The projectiles, alleged to be ballistic missiles, appear to have landed outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone, according to the coast guard. Neither Japanese authorities, nor the South Korean military, have shared additional details about the suspected launch. The reported launches come not long after North Korean state media stated …
Read More »Candace Owens claims she was refused Covid-19 testing over politics, shows email telling her to get ‘back alley’ service
Owens wrote in tweets this week that she had been refused a Covid-19 test by Aspen Laboratories in Aspen, Colorado, “because they don’t like my politics.” The conservative author and pundit would later take to Instagram to recount her experience, posting alleged screenshots of emails exchanged between herself and the …
Read More »Russia’s space agency postpones rocket testing after donating ‘almost all’ its liquid oxygen to Covid-19 patients in hospitals
That’s according to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, who wrote on Twitter on Sunday that the state-owned space agency is “helping in any way” it can. “We have been transferring almost all the oxygen produced by our enterprises to medical institutions for three months now, forcing us to postpone the testing …
Read More »Censor-it-yourself: Twitter testing new feature that allows users to flag ‘misleading’ tweets
Users can already report tweets, but the new feature gives a second option after clicking on “Report Tweet.” Users can flag the tweet as “misleading.” Once a tweet has been labeled “misleading,” it will go on to be reviewed by artificial and human moderators, who will decide whether further action …
Read More »China’s Wuhan completes citywide Covid-19 testing in SIX days, finds 37 cases & 41 asymptomatic carriers among 12mn residents
Mass testing in the capital of Hebei province was launched on Tuesday, after authorities discovered a handful of locally transmitted cases, marking the first time Covid-19 infection has been registered in the city since June 2020. With an army of 28,000 medical staff mobilized to test 11.28 million residents at over …
Read More »George Soros & Bill Gates lead buyout of UK Covid testing company
To make the acquisition, the group has launched Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise aiming to expand access to affordable medical technology. The members of the GAH are reportedly set on investing over $41 billion in the acquisition deal. The transaction will include the buyout of all Mologic’s existing …
Read More »IDF brags of waging ‘first AI war,’ lending credence to view that Gaza serves as testing ground for Israel’s fighting techniques
“For the first time, artificial intelligence (AI) was a key component and power multiplier in fighting the enemy,” a senior officer in the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Intelligence Corps said, as cited by Israeli media. The elite intelligence Unit 8200 used programs called “Alchemist,” “Gospel” and “Depth of Wisdom,” to …
Read More »Gaza coronavirus testing & vaccinations disrupted after main lab damaged in Israeli strikes, health officials say
The strikes triggered a “complete halt” on immunizations, virus screenings and telemedicine services at Gaza’s al-Rimal clinic on Monday, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Monday, noting that its own headquarters was also damaged in the bombing. “The Israeli occupation’s targeting of the Ministry of Health and al-Rimal Clinic caused …
Read More »UK has ‘no plans’ to change rapid testing programme, after report of widespread false positives
There are “no plans to halt the universal programme,” the department stated on Thursday. “With around one in three people not showing symptoms of Covid-19, regular, rapid testing is an essential tool to control the spread of the virus…by picking up cases that would not otherwise have been detected.” The …
Read More »‘I went & had kids’: Miesha Tate says she didn’t retire to ‘go & take drugs’ after UFC skips 6-month testing rule for her comeback
The UFC will shun a rule of its anti-doping regulations in order for hugely popular Tate to be able to return to the octagon against Marion Reneau later this year. The 34-year-old revealed to ESPN in midweek that she would be ending a five-year retirement that started following her back-to-back losses to Amanda Nunes and …
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