US basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna are among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in the city of Calabasas, California. Bryant, 41, was traveling in a private helicopter when it came down and burst into flames. The LA county sheriff said there were no survivors. Bryant, a five-time NBA champion, played for the LA Lakers throughout his career and is considered one of the greatest players in the game’s history. Tributes from celebrities and fellow sports stars have been pouring in, many expressing shock at his sudden death. Moments of silence have been observed at basketball…
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Amazon.com Inc. wants to make your hand your credit card. The tech giant is creating checkout terminals that could be placed in bricks-and-mortar stores and allow shoppers to link their card information to their hands, according to people familiar with the matter. They could then pay for purchases with their palms, without having to pull out a card or phone. The company plans to pitch the terminals to coffee shops, fast-food restaurants and other merchants that do lots of repeat business with their customers, according to some of the people. Amazon declined to comment. Amazon, like other tech companies, is…
We all know that this 5G tech is no good, and in cities where this has become a major infrastructure update for the ‘convenience’ of the future. It seems where these 5G systems have been deployed there is either a shooting or some other type of disaster. Now we see that Wuhan City has about 10,000 of these base stations, and just so happens this is where the major Coronavirus outbreak happened. So here is some information; I found about the 5G in Wuhan City: The branches of Chinese major telecom operators in central China’s Hubei Province announced Thursday the…
Old pals of Jeffrey Epstein, look out: Emails of his alleged madam may well have been hacked. So says a letter from Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer about documents unsealed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Fox News reports. In the letter—written in response to a defamation case against Ghislaine by Epstein accuser Virginia Guiffre—the lawyer, Ty Gee, points out “the difficulty and complexity” of a case involving over 8,600 pages of materials that should be redacted or remain sealed. Gee says roughly 2,000 of the pages were mistakenly made public last August by the US Court of Appeals for the…
Three Israelis have been hospitalized and are currently in isolation as medical authorities run tests to determine whether they may have come into contact with a new virus that has killed over three dozen people in China so far. Medical authorities in Israel believe the three do not have the coronavirus but are taking every precaution as they appear to have flu-like symptoms and at least some of them recently came back from China, Channel 12 reported on Saturday. Two Israelis who were hospitalized earlier for the same reasons have been cleared and released, according to the report. Of the…
Extra sections of an ancient aquaculture system built by Indigenous people in south-west Victoria thousands of years ago have been discovered after a fire swept through the area over the past few weeks. The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, which includes an elaborate series of stone-lined channels and pools set up by the Gunditjmara people to harvest eels, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List last year. Some parts of the landscape, which also features evidence of stone dwellings, have been dated back 6,600 years — older than Egypt’s pyramids. Traditional owners, who inspected the site after the fire was…
The warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein ended his life in his jail cell is being moved to a leadership position at another federal correctional facility, putting him back in the field with inmates despite an ongoing investigation into the financier’s death, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The federal Bureau of Prisons is planning to move Lamine N’Diaye to the role at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security prison in Burlington County, New Jersey, the people said. The move comes months after Attorney General William Barr ordered N’Diaye be reassigned to a desk post at the…
The first person known to have been infected by the Wuhan coronavirus had never visited the city’s seafood market – regarded as the epicentre of the outbreak – according to Chinese researchers, who also called for extra precautions against airborne transmission of the disease between humans. The researchers, seven of whom work at Wuhan’s Jinyintan hospital, designated for patients with the illness, revealed on Friday in The Lancet medical journal that symptoms of the new disease were first reported on December 1 – much earlier than the Wuhan government’s initial announcement on December 31 of 27 cases of the pneumonia-like…
The rallying markets aren’t as good as they seem, says Guggenheim Partners chief Scott Minerd. He likened inflation of asset prices caused by loose money policies of central banks to a ponzi scheme that eventually must collapse. “We will reach a tipping point when investors will awake to the rising tide of defaults and downgrades,” Minerd wrote in a letter from the World Economic Forum meeting. “The timing is hard to predict, but this reminds me a lot of the lead-up to the 2001 and 2002 recession.” He cited rising defaults despite a rally in riskier assets, and reiterated a…
The United States is preparing to evacuate its diplomats and citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan, according to a new report. Wuhan is the epicenter of a deadly coronavirus outbreak that has so far killed more than 40 people. According to the Wall Street Journal’s sources, Washington is sending a charter flight to Wuhan on Sunday to bring home its consular staff situated in the city of 11 million people, as well as some or all of the roughly 1,000 Americans residing locally. The operation was reportedly green-lit by the Chinese foreign ministry, following negotiations in recent days. Chinese…
The BBC has hired Angelina Jolie to teach kids how to spot fake news and make up their own minds on pressing issues. But given its own history of bias, is the BBC the right authority to lecture children on the real and the fake? The venerable broadcaster will air a new series every Sunday at 11:30am – right after the morning cartoons – on BBC World News, and on YouTube and the BBC iPlayer in the UK. The series will use the reporting of the BBC World Service to illustrate how reporters sift fact from fiction, and help kids…
Starbucks has shut down all shops and halted delivery services in China’s Hubei Province, as health officials scramble to contain a deadly coronavirus that originated from the provincial capital, Wuhan. The coffee chain’s decision to suspend operations for the duration of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday was prompted by “health concerns” for its customers and employees, the company said in a social media post. The move comes shortly after McDonald’s announced that it will halt operations in five cities in the province. The fast-food giant said the temporary closures were for “for employee and customer health and safety.” Traced…
Cindy McCain, widow of the late Arizona Senator John McCain, has raised more than a few eyebrows after remarking that Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes against young women were common knowledge. But common for whom, exactly? Speaking at a conference in Florida, McCain claimed that a girl from her daughter’s high school was one of Epstein’s victims, and said that she hoped the accused sex trafficker –who allegedly killed himself while in detention at a Manhattan prison– was “in hell.” Her uncontroversial condemnation of the shadowy multi-millionaire was followed by a rather more curious statement. “Epstein was hiding in plain sight,”…
China’s Wuhan city, the center of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, will build a second dedicated hospital to treat patients. Construction has already started on the first facility, with enough space for 1,000 patients, which is expected to be completed by 3 February. The second, which is designed to have 1,300 beds, is due to be finished within three weeks. This may seem like an unrealistic time frame, however, China has a history of quickly building hospitals at times of crisis. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, 7,000 people worked day and night in Beijing, taking just seven days…
A 5.1 magnitude quake has struck Turkey’s Elazig province, one day after a 6.8 tremor leveled buildings and killed at least 22 people. The earthquake struck at around 7:30pm local time on Saturday, at a depth of 10km, the United States Geological Survey (USGC) reported. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) has put the magnitude at 4.9. For residents of Elazig province, it was the second major tremor to shake the region in less than two days. A 6.8 magnitude quake on Saturday claimed at least 22 lives and left more than 1,000 injured, Turkish authorities said. In addition to the…
Three cases of the deadly coronavirus have been confirmed in New South Wales, bringing the total nationwide to four. NSW Health tonight confirmed three men – aged in theirs 30s, 40s and 50s – are being treated in Westmead Hospital in Sydney and are in isolation. Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said this afternoon that a case of the respiratory condition had been confirmed in a man who last week returned from China. The man, aged in his 50s, was in Australia for six days before being diagnosed. A total of 42 people have died and more than 1300 have…
Thailand’s anti-drugs authority has apologized after it accidentally auctioned off a car hiding tens of thousands of amphetamine tablets. A buyer paid 586,000 baht ($19,000; £14,500) for the Honda CR-V car, which was put up for auction this month after being seized in a drugs case last year. But when it was sent to a garage for alterations, a mechanic discovered 94,000 pills stashed in its bumper. Officials said they would conduct more thorough searches in future. “According to protocols, we search every vehicle we have received and this case was no exception. However, we couldn’t find anything at the…
3 suspected cases of coronavirus being tested in Washtenaw, Macomb counties Two people from Washtenaw County and one person from Macomb County may have the Wuhan coronavirus, state health officials said Friday afternoon.They’re the latest in a quickly spreading global outbreak that appears to have started in December at a seafood market in Wuhan, China. So far, hundreds have been sickened and 41 people have died, USA Today reported.All three people from Michigan who are being tested for the virus have presented with mild illness, and all recently traveled to the Wuhan area of China or were in contact with travelers to that region, according to the Michigan Department of Health and…