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Recent Corona News
- IBM, Amazon, Google and Microsoft partner with White House to provide compute resources for COVID-19 research (Techcrunch)
- Business unusual: Time for tech to move fast and fix things (aljazeera)
- China’s factories work 24/7 to build medical ventilators for Milan, New York amid spreading global Covid-19 pandemic (SCMP)
- Coronavirus Stimulus Offered By House Financial Services Committee Creates New Digital Dollar (Forbes)
- Am Telefon zur Corona-Virologie: Karin Mölling (KenFM, Excellent DE Only Interview)
- Corona virus COVID-19- hype and hysteria? Demystification of the nightmare! (Interview with Prof. Dr. med. Sucharit Bhakdi)
- Italian professor repeats warning coronavirus may have spread outside China last year (SCMP)
- Satellite images show resurgence of air pollution over China (ctvnews)
- Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down for Coronavirus (NYTimes)
- Older people would rather die than let Covid-19 harm US economy – Texas official (Guardian)
- Warmer Weather May Slow, but Not Halt, Coronavirus (NYTimes)
- India to be under complete lockdown for 21 days starting midnight: Narendra Modi (econtimes)
- Why are the infection rates so high in Italy? (fefe)
- Canadian doctor who works in Gaza makes 3D-printed face shields for COVID-19 (cbc)
- German Government Corona Hackaton
- Coronavirus Treatment Developed by Gilead Sciences Granted “Rare Disease” Status, Potentially Limiting Affordability (intercept)
- The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020” (globalresearch)
- Welcome to the Virosphere (NYTimes)
- Afro-Jazz-Star Dibango ist tot: Makossa-König und Saxo-Genie (SZ)
- Last groups of Russian medical experts arrive in Italy (TASS)
- Russia sends aid to Italy to cope with COVID-19 and backs NATO dialogue (TASS)
- Russia helps Italy to fight coronavirus without any strings attached — Kremlin (TASS)
- Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19 (Stat News)
- Statistikprobleme beim Coronavirus - Die große Meldelücke (Spiegel)
EU Shrugs Off US Sanctions, Gives Millions In Coronavirus Aid To Iran (ZeroHedge)
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Japan’s top carriers announce 5G launches as 2020 Olympics face delay (venture beat)
Although Japanese carriers originally planned to roll out 5G networks and services to coincide with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July, trade wars and accelerated global 5G launches created some uncertainty around the scope and timing of Japan’s commercial 5G launch. This week, as the Olympics themselves face a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan’s top carriers are kicking off 5G service without the guarantee of a summertime promotional push. Today, carrier KDDI announced that it will offer “au 5G”-branded service in parts of 15 Japanese prefectures starting on Thursday, March 26
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We're Living in 12 Monkeys - Documentary by Truthstream Media
#Technology #Documentary #Cryptocracy #Augmentation #Politics #ALife
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Aldous Huxley on next generation pharmacological methods (1962)
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution” ― Aldous Huxley
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New Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Introduces Digital Dollar And Digital Dollar Wallets (Forbes)
As the markets continue to drop and the U.S. looks to Congress for agreement on a massive stimulus package to save the economy from impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the newest offer by House Democrats includes a very forward-looking kind of stimulus: the creation of a ‘digital dollar’ and the establishment of ‘digital dollar wallets.’ In what will send shock waves through the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, particularly for those following central bank digital currencies around the world, this signals the U.S. is serious in establishing infrastructure for a central bank digital currency.
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#Art from the Protector Comic
Protector takes place in a tech-less 3241 AD. Humanity has been thrown back to darker ages where barbarism and technological mysticism reign supreme.
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Why Trump should trigger NATO’s Article 5 vs. COVID-19 - by Frederick Kempe (Atlanticcouncil)
"If NATO could bend Article 5 to combat a non-state terrorist actor striking the United States, why not also to combat the Chinese-originated COVID-19, which by Friday had infected more than 28,000 individuals and killed more than 1,200 among NATO allies. Given current transatlantic divisions, there is far greater need now than after 9/11 for a symbolic gesture of unity."
Corona: Vatican allows general absolution (vaticannews)
In face of the Corona crisis, the Vatican allows priests in all affected areas to issue general absolution. And it offers coronavirus sufferers and healthcare workers the opportunity to get a complete indulgence.
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Japan asked the international media to change how we write their names. No one listened (CNN, 2020)
In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the "familiar map of China." In the new system "Canton becomes Guangzhou and Tientsin becomes Tianjin." Most importantly, the newspaper would now refer to the country's capital as Beijing, not Peking. Now, Japan wants its turn.
As the country marked the dawn of the Reiwa Era last year with the coronation of Emperor Naruhito, its foreign ministry felt it was an opportune time to request that the names of Japanese officials be written differently. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's name, for example, would become Abe Shinzo, with his family name coming before his given name — just as the international media prints the names of Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
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Human Capital Markets, Digital Identity, & the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (wrenchinthegears, 2020)
My current efforts are focused on raising awareness around pay for success deals, privatized welfare, Blockchain contracts, smart cities, and predictive analytics derived from Internet of Things sensors. These elements are combining to create predatory human capital investment markets within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I’m excited to talk to you about these goals, particularly target 16.9, digital identity, and how it relates to global finance and the profiling of families.
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Coronavirus Is Speeding Up the Amazonification of the Planet (onezero)
A woman works at a packing station at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York City, on February 5, 2019. Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images This Amazonification is already underway. The consumer shift to online retailers away from meatspace malls and boutique shops has been the subject of hand-wringing and prognostication for years, and, if anything, the evolution was moving slower than many feared. Walmart, after all, remained the world’s largest retailer long after fears of Amazon’s dominance had become mainstream. Warehouse automation, a key goal of Amazon, was advancing but not yet leaving humans out in the cold by any stretch of the imagination. Yet Amazon caught up in 2019, and if anything, this coronavirus-fueled surge may accelerate its supremacy over the retail market.
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NeRF - Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views. We describe how to effectively optimize neural radiance fields to render photorealistic novel views of scenes with complicated geometry and appearance.
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As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets (NYTimes)
New software in China decides whether people should be quarantined or permitted to enter public places like subways. Green means a person is at liberty to go out.Credit...Raymond Zhong As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own civilians. Health and law enforcement authorities are understandably eager to employ every tool at their disposal to try to hinder the virus — even as the surveillance efforts threaten to alter the precarious balance between public safety and personal privacy on a global scale. Yet ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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A debt jubilee is the only way to avoid a depression - Washington Post Opinion - by Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Jesus & His Mission The word “Jubilee” comes from the Hebrew word for “trumpet” — yobel. In Mosaic Law, it was blown every 50 years to signal the Year of the Lord, in which personal debts were to be canceled. When Jesus delivered his first sermon, the Gospel of Luke describes him as unrolling the scroll of Isaiah and announcing that he had come to proclaim the Year of the Lord, the Jubilee Year.
The coronavirus outbreak is serving as a mind-expansion exercise, making hitherto unthinkable solutions thinkable. Debts that can’t be paid won’t be. A debt jubilee may be the best way out.
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Microsoft says hackers are attacking Windows users with a new unpatched bug (Techcrunch)
Microsoft says attackers are exploiting a previously undisclosed security vulnerability found in all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10. But the software giant said there is currently no patch for the vulnerability. The security flaw, which Microsoft deems “critical” — its highest severity rating — is found in how Windows handles and renders fonts, according to the advisory posted Monday. The bug can be exploited by tricking a victim into opening a malicious document. Once the document is opened — or viewed in Windows Preview — an attacker can remotely run malware, such as ransomware, on a vulnerable device.
Hacker selling data of 538 million Weibo users (ZDNet)
The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online. In ads posted on the dark web and other places, a hacker claims to have breached Weibo in mid-2019 and obtained a dump of the company's user database, allegedly containing the details for 538 million Weibo users. Personal details include the likes of real names, site usernames, gender, location, and -- for 172 million users -- phone numbers.
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Angela Merkel in Corona Quarantine (NZZ) (alt: CNN)
"Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) is in domestic quarantine. According to a message on Sunday (22nd March), this was necessary because a doctor who had vaccinated Merkel against pneumococci on Friday had tested positive for the coronavirus will be tested regularly in the coming days and continue to work, it said.
Harvey Weinstein tests positive for virus (Reuters)
Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and rape, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the head of the state corrections officers union. This happens shortly after Weinstein was sentenced to 23-year in jail (and possibly struck a deal, to expose the names of other abusers.). Most likely he will be suicided by "corona" shortly.
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10 questions for the U.S.: Where did the novel coronavirus come from? (CGTN)
Chinese state TV wonders if the US withdrew from a 2001 bioweapon treaty to engineer SARScov2--and also secretly used mass drones inside China to spread swine flu.
U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak (Reuters)
Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key US public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China.
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TSMC weighs new US plant to respond to Trump pressure (March 2020, Nikkei)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is stepping up its evaluation of whether to build an advanced chip facility in the U.S. in response to pressure from Washington, which wants the world's biggest contract chipmaker to produce on American soil over security concerns. TSMC, which makes chips for U.S. F-35 fighter jets and supplies almost all global chip developers, including Apple, Huawei, Qualcomm and Nvidia, is actively considering a U.S. plant, two sources briefed on the plan told the Nikkei Asian Review. A new plant would aim to be the world's most cutting-edge, producing semiconductors more advanced than the 5-nanometer node chips that Apple will adopt in its latest 5G iPhones this year, they said.
