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When crypto exchange FTX moved its headquarters to the Bahamas from Hong Kong last year, employees discovered that Amazon did not deliver to the island. They quickly found an alternative, striking a private deal with an air carrier to fly their orders from a Miami depot. FTX’s airmail programme, which was described in interviews with …

“When was your last period?” health-care professionals ask patients during routine gynecological exams. Menstrual tracking can help a person achieve or avoid pregnancy, understand fertility, anticipate premenstrual syndrome, and detect cycle irregularities that serve as early warning signs of health problems. But when that information is logged on a smartphone app, it could be used …

CHARLOTTE COUNTY Fewer kindergartners are enrolled in school in 2022 than in 2019, and health authorities are concerned there is no way to know whether many are vaccinated against common diseases like measles. During the last school year, enrollment for children in kindergarten was about 10% lower than the year before, and a look …

One of the most concerning issues for IT leaders and organisations in 2021 is the impact of technology blind spots. Snow Software’s 2021 IT Priorities Report found that an awareness gap still exists between IT leaders and employees when it comes to unmanaged and unaccounted for technology. For example, while both groups agree that security is the …

For Kenneth Lien, campus sophomore and executive director of Cal Hacks, the failed renewal of the Student Technology Fund, or STF, fee during the ASUC elections in April is a “loss of a safety net.” Without the STF fee — a campus-based student fee referendum that provided all UC Berkeley students with equitable access to …

Conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is resulting in death, injury, and sexual abuse, with the majority of health centres not functioning. Sharmila Devi reports. This article is available free of charge. Simply log in to access the full article, or register for free if you do not yet have a username and password. …

Only 10% of board directors at leading banks have professional technology experience; one-third of banks have no board members with technology experience Despite the significant increase in the adoption of digital technologies over the past few years, there is a continued lack of technology expertise and digital fluency in the boardrooms of the world’s largest …

The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s main public health authority, found there is insufficient data on the effectiveness of the vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, for this age group, according to a statement from the interior ministry on Thursday. “Due to the small …

A heavy and sometimes controversial agenda, coupled with technical problems during a global pandemic, brought a new set of challenges to the County Council last week, during a meeting that saw testifiers grumble about lack of access and a mayor appear to step outside his lane to advise council members on Sunshine Law issues. The …

The novel coronavirus outbreak Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks during a news conference on Thursday, November 19. Birx became the first official with the White House Coronavirus Task Force to speak at a briefing while wearing a face mask. The novel coronavirus outbreak Medical workers and patients are seen Wednesday, …