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(Adds economic data, economists’ comments) By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider Aug 20 (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said on Friday its annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, will take place on Aug. 27 virtually and not in person as planned, the clearest sign yet of the impact of the COVID-19 Delta variant on the Fed’s plans. “While we are disappointed that health conditions will prevent us from being able to gather in person at the Jackson Lake Lodge this year… Source link

(Updates with BlackBerry’s statement) Aug 17 (Reuters) – A cybersecurity flaw in a software designed by BlackBerry Ltd could put at risk cars and medical equipment that use it and expose highly sensitive systems to attackers, the U.S. drugs regulator and a federal agency said on Tuesday. The warning came after the Canadian company disclosed https://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000082334 that its QNX Real Time Operating System (QNX RTOS) has a vulnerability that could… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. government is poised to being offering booster shots as soon as next month, with the country facing a renewed wave of infections fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant. New Zealand, which has run a successful Covid elimination strategy, will enter a lockdown after reporting its first community transmission since February. Switzerland recorded its biggest jump in infections in months, and the government has redoubled efforts to get more people vaccinated…. Source link

* Shares fall as much as 20% below IPO price * Worries about China crackdown on gaming sector * Worst debut for S.Korean listing since 2004 (Updates with milestone, closing price, market capitalisation, KOSPI ranking, adds analyst comment) By Joyce Lee and Scott Murdoch SEOUL/HONG KONG, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Shares in Krafton Inc , the Tencent Holdings-backed South Korean company behind blockbuster video game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG), fell as much as 20% on their trading debut on… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The spread of the delta coronavirus variant has pushed the threshold for herd immunity to well over 80% and potentially almost 90%, the Infectious Diseases Society of America said. U.S. President Joe Biden criticized the pandemic response of the Florida and Texas governors, both Republicans. The two states account for about a third of all new U.S. cases in the past week. Thailand had record deaths and cases, while Australia found a case in the far-north city of Cairns. Hong Kong… Source link

BEIJING, China, Aug. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Li Auto Inc. (“Li Auto” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LI), an innovator in China’s new energy vehicle market, today announced that the Company delivered 8,589 Li ONEs in July 2021, crossing the 8,000-vehicle milestone for the first time while hitting a new record. The deliveries were up 11.4% month over month and 251.3% year over year, a remarkable rate of growth. As of July 31, 2021, total deliveries in 2021 reached 38,743, bringing… Source link

(Releads on e-commerce investment) By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW, July 28 (Reuters) – Russian internet giant Yandex said on Wednesday it intends to spend around $650 million on e-commerce initiatives this year, more than previously planned, after reporting strong second-quarter results and upgrading its 2021 revenue forecast. Group revenue this year should now be between 330 and 340 billion roubles ($4.49-$4.63 billion), Yandex said, up from 315-330 billion roubles previously. Second-quarter… Source link

(Adds comment from executive) By Helen Coster July 24 (Reuters) – NBC’s broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony drew 16.7 million viewers, the smallest U.S. television audience for the event in the past 33 years, according to preliminary data from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal on Saturday. Across all platforms, including NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app, 17 million people watched the ceremony, NBCUniversal said in an email. The streaming audience on those platforms grew 76% from… Source link

Google has finally given its new, unified smartwatch platform a name — and it’s an obvious one: Wear OS 3. That little detail was part of what may be a more contentious set of information about which current Wear OS smartwatches will be updated, when those updates will come, and what those updates will entail. On all three of those fronts, it’s not very good news. Google says that Wear OS 3 updates will start rolling out to a limited set of smartwatches in the “second half of… Source link

A bad update to Chrome OS, version 91.0.4472.165, has left some users unable to log in to their accounts, or reportedly with boot-looping computers (via Android Central). If you’ve found yourself locked out of your Chromebook, help is on the way: Google posted on its system status page that it’s working on a fix, which it expects to release on Wednesday. It’s also pulled the update, which should prevent more users from experiencing the issue. According to Google, the only options to… Source link