World News Daily: July 2020

Friday, 31 July 2020

FOX BIZ NEWS: Fed isn't changing rates for a long time: Rick Rieder

Fed isn't changing rates for a long time: Rick Rieder

BlackRock global fixed income CIO Rick Rieder says the Federal Reserve isn't going to touch the interest rates for a very long time and believes they're going to grow the size of their balance sheet. He later discusses the possible economic recovery in the second half of the year, how the American markets are reacting to coronavirus and big tech stocks.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: How AI can speed up clinical trials

How AI can speed up clinical trials

AI technology essentially does three things for the clinical trial process: Makes it faster, more reliable and more secure.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: TikTok is shopping itself and Microsoft is interested

TikTok is shopping itself and Microsoft is interested

As the White House prepares to enact a ban on TikTok from being used by U.S. consumers over security concerns, the popular music app's Chinese-based parent company is looking for a savior in the form of tech giant Microsoft.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Trump administration moves to ban TikTok

Trump administration moves to ban TikTok

President Trump said Friday that his administration is considering banning the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok amid rising security concerns.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Coronavirus is a case of mass murder, perpetrated by China: Gordon Chang

Coronavirus is a case of mass murder, perpetrated by China: Gordon Chang

Gordon Chang responds to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's comments about China pulling millions out of poverty and claiming it was growing into a respectable nation, calling her statements 'indefensible.' He later addresses the China fishing fleet off the Galapagos Islands and the status of U.S.-China relations.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Why labs are taking so long to process coronavirus tests

Why labs are taking so long to process coronavirus tests

American Pharmacists Association president Michael Hogue explains why it would help if pharmacists could administer COVID-19 tests.

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New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft Shutting Down Cortana on Multiple Devices, Including iOS and Android

Microsoft Shutting Down Cortana on Multiple Devices, Including iOS and Android
13 by waltherp | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release

Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release
12 by sbt567 | 20 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Final Ruling Against Patreon Opens Legal Avenue to Defend Against Deplatforming

Final Ruling Against Patreon Opens Legal Avenue to Defend Against Deplatforming
28 by kregasaurusrex | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
24 by Nitrolo | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Coronavirus Live Updates: California Becomes the First State to Reach 500,000 Total Cases

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Apple leapfrogs Saudi Aramco now world's biggest company

Apple leapfrogs Saudi Aramco now world's biggest company

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FOX BIZ NEWS: What is CFIUS?

What is CFIUS?

The committee, headed by the Treasury Secretary, includes the departments of defense, justice, state, energy, commerce, homeland security, the U.S. Trade Representative and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Pinterest narrows 2Q net loss as customers spend more time at home

Pinterest narrows 2Q net loss as customers spend more time at home

Pinterest on Friday said its second-quarter loss narrowed as more people spend time at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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New top story on Hacker News: Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19

Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19
8 by pama | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: US to ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday

US to ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday
63 by busymom0 | 37 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python

Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python
10 by ingve | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Trump, Please Quit Before You’re Fired

By Timothy Egan from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2XdZsv4
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New top story on Hacker News: Flexport Is Hiring in North America, Europe, and Asia

Flexport Is Hiring in North America, Europe, and Asia
1 by thedogeye | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)

Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)
3 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI API

OpenAI API
26 by bookofjoe | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ECJ rules US Cloud services fundamentally incompatible with EU Privacy laws

ECJ rules US Cloud services fundamentally incompatible with EU Privacy laws
5 by onyva | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
16 by cel1ne | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Thursday, 30 July 2020

4.2-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Near Los Angeles

By Christine Hauser from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/39EGG4O
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The Book of Statuses

By Unknown Author from NYT Podcasts https://ift.tt/3hORwYN
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Yes, the Coronavirus Is in the Air

By Linsey C. Marr from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/39Dncxo
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Aboard the Diamond Princess, a Case Study in Aerosol Transmission

By Benedict Carey and James Glanz from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3jUZK3t
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Mysterious Coronavirus Outbreak Catches Vietnam by Surprise

By Hannah Beech and Chau Doan from NYT World https://ift.tt/2P5uJM3
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Teachers Are Wary of Returning to Class, and Online Instruction Too

By Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Eovei6
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New top story on Hacker News: Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Molecular Data Scientists to Help Cure Cancer

Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Molecular Data Scientists to Help Cure Cancer
1 by ankitvgupta | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach

Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach
37 by pseudolus | 21 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states

Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states
3 by apsec112 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Palatino FAQ (1998)

The Palatino FAQ (1998)
5 by Lammy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Google Earth Timelapse

Google Earth Timelapse
13 by sabalaba | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Google is removing community contributions from YouTube

Google is removing community contributions from YouTube
23 by zhamisen | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Dragonfly Mini – 2000km mission

Dragonfly Mini – 2000km mission
4 by gvuksic | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election. That’s Unconstitutional.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Silicon Valley may have more power than some US government branches: Expert

Silicon Valley may have more power than some US government branches: Expert

Media Research Center president and founder Brent Bozell says there are no checks and balances in Silicon Valley, which allows social media and tech giants to influence speech, and he says these companies need to be held accountable.

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New top story on Hacker News: Reverse Engineering the PLA Chip in the Commodore 128

Reverse Engineering the PLA Chip in the Commodore 128
23 by segfaultbuserr | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years

Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years
5 by rbanffy | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research

Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research
9 by te_ch | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop
10 by snwfog | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Opera GX Gaming Browser

Opera GX Gaming Browser
11 by simonebrunozzi | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: GifCities

GifCities
4 by tosh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds

By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2P7dgmj
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New top story on Hacker News: CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects

CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects
4 by ArtWomb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Wednesday, 29 July 2020

New top story on Hacker News: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
15 by mxcrossb | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist's Palette

Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist's Palette
4 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

FOX BIZ NEWS: Donald Trump Jr.: Conservative viewpoints often ‘destroyed’ by social-media algorithms

Donald Trump Jr.: Conservative viewpoints often ‘destroyed’ by social-media algorithms

Author of ‘Liberal Privilege’ Donald Trump Jr. shares his thoughts on getting suspended by Twitter for posting a video about hydroxychloroquine, presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden and election polls ahead of November.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: What is Amazon Employees for Climate Justice?

What is Amazon Employees for Climate Justice?

AECJ has said the corporation's climate pledge is not good enough.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Big tech CEOs divided on China technology theft

Big tech CEOs divided on China technology theft

Only Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was willing to speak out against China

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Republicans blast big tech during congressional hearing for conservative censorship

Republicans blast big tech during congressional hearing for conservative censorship

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., says despite the big tech CEOs claiming they don't censor conservative voices online, he continues to see liberal viewpoints promoted on their sites and he believes that impacts elections.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: How much Facebook makes from ads

How much Facebook makes from ads

Facebook is expected to rake in more than $31.4 billion in net advertising revenue by the end of 2020.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Government needs to shut down big tech's anti-conservative bias: Sidney Powell

Government needs to shut down big tech's anti-conservative bias: Sidney Powell

Former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell responds to her Twitter suspension over her opinion on hydroxychloroquine and discusses big tech's anti-conservative bias.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Amazon’s Bezos cannot guarantee third-party seller policy wasn’t violated

Amazon’s Bezos cannot guarantee third-party seller policy wasn’t violated

The platform does not allow employees to access third-party data when creating competing products.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Sundar Pichai: Google deeply cares about users' privacy, security

Sundar Pichai: Google deeply cares about users' privacy, security

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai answers questions about Google users’ privacy, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and tech companies turning over user data to law enforcement.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Sundar Pichai: Google doesn't use Gmail data for ad services

Sundar Pichai: Google doesn't use Gmail data for ad services

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on retiring third-party cookies that websites attach to users’ browsers and the privacy and ad revenue issues surrounding this data.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Counterfeit products 'are a scourge’

Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Counterfeit products 'are a scourge’

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company does a lot to prevent counterfeiting but does work toward limiting it on the site.

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New top story on Hacker News: Querying an RDF triplestore using SPARQL and Relational pipes

Querying an RDF triplestore using SPARQL and Relational pipes
8 by xkucf03 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search

ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search
5 by polm23 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
6 by TimJRobinson | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable

iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable
5 by sohkamyung | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets – including hints of a hidden ocean

Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets – including hints of a hidden ocean
3 by sohkamyung | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists Crack the Mathematical Mystery of Stingless Bees’ Spiral Honeycombs

Scientists Crack the Mathematical Mystery of Stingless Bees’ Spiral Honeycombs
4 by MarkOfColor | 0 comments on Hacker News.

FOX BIZ NEWS: White House salaries: Who makes what?

White House salaries: Who makes what?

Here are the salaries of some of the administration's most recognizable staffers.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Varney: Biden VP pick would be most powerful in generations

Varney: Biden VP pick would be most powerful in generations

Never has the choice of a running mate been so important.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Who is Kevin Hassett?

Who is Kevin Hassett?

Kevin Hassett returned to the White House in March because of coronavirus.

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New top story on Hacker News: Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) is hiring developers to save medicine to save lives

Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) is hiring developers to save medicine to save lives
1 by akircher | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A new funding model for open source software

A new funding model for open source software
11 by colinmcd | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

FOX BIZ NEWS: Raytheon defense business drives quarterly profit beat

Raytheon defense business drives quarterly profit beat

Raytheon said it achieved a record backlog of $73.1 billion from its defense business in the second quarter, pointing to strong demand from the U.S. government and international customers.

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New top story on Hacker News: The Physics of Brute Force (and how it relates to cryptography)

The Physics of Brute Force (and how it relates to cryptography)
8 by tiord | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Bread, How Did They Make It?

Bread, How Did They Make It?
6 by yoloswagins | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Do We Believe in U.F.O.s? That’s the Wrong Question

By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean from NYT Times Insider https://ift.tt/305y8AV
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New top story on Hacker News: Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test

Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test
4 by georgecmu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling

Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
9 by jbredeche | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Riding the Rays by Douglas Adams (1992)

Riding the Rays by Douglas Adams (1992)
5 by rfreytag | 0 comments on Hacker News.

FOX BIZ NEWS: SBA disaster loan investigation reveals rampant fraud: Report

SBA disaster loan investigation reveals rampant fraud: Report

More than 5,000 complaints have been made by financial institutions.

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New top story on Hacker News: Jerry (YC S17) is hiring a senior engineer (Toronto, Silicon Valley)

Jerry (YC S17) is hiring a senior engineer (Toronto, Silicon Valley)
1 by linaz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Australia doubling fees for arts and humanities degrees

Australia doubling fees for arts and humanities degrees
11 by brudgers | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Stop Abusing Semver

Stop Abusing Semver
17 by CyanMagnus | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
13 by minimaxir | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Uninteresting Places

Uninteresting Places
8 by luu | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Falsely Claims Much of U.S. ‘Corona Free’ as 21 States Face ‘Red Zone’ Outbreaks

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Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online

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FOX BIZ NEWS: TikTok faces well-funded competitors, regulatory scrutiny in U.S.

TikTok faces well-funded competitors, regulatory scrutiny in U.S.

As the controversial social media company TikTok faces scrutiny from the U.S. government and possible closure, one of its chief rivals is wasting no time to try and overtake it by raising hundreds of millions of dollars and stealing users FOX Business has learned.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Coronavirus makes Bowdoin College provide iPads for students, staff

Coronavirus makes Bowdoin College provide iPads for students, staff

Bowdoin College, a private liberal arts institution located in Brunswick, Maine, has committed to supplying its students with iPad Pros while the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise in the U.S.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Virgin Galactic reveals spaceplane cabin ahead of passenger flights

Virgin Galactic reveals spaceplane cabin ahead of passenger flights

Virgin Galactic showed off the interiors of its passenger spaceflight vehicle the VSS Unity.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Rite Aid put facial recognition tech in 200 US stores

Rite Aid put facial recognition tech in 200 US stores

The retailer used a state-of-the-art system from a company with links to China.

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FOX BIZ NEWS: Trump announces $765M governmental loan for Kodak to produce generic drugs

Trump announces $765M governmental loan for Kodak to produce generic drugs

President Trump says his administration’s deal with Kodak is one of the most important in the history of U.S. pharmaceuticals.

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