.” But behind closed doors, China’s Communist Party leader […]
Sunak to Reform Stock Market to Shore Up City of London’s Position
By: The Guardian March 2, 2021 Changes come amid fears that London will be overtaken by Amsterdam, New York and Hong Kong as a financial hub Rishi Sunak will pave the way for sweeping reforms of the stock market to attract more fast-growing companies to list in the UK, amid the growing risk […]