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China Tech Digest: US Considering Restrictions On Alibaba, Tencent Payment Platforms Alibaba

China Tech Digest: US Considering Restrictions On Alibaba, Tencent Payment Platforms

Chinese travelers overseas prefer to use what they are accustomed to at home, WeChat Pay or Alipay. The U.S. threatens to take actions against Ant’s and Tencent’s payment platform According to media reports, the United States is considering introducing restrictions on the digital payment platforms of China’s Ant Group and…
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October 9, 2020
Why Anita Hill Is Voting for Joe Biden Despite Their Troubled Past: ‘I Want to Move Forward’ (Video) Joe Biden

Why Anita Hill Is Voting for Joe Biden Despite Their Troubled Past: ‘I Want to Move Forward’ (Video)

Anita Hill was a guest on “The View” on Friday where she explained why she has endorsed Joe Biden for President of the United States, despite his role in her 1991 Senate testimony against Clarence Thomas. “Vice President Biden did appear on your show and I do recall that you…
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October 9, 2020
’No Afrikaans, no promotion’: Mitchells Plain teacher protests against ’racism’ Hongkong

’No Afrikaans, no promotion’: Mitchells Plain teacher protests against ’racism’

By Velani Ludidi 5h ago Share this article: ShareTweetShareShareShareEmailShare Cape Town – A Mitchells Plain teacher held a lone protest inside Littlewood Primary School where she says she was snubbed for a top job because she cannot speak Afrikaans. Nomonde Jikajika-Balarane says she applied for the head of the department…
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October 9, 2020
U.S. States Are Rolling Out COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps. Months of Evidence From Europe Shows They’re No Silver Bullet Times Square

U.S. States Are Rolling Out COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps. Months of Evidence From Europe Shows They’re No Silver Bullet

On Oct. 1, New York state released an app that can notify you if you’ve come into contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19. Called “COVID Alert NY,” the app is one of 10 currently active in states around the U.S. that are based on Google and…
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October 9, 2020
‘Universal law of touch’ will enable new advances in virtual reality Virtual Reality

‘Universal law of touch’ will enable new advances in virtual reality

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team, led by researchers at the University of Birmingham, used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. The results…
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October 9, 2020
Joe Biden has spent $500 million on ads this year as he seeks the presidency Joe Biden

Joe Biden has spent $500 million on ads this year as he seeks the presidency

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at a carpenters union in Phoenix, Arizona, October 8, 2020.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersJoe Biden's presidential campaign has broken the $500 million mark on his ad spending in its fight against President Donald Trump. The campaign has spent that amount on…
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October 9, 2020
Days after calling off talks, Trump is now telling aides to do a huge stimulus deal Nancy Pelosi

Days after calling off talks, Trump is now telling aides to do a huge stimulus deal

Millions of Americans are waiting to hear if they’ll get a new stimulus check anytime soon, and leaders in Washington continue to disappoint them — even though talks about a new coronavirus stimulus bill are still ongoing. The latest drama comes in the form of an apparent reversal by President…
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October 9, 2020