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Raw material shortages, logistics hurdles and underground markets continue to mar the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. It’s why a former CDC director, numerous public health experts, scientists and activists called on the White House this month to enact a more aggressive manufacturing program to increase the production of vaccines within a year. Their joint letter builds on and cites a May blueprint published by Public Citizen, a progressive advocacy organization, for increasing… Source link

Move over, plant-based meat — the movement now has its eyes on creatures of the sea. One such company is Gathered Foods, which on July 19th came to market with plant-based seafood — including a fish-free filet and crab-free cake — as interest in alternative foods gathers steam.  The two offerings developed by subsidiary Good Catch are available at fast food chain Long John Silver’s for a limited time, in locations across California and Georgia. Meanwhile, the company also has a Source link

President Joe Biden will nominate Jonathan Kanter, an ardent Google critic and competition lawyer, to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division, as first reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday. Kanter has a long history of representing companies in competition cases against Google, and he opened his own law firm last year. If confirmed by the Senate, Kanter would take the helm on a slate of cases against big tech companies led by the Justice Department, including a monopoly lawsuit… Source link

Executives from Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Amazon.com (AMZN.O) head the list of witnesses for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee next week, along with an executive from speaker maker Sonos Inc (SONO.O), which has been critical of the two tech giants. Ryan McCrate, an associate general counsel, will speak for Amazon while public policy specialist Wilson White will testify for Google, said Senators Amy Klobuchar, chair of the panel, and Mike Lee, the… Source link

The move to remote work at the onset of the pandemic last year happened virtually overnight, with shelter-in-place orders forcing office workers to abandon the spaces where they spent most of their waking hours as if driven off by a nuclear meltdown. So people spent the next weeks and months reorganizing their lives and homes, carving offices out of bedroom corners and slipping in and out of home schooling sessions for kids between calls, with former commute hours now devoted to myriad other… Source link

(Bloomberg) — AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. rose for a second day and Wendy’s Co., the latest addition to the retail-trader frenzy, climbed to a record amid a broader rally in meme stocks. Shares of the theater chain rose as much as 10%, adding to Monday’s 15% gain and continuing what’s been a wild ride for investors. Wendy’s jumped as much as 19% to notch a record as the fast-food restaurant operator gained traction on social media, including several touts on Reddit’s… Source link

Carsten Koall | Getty Images Google has reassigned global diversity lead Kamau Bobb after it deemed his past comments as anti-Semitic. Bobb, a global lead for diversity strategy and research at Google, has been in the role at the company for nearly three years, according to his LinkedIn profile. The Washington Free Beacon recently surfaced a 2007 blog post by Bobb about Israel in which he wrote that Jewish people had an “insensitivity” to suffering and stated “If I were a Jew I would be… Source link

Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take over the lead of Search, Assistant and Maps. Now, sources familiar with the hiring tell us, the company has hired Christopher Phillips, who was previously the chief product and technology officer at SiriusXM, to lead its geo team, which is responsible for products like Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Maps Platform, the company’s… Source link

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NBA playoff tracker, your daily one-stop shop for all the latest game results from each NBA playoff series. Here’s a look at Sunday’s games. Thanks to a dominant win over the New York Knicks on Sunday, the Atlanta Hawks are just one game away from advancing to Round 2. The Hawks hammered the Knicks in Game 4, winning 113-96 thanks to a strong second half — especially the third quarter. The Hawks led 53-49 at halftime, but when they came back from the locker room… Source link

What will Silicon Valley’s post-pandemic office landscape look like? Will occupancy return to pre-pandemic levels, or has the workforce become accustomed to remote, commute-less working? A recent announcement by Google — who just received approval by the city of San Jose to expand their facilities in the downtown area — has announced plans to return to “campus-focused” employment, and may serve as an example of the “hybrid-approach” of returning to the office. “People are beginning to… Source link