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Big Data tech CEO on the federal government’s response to coronavirus: ‘A total failure of leadership’ Big Data

Big Data tech CEO on the federal government’s response to coronavirus: ‘A total failure of leadership’

Published: April 14, 2020 at 1:42 p.m. ET ‘We can do better than this,’ Splunk’s Doug Merritt says Splunk Inc. CEO Doug Merritt castigated the federal government for its data-free response to COVID-19. Splunk Inc. The federal government’s tardy response and relatively data-free approach to the coronavirus pandemic has one…
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April 13, 2020
Subsidies For Han Settlers ‘Engineering Demographics’ in Uyghur-Majority Southern Xinjiang Kashgar

Subsidies For Han Settlers ‘Engineering Demographics’ in Uyghur-Majority Southern Xinjiang

As authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) send ethnic Uyghurs to other parts of the country to work in factories, a quasi-military organization is luring Han Chinese settlers to the region’s south as part of a policy experts say amounts to demographic engineering. Several videos recently posted…
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April 13, 2020
Hollywood Scrambles to Meet Surging Demand for Animation, Children’s Content During Coronavirus Panda

Hollywood Scrambles to Meet Surging Demand for Animation, Children’s Content During Coronavirus

“The demand for children’s content has increased exponentially as a result of families staying home,” Thanda Belker, of Pocket.watch, tells TheWrap With stay-at-home orders affecting most of the country, demand is surging for content that can keep children entertained –driving a newfound demand for animated and other series that can…
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April 13, 2020
Animal Crossing Gets Real Hongkong

Animal Crossing Gets Real

As real-world gatherings are restricted, activists and educators amplify their messages in a digital world. The Monterey Bay Aquarium's social media team has been teaching marine biology by playing Animal Crossing on their Twitch channel. NintendoThe Los Angeles Times published a great feature over the weekend about how Animal Crossing:…
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April 13, 2020
Hundreds of new shady websites are pushing questionable COVID-19 drugs hyped by Donald Trump and Elon Musk Bolsonaro

Hundreds of new shady websites are pushing questionable COVID-19 drugs hyped by Donald Trump and Elon Musk

Scammers are creating hundreds of shady websites to trick people searching for information about certain drugs with shaky links to COVID-19 treatment, according to a new report.President Trump has repeatedly promoted antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as coronavirus treatments, but scientists say it's too soon to tell whether the treatment…
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April 13, 2020
CityWatch: New York City’s homeless face additional challenges during COVID-19 Homeless

CityWatch: New York City’s homeless face additional challenges during COVID-19

Tens of thousands of people living without a home in New York City — an often-ignored and particularly vulnerable population — face even greater uncertainty amid the spread of COVID-19 as homeless service providers must adapt to social distancing and face growing strain.There were 57,842 children and adults in shelters…
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April 13, 2020
Zoom, TikTok dances, and sourdough bread: How coronavirus self-isolation has changed American society in just a few weeks TikTok

Zoom, TikTok dances, and sourdough bread: How coronavirus self-isolation has changed American society in just a few weeks

People are figuring out innovative ways to celebrate birthdays during while social distancing and posting them on TikTok. TikTok On March 19, California became the first US state to issue a stay-at-home order to curb the spread of the coronavirus.Since then, 42 states have issued stay-at-home orders, affecting an estimated…
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April 13, 2020