Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Pete Buttigieg And Amy Klobuchar Endorse Joe Biden

Pete Buttigieg And Amy Klobuchar Endorse Joe Biden

Just ahead of the single most important day of the Democratic primary, former Vice President Biden picked up the endorsements of two former rivals.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/02/800856100/sen-amy-klobuchar-ends-presidential-campaign?source=Snapzu

South Korea's Samsung Electronics closes mobile device plant after coronavirus case confirmed: Yonhap

South Korea's Samsung Electronics closes mobile device plant after coronavirus case confirmed: Yonhap

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and LG Innotek (011070.KS) have shut their factories in South Korea after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus, the companies said on Sunday. Samsung’s mobile device factory in Gumi, close to Daegu, where most of the South Korean virus cases have been confirmed, will be closed until Sunday evening for disinfection work while the floor where the infected employee worked will reopen on Tuesday afternoon, a company statement said.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-samsungelec-idUSKBN20O19R?source=Snapzu

Monday, 2 March 2020

Flying Car Developers Get a Boost From the Air Force

Flying Car Developers Get a Boost From the Air Force

The Pentagon wants to make sure the fledgling electric aviation industry doesn't follow the path of small drones and move offshore.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/flying-car-developers-get-boost-air-force/?source=Snapzu

New FAA drone rule is a giant middle finger to aviation hobbyists

New FAA drone rule is a giant middle finger to aviation hobbyists

More than 34,000 people have deluged the Federal Aviation Administration with comments over a proposed regulation that would require almost every drone in the sky to broadcast its location over the Internet at all times. The comments are overwhelmingly negative, with thousands of hobbyists warning that the rules would impose huge new costs on those who simply wanted to continue flying model airplanes, home-built drones, or other personally owned devices.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/new-faa-drone-rule-is-a-giant-middle-finger-to-aviation-hobbyists/?source=Snapzu

Michael Hay, who managed the longest-running law firm in Pyongyang, dies at 58

Michael Hay, who managed the longest-running law firm in Pyongyang, dies at 58

Michael Hay, who founded and managed the longest-running foreign-backed law firm to be based in North Korea, died last Wednesday in South Korea, aged 58. His death was confirmed by friends and former colleagues to NK News. Hay – also a friend of this author – was well known among businesses and NGOs as one of the few lawyers to have ever successfully won commercial disputes in North Korea’s opaque legal system.
Read more: https://www.nknews.org/2020/03/michael-hay-who-managed-the-longest-running-law-firm-in-pyongyang-dies-at-58/?source=Snapzu

Hindu Nationalist Mobs in India Are Hunting and Beating Muslims

Hindu Nationalist Mobs in India Are Hunting and Beating Muslims

As President Trump praised India’s Hindu nationalist leaders for their work on religious freedom, hardline government supporters were rampaging through New Delhi hunting Muslims.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgeva3/hindu-nationalist-mobs-in-india-are-hunting-and-beating-muslims?source=Snapzu

People in China are walking through these giant disinfectant machines to ward off the coronavirus — but experts don't think it works

People in China are walking through these giant disinfectant machines to ward off the coronavirus — but experts don't think it works

The coronavirus has infected more than 80,000 people. The outbreak has driven a demand for medical disinfectants in China.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-china-wuhan-spray-disinfectant-tunnel-bleach-2020-2?source=Snapzu