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iPhone Production Resumption in China Exceeds Foxconn’s Expectations, But US Sales Concerns Remain Vietnam

iPhone Production Resumption in China Exceeds Foxconn’s Expectations, But US Sales Concerns Remain

The founder of iPhone assembler Foxconn said on Thursday that the resumption of production at its factories in China had "exceeded expectations," following the coronavirus-related disruption of supply chains (via South China Morning Post). told reporters that the return to work effort at Foxconn's factories in China had "exceeded our…
bubmag
March 12, 2020
Will Coronavirus Lead to a Recession? What We Can Learn From Pandemics in History Feudalism

Will Coronavirus Lead to a Recession? What We Can Learn From Pandemics in History

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during Influenza Pandemic in 1918. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Viruses are killers, not just of humans but of powerful civilizations. Can they also bring down strong economies? A look back in history demonstrates how this has happened and…
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March 12, 2020
What Happened When I Probed Facebook About Workplace Diversity in My City Colin Kaepernick

What Happened When I Probed Facebook About Workplace Diversity in My City

A view from the new Facebook Reality Lab in Pittsburgh. Facebook Facebook’s new Pittsburgh research lab says it’s building technology for the “future of work.” But it’s unclear whether there are black people in that future.From the outside looking in, Facebook’s new Reality Lab office building in Pittsburgh is nothing…
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March 12, 2020
What the History of Small-State Presidential Candidates Tells Us about Biden’s Chances Slavery Abolition

What the History of Small-State Presidential Candidates Tells Us about Biden’s Chances

Joe Biden would be the oldest person ever elected president, and as I noted Tuesday, he is also running a familiar kind of “old warhorse” candidacy that has never succeeded. That’s not the only way in which Biden (or for that matter Bernie Sanders) would be a historically unique Democratic…
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March 12, 2020
PA claims Israel fabricates Islamic stabbings despite video Hebron

PA claims Israel fabricates Islamic stabbings despite video

The Palestinian Authority claims that Israel fabricates Islamic stabbings despite video evidence of attacks, reports Palestinian Media Watch. The official PA reporter said: "The sight of the many citizens passing through the checkpoints without hesitation or fear did not please the most extreme settler leaders… Accordingly, the occupation leaders' orders…
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March 12, 2020
U.S. senators seek to ban federal employees from using TikTok on their phones TikTok

U.S. senators seek to ban federal employees from using TikTok on their phones

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Republican senators on Thursday introduced a bill aimed at banning federal employees from using Chinese social media app TikTok on their government-issued phones, amid growing national security concerns around the collection and sharing of data on U.S. users with China’s government. FILE PHOTO: A TikTok logo…
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March 12, 2020