The continued spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 could pose a serious risk to the U.S., particularly the unvaccinated population, experts say. Currently, the variant accounts for 1 in 4 cases in the U.S., according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But that number could keep rising if vaccination rates don’t start picking up quickly enough. Among those ages 18 and up in the U.S., 57.4% are fully vaccinated, while 66.5% has received at least one… Source link
Read More »Google-backed Scorecards bolsters open source security metrics with new checks
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Google and its co-members at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) have announced a major update to their open source security Scorecards project. The OpenSSF, a Linux Foundation project launched last August and spearheaded by organizations including Microsoft, GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, and Google, first… Source link
Read More »Another 364,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
New weekly jobless claims fell back below the 400,000 level for the first time in three weeks, resuming improvements after a brief bump higher in initial filings. The Department of Labor released its weekly report on new jobless claims Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the report, compared to consensus data compiled by Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims, week ended June 26: 364,000 vs. 388,000 expected and an upwardly revised 415,000 during prior week Continuing… Source link
Read More »Why the Fed is getting worried about the most boring thing in crypto
Unlike crypto critics who attack bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for being too volatile, the Federal Reserve is increasingly sounding the alarm over investigating the coins that set out to be far more boring: stablecoins. As their name suggests, stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that set out to remain stable over their lifetimes and try to maintain a value as close to $1 (or other base currencies) as possible. Tether, the largest stablecoin in the world with a market cap of more than $60… Source link
Read More »Yandex signs 5-year renewable energy deal in Finland – DatacenterDynamics
Russian search platform Yandex has signed up for wind power at its Mäntsälä data center in Finland. The company has signed a five-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Finland’s Ilmatar Energy for energy from wind farms. From January 1, 2022, it will provide enough energy to power the Mäntsälä data center. The agreement is the headline news from the company’s first Sustainability Report, published this week. … Source link
Read More »Is Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) Using Too Much Debt?
Some say volatility, rather than debt, is the best way to think about risk as an investor, but Warren Buffett famously said that ‘Volatility is far from synonymous with risk.’ So it might be obvious that you need to consider debt, when you think about how risky any given stock is, because too much debt can sink a company. We note that Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) does have debt on its balance sheet. But the real question is whether this debt is making the company risky. When Is Debt… Source link
Read More »Washington’s antitrust push could limit Amazon, Google health ambitions
WASHINGTON — Washington is abuzz with an ambitious new antitrust effort to rein in the power of tech industry power players like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook — and the effort could limit their ascent in the health care industry. Tech companies are already major players in the health care space — think Amazon’s decision to launch its own pharmacy, or Google’s acquisition of Fitbit — and they have their sights set even bigger. If major antitrust reform passes, it could… Source link
Read More »NIO Inc. Provides June and Second Quarter 2021 Delivery Update
Company Achieved Record-High Monthly and Quarterly Deliveries NIO delivered 8,083 vehicles in June 2021, increasing by 116.1% year-over-year NIO delivered 21,896 vehicles in the three months ended June 2021, increasing by 111.9% year-over-year Cumulative deliveries of the ES8, ES6 and EC6 as of June 30, 2021 reached 117,597 SHANGHAI, China, July 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NIO Inc. (“NIO” or the “Company”) (NYSE: NIO), a pioneer and a leading manufacturer of premium smart electric… Source link
Read More »Australian regulator may authorise media group talks with Google, Facebook
Google and Facebook logos and Australian flag are displayed in this illustration taken, February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo July 1 (Reuters) – Australia’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it issued draft proposals to authorise regional newspaper industry group, Country Press Australia, to negotiate with Google and Facebook for payments for news content on their platforms. Country Press Australia (CPA) is seeking authorisation to allow its members to hammer out a payments deal… Source link
Read More »Google is building support for digital COVID vaccine cards into Android
Google is opening up Android’s built-in passes system to let Android users store a digital vaccine card, which it calls a COVID Card, on their phone. The feature will initially roll out in the US, and it will rely on support from healthcare providers, local governments, or other organizations authorized to distribute COVID vaccines. The feature will also support storing COVID test results. For vaccinations, your COVID Card will show info on when you were vaccinated and which vaccine you… Source link
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