Pandemic

Non-essential trips allowed published : 27 May 2022 at 10:06 updated: 27 May 2022 at 10:08 Travellers line up to board a Hawaii-bound flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport during Japan's "Golden Week" holidays on April 29, 2022. (Photo: Reuters) TOKYO: Japan on Thursday eased its travel warning for 36 countries…

Driediger Farms owner Rhonda Driediger tends to her strawberry plants | Rob Kruyt Canadian farmers have recently griped about rising costs, but on average their bottom lines have swelled in recent years. Statistics Canada said today (May 25) that the country's farmers' profits jumped 46.4 per cent in 2020, after rising…

Strategic network expansion supporting European and Alaskan cruise sectors and global energy market demand Speedcast made substantial investments in network management technologies, with future-ready, software-defined services that helped make the capacity acceleration possible Major increase to the company’s total network capacity from 2020 pre-pandemic levels was completed at rapid pace…

The tech world's pandemic supply chain meltdown drove ServiceNow to place orders for a year worth of datacenter kit in January 2022, believing that doing so was necessary to get the hardware it needed to cope with growing customer workloads. "Pre-COVID, I could generally get stuff in 45 days," CTO…

News When was the last time you ended mankind? Plague Inc. is a name most avid mobile gamers will know. Before Covid, the only pandemic threatening mankind was the one gamers created on their phones thanks to Ndemic Creation’s humanity ending sim. And now, after over 180 million downloads, the…

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In early 2020, the world counted 2,095 billionaires. Today—two years, half-a-billion covid cases, and at least 6 million covid deaths later—there are 2,668. One of the biggest global crises in modern history was a boon for some, creating 573 new billionaires—or one every 30 hours—according to Oxfam’s newest report on…

The report showed that 573 people became new billionaires during the pandemic, at the rate of one every 30 hours The report showed that 573 people became new billionaires during the pandemic, at the rate of one every 30 hours As the rich and powerful from across the globe gather…

The Homeland Security Department said it is complying with a judge’s ruling halting the Biden administration from putting the kibosh on the Title 42 pandemic border shutdown, delivering a win to Republicans and a reprieve to many Democrats who feared political fallout should President Biden have fully reopened the border.…

Mnet’s “M Countdown” is reopening its studio to live audiences! On May 20, a representative of the weekly music show announced, “Starting from May 26, we will be reinstating studio audiences.” Back in March 2020, “M Countdown” shut its doors to studio audiences due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it…