(Photo : unsplash/Barrett Ward) Cargo ship Amazon has been chartering private cargo ships and has been making their containers for years. The e-commerce giant has also been leasing plans to have more control on the shipping journey of their orders. Now, as the supply chain is in chaos, Amazon’s move helped them avoid the long wait times for dock space and workers at the busiest ports of Los Angeles. Amazon’s Investment in Shipping Steve Ferreira, an ocean freight analyst, told CNBC that in Los Angeles, 79 vessels are sitting there up to 45 days just waiting to come into the harbor. The…
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Were you one of the 53,000 attendees of the Anime NYC 2021 convention in New York City, or know someone who did? New York City authorities and Anime NYC organizers are urging every single attendee, exhibitor, artist, and staff member to get tested for COVID-19 — because one of the United States’ first confirmed cases of the new omicron variant was a man who attended the convention and likely caught it there (via Kotaku). The Anime NYC team was notified today that one of this year’s attendees tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19. According to the Minnesota Department…
Hackers were able to access files containing personal information for hundreds of thousands of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients with a ransomware attack that occurred in October, according to a report by The Washington Post. A letter sent to affected patients by Planned Parenthood explained that the files contained patients’ names and “one or more of the following: address, insurance information, date of birth, and clinical information, such as diagnosis, procedure, and/or prescription information.” Planned Parenthood says the ransomware was installed on its network some time between October 9th and October 17th. On the 17th, the organization noticed the intrusion,…
As part of efforts to expand the health information it provides, today Google announced a new feature in search that will allow doctors to list which languages they can speak at their offices. People who speak languages other than English often struggle to navigate the healthcare system in the United States and are at risk of bad medical outcomes because they have more trouble communicating with providers. They get better care when they have access to trained interpreters or are seen by providers who speak their native languages. In a blog post, Google also drew attention to other recently added…
Reiterates FY23 Revenue Guidance of $31.7 Billion to $31.8 Billion Third Quarter Revenue of $6.86 Billion, up 27% Year-Over-Year, 26% in Constant Currency Current Remaining Performance Obligation of Approximately $18.8 Billion, up 23% Year-Over-Year, 23% in Constant Currency Third Quarter GAAP Operating Margin of 0.6% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 19.8% Initiates Fourth Quarter FY22 Revenue Guidance of $7.224 Billion to $7.234 Billion, up Approximately 24% Year-Over-Year Raises FY22 Revenue Guidance to $26.39 Billion to $26.40 Billion, up Approximately 24% Year-Over-Year Raises FY22 GAAP Operating Margin Guidance to Approximately 1.8% and Non-GAAP Operating Margin Guidance to Approximately 18.6% Raises…
No one was more invested in Theranos than CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes, she testified today. She owned the most stock. She could even fire the entire board of directors — and basically anyone else at the company. “Is that fair?” Prosecutor Robert Leach asked Holmes in his cross-examination. “The buck stops with you?” “I felt that,” Holmes replied. Holmes’ defense has mostly tried to lay blame elsewhere — lab directors, her co-defendant Sunny Balwani (who is being tried separately), marketing firm Chiat Day, and more. Holmes, who is standing trial for 11 counts of wire fraud, portrayed herself as…
“What is that thing on your shoulder?” has been the question I’ve been asked most frequently for the last month. Understandably so. For the last 30 days, just barely peeking out from under the sleeve of my T-shirts, there has been a big black sticker. It’s round, about two inches in diameter, and it looks like a high-end Band-Aid. But that sticker is just a cover. Under it is a smaller plastic disk, with a little thread that is actually sticking into my body and analyzing my ever-changing blood-sugar levels. It’s the closest I’ve ever been to cyborg status. Levels…
Today, Elizabeth Holmes cried on the stand as she recounted being raped at Stanford. It was part of the reason she dropped out of college, she testified. “I decided I was going to build a life by building this company,” she said on the witness stand today. When she started dating Sunny Balwani, her co-defendant who is being tried separately, “he said I was safe now that I had met him.” Then, she said, he abused and raped her. Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, is standing trial for 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.…
Urian B., Tech Times 29 November 2021, 04:11 pm (Photo : Image from Hunters Race on Unsplash) Who is Parag Agrawal | Introducing the New CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey made breaking news as he stepped down from his long definitive role as the CEO of Twitter with Parag Agrawal set to take his place. Although this isn’t the first time that Dorsey stepped down from the role, as per his statement, it could be the last time that he steps down. Jack Dorsey Hands The Title of CEO to Parag Agrawal According to the story by CNBC, Jack Dorsey is…
People have flocked to TikTok in droves over the past few years — but research into the social media giant’s potential health impacts hasn’t kept up. Despite the fact that TikTok now has over 1 billion users, public health researchers know very little about the health effects it might be having on the platform’s (mostly young) users. That’s concerning, because researchers know social media platforms can be harmful, especially to the health of some groups of teens and adolescents. “The platform is so massive, but there’s almost no scholarly investigation into it,” says Marco Zenone, a health policy researcher at…