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Stocks In Meltdown After Temporary Trading Halt : NPR
After weeks of turmoil over the economic toll of the coronavirus, U.S. stock indexes entered a bear market, signaling an end to their 11-year winning streak. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeenah Moon/Getty Images After weeks of turmoil over the economic toll of the coronavirus, U.S. stock indexes entered a bear market, signaling …
Trump’s blacklisting of Huawei failing to halt its growth, Technology
[BEIJING] In the days after the US government said it would bar Huawei Technologies from buying vital American components, the Chinese company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, pulled together an emergency meeting of his top lieutenants at headquarters in Shenzhen. In a large conference room, the billionaire asked for a report from the head of each business …
Healthcare.gov enrollment extended to Dec. 18 after computer issues halt ACA insurance signups
“Nobody should miss the opportunity to sign up for 2020 coverage because of yesterday’s technical problems. CMS must also commit to being transparent about what happened yesterday and on the first day of Open Enrollment, what they did to fix it, the impact it had on enrollment, and what they will do to make sure …
Police forces halt trials of facial recognition systems | World news
Police forces are pushing back against Home Office attempts to roll out facial recognition systems, dealing a harsh blow to government plans to introduce the controversial technology. Kent Police and West Midlands Police were named by ministers in June as collaborating with the Home Office to trial the technology to trace “missing and vulnerable persons”. …
BBC – Future – The maths problem that could bring the world to a halt
It’s not easy to accurately predict what humans want and when they will want it. We’re demanding creatures, expecting the world to deliver speedy solutions to our increasingly complex and diverse modern-day problems. Over the last few decades, researchers have developed a range of pretty effective mathematical solutions that can allocate resources across a variety …