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China’s 'Covid Tsunami'
At the same time China’s government is working to manage the fallout overseas from the surveillance balloon shot down by the US, it’s also struggling…
3 years, 3 months ago
Introducing: Foundering - The John McAfee Story
The new season of Bloomberg's Foundering podcast retraces the life and gruesome death of John McAfee. In the 1980s and ’90s, the McAfee name was syno…
3 years, 3 months ago
Pressure Mounts On Iran–From Inside And Out
As Iran approaches the 44th anniversary of the revolution it finds itself at a junction. US and European Union sanctions have crippled Iran’s economy…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mining Asteroids For Science – and Lucrative Metals
If you’re a comic book or sci-fi fan, you’ve likely read about the far-off idea of hitching a ride on an asteroid and mining it for precious metals a…
3 years, 3 months ago
Amazon’s Big Bet on Football Is (Sort Of) Paying Off
Last fall, Amazon agreed to pay the NFL a whopping $1 billion a year for 11 years to air Thursday Night Football exclusively on its Prime streaming s…
3 years, 3 months ago
What Was That Chinese Balloon Really Up To?
What started as a curiosity—a Chinese balloon Washington says was equipped with surveillance equipment floating high above the US—now threatens to wo…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Not So Easy Trick To Getting Rid of Rats (In Big Cities)
The number of rat-related complaints in American cities has spiked in recent years. In the most overrun cities – Chicago, Washington, DC and New York…
3 years, 3 months ago
AI Is Here to Save The Whales. And Sharks. And Bees
Endangered whales getting hit by container ships. Sharks dying on hooks intended for other fish. Pesticides wiping out bees by the millions. Scientis…
3 years, 3 months ago
How Racist Groups Use Online Video Games To Spread Hate
In December, an Anti-Defamation League study found a sharp rise in the number of people who say they’ve encountered white supremacist ideology while …
3 years, 3 months ago
China’s Back Open, Great! And…Maybe Not So Great.
Now that China has relaxed its Covid Zero policy, the world’s second largest economy is rumbling back to life. As China once again starts to buy and …
3 years, 3 months ago