Leaders in Greater Manchester have accused the British government of trying to force them to agree to the strongest possible Covid-19 restrictions using “selective” hospital data, after London set a deal deadline for noon Tuesday. UK Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said that if the deal between the British government and the local leaders in Greater Manchester, including Mayor Andy Burnham, isn’t inked by 12 p.m. […]
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President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is insisting that the hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden contains such explosive revelations that the shop owner who handed the data to authorities feared for his life. The repair-shop owner handed the laptop, allegedly left for repair by Biden and then abandoned, over to the FBI some time in December – but not before making four complete copies […]
This week, the Filecoin mainnet finally went live. This is huge news, not only because of the anticipation following Filecoin’s large token offering in 2017, but because creating a vibrant ecosystem of decentralized cloud offerings is an important step in the maturation of the cloud. I suspect my feelings on this development may surprise a few people, given that it means a high-profile organization is entering […]
While its mission ended just over three years ago, data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft continues to help scientists unlock the mysteries of the Saturnian system that contains more than 80 identified moons. In particular, new and updated research has helped determine the drift rate of Titan away from Saturn, in turn leading to a better understanding of how the ringed planet system formed, while a completely […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/06/1080680612_0:266:3165:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_6592a9ff7d3624ac49c4d118b8c8448f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010131080755172-rdif-ready-to-share-sputnik-v-data-with-us-fauci-to-dispel-doubts-about-vaccine-safety/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia is ready to share with Anthony Fauci, Director of US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases all necessary information about Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to dispel his concerns about its safety, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev said in an interview with the CNN published on Tuesday. “If he calls us, we will […]
In a LinkedIn post, Vice President of Business and Data Dan Yoo announced he is leaving the company after CEO Brian Armstrong’s blog post saying the company was moving in an ‘apolitical’ direction and later offered a severance package for employees who disagreed. Source link
TeleTracking was awarded a contract to collect COVID-19 data from the nation’s hospitals despite no previous experience working on this sort of data collection. And its system has been plagued by inconsistencies and errors. Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 hide caption toggle caption Westend61/Getty Images/Westend61 TeleTracking was awarded a contract to collect COVID-19 data from the nation’s hospitals despite no previous experience working on this sort of data collection. […]
Blockstack and Algorand’s Clarity smart contracts will source their data from Chainlink’s oracle network. Source link
Blockchain startup Fluree, already building a distributed data management platform to boost the U.S. Air Force’s decision-making prowess, has raised $2.5 million in additional funding from its venture capital backers. The fresh capital pushes Fluree Public Benefit Corporation’s total seed funding to $6.5 million. It also unlocks a $1.5 million defense contract pledged as matching funds through the U.S. Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) […]
Permission.io is a platform that pays users in ASK tokens for engaging with, or even looking at, ads. Built on a fork of the Ethereum blockchain, the Permission platform incentivizes users to grant advertisers and other merchant participants access to their time and data in a peer-to-peer way. Over the past 12 months, the startup has raised $5 million through a token pre-sale, and recently closed […]
Ether’s recent price drop has failed to deter investors from accumulating the cryptocurrency, on-chain data indicates. Source link
Blockchain-enabled video network Theta has partnered with Chainlink to help push back on video advertising scams, the likes of which often pop up promoting “cryptocurrency giveaway” dupes. Announced on Friday, the solution to counter scam-ads uses video performance data from Theta’s network to assign a “reputation score” for each streamer based on their viewership. Generated using Google’s big data solution, BigQuery, the score is then broadcast […]
LONDON—Alexander Nix, the man who was running Cambridge Analytica when it harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of voters without their knowledge so it could be exploited by the Trump 2016 campaign, has been banned from directing any companies for seven years. The now-defunct Cambridge Analytica was a U.K. digital black-ops firm that collapsed in 2018 following revelations that it secretly collected Facebook profile […]
Privacy tech company Aleo has launched a data privacy-oriented blockchain and developer kit to make writing zero-knowledge proofs in web applications easy and scalable. The startup is releasing its first round of software tools to let developers write private applications for the web using a new programming language called Leo, as well as integrate these tools into pre-existing browsers’ functions. “I think it’s become very clear […]
Some tricks of the trade employed by today’s booming decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms are being used for a completely new paradigm: decentralized data marketplaces. Announced Thursday, blockchain-based data monetization startup Ocean Protocol is teaming up with Balancer Labs to create the first automated market maker (AMM) for data. Ocean Protocol is about helping people and businesses unlock data and monetize it, spreading the benefits of data […]
Ethereum data firm Dune Analytics, which has stood out from the pack for its focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, has raised $2 million from a mix of seasoned crypto investors and DeFi angels. Announced Wednesday, the seed round was led by Dragonfly Capital and included Multicoin Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Digital Currency Group (the owner of CoinDesk). The list of angel investors in the round […]
Netherlands-based Blockdata, which provides qualitative insights into the range of large enterprises using blockchain technology, has been acquired by data provider CB Insights. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. New York City’s CB Insights will be opening an office in Amsterdam, while Blockdata will remain a standalone product with its own team. Blockdata’s work will also be available to CB Insights clients, the […]
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Shiv Malik is the author of two books, the co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank and a former investigative journalist for the Guardian. He currently evangelizes about a new decentralized data economy for the open source project Streamr. Who controls our data? The capture of so much information placed in the hands of so few is the most pressing technological issue of our age. The […]
Ben Luján Addresses Navajo Nation Council, Discusses Need For Further COVID-19 Relief In Tribal Communities First published 21 August 2020, Los Alamos Daily Post More than 9,000 individuals living in the Navajo Nation have been infected with COVID-19, and more than 400 lost their lives. U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) has called out the Trump administration for failing to share crucial health data […]
Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan and Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo from New York A recent study revealed 45% of all US coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes. That comes out to over 75,000 Deaths in US Nursing Homes!That is a bloodbath!! Only 0.6% of the US population lives in nursing homes but over 45% of the coronavirus deaths were in these centers. On Wednesday the […]
Scientists at England’s University of Warwick recently announced they had discovered 50 new exoplanets by using a machine learning program to sift through mountains of data collected by satellite observatories. According to a group of scientists at the University of Warwick and London’s Alan Turing Institute, artificial intelligence designed by them has found dozens of new exoplanets previously missed by human astronomers. Their results have recently […]
A hacker has stolen data on more than 1,000 users from CryptoTrader.Tax, an online service used to calculate and file taxes on cryptocurrency trades. The hacker broke into a CryptoTrader.Tax marketing and customer service employee’s account on a support center platform, according to a source who came across the hacker on a dark web forum. With this access, the hacker could see customers’ names, email addresses, […]
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The Israeli firm NSO Group, whose Pegasus spyware, once installed, can read text messages and other data on a phone, and access the microphone and camera, is in a legal battle with Facebook, which claims its software compromised hundreds of phones – including those of journalists and human rights activists – via WhatsApp. The Israeli government reportedly mediated the sale of spyware produced by Israel-based NSO […]
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Dr. Deborah Birx speaks to reporters this week outside the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock. Birx indicated that data on U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations will move back to the CDC under a “revolutionary new data system” the agency is developing. Andrew DeMillo/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew DeMillo/AP Dr. Deborah Birx speaks to reporters this week outside the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock. Birx indicated […]
Federal prosecutors on Thursday arrested former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage, the head of a nonprofit seeking to privately finance construction of a southern border wall, and accused them of illegally using that nonprofit to enrich themselves. But the sums the two men allegedly extracted from the organization just scratched the surface of their grandiose plans to make money off the effort. As he […]
Federal prosecutors allege Uber’s former head of security organized a cover-up of a massive data breach. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Federal prosecutors allege Uber’s former head of security organized a cover-up of a massive data breach. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Federal prosecutors have charged Uber’s former chief security officer with covering up a massive 2016 data breach by arranging a $100,000 […]
Data provider Chainlink will provide decentralized weather data for insurance startup Arbol, according to a blog shared with CoinDesk. Arbol provides crop insurance for small to medium-sized farmers or enterprises. Smart contracts pay claims to subscribers when a preset value – such as the average monthly temperature or rainfall – turns out different than the contract specifies, the firm said. Called parametric insurance, the financial derivative […]
US President Donald Trump has ordered Chinese firm ByteDance to divest from its US-based assets within 90 days and to scrub all data linked to the company’s popular app TikTok, arguing both are a threat to national security. Friday’s executive order put further pressure on the company after an earlier mandate last week, giving ByteDance some three months to sell off its American properties and to […]
Twenty lawsuits have been combined into a unified federal legal action against short-form video app TikTok over allegedly harvesting data from users and secretly sending the information to China. Anjum Naveed/AP hide caption toggle caption Anjum Naveed/AP Twenty lawsuits have been combined into a unified federal legal action against short-form video app TikTok over allegedly harvesting data from users and secretly sending the information to China. […]
Hackers are reportedly selling the personal data of over a million Russians who voted electronically, using blockchain technology, during the recent constitutional amendment process. Over 1.1 million data points were stolen and put on sale for $1.50 each on the online forums, the Russian newspaper Kommersant wrote. The data, consisting exclusively of passport numbers, has little value on its own, the anonymous sellers admitted to Kommersant. […]
The Islamic Republic has of late seen the number of COVID-19 infections skyrocket again, firmly securely first place on the list of the worst-hit nations in the Middle East. A BBC Persian service investigation, based on the government’s cited records, has found that coronavirus fatalities in Iran are almost triple what Tehran says. The latter indicate that almost 42,000 people have died, as compared with the 14,405 […]
On Friday, President Donald Trump threatened to ban TikTok through an executive order, leaving the popular Chinese video sharing platform scrambling to find a way to save its US market presence. US Secretary Mike Pompeo has stepped up the attack on TikTok and other Chinese software companies, claiming the video service is being used by communists to spy on ordinary Americans. “These Chinese software companies doing […]
Between fiery exchanges and partisan monologues, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, testified on Capitol Hill on Friday that he wasn’t told until after a decision was made that hospitals would be directed to bypass his agency, sending COVID-19 data straight to another database in Washington. Redfield answered a string of questions on the subject from Rep. Maxine Waters […]
An NPR investigation has identified unusual decisions around the process that lead to a Pittsburgh company winning a contract to gather COVID-19 data instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. smartboy10/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption smartboy10/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images An NPR investigation has identified unusual decisions around the process that lead to a Pittsburgh company winning a contract to gather COVID-19 […]
The likelihood of bitcoin challenging 2017’s record high by the end of this year may have just nudged up – but don’t raise your hopes too high just yet. Source link
Banks across Italy are using R3’s Corda blockchain to vastly speed up the process of double-checking transaction logs. Silvia Attanasio, head of innovation at the Italian Banking Association (Associazione Bancaria Italiana or ABI), said both the process of interbank reconciliation and the technology underlying the exchange of data had to change. In the old system, reconciliation took a long time and was unpredictable. The average time […]
As millions of Americans prepare to vote in November—and in many cases, primaries and state and local elections through the summer as well—lots of people are talking about voting by mail. It is a way to protect the integrity of the country’s voting system and to limit potential exposure to the coronavirus, which continues to spread widely in the U.S. I am a political scientist and […]
New federal rules for reporting data have caused confusion and delays for state officials trying to monitor the pandemic. Dr. Lee Norman, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, discussed the resurgence in coronavirus cases in Kansas on July 15 in Topeka. Norman called the resurgence “awful.” John Hanna/AP hide caption toggle caption John Hanna/AP New federal rules for reporting data have caused confusion […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0a/1079842829_0:235:3182:2025_1200x675_80_0_0_6152d65d5addc1f632f207d4fb98518e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202007171079917393-russian-covid-19-vaccine-developers-say-ready-to-share-data-with-foreign-colleagues/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology has produced a coronavirus vaccine that is patented and more advanced than Western competitors and will be happy to share the technology with foreign colleagues, should they require, the institute’s head, Alexander Gintsburg, said on Friday. The statement comes on the heels of allegations voiced on Thursday by the […]
While the crypto wallets associated with the scam registered over 400 transactions, the attackers seem to have made away with a relatively small haul. Source link
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One of the most anticipated decisions on data protection ended with European judges ruling that US protections for the personal data of EU citizens do not conform to European privacy rules. The Court of Justice of the European Union has struck down the current mechanism for EU-US data flows on the grounds that the United States does not provide adequate data protections. The Privacy Shield agreement […]
CDC headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia, photo via CDC The Trump administration announced new guidelines on Wednesday. Starting today hospitals will be ordered to bypass the CDC and send ALL COVID-19 patient information to a central database in Washington DC. This comes after TGP’s Tuesday report on the likely fraudulent numbers coming from the CDC. EXCLUSIVE: Three Reasons the China Coronavirus Incidence and Mortality Counts Reported by the […]
JERUSALEM—Israel’s unchecked resurgence of COVID-19 was propelled by the abrupt May 17 decision to reopen all schools, medical and public health officials have told The Daily Beast. “We know Israelis have terrible discipline, but now, it’s the leadership. ” — Galia Rahav, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv The assessment of Israel’s trajectory has direct bearing on the heated debate currently underway in the United States […]
Ethereum developers are aspiring to launch Eth 2.0 in 2020. But that doesn’t mean all the technical details have been spelled out yet. The sum of account balances maintained by the network’s nodes – called the state – continues to grow larger and larger as applications and projects transact. Adoption is good, but runaway growth is bad. Independent developer Alexey Akhunov may have a solution – […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): For American, Chinese, and South Korean companies, India makes for an important market. In the digital era, where data is the fuel for an empowered global future, several countries, including India, are becoming more and more responsible about collecting, storing, and sharing the data of their nationals by foreign firms. Amidst the hue and cry over a ban on dozens of mobile applications, […]
Today President Trump notified Congress about the US breaking ties with the now corrupt World Health Organization. Based on our prior reporting, it is easy to see why the President is taking this action. We first reported on March 17, 2020, on the controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and his irresponsible and criminal fear mongering. Tedros […]
US video conferencing platform Zoom has joined Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram in suspending data requests from Hong Kong authorities following the enactment of the new national security law. Like its tech industry contemporaries, a Zoom spokesperson said the company “supports the free and open exchange of thoughts and ideas,” but it would not cooperate with authorities’ requests for information. Many in the tech industry have […]
Ocean Protocol, a blockchain-based data-sharing platform, has completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) with Daimler, showing how the Mercedes-Benz maker can begin monetizing data streams within the company and across its supply chains. Announced Tuesday, the Singapore-based Ocean collaborated with Daimler AG to explore the decentralized sharing of internal sales and financial data among the multinational’s production hubs, and externally between some of its supply chain procurement partners. […]
(Above Goofy Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler trying to get his China coronavirus mask off during a presser.) Wake up America – the Democrat’s and Deep States responses to the China coronavirus are intentionally non-transparent and are based on data that is total garbage. This is what Democrats feel they must do to prevent a total drudging of their senile candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election. […]
Medical personnel prepare to test hundreds of people for the coronavirus. They lined up in vehicles last week in a Phoenix neighborhood. Matt York/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt York/AP Medical personnel prepare to test hundreds of people for the coronavirus. They lined up in vehicles last week in a Phoenix neighborhood. Matt York/AP Across the United States the coronavirus is once again on the march. […]
Data is arguably the most important strategic asset to emerge in the 21st century. Access to data and the ability to protect its integrity are vital to American security and prosperity. As 5G and artificial intelligence transform our societies into highly integrated networks, protecting data will become even more crucial. In recent years, American efforts have focused on preventing Huawei, the party-controlled Chinese telecommunications giant, from […]
A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s denial of a motion to suppress evidence in a case that hinged on whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Bitcoin blockchain records from warrantless search and seizure. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial […]
After months of panic porn and fraudulent projections and statistics about the China coronavirus and horrible unconstitutional mandates from corrupt politicians, it’s long past time to look at the data and manage according to the facts. This is what successful business people and leaders do in the real world. Since the world was first introduced to the China coronavirus the situation became political. However, some people […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107976/27/1079762728_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_6226d52173da480fac94be460e487542.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007011079762808-us-allegedly-has-financial-data-to-support-russia-bounty-claims—reports/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US intelligence community’s claims that Russia offered bounties for US soldiers in Afghanistan is allegedly supported by data obtained showing financial transfers from the GRU to a Taliban-linked account, the New York Times reported citing three officials familiar with the matter. The report on Tuesday said that US analysts concluded based on other intelligence that […]
Bitcoin may seem to be more volatile than traditional assets but in crypto markets it is considered relatively stable compared to alternative cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin (BTC) is the biggest cryptocurrency by market value. Not only is it used as the base currency of choice for trading smaller digital assets, it is also less vulnerable to manipulation or sudden price swings compared to altcoins, most of which are […]
The US Senate Intelligence Committee has approved a measure that would require the government, including the Pentagon and intel agencies, to compile all data on unidentified aerial phenomena into a declassified report. Though the provision is part of a broader annual intelligence bill and must still be approved by the full Senate, the intelligence committee recently voted to add the measure into the legislation, calling on […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107968/35/1079683501_0:0:2999:1688_1200x675_80_0_0_667eb425058fbada1619c014468c0584.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079702561-us-attorney-general-applauds-new-senate-bill-allowing-government-access-to-encrypted-data/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A new US Senate bill if passed will allow the Justice Department to access encrypted data in order to crack down on criminals who have abused this capability to avoid detection, Attorney General William Barr said in a statement. “Passing legislation that allows warrant access to encrypted data will allow law enforcement to further provide for […]
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans, according to Medicare claims data. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Moore/Getty Images COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans, according to Medicare claims data. John Moore/Getty Images New federal data reinforces the stark racial disparities that have appeared with COVID-19: According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Black Americans enrolled […]
Genome sequencing data has revealed that the COVID-19 strain responsible for the most recent outbreak in Beijing traces back to a European one, according to recent studies. “According to preliminary genomic and epidemiological study results, the virus is from Europe, but it is different from the virus currently spreading in Europe,” Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official Zhang Yong is quoted as saying […]
It’s hard to pick just one stunning fact about the market suddenly created by the issuance of Compound’s COMP token. Since Monday, when the governance token started being released to users of the decentralized lending platform, the total value locked (TVL) on Compound has broken $200 million for the first time, according to DeFi Pulse, and it’s decisively on its way to $300 million. At $283 […]
Doctors behind a COVID-modeling study used by the president’s coronavirus task force are now warning that virus hot spots are beginning to converge and jump from county to county as people increase their travel for work and summer vacation. According to doctors working on a study put together by PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the virus is moving along major highways and interstates—such I-10 in […]
The British government has released documents detailing parts of the relationship between the National Health Service and for-profit surveillance firms such as Faculty and Palantir and global consultancies such as McKinsey, following the threat of court proceedings brought by openDemocracy and Foxglove. Phil Booth, coordinator of the organisation medConfidential that campaigns for patient confidentiality and consent in Britain, explains the “devastating” revelations in the documents as […]
In a new, massive federal survey of novel coronavirus cases in the United States, a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers an in-depth breakdown by gender, race, ethnicity, and health factors. Among 1,320,488 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases considered by the CDC between January 22 and May 30, 2020—of which only 45 percent had race or ethnicity data—33 percent were Hispanic or Latino of […]
Rebekah Jones was fired last month from her job at the Florida Department of Health, where she helped create a data portal about the state’s COVID-19 cases. Now, she has created a dashboard of her own. In some ways, Jones’s new portal for Florida coronavirus data looks a lot like the state health department’s. But it has a few key differences that reflect just how contentious […]
This is CNN. Advertisement – story continues below CNN hack Chris “Fredo” Cuomo this week blamed President Trump for “systemic racism” in the US economy while using data that stopped in 2016. Barack Obama was president in 2016. Under President Trump, black and Hispanic unemployment have been at record lows. TRENDING: JUST IN: Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Replace Police with ‘Community-Led Public Safety System’ […]
Bitcoin could be on the verge of breaking into a multi-month bull run, according to a lesser-known data metric. The percentage of bitcoin’s circulating supply in profit is currently hovering at 87%, according to data provided by blockchain analytics firm Glassnode. The metric is calculated by looking at the ratio of coins with a value that is higher now than when they were last moved. Essentially, […]
US police, which has repeatedly been accused of racial bias against African-Americans, in turn, is responsible for around 2% of all violent deaths of blacks in the country. As George Floyd’s protests continue to rock American cities, the first grim reports of their consequences for local communities have begun to emerge. The University of Chicago Crime Lab has reported that 31 May was the most violent […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Amid the corona pandemic, economies around the world are struggling to stay afloat, with massive amounts of jobs lost and a recession hitting even the most well-off countries. The situation is similar in India, where many people, who have been laid off during the lockdown, are surfing the web in search of opportunities. The cyber crime police branch of Maharashtra, an Indian state […]
Option market traders look to be placing bets for a continued upward move in bitcoin, according to a key metric. The put-call open interest ratio, which measures the number of put options open relative to call options, fell to 0.43 on Thursday – the lowest since March 24, according to crypto derivatives research firm Skew. The data takes into account open interest at leading derivatives exchanges […]
The Lancet, one of the top medical journals in the world, has retracted a study questioning the safety of treating Covid-19 with anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, following controversy surrounding the research firm behind it. The retraction officially came at the request of the study’s authors, who admitted on Thursday they could “no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources.” “We deeply apologize to you, the […]
Data BreachCoincheck has fallen victim to a data breach after attackers accessed one of its domain name accounts and used it to impersonate the cryptocurrency exchange. The Japanese firm said Tuesday that an unknown third party gained access to an account it held with domain registration service Onamae.com. An incident notice suggested the attackers then used its .jp domain account to send “fraudulent” emails to customers. Hard ForkEthereum […]
Coincheck has fallen victim to a data breach after attackers accessed one of its domain name accounts and used it to impersonate the cryptocurrency exchange. The Japanese firm – which fell victim to possibly the largest crypto hack in history in 2018 – said Tuesday that an unknown third party gained access to an account it held with domain registration service Onamae.com. An incident notice suggested […]
The old Wall Street maxim “sell in May and go away” is detrimental to bitcoin investors, market data from Messari suggests. The largest cryptocurrency generated positive returns during eight of the past 10 Mays, outperforming its monthly average for that year during six of them. “Sell in May” refers to an old investment strategy that advises against holding investments during summer months, starting in May. While […]
A medical professional administers a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing site run by George Washington University Hospital, on May 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images A medical professional administers a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing site run by George Washington University Hospital, on May 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer/Getty Images In April, New […]
CNN and MSNBC have done everything they can over the last few months to politicize the Coronavirus crisis. They have blamed Trump, and his supporters, accused them of being stupid and selfish. They have stoked fear over Republican governors opening their states and have tried to make the shutdowns go on longer. Tucker Carlson did an excellent monologue about it this week. TRENDING: Looters Raid Target […]
Memorial Day stories in the Associated Press and the New York Times each claim that the U.S. death toll from the Wuhan COVID-19 virus is approaching 100,000. AP says it’s “nearly 100,000.” The Times, dramatically invoking language reminiscent of the Iraq War, says that “America is fast approaching a grim milestone … of 100,000 lives lost.” The AP directly cites Johns Hopkins’ COVID Dashboard as its data source. […]
NATO announced that the Communications and Information (NCI) Agency is looking for ideas from startups, inventors and innovators for new technologies to process radar data and give the Alliance a clearer picture of activities in our skies. Through the challenge, the NCI Agency aims to incentivize innovations that could be scaled to the NATO environment. Startups and small and medium-sized enterprises from all 30 NATO Nations […]
A national law enforcement agency in Ukraine has detained a hacker it claims is responsible for the country’s largest known theft of personal data, cryptocurrency wallets and other information. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) reported detaining a hacker, known as Sanix, allegedly known for selling a database with 773 million e-mail addresses and 21 million unique passwords on various online forums in recent years. In […]
The hackers who stole confidential files about stars including Lady Gaga, U2 and Bruce Springsteen from a top entertainment law firm claim to have sold information on Donald Trump to a secret buyer, and now say they’re demanding at least $1 million for details on Madonna. The REvil ransomware group, which is said to have successfully extorted $2m out of the Travelex currency exchange service earlier […]
Moderna Announces Positive Interim Phase 1 Data for its mRNA Vaccine (mRNA-1273) Against Novel Coronavirus Moderna Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 18, 2020– Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced positive interim clinical data of mRNA-1273, its vaccine candidate against novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), from the Phase […]
India 08:34 GMT 18.05.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): The government of India has eased policies, permitting the nation’s start-ups and private firms to be part of deep space missions that would be undertaken by the country’s apex space body ISRO. Access to ISRO’s geospatial data would ensure the development of newer technology at lower costs for Indian firms. Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday […]
Tech 17:44 GMT 17.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107802/22/1078022271_0:128:3224:1942_1200x675_80_0_0_39fd2f9de08913543a073eb537f8c48a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202005171079333835-german-data-protection-watchdog-warns-officials-against-using-whatsapp/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Germany’s data protection commissioner Ulrich Kelber has warned federal authorities against using Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger while working from home during the coronavirus crisis, in a letter leaked by media on Sunday. “Even in these difficult times data protection should not be neglected. For this reason I would like to point […]
Dr. Scott Atlas, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joined Jesse Watters on Watters’ World on Saturday night to share his 5 key points on treating the coronavirus. Dr. Atlas made five points in describing the coronavirus and the absurd response to the pandemic by Dr. Fauci and the CDC. 1.) The evidence shows the fatality rate is much less, maybe one-tenth, of what was originally […]
Russia may no longer be a tea country with coffee taking the leading position in the market, customs data and recent analyst estimates show. According to customs data, Russia imported nearly 218,000 tons of coffee last year, while tea imports stood at around 150,000 tons. Coffee overtook tea shipments both by volume and value, as the imports were worth over $630 million – around 50 percent […]
While ether’s (ETH) price has risen by nearly 50% this year, the number of addresses holding large amounts of the currency, popularly known as whales, has declined significantly. The seven-day average of the number of unique addresses holding 10,000 ethers or more fell to 1,050 on Tuesday. That’s the lowest level since January 2019, according to data provided by the blockchain intelligence firm Glassnode. The whale […]
Russia’s Foreign Ministry will send letters to the Financial Times and New York Times demanding they retract reports which claim the actual death toll from Covid-19 in the country is much higher than the official figures. The editors-in-chief of those outlets will be handed the letters on Thursday through the Russian embassies in the UK and the US, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing. […]
Some 24,000 Android applications have been leaking sensitive data – including mobile phone numbers and passwords – through improperly configured storage on Google’s Firebase development platform, a new study has found. The critical lack of security was uncovered by a research team at Comparitech.com, an expert group focusing on information security and privacy. The Firebase platform is the most popular storage solution for Android apps, used […]
Outrage is brewing in Ukraine after the leak of an inquiry letter in which the national police demanded the Jewish community in a small city disclose the names and addresses of its members, supposedly to fight organized crime. The letter was apparently sent in mid-February by a senior police official to Yakov Zalishchiker, the Jewish leader in the city of Kolomyya in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region. […]
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Mother’s Day weekend. Advertisement – story continues below Bartiromo broke news this morning that cell phone records show there was a shutdown at the Wuhan Virology Lab in October of 2019. Cell phone data suggests the roads around the Wuhan lab was shut down for a number of days in October.This was around the […]
Live and Let Die: The Data Manipulation Begins By Marcy Wheeler, Emptywheel May 8, 2020 Live and Let Die: The Data Manipulation Begins2020-05-082020-05-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/covid-19-healthcare-workers-wheel-the-bodies-of-deceased-people-from-the-wyckoff-heights-medical-center-in-brooklyn-by-andrew-kelly-for-reuters.jpg200px200px Above: COVID-19, healthcare workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn By Andrew Kelly for Reuters. From the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, various entities in the United States were always engaged in the kind of dishonesty we […]
With bitcoin more than doubling in price since “Black Thursday” nearly two months ago, nearly 85% — or 25.79 million — of addresses holding the cryptocurrency are now “in the money,” according to blockchain intelligence firm IntoTheBlock. However, the current state of the bitcoin market is warning of a post-halving price pullback. The number one cryptocurrency by market value is trading near $10,000 at press time – […]
Get a giant hard drive from the Filecoin team stuffed with data on climate, the world’s literature or the human genome and get ready to earn some crypto. “I think people don’t fully appreciate the enormous logistics involved with moving data at a massive scale,” Ian Darrow, head of operations at Filecoin, told CoinDesk in an interview. The Filecoin Foundation is inviting anyone to join its […]
One of the studies that the Trump administration is relying on as it moves ahead with plans to reopen the U.S. economy, warns that even if states take the necessary steps to ease social distancing restrictions, counties across the country—both big and small—will see a significant spread of coronavirus. The study, which was put together by PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is in the hands […]