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Mexico to call out national guard to protect gas trucks
From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-08-05 12:11:26
By Associated Press
Excerpt:
Mexico’s president says he will call on the National Guard to protect gas delivery trucks after drivers and crews went on strike to protest government price controls
Poll Shows Many Seniors Would Switch Parties For Lower Drug Prices
From crooksandliars.com
2021-08-04 13:01:00
Common Dreams
Excerpt:
A survey released Tuesday by the Alliance for Retired Americans finds that seniors overwhelmingly support allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies—so much so that a sizeable percentage would cross…
‘Law’ that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul de sac
From www.theregister.com
2021-08-05 04:30:00
Excerpt:
In 1975, eight years after leaving Fairchild to co-found Intel, Moore revised his “law”, actually just an observation, to a doubling every two years. But the other predictions in his original paper of revolutions in computing, communication and general electronics had taken hold. The chip industry had the perfect metric to aim for a rolling, virtuous milestone like no other.
Since then, according to Professor Erica Fuchs of Carnegie Mellon University, “half of economic growth in the US and worldwide has also been attributed to this trend and the innovations it enabled throughout the economy.” Virtually all of industry, science, medicine, and every aspect of daily life now depends on computers that are ever faster, cheaper, and more widely spread…..
….during the three-node transition from 65nm through 40nm to 28nm, cost per wafer went up by only a third from $2k to $3k while per-chip dropped by two-thirds from $1,428 to $453. Those days have gone, and are not coming back.
Even if there are two or three more cycles left through transistors, packaging and architectural changes, the drivers that Gordon Moore saw for silicon have been replaced by force of habit. What alternatives are there?
Google Allows Crypto Ads Again in US, Blacklists ICOs and DeFi
From www.financemagnates.com
2021-08-04 10:37:32
Arnab Shome
Excerpt:
Google has updated its advertising policy for financial products and services, allowing marketers to run cryptocurrency advertisements again, effective from Tuesday. But, the search-engine giant is putting heavy restrictions on the advertisements related to cryptocurrencies.
The ads targeted to the United States-based consumers must be of regulated crypto companies, meaning they must be registered with the ‘FinCEN as a Money Services Business and with at least one state as a money…
Senators press Zuckerberg over Facebook’s impact on youth mental health
From thehill.com
2021-08-04 12:39:38
Excerpt:
Top lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee’s consumer protection panel are pressing Facebook to release internal research on the impact of its products on youth mental health as the company presses ahead with plans for a platform geared toward children.
U.S. delisting Chinese companies is ‘inevitable’: Carson Block – Yahoo Finance
From au.finance.yahoo.com
2021-08-04 13:36:04
Excerpt:
Muddy Waters Capital Founder and CIO Carson Block joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the crackdown on U.S.-listed Chinese companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhl9i6GEjRo
How alternative power can make farm equipment sustainable, Auto News, ET Auto
From auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com
2021-08-05 02:41:00
Excerpt:
In this process of transformation, electric tractors, robots and hydrogen fuel cell equipment are being looked at as alternatives to make agriculture sustainable. The role of farm equipment powered by alternative sources is getting bigger.
The DNC machine, with all of the vast near-monopolistic powers of society and culture and state at their disposal, can’t keep Biden up in the polls. A new poll has Joe Biden drop ten points in job approval overall from last June, down to 52 percent. The number of people who believed the economy was right on track dropped from 49 percent to 43 percent.
Across the board, Joe’s polls are sliding as his mask keeps sliding and the machine can’t keep pushing the mask back up again.
Biden’s Job and Economy Approval Ratings Drops in Two Polls
From legalinsurrection.com
2021-08-03 20:30:13
Mary Chastain
Excerpt:
The Hill reported that Biden’s approval sits at 52% in the latest Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll.
He lost ten points from June when 62% of the respondents approved of his job.
Congress, Republican, and Democrat approval ratings also took a hit.
The latest approval ratings come in as the country sees an uptick in COVID-19 cases:
That resurgence has put the coronavirus pandemic back at the top of the list of voters’ concerns, according to the poll. Thirty-six percent say that COVID-19 is the most important issue facing the country, a 6-point increase from June when jobs and the economy topped the list of concerns.
If an antitrust lawsuit is correct, Google and Facebook may have been involved in some ad price fixing that may have been going on between the two companies starting back in 2014.
Google accused in suit of fixing ad rates with a Facebook deal
From www.livemint.com
2021-08-03 23:01:35
Excerpt:
Alphabet Inc.’s Google was accused in an antitrust lawsuit of giving itself the edge in online advertising by cutting a cozy deal with Facebook that gives the social network an advantage in virtual auctions which determine whose ads appear where.
The deal has allowed Google to retain its dominance in online advertising while keeping other advertisers on the sidelines and limiting revenue for online publishers, two Massachusetts companies claimed in a proposed class-action lawsuit.
A so-called header bidding system devised in 2014 enabled publishers to direct a user’s browser to solicit real-time bids from multiple exchanges, not just Google’s, according to the complaint. Facebook initially embraced the system, but as part of a 2018 deal with Google, it agreed to limit its program in return for preferential treatment in Google’s ad business, the Massachusetts companies claimed in the complaint, filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court.
Apple appears willing to work with the Chinese Communist Party while it uses its resources to moralize to Americans at home, and throw its weight behind DNC-agenda items, over and over and over again. Meanwhile, overseas, Apple gets cozy with the Communist Party of China, the CCP, a party that will arrest you and potentially execute you for being a homosexual or someone who doubts the government.
Apple Said to Work With Chinese Suppliers for iPhone 13 Series
From gadgets.ndtv.com
2021-08-04 05:17:48
Excerpt:
Apple is working with more Chinese suppliers to produce its latest iPhone handsets, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper said on Wednesday, as a tech feud stemming from a trade war with the United States prompts Beijing to strengthen domestic firms.
Luxshare Precision Industry is set to build up to 3 percent of the upcoming iPhone 13 series, and two firms it acquired last year will supply key components and parts for the latest iPhone devices, the paper said, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Lens Tech will supply metal casings and Sunny Optical Tech Group will supply rear camera lenses, the paper said on its website, with BOE Tech Group also supplying components.
