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The White House has branded this, the 29th week of the year, Made in America Week. As part of the week, administration officials are promoting American products and outlining a strategy to roll back the North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that their policies will boost wages for the middle class and create jobs in […]
In the face of public pressure, Chinese internet giant Tencent is limiting play time for younger users of its hit mobile game Honor of Kings (dubbed Strike of Kings in the west). Starting Tuesday, anyone under 12 will be restricted to one hour of play per day, and those between 12 to 18 will be […]
Existing air quality rules in the U.S. are not enough to prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths each year, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. CBC | Health News
Enlarge / FORT IRWIN, California – Spc. Nathaniel Ortiz, Expeditionary CEMA (Cyber Electromagnetic Activities) Team (ECT), 781st Military Intelligence Battalion, “conducts cyberspace operations” at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., May 9, 2017. (credit: Bill Roche, U.S. Army Cyber Command) The US military and intelligence communities have spent much of the last two […]
Enlarge (credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)) Today, the team behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is announcing the detection of a third black hole merger, the first from its second operational run. The merger shares some features with the previous ones: the black holes were bigger than expected, and their merger released a staggering […]
Parents and caregivers of children aged five and younger should not only minimize screen time at home but use it mindfully themselves, the Canadian Paediatric Society says. CBC | Health News
BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Payments Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Starbucks suffered a payment systems outage on Tuesday that impacted select stores in the US and Canada for “several hours,” according to Reuters. The outage, which began as early as late Monday and was mostly […]
Thomson Reuters When Lieutenant Gary Megge of the Michigan State Police attends a meeting, he sometimes asks, “How many of you broke the speed limit on your way here?” Hearing his question, you might assume that Lt. Megge is a particularly zealous police officer. The type of person who walks half a city block to […]
Published time: 4 Apr, 2017 09:37 Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that allows the sending of cash from Russia to Ukraine only through companies controlled by the Russian Central Bank. This is in response to Kiev’s ban on Russian payment systems within Ukraine. Read more According to the law, if a foreign […]
Getty/Peter-Macdiarmid APRA, Australia’s banking regulator, has announced further measures to control building financial risks in the Australian property market, confirming months of speculation that an intervention was imminent. “Since December 2014, APRA, together with Council of Financial Regulator members, has closely monitored residential mortgage lending trends and the resulting impacts on the resilience of lenders, […]
