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Gain of Function (GoF) Research Funding: US Senator says “Dr. Fauci caught lying about NIH funding in Wuhan”

Nickie Louise Posted On July 20, 2021

Back in 2012, Dr. Anthony Fauci argued in a paper that the benefit of Gain-Of-Function (GoF) research into bat virus “was worth the risk.” The research involves scientists extracting viruses from the wild and engineer them to infect humans in […]

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UK’s chief scientific adviser corrected an earlier statement that “60% of those taken to hospital with COVID-19 have been vaccinated twice” after the video went viral

Nickie Louise Posted On July 19, 2021

Earlier today, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said in a news briefing that “60% of hospitalized patients are double vaccinated.” He even went as far as to specifically explained why the 60% was so high. But later this […]

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French citizens will be sentenced to 6 months in prison for entering a bar or restaurant without a vaccine passport

Nickie Louise Posted On July 19, 2021

Welcome to the post-covid world. Today, French President Macron issued a 6-month prison decree for any French citizen entering a bar or restaurant without a vaccine passport. Proprietors who allow the unvaccinated into their establishments face a 1-year prison sentence […]

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US, NATO say China’s intelligence agency is behind the global cyber hacking campaign and cyber intrusions on Microsoft and other worldwide attacks

Nickie Louise Posted On July 19, 2021

Early last year, four Chinese military spies were charged with hacking the credit bureau Equifax. The breach affected more than 145 million Americans with the hackers successfully stealing names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information stored in the company’s databases. For […]

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mRNA Vaccine inventor says he’s worried about surge in covid-19 cases in countries with most vaccinated citizens. “This is worrying me quite a bit,” Dr. Malone said

Nickie Louise Posted On July 17, 2021

Dr. Robert Malone, a pioneer and one of the five inventors of mRNA vaccines, expressed his concerns about the sudden surge in covid-19 cases in countries with the most vaccinated citizens while the 15 least vaccinated countries don‘t seem to face […]

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CDC Director says “vaccinated people do not carry the virus.” Is Walensky spreading misinformation given reports of vaccinated people still getting the virus?

Nickie Louise Posted On July 17, 2021

Back in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky faced backlash after she said that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick. The CDC later walks back the claim that vaccinated people do […]

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Biden: “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated”

Nickie Louise Posted On July 16, 2021

As of today, a total of 336 million doses of vaccines have been administered. Of that figure, a total of 160 million Americans have been fully vaccinated representing 48.9% of the total population, a number that is short of the 70 percent […]

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Google fired its Cloud VP Amr Awadallah after his antisemitism manifesto was made public, “I hated the Jewish people, all the Jewish people,” Awadallah said

Nickie Louise Posted On July 16, 2021

Google Cloud has abruptly parted with its VP of developer relations for Google Cloud, according to an exclusive report from CNBC, citing an internal email that employees said followed a contentious all-hands meeting about antisemitism. According to an email obtained and […]

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U.S. Surgeon General demands big tech crackdown on users to combat Covid misinformation; made more than $2 million doing pandemic consulting work

Nickie Louise Posted On July 15, 2021

After the Biden administration failed to meet the 70 percent goal of the United States’ adult population receiving at least one vaccine dose by July 4, his administration now believes Covid misinformation is partly to be blamed for the vaccine hesitancy […]

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Interview with Tanvi Abbhi, co-founder of female-founded health tech startup Veta Health

Nickie Louise Posted On July 15, 2021

Welcome back to another edition of the Startup Spotlight, our weekly series where we get into the minds of some of the world’s most successful and inspiring startup founders and CEOs to help future and aspiring entrepreneurs navigate the startup journey […]

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U.S. government offers $10 million for tips and information on foreign hackers that target critical U.S. infrastructure

Nickie Louise Posted On July 15, 2021

No day goes by without another headline about cyber hacking and data breaches. With no one to stop them, cyber attackers are now roaming freely across the internet wreaking havoc on mostly American companies. SolarWinds, Colonial pipeline, JBS meat processing, Cyber Polygon, and […]

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Dogecoin founder and co-creator says cryptocurrency is a ‘get rich quick cult’ to ‘extract money from the desperate and naive’

Nickie Louise Posted On July 15, 2021

Finally, someone has the gut to tell it as it is: cryptocurrency is a Ponzi scheme that harnesses populist rage and convinces desperate and vulnerable people to dump money into highly manipulated and speculative assets with the promise of over […]

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Latvian audio startup Sonarworks raises $6M in funding to scale SoundID, a next-generation personalized audio technology

Nickie Louise Posted On July 15, 2021

Sonarworks, a Riga, Latvia-based audio technology startup company behind the award-winning recording studio software for music creators like Lady Gaga, Madonna, Rihanna, Kanye West, and others, announced today that it has closed a $6 million funding round to fund the expansion of […]

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Coin Cloud teams up with Spike Lee to call out unequal financial systems; Lee declares ‘Old Money Out’ in new “The Currency of Currency” ad

Nickie Louise Posted On July 14, 2021

Known for calling out Hollywoods and public figures on the issues of racial and financial inequality throughout his film career, Spike Lee is now teaming up with crypto startup Coin Cloud to introduce a national ad campaign and short film on […]

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Spotify is expanding beyond music streaming through acquisitions and massive investments in podcasting and exclusive contracts

Nickie Louise Posted On July 13, 2021

Spotify is one of the world’s most popular music streaming services, with 356 million monthly active users, including 158 million premium subscribers. The music streaming behemoth has seen explosive growth in revenue and customer base in recent years. In the last quarter […]

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British police seize $408 million worth of cryptocurrency used in money laundering by organized crime groups

Nickie Louise Posted On July 13, 2021

The anonymity of cryptocurrency is one of the most appealing aspects for hackers, cybercriminals, and organized crime groups. Although, all cryptocurrencies promise some kind of privacy. However, as we learned last month after the FBI recovered the stolen bitcoins, none […]

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General Motors to invest $71 million on a new campus to expand its capacity for the development of flying cars and lunar rover vehicles

Nickie Louise Posted On July 13, 2021

Back in January, General Motors (GM) unveiled a futuristic flying Cadillac — a self-driving vehicle that takes off and lands vertically and carries the passenger above the streets and through the air to be manufactured in the United States. According to […]

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Why Elementor’s Full Site Kits are a Game Changer

Nickie Louise Posted On July 13, 2021

Website designers are more in demand than ever before. Thanks to more consumers moving online, every business needs a professional and functional website. A great website designer can not only design a good-looking site, but they can also get it […]

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Elon Musk will fly to space with Virgin Galactic, reports

Nickie Louise Posted On July 12, 2021

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has sucked the oxygen out of the news cycle in the last 24 hours with news coverage ranging from space flight to a court appearance. Over the weekend, Musk was with Richard Branson, the billionaire […]

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Elon Musk: “I don’t want to be a CEO, I tried hard not to be the CEO at Tesla, but I had to or it would die. I rather hate being a boss. I’m an engineer.”

Nickie Louise Posted On July 12, 2021

As we reported earlier today, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk testifies to defend Tesla’s $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity after Shareholders filed a lawsuit against him. SolarCity was founded on July 4, 2006, by Musk’s cousins Peter and Lyndon Rive. In 2016, […]

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