Ivermectin Does Not Reduce Risk of Covid Hospitalization, Large Study Finds

“At some point it will become a waste of resources to continue studying an unpromising approach,” one expert said.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/health/covid-ivermectin-hospitalization.html?source=Snapzu

Intel CEO earned 1,711 times more than average company worker in 2021

Intel Corp Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger earned 1,711 times as much as the average worker at the U.S. chipmaker in just 11 months since he joined in February last year, a regulatory filing showed on Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-earned-1711-times-average-workers-pay-2021-2022-03-30/?source=Snapzu

Canada releases plan for a 40 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2030

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault today released the government's plan to dramatically curb greenhouse gas emissions over the next eight years to meet ambitious 2030 reduction targets. It's a plan that leans heavily on deep cuts in the electricity, oil and gas and transportation sectors.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-2030-emissions-reduction-plan-1.6401228?source=Snapzu

Max Mosley ‘found with fatal gunshot wound after learning he had terminal cancer’

The former president of the motorsport’s governing body FIA for 16 years between died at home in Chelsea west London
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/f1-max-mosley-shooting-gunshot-b2046472.html?source=Snapzu

Federal Judge Finds Trump Most Likely Committed Crimes Over 2020 Election

“The illegality of the plan was obvious,” the judge wrote in a civil case, referring to the former president’s efforts to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to upend the certification of the Electoral College results.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/us/politics/trump-election-crimes.html?source=Snapzu

New EU law could spark gold rush of iMessage alternatives

As large tech platforms are asked to become interoperable
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/29/23001295/eu-law-digital-markets-act-message-interoperability-whatsapp-imessage?source=Snapzu

Ukraine gives medal to soldier who told Russian warship to ‘go fuck yourself’

Roman Hrybov, released in a prisoner swap, was stationed on Snake Island when he told a Russian invader to ‘go fuck yourself’
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/ukrainian-soldier-russian-warship-medal-snake-island?source=Snapzu

Copyright Is Indispensable For Artists, They Say; But For All Artists, Or Just Certain Kinds?

One of the central “justifications” for copyright is that it is indispensable if creativity is to be viable. Without it, we are assured, artists would starve. This ignores the fact that artists cre…
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/29/copyright-is-indispensable-for-artists-they-say-but-for-all-artists-or-just-certain-kinds/?source=Snapzu

Taking Aim at Billionaire Tax Avoiders, Biden Proposes Minimum Tax for Ultrarich

After ProPublica's Secret IRS Files showed how the richest avoid taxes — often by minimizing income and relying on their wealth — the Biden administration unveiled a plan that could raise hundreds of billions in tax revenues. Its fate is uncertain.
Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/taking-aim-at-billionaire-tax-avoiders-biden-proposes-minimum-tax-for-ultrarich#1286855?source=Snapzu

Chris Rock Comedy Tour Sees Surge in Ticket Sales After Will Smith Slap

Chris Rock will return to the stage for his ongoing comedy tour this week, after being slapped by Will Smith on the Oscars stage Sunday night over a joke he made about the actor’s wife, Jada …
Read more: https://variety.com/shop/chris-rock-comedy-tour-tickets-will-smith-slap-1235217103/?source=Snapzu

CNN+ Readies For Debut: Is It The Next News Innovation Or Too Late To The Streaming Wars?

The long awaited, heavily promoted CNN+ debuts on Tuesday, with a lineup of live and on-demand programming and, in the media world, a dose of doubts.
Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/03/cnn-plus-launch-streaming-service-preview-1234987770/?source=Snapzu

Career Choices: How to Find Work in the Remote Economy [Infographics]

Choices are sometimes conscious decisions and other times circumstances force change. Regardless of which it is for you, you do have choices! Many previously could not imagine choosing not to commute. Where they live most may live in one area and commute to another so it never occurred to them there are options. But you can, by making a conscious choice about your career.
Read more: https://growmap.com/career-choices-commuting/?source=Snapzu

Disney+ Drops ‘Simpsons’ Episode in Hong Kong Because of Tiananmen Square Joke

The 2005 episode features the Simpson family visiting Beijing, where they drop by the landmark, finding a placard that reads: “On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/simpsons-china-censorship-1235053711/?source=Snapzu

Artificial intelligence preserving our ability to converse with Holocaust survivors even after they die

Most survivors of World War II's Nazi concentration camps are now in their 80s and 90s, and soon there will be no one left who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand -- no one to answer questions or bear witness to future generations.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-stories-artificial-intelligence-60-minutes-2022-03-27/?source=Snapzu

5 Simple Things Everyone Should Know About Inflation

When it comes to navigating the economy in 2022, there are 5 simple things everyone should know about inflation. Inflation can be simply explained as sustained upward movement in the price of goods and services in an economy. There are various ways this is calculated, which we will get into below.
Read more: https://simplifiedneeds.com/2022/03/02/5-simple-things-everyone-should-know-about-inflation/?source=Snapzu

Stellantis plans to build an EV battery plant in the US

Stellantis, the parent company of Dodge, Jeep, and Chrysler, plans to build an electric vehicle battery factory in the US. The news came out of an announcement Wednesday that the automaker would invest $4.1 billion on a new battery facility in Canada, along with South Korea’s LG Energy Solution.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22993071/stellantis-ev-battery-factory-us-canada-lg?source=Snapzu

Russian forces are reportedly holding Ukrainian journalists hostage

International groups say Russian soldiers are threatening, detaining and even torturing Ukrainian journalists in occupied areas. One news editor says troops are holding her 75-year-old father hostage.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088808627/ukrainian-journalists-missing-detained?source=Snapzu

Second 'black box' found in China Eastern plane crash

BEIJING (AP) — The second “black box” from a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 was found Sunday, raising hopes that it might shed light on why the passenger plane nosedived into a remote mountainous area in southern China last week, killing all 132 people on board.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/china-hong-kong-guangzhou-9936bd4fae0c1f3b48e0ffa475e1c141?source=Snapzu

‘Violence isn’t OK’: Hollywood reacts to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock

It was the bombshell moment of the Oscars. Not feelgood best picture winner Coda, or historic wins for the Afro-Latina actor Ariana DeBose or deaf actor Troy Kotsur, or the Academy hiring not one but three hosts – Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall – for the first time since 2018. No, by far the most talked-about moment of the 94th annual Academy Awards was when the best actor winner, Will Smith, took offense to a joke by presenter Chris Rock and slapped him onstage.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/28/will-smith-slap-how-did-hollywood-celebrities-react?source=Snapzu

Kremlin TV Descends Into Screaming Match Over Putin’s War Failures

There’s no hiding the cracks that have formed on Russian airwaves over the war in Ukraine any longer.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-television-descends-into-screaming-match-over-vladimir-putins-war-failures-in-ukraine?source=Snapzu

Volcano near Philippines capital erupts, spewing plume of steam and ash

Thousands of residents are being urged to evacuate, as the Philippines volcanology institute raises the alarm at the Taal volcano to the third level in a five-step warning system.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/taal-volcano-philippines-erupts-steam-ash/100942132?source=Snapzu

How Native Americans Are Trying to Debug A.I.’s Biases

Data on Native communities are not at the levels needed for accuracy in A.I.-driven tools. A group is trying to solve that problem.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/technology/ai-data-indigenous-ivow.html?utm_content=ig-nytimes?source=Snapzu

Death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins may be tied to drugs, Colombia police say

Hawkins, 50, was found dead in a hotel room at the Casa Medina in Bogota, Colombia Friday, where heartbroken fans gathered outside in shock.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/taylor-hawkins-death-may-be-tied-to-drugs-police/?source=Snapzu

'I lost my eye, my career and my identity'

As Michael Bisping walks into the room for this interview, he spills a cup of coffee on the floor. For most, it would be an innocuous incident. For Bisping, there is a life-changing, career-defining reason behind the spillage - he is blind in one eye.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/60838662?source=Snapzu

J.K. Rowling hits back at Putin after he likened Russia to her in rant against cancel culture | CNN

J.K. Rowling has hit back at Vladimir Putin after the Russian President compared the West's treatment of his country to a public backlash faced by the Harry Potter author.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/world/jk-rowling-putin-intl-scli-gbr/index.html?source=Snapzu

Ukrainian President Zelensky in talks with Academy to make Oscars appearance

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in talks with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make a video appearance during Sunday’s broadcast of the Academy Awards
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/03/25/ukrainian-president-zelensky-in-talks-with-academy-to-make-oscars-appearance/?source=Snapzu

Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite veto

GOP lawmakers in Utah pushed through a ban on transgender youth athletes playing on girls teams Friday, overriding a veto and joining 11 other states with similar laws amid a nationwide culture war.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/3ffc9205bfbeb05ae3a72425950208ef?source=Snapzu

The secret police: Inside the app Minnesota police used to collect data on journalists at protests

Intrepid Response is a little-known but powerful app that lets police quickly upload and share information across agencies. But what happens to the information it collects?
Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/23/1047899/secret-police-app-minnesota-police-journalists-protests-data/?source=Snapzu

How European rulings imperil flagship Google product

Lax laws and sweetheart deals are becoming a thing of the past for big tech firms, particularly in Europe where a series of rulings is posing a major threat to one of Google's flagship products. More than half of the world's websites use Google Analytics to help their owners understand the behaviour of users.
Read more: https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-european-imperil-flagship-google-product.html?source=Snapzu

Drake's roulette win leads to $1M gift to Lebron James' foundation

Drake teamed with online gambling house Stake.com to make a massive donation to the LeBron James Family Foundation, TMZ reported. The Canadian-born artist recently hit it big playing one of their online roulette tables and he shared the love with his NBA star pal. Drake posted video on social media on Wednesday from the Harbour 60 steakhouse in Toronto talking about winning after placing a massive bet on black 11.
Read more: https://thegrio.com/2022/03/24/drakes-roulette-win-leads-to-1m-gift/?source=Snapzu

EU Provisionally Agrees on Law That Would Force Apple to Allow Alternative App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability

European lawmakers have provisionally agreed upon a new law that would force Apple to allow user access to third-party app stores and permit the sideloading of apps on iPhones and iPads, among other sweeping changes designed to make the digital sector fairer and more competitive.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/25/eu-provisionally-agrees-dma-law-apple-app-store/?source=Snapzu

Canada to increase oil, gas exports amid push to displace Russia

Canada says move comes after European allies said they ‘need help’ as they ease dependence on Russian energy supplies.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/24/canada-to-increase-oil-gas-exports-amid-push-to-displace-russia?source=Snapzu

Machine Gun Kelly Performs Outside Paraguay Hotel After Deadly Storm Cancels Show

Machine Gun Kelly's turning hotel bellmen into tour roadies and proving the ol' show biz adage is true ... even in the face of a deadly storm in South America.
Read more: https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/23/machine-gun-kelly-performs-paraguay-deadly-storm-concert/?source=Snapzu

Alex Jones skips deposition in Sandy Hook settlement, defying court order

Alex Jones had been ordered to appear before the court on Wednesday after a judge denied...
Read more: https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Alex-Jones-skips-deposition-in-Sandy-Hook-17022979.php?src=nthpdesecp?source=Snapzu

An Amazon drone crash in Oregon set a field ablaze

Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program has been plagued by internal conflict, high turnover, and delays, Insider previously reported.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-drone-crash-oregon-fire-2022-3?source=Snapzu

Ted Cruz May Have Just Boosted Sales For The Anti-Racist Children's Book He Attacked

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a big production on Tuesday about how wrong it is that children’s books promoting anti-racism are being taught at a private school in Washington, D.C., where Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is a board member.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-anti-racist-baby-ketanji-brown-jackson_n_623b4907e4b0f1e82c52288e?source=Snapzu

Russia Blocks Google News for 'Unreliable Information' on Ukraine War

The Russian government blocked access to Google News in Russia late on Wednesday, citing “unreliable information” about the war in Ukraine, according to state media outlet Interfax.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/russia-blocks-google-news-for-unreliable-information-on-1848696259?source=Snapzu

UK teen suspected of masterminding Microsoft, Nvidia and Ubisoft hacks

Hacking group Lapsus$ is thought to be responsible for recent attacks on Nvidia, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Samsung and Vodaphone. According to Bloomberg, four cybersecurity researchers investigating the attacks believe at least some of them to have been carried out by a 16-year-old living at his mother’s house near Oxford, England.
Read more: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/uk-teen-suspected-of-masterminding-microsoft-nvidia-and-ubisoft-hacks/?source=Snapzu

Mystery owner of Stan the T rex finally revealed following $31.8m auction

Paleontologists celebrate ‘happy ending’ as Abu Dhabi museum is revealed as owner, after fearing implications of sale to secret buyer
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/23/mystery-owner-of-stan-the-t-rex-finally-revealed-following-318m-auction?source=Snapzu

Analysis of Twitter posts finds increased incel activity in US cities where men face higher competition for female partners

A new study published in the journal Psychological Science suggests that incel behavior may be partly driven by mating markets with higher competition among men. The researchers found higher incel-related Twitter activity in parts of the United States with a scarcity of women, higher income inequality, and smaller gender gaps in income.
Read more: https://www.psypost.org/2022/03/analysis-of-twitter-posts-finds-increased-incel-activity-in-us-cities-where-men-face-higher-competition-for-female-partners-62769?source=Snapzu

Apple Launches Driver's License Feature on iPhone in Arizona, More States Coming Soon

Apple today announced that Arizona has become the first U.S. state to support driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app on the iPhone and...
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/23/apple-launches-ids-in-wallet-arizona/?source=Snapzu

Older Americans are given the wrong idea about online safety – here's how to help them help themselves

Older Americans are often taught to be fearful of hackers and scammers in their midst while also being told to investigate potential threats. Better advice is to not engage.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/older-americans-are-given-the-wrong-idea-about-online-safety-heres-how-to-help-them-help-themselves-177215?source=Snapzu

'Tough' new laws set to deter Victorian animal activists trespassing on farms

People caught trespassing on Victorian farms could be slapped with on-the-spot fines of $1,272 for an individual and $8,178 for an organisation under new legislation passed in Parliament yesterday.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-03-23/laws-deter-victorian-animal-activists-trespassing-on-farms/100932410?source=Snapzu

Are advertisers going to infiltrate our dreams?

Major brands like Coors, Microsoft, and Burger King want in on our dreams — and researchers are concerned about it.
Read more: https://thehustle.co/are-advertisers-going-to-infiltrate-our-dreams/?source=Snapzu

Gambling addiction could be nine times higher than industry claims

Landmark study finds 1.4m being harmed and 1.5m at risk as government readies to unveil reform
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/23/gambling-addiction-could-be-nine-times-higher-than-industry-claims?source=Snapzu

Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges

"Adding legal": Google fights monopoly suit by copying lawyers on emails, DOJ says.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely-hides-emails-from-litigation-by-ccing-attorneys-doj-alleges/?source=Snapzu

Obsolete devices leave bionic eye patients in dark - BBC News

The retinal-implant manufacturer has shifted its focus, leaving users with little or no support.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058.amp?source=Snapzu

Post-COVID psychosis occurs in people with no prior history. The risk is low but episodes are frightening

Typically, people who experience psychosis encounter it in young adulthood or alongside dementia later in life. Post-COVID psychosis can hit adults in their middle years.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/post-covid-psychosis-occurs-in-people-with-no-prior-history-the-risk-is-low-but-episodes-are-frightening-179193?source=Snapzu

In a captured state

There’s nothing wrong with having a society that’s run by smart, hard-working, educated people. The problem arises when that class is unable to see itself.
Read more: https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-11-2021/in-a-captured-state?source=Snapzu

Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics

Open letter from 500 academics likens fossil-energy funding of climate solutions to tobacco industry disinformation
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/21/universities-must-reject-fossil-fuel-cash-for-climate-research-say-academics?source=Snapzu