A former US Navy engineer pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to pass classified information about America’s nuclear-powered warships to an individual he believed was representing a foreign government. Jonathan Toebbe, 43, appeared in federal court in Martinsburg, West Virginia, where he was charged with a single count of conspiracy …
Read More »Company selling sound of Covid-19 as NFT
It’s a news story that would sound utterly alien to anyone pre-2020: A company called Viromusic has come up with a novel way to monetize the coronavirus by creating ambient works of music from its genetic code and selling them as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Put simply, the company reads the …
Read More »China selling advanced warships to Pakistan is bad news for India – and America
Over the past several years, India and China have increasingly become geopolitical competitors. While the Galwan Valley border clash last year was epitomized as the biggest trigger, the mutual distrust runs much deeper and wider, not least as the United States has used India as a strategic counterweight to China’s growing …
Read More »Simple math explains real reason for Musk’s Twitter poll on selling Tesla stock
According to a report by CNBC, Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill on stock options expiring next year, which is likely the real reason he considered selling 10% of his Tesla stock in the first place. As Musk himself declared, he doesn’t take a salary or cash bonus from …
Read More »Elon Musk speaks out after Internet votes YES to him selling 10% of Tesla stock
Musk – the CEO of Tesla and the world’s richest man – put the decision of whether to sell his stock to a Twitter poll on Saturday and pledged to “abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes.” Over 3.5 million people voted in the poll, which …
Read More »Chicago pharmacist busted selling stolen CDC vaccine cards online, faces up to 120 YEARS in prison – DOJ
A man identified as Tangtang Zhao was arrested and charged for the vaccine card scheme on Tuesday, the Justice Department said, accusing the 34-year-old pharmacist of snatching official CDC documents from his place of work and hawking them off on the internet for around $10 each. “Knowingly selling Covid vaccination …
Read More »A viral dance video, a best-selling book and a lead in the polls: Meet the firebrand poised to be Italy’s first female PM
When sisters Giorgia and Arianna Meloni competed as children for their grandfather’s affections by singing the schmaltzy Neapolitan ballad, Parlami d’amore Mariu (Speak to Me of Love, Mariu) over and over, neither dreamt that one of them would one day achieve gold record status… let alone a bestselling book and …
Read More »Johnson & Johnson settles opioid case in New York, will pay up to $230 million and stop selling deadly drugs in US
“Johnson & Johnson will pay up to $230 million for its role in fueling the opioid crisis that has devastated communities across New York,” the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, announced on Saturday. The settlement excludes the drugmaker from an upcoming lawsuit charging multiple opioid manufacturers and distributors with deceptively …
Read More »US makes $110mn by selling seized crude, allegedly Iranian, report suggests
The cargo from the Liberian-flagged tanker MT Achilleas was unloaded in Houston, Texas and sold at around $55 a barrel, the Associated Press reported, citing court documents. The money went to an escrow fund, similar to proceeds from previous operations. The national statistics, published by the US Energy Information Agency, …
Read More »‘Like Big Tobacco selling ‘child-friendly’ cigarettes’: Facebook’s ‘Instagram for kids’ idea faces backlash from advocacy groups
More than 180,000 people signed three declarations penned by a coalition of advocacy and grassroots organizations, including Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, SumOfUs and the Juggernaut Project. In March, Buzzfeed obtained internal documents showing that Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, wants to allow kids to “safely use” its popular photo- and …
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