Guardian: For Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar, Covid-19 brought an onslaught of symptoms from chest pains to an 11-day migraine, three positive test results, and a period in hospital. Seven months later, the rollercoaster is far from over: the 36-year-old from Byron Bay, Australia is still experiencing symptoms – including difficulties with thinking that are often described as “brain fog”. Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar. Photograph: Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar “Brain fog seems like such an inferior description of what is actually going on. It’s completely crippling. I am unable to think clearly enough to [do] anything,” says Nicholson-McKellar, adding that the experience would be better described as cognitive […]
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UK security officials were not convinced by China’s Huawei Technologies that the security risks of using its products in Britain can be adequately managed in the long term, a government report said. The Chinese company could only give “limited assurance” that risks to UK networks could be sufficiently mitigated from a long-term perspective, the report released on Thursday said. It cited “continued problems” with engineering and security practices at Huawei. A government-led board, which includes officials from Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), signaled that the intelligence agency stressed that it had no confidence in the company’s ability to complete a cybersecurity […]
Stephannia Swain is a cook who was laid off as a result of the pandemic. COVID-19’s economic aftershocks have hit the hospitality industry especially hard. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY hide caption toggle caption Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Stephannia Swain is a cook who was laid off as a result of the pandemic. COVID-19’s economic aftershocks have hit the hospitality industry especially hard. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Stephannia Swain, 52, has had the same job for almost her entire adult life, cooking at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. “We only have six cooks and we’re all lifers,” she said. With 30 years of experience, Swain was the most […]
Amid ambitious projects by the US to return humans to the Moon already this decade, scientists have been particularly concerned over the potential dangers that future astronauts might face from space radiation A fresh study has suggested that future manned missions to the Moon need not fear detrimental consequences for the health of their astronauts from the radiation on the surface of the planet. While earlier the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s proved it was safe for people to spend a few days on the lunar surface, at the time their devices captured total exposure from the entire journey, […]
From the robotic arms of the Shuttle era and the International Space Station to synthetic aperture radar programs and satellites studying critical elements of Earth’s changing climate to telecommunication needs in the northern parts of the country, Canada has been a mainstay of space exploration from the beginning. While many champion the current “golden age” of commercialization of space, that very commercialization is what has always driven Canadian space goals: to boost scientists and universities and industry through government investment designed to put private entities in charge of space projects instead of government. Now, those public-private partnerships will propel Canada to […]
Bitcoin’s options market retains long-term bullish bias despite the recent price pullback, data shows. Source link
You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team and edited by Bradley Keoun, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto markets, which of course never close, putting in context every wild swing in bitcoin and more. We follow the money so you don’t have to. You can subscribe here. Price Point Bitcoin was down early Thursday to about $11,250, extending Wednesday’s sell-off and falling to its lowest price since early August. [Update: At press time prices had slumped further to around $10,850.] The cryptocurrency tumbled 4.4% on Wednesday, the most in a month, […]
José spent three months in the hospital being treated for COVID-19. “All of the nurses clapped for me as I was leaving the hospital,” he says. But now he faces a long recovery at home. Eddie Quiñones for NPR hide caption toggle caption Eddie Quiñones for NPR José spent three months in the hospital being treated for COVID-19. “All of the nurses clapped for me as I was leaving the hospital,” he says. But now he faces a long recovery at home. Eddie Quiñones for NPR In early August, José came home to the Chicago apartment he shares with his wife […]
“Bitcoin is … the only known commodity in the universe that has a deterministic and fixed supply,” the Winklevoss brothers wrote in a blog post saying the cryptocurrency may one day hit $500,000. Source link
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Tehran and Moscow have agreed to devise and conclude a long-term strategic cooperation agreement. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Zarif said the agreement was made during his Tuesday visit to Moscow, where he met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and talked with President Vladimir Putin on the phone for one hour due to the coronavirus pandemic. Describing his talks with Russian officials as fruitful, Zarif said he held intensive negotiations with the authorities in Moscow for four and a half hours that resulted in the agreement. He […]
The summit has continued for several days, unplanned, due to strong differences over a COVID-19 recovery fund and a long-term budget. The EU leaders have coordinated an economic recovery fund and a long-term financial plan at the summit in Brussels, EU Council president Charles Michel announced on Tuesday. The EU has agreed on a 750 billion euros economic recovery fund and a 1.074 trillion euros financial plan for 2021-2027, the Belgian Prime Minister said. Ahed of the plenary session, Michel said that he would offer new proposals on the EU’s long-term budget and the recovery plan, describing it as the “fruit of lots […]
A popular narrative argues the massive stimulus programs from the Federal Reserve, launched to counter a coronavirus-induced recession, could hyperinflate the economy and fuel a major rally in bitcoin. However, that bullish theory, which suggests the cryptocurrency would be viewed as a hedge asset in dire economic times, has been dealt a blow by recent data from the U.S. central bank. The data suggests inflation is likely to remain absent for some time and, in fact, the probability of the U.S. economy slipping into deflation is rising. There’s now a 78.6% chance of deflationary pressure for the U.S – the highest […]
One of NASA’s biggest facilities, the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), is bringing its vast experience into play for the long-awaited return of US domestic crew launch capability. The center’s Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) has been conducting reviews and running sims associated with the Demo-2 (DM-2) mission that is scheduled to launch at the end of this month. While most fans of the space program are well aware of the key control centers such as Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Control Center (LCC) and the Flight Control Rooms at the Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control Center (MCC), Marshall’s role has a […]