schwit1 shares a report from the Financial Times: The US Treasury will put DJI and the other groups on its Chinese military-industrial complex companies blacklist on Thursday (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source), according to two peop…
Pelosi Rejects Stock-Trading Ban For Members of Congress
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Insider: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected the idea of barring members of Congress and their spouses from holding or trading individual stocks while in office. “We are a free-market economy. They …
Apple Delays Corporate Return To Offices Indefinitely
Long-time Slashdot reader ttyler shares a tweet from NBC News tech reporter Zoe Schiffer: Tim Cook just sent out an email delaying Apple’s return to work to a date ‘yet to be determined. He also said the company is giving every corporate employee $1,00…
US Surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 Deaths
gollum123 shares a report from the BBC: More than 800,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus, the highest recorded national death toll from the global pandemic. It comes as the US reached 50 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday. Most…
How China Uses Western Influencers As Pawns In Its Propaganda War
According to the New York Times, China is recruiting YouTubers to report on the country in a positive light and counter the West’s increasingly negative perceptions. “The videos have a casual, homespun feel. But on the other side of the camera often st…
Scientists Just Found a ‘Significant’ Volume of Water Inside Mars’ Grand Canyon
Scientists have discovered a world-historic discovery on Mars: “significant amounts of water” are hiding inside the Red Planet’s Valles Marineris, its version of our grand canyon system, according to a recent press release from the European Space Agenc…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Becomes First Spacecraft To ‘Touch’ the Sun
Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to “touch the sun.” CNN World reports: The Parker Solar Probe has successfully flown through the sun’s corona, or upper atmo…
Scientists Urge Creating Strategic Forest Reserves To Mitigate Climate Change, Protect Biodiversity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific collabora…
Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS
According to job listings on LinkedIn, Google appears to be working on an augmented reality device and operating system to pair with it. Ars Technica reports: On LinkedIn, operating system engineering director Mark Lucovsky announced that he has joined…
Bitcoin Could Become ‘Worthless,’ Bank of England Warns
The Bank of England has said that bitcoin could be “worthless” and people investing in the digital currency should be prepared to lose everything. The Guardian reports: In a warning over the potential risks for investors, the central bank questioned wh…