“China fired a fresh regulatory shot at its tech giants on Monday,” writes Reuters, “telling them to end a long-standing practice of blocking each other’s links on their sites or face consequences.” The comments, made by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) at a news briefing, mark the latest step in Beijing’s broad…

“Y’all a plane just crashed into all those houses,” one eyewitness says in an online video. “People jumped out of the plane with parachutes.” The two people — jumping from the 38-foot-long training plane — were both hospitalized, reports CNN: Police were notified of the crash…around 10:53 a.m. (11:53 am ET) and on arrival found…

Is your love of public transportation matched only by your passion for designing custom PCBs? If so, then you’re going to love these phenomenal transit maps created by [Chai Jia Xun]. Using the painstakingly refined principles outlined in his detailed write-up, he’s created versions for Tokyo, Singapore, and the comparatively spartan San Francisco Bay Area….

Articles reported the social media giant was aware of its “ill effects” but did nothing to fix them. …read more Source:: CNet

“Anyone can be a banker these days,” argues Reuters. All it takes it the right software: Global brands from Mercedes and Amazon to IKEA and Walmart are cutting out the traditional financial middleman and plugging in software from tech startups to offer customers everything from banking and credit to insurance. For established financial institutions, the…

Oregon Health & Science University reported Friday that in the 45 days before September 14, five Oregonians had to be hospitalized “because they consumed a potent antiparasitic drug despite there being no clinical data supporting its use for COVID-19… “Two people were so severely ill that they had to be admitted to an intensive care…

Apple’s latest iPhone brings powerful upgrades, but there are a lot of missing features that were either rumored or that competitors already have. …read more Source:: CNet

A Pennsylvania newspaper tracked down Dr. Kenneth Brown — who wrote Merck’s original research protocols in the 1980s for studying ivermectin as a “river blindness” treatment. They describe Brown as 85 years old, retired, and “proud of his association with Ivermectin.” More than 4 billion doses of ivermectin (renamed Mectizan) have been administered globally in…

For the average consumer, repairing relatively low-cost home devices such as microwaves and TVs just isn’t economically viable. You can hardly blame them when the repair bill could easily be higher than the cost of just buying a new model. Luckily for folks like us, that means you can often find cheap or even free…

“Last week Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, which supplies chips to Apple, pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050,” reports the Guardian. “But decarbonizing the industry will be a big challenge.” TSMC alone uses almost 5% of all Taiwan’s electricity, according to figures from Greenpeace, predicted to rise to 7.2% in…