The Economic Case for Vaccine Passports
Requiring vaccine passports would not violate any individual rights that a well-ordered society would choose to defend.Photograph by FrankHH / ShutterstockThe latest surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States has been called a pandemic of antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists. But it is more than that. Children under 12, for example, are ineligible for vaccination, yet…
Waymo is building a hub for its autonomous trucks in Texas
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Waymo announced plans to build a hub for its autonomous semi-trailer trucks on a nine-acre site near Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The Alphabet-owned company also said it is partnering with rental truck company Ryder on fleet management as it looks to grow the delivery and logistics portion of its…
Boba Fett’s ship name changed from Slave-1 officially
This week the folks at Marvel and Disney and whomever else is in charge of this sort of business made the name change official for Boba Fett’s ship. Earlier this year, LEGO detailed a new set of bricks that’d make what they might’ve earlier called Slave-1. That was the official name for Boba Fett’s ship…
Bitget CEO Sandra: Decentralized Derivatives Exchanges are not Likely to Disrupt Their Centralized Counterparts in the Short to Medium Term
By Bitget CEO Sandra Derivatives products have been playing a significant role in the global finance market. As the concept of decentralization experienced rapid development and gradually gained wider recognition among users in recent years, decentralized derivatives trading has naturally become one of the most promising markets. So is it possible for decentralized derivatives exchanges…
Planet Labs and Google Cloud join forces in data analysis agreement
Satellite operator Planet Labs is beefing up its existing partnership with Google Cloud. Under a new agreement, Planet customers can use Google Cloud to store and process data, and access Google’s other products such as its data analytics warehouse BigQuery. The two companies’ collaboration stretches back to 2017, when Google sold its satellite imaging business,…
ElectroNeek™ Summer ’21 Release: A Dramatic Shift In The RPAaaS Business Landscape
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — ElectroNeek Robotics Inc. ( https://www.electroneek.com ), a leading provider of Intelligent Automation Software for Managed Service Providers, announced today the launch of ElectroNeek Summer ’21 product release and introduced new …
Boku launches M1ST, the world’s largest mobile payments network, connecting Southeast Asia Digital Consumers to global merchants
SINGAPORE, Aug 18, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Boku Inc. (AIM: BOKU) today announced the launch of the M1ST (aka Mobile First), the world’s largest mobile payments network. The M1ST Payments Network features an unrivalled 330+ mobile payment methods, including mobile wallets, direct carrier billing, and real-time payments schemes, reaching 5.7 billion mobile payment accounts…
ABA and JCB partner to enable payment acceptance in Cambodia
Tokyo & Phnom Penh, Aug 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., Japan’s only international payment brand, and Advanced Bank of Asia Ltd. (ABA Bank), the digital banking leader in Cambodia and a subsidiary of National Bank of Canada, signed the License Agreement and…
How rivals became allies in the fight against waste
Last April, our prestige beauty brand REN took out a full-page ad in the New York Times, suggesting that consumers buy from four of their biggest competitors: Biossance, Caudalie, Herbivore and YOUTH TO THE PEOPLE. – – Advertising your closest rivals might not appear to make much business sense unless, like Arnaud Meysselle, CEO of…
Texas Supreme Court sides with Republicans, says law allows arrest of absent lawmakers
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday evening that the state’s constitution allows the state House of Representatives to arrest absent members to force them to return to the chamber to conduct legislative business. The Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday even…
