Futureseek Daily Link Review; 01 July 2021

* Virgin Orbit successfully launches its first commercial payloads to space >>
* Telecom outsources big ideas to Elon Musk at MWC >>
* Throwable Robots Join Race to Find Survivors at Florida Condo Collapse >>
* Flying Car Completes Its First-Ever Inter-City Flight >>

* Charges Against Trump Organization Expected Today >>
* Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m >>
* Trump Organization expected to be charged with tax crimes on Thursday >>

* What Facebook’s Legal Victory Could Mean for Antitrust Efforts >>
* Israel used world’s first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks >>
* Super Heavy Booster 3 Stacked >>

* Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction overturned >>
* Microsoft nabs major cloud deal to host AT&T’s 5G core >>
* It’s a hot one: How heat waves have trended over time >>

* When Infrastructure Confronts a Searing Heat Dome >>
* Make Any Face Come to Life: NVIDIA’s Simon Yuen Talks Audio2Face – Ep. 146 >>
* SpaceX Starlink Rebuilding the Internet in Space >>

* Lollipop AI launches online grocery marketplace where you can build your own recipes >>
* The iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and watchOS 8 public betas are here >>
* Twitter is making NFTs now, apparently >>
* Qualcomm upgrades premium tier with Snapdragon 888+ >>

* AWS ‘many years’ behind in cloud mobile >>
* AT&T to offload 5G into Microsoft’s cloud >>
* MWC 2021: Cristiano Amon on digital transformation and the 5G revolution >>

* President Biden Weighs Order to Rein In the Power of Big Businesses >>
* GitHub Copilot aims to help developers write better code >>
* GitHub Launches ‘Copilot’ — AI-Powered Code Completion Tool >>
* Covid’s Going From Pandemic — To Plague >>

* A shipping container shortage is snarling global trade >>
* Global opinion of China’s handling of Covid-19 is now dramatically more positive >>
* TED Fellows: The infinite alchemy of storytelling >>
* Bio Eats World: Evolving Embodied Intelligence >>

* Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg 5G Keynote CES ’21: Ghost Q-UGV Mention from 5G Smart Cities Segment >>
* Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World >>
* Executive Spotlight Q&A: Here Technologies – Digital twins and 5G networks >>

* Telstra edges Optus with $2.1B tower sale >>
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* How has China’s Communist Party survived for 100 years? >>
* Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld dead at 88 >>

* Toyota and Mitsubishi Chemical to use IBM quantum computer >>
* Huawei should not be forced to make its own semiconductors >>
* Who is Zhang Guimei? >>

* China’s tech hub Shenzhen looks to restrict surveillance cameras in public spaces >>
* How Safe Is Your Secret? >>
* Securing the Path to Cloud Migration and Development >>
* From Ticket-Time to Real-Time: Changing the Status Quo of Operations Work >>

* Day 2 Kickoff with Chloe Richardson | Cloud City Live 2021 >>
* Juha Kornhonen | Cloud City Live 2021 >>
* Ron Haberman, Nokia | Cloud City Live 2021 >>
* Amol Phadke, Google Cloud & Day 2 Wrap | Cloud City Live 2021 >>

* Software Estimation Is Hard. Do It Anyway. >>
* Software Engineering principles to make teams better. >>
* Move fast, but understand the problem first >>

* Apple’s always sold itself as the anti-Microsoft. Now Windows 11 is the anti-Apple >>
* ‘AirPods Pro 2’ to debut in 2022, Kuo says >>
* The Story Behind China’s 600-Metre Unfinished Skyscraper >>
* The Head of NASA Admits That He Believes in Aliens >>

* Afghanistan: US military ‘days away’ from completing pull-out >>
* NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity could keep flying the Martian skies for months >>
* Shailesh Shukla, Google Cloud | Cloud City Live 2021 >>

* Watch Virgin Orbit launch a rocket from a 747!!! >>
* Last crossbeam Finished!! >>
* Building a transport system that works: Five insights from our 25-city report >>
* An update on our progress in responsible AI innovation >>

* Wednesday assorted links >>
* ‘Heat domes’ explained >>
* Amazon’s AI assistant can read books with your children >>
* Xbox Cloud Gaming service now available on Windows PCs, Apple smartphones and tablets, plus browsers >>

* Israel used world’s first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks >>
* NASA’s most accurate atomic clock will be tested on a mission to Venus >>
* Stuff From Ancient Poop Shows Maya Population Fell Due To Climate >>

* T-Mobile uses eSIM to let iPhone owners test its network for free >>
* Windows 11 hands-on: A cleaner OS to keep you productive >>
* AI vs. skin cancer >>

* What does breaking up Big Tech really mean? >>
* The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law >>
* LG’s ‘QNED’ Mini LED TVs are coming to the US in July >>

* The Internet is Rotting >>
* Dear economy, creators aren’t fragile plants >>
* How Compass Gets Complex Projects Done on Time >>
* Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire >>

* An update on our progress in responsible AI innovation >>
* Virgin Orbit launches 7 satellites on third-ever space mission >>
* AT&T will soon enable RCS messaging for all Android phones >>

* Apple just released the first iOS 15 beta to everyone >>
* ‘I love you, now please go back to the office’ >>
* Elon Musk says Starlink’s satellite internet is probably not for you >>
* Simulation: Formation of the First Stars >>

* Handheld Device Fights Fatigue by Stimulating Vagus Nerve >>
* A Lunar Farside Telescope Could Detect Exoplanets Through Their Magnetospheres >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 June 2021

* Elon Musk discuss Starlink Internet at MWC 2021 >>
* Your AI pair programmer >>
* Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot challenges BTS to a boy band dance-off in latest video >>

* TED: Why we’re more honest with machines than people >>
* Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US >>
* Unpatched Virtual Machine Takeover Bug Affects Google Compute Engine >>

* A New Brain Implant Automatically Detects and Kills Pain in Real Time >>
* New Study Analyzes the Cyber Capabilities of Nations >>
* Amazon drivers fired by automated emails as algorithm makes judgement calls >>

* Hyundai x Boston Dynamics | Welcome to the Family with BTS >>
* Zoom to acquire German startup to bring real-time translation to meetings >>

* We’ve caught a black hole devouring a neutron star for the first time >>
* Black holes swallow neutron stars like ‘Pac-Man’ >>
* Rare black hole and neutron star collisions sighted twice in 10 days >>

* Data Scientists Will be Extinct in 10 Years >>
* Analytics Engineering Everywhere >>

* How we’re supporting 30 new AI for Social Good projects >>
* Watch Samsung’s MWC event in four minutes >>

* Microsoft is easing some of the system requirements for the Windows 11 preview >>
* Netflix Loses First Court Case Over Network Usage Fee >>
* Netflix lets Android users watch partially downloaded shows >>

* The clouds of Venus are too dry to support life as we know it >>
* How will OpenAI + GitHub’s Copilot affect programming? >>
* Cloud value in cash management >>

* SoftBank Stops Making Pepper Robots, Will Cut 165 Robotics Jobs in France >>
* AI Moves Wind Farms Collectively to Improve Performance >>
* Why is Everyone Quitting Their Tech Job Right Now? >>

* Why New York Commission Blocked A Tesla Model Y Taxi Fleet >>
* Hubble’s Primary and Backup Computer Just Broke >>

* Elon Musk Just Announced That Starlink Will Go Global in Five Weeks >>
* SpaceX plans to use its Starlink internet on Starship orbital launch to demonstrate connection quality >>
* SpaceX is losing money on its Starlink terminals, but sees lower costs ahead >>

* Musk Says Total Investments in Starlink To Reach $20-$30 Billion >>
* 7th Launch Tower Section Rolled Out | SpaceX Boca Chica >>
* Booster Now Stacked on Transport Pad in High Bay >>

* Earth-like planets could be hiding in solar systems with double-suns because telescopes can’t see past brightness of the stars >>
* Legged Robots Do Surprisingly Well in Low Gravity >>

* meeps >>
* Aqua Security: 50% of new Docker instances attacked within 56 minutes >>
* GitHub Issues gets new beta features, Amazon CodeGuru announces new integrations, Brave launches Brave Search beta >>

* OMG releases REST for CORBA specification version 1.0 >>
* New API Lets App Developers Authenticate Users via SIM Cards >>
* United Airlines Places Its Biggest Jet Order Ever >>

* Office re-entry is proving trickier than last year’s abrupt exit >>
* Amazon Acquires Rights to ‘SmartLess’ Podcast for as Much as $80 Million >>
* Blockchain in Asia: China’s Ripple Effect >>
* Future NASCAR tracks will be designed virtually in iRacing >>

* 5G phones are more affordable than ever. But the killer app is still missing >>
* GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code >>
* Samsung ordered to pay customer $6000 compensation for rusty fridge >>

* Dell’s new UltraSharp 4K webcam looks almost perfect >>
* Jupiter’s strange atmosphere may have formed in a gigantic shadow >>
* The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory >>

* Japan is opening up a UFO lab near the Fukushima nuclear disaster >>
* Delta variant on track to become dominant cause of covid-19 globally >>
* AI learns to predict human behavior from videos >>

* Amazon is reportedly using algorithms to fire Flex delivery drivers >>
* SoftBank reportedly stopped the production of its Pepper robots last year >>
* This brilliant camera tricks your boss to think you’re working >>

* Facebook is now the fifth U.S. tech giant worth over $1 trillion >>
* Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Africa Getting Next COVID Wave >>
* David Brin – The Value of History, Criticism, & Science Fiction >>

* The Delta variant and vaccine failures push South Africa back into lockdown >>
* Africa’s latest wave of covid-19 could be its worst yet >>
* Are in-person tech conferences still necessary? Mobile World Congress could be a test >>

* The newest Olympic swag: underwear by Kim Kardashian >>
* Hybrid Anxiety and Hybrid Optimism: The Near Future of Work >>
* Q&A: Here Technologies – Digital twins and 5G networks >>

* Amazon polishes its 5G sales pitch at MWC >>
* MWC Bites: NEC, NTT, Huawei, Qualcomm and more >>
* 6G off to a flier – but to where? >>

* Augtera Networks raises $13M for ‘Network AI’ >>
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* AI Enlisted to Fight Wildfires >>
* Securing the Path to Cloud Migration and Development >>

* Cloud (Is) Native, but Security Isn’t >>
* Cloud City Live Kickoff with Danielle Royston | Cloud City Live 2021 >>
* Day 2 Show Wrap with Danielle Royston | Cloud City Live 2021 >>

* Windows 11 includes new Dynamic Refresh Rate feature to save laptop battery life >>
* I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC >>
* A Space Laser Shows How Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Will Be >>

* Hybrid Work Is Here To Stay. Now What? >>
* America world’s sole cyber superpower, ten years ahead of China, says Brit think tank >>
* Reddit’s Beloved No-Weights Workout Is Famous for a Reason >>

* If You’re Going to Raise Prices, Tell Customers Why >>
* DevOps platform JFrog acquires AI-based IoT and connected device security specialist Vdoo for $300M >>
* Miami building collapse: What could have caused it? >>
* At nearly 46C, heat in Canada shatters national record >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 29 June 2021

* How to watch Samsung’s Galaxy MWC 2021 virtual event >>
* How to download Windows 11 Insider Preview build today, try it early >>
* MWC: IBM gets serious with Verizon and Telefónica >>

* Telcos need to move faster to seize post-pandemic opportunities >>
* Scientists develop first wireless, battery-free heart pacing device, DISSOLVES in 7 weeks >>
* Mixing Covid vaccines gives good protection, study suggests >>

* Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 now available, GitHub Container registry generally available >>
* Vacuum Raptor Engine Delivered to Starbase >>
* Most Exoplanets won’t Receive Enough Radiation to Support an Earth-Like Biosphere >>

* AIs don’t understand simple physics like a ball rolling down a hill >>
* AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification >>
* China’s latest mega-airport is officially open >>

* Your Brain Will Have a Hard Time Processing This Self-Balancing Electric Bicycle in Action >>
* Engineer Removes the Entire Rim From His Bicycle and It Still Works >>
* In A World First, Scientists Made Human Milk Outside of the Breast >>

* CRISPR Injected into Blood Treats a Genetic Disease for the First Time Ever >>
* World’s Largest Crypto Exchange Was Banned in the UK, Now What? >>
* New type of supernova discovered by astronomers >>

* 500% Lifespan Increase Achieved in Nematode Worms >>
* Harvard Scientists Pinpoint ‘Ground Zero’ of Aging in Mouse Embryo Study >>
* Light Reading Recap: Week of June 25 >>

* Elon Gives Update on SN20 RVAC + Happy 50th Birthday Elon Musk >>
* Segment 7 At SpaceX Launch Site >>
* Microsoft keeps hinting at October release for Windows 11 >>
* Microsoft won’t confirm exactly which CPUs work with Windows 11 — yet >>

* Passwordless Authentication: The New Shift in Cybersecurity Bound to Revolutionize Fintech >>
* DataSquirrel AI assisted web-tool that auto-cleans your data, makes beautiful interactive charts & dashboards. >>

* Nearly half of Americans are now on public healthcare >>
* The future of wind energy is floating turbines on the ocean >>
* Serena Williams isn’t explaining her decision to skip the Tokyo Olympics >>

* TED: The renewable heating system right below your feet >>
* Chinese vaccines: Sinovac needs outweigh doubts in Indonesia >>
* China debuts biggest hydroelectric dam since Three Gorges >>

* Japan’s Fugaku keeps position as world’s fastest supercomputer >>
* Vanishing Teller Jobs Threaten Women’s Banking Entry Point >>
* Qualcomm debuts new flagship mobile processor and 5G chips for carriers >>

* IBM’s newest Cloud Pak offering brings automation to 5G network deployments >>
* Nvidia integrates Arm processors with its 5G edge infrastructure platform >>
* The clouds of Venus cannot support life as we know it >>

* Apple’s M1 now supported by Linux kernel in version 5.13 >>
* Apple’s ‘iPhone 13 Pro’ to gain new ultra wide camera with autofocus, says Kuo >>
* SpaceX aiming for first orbital test launch of Starship in July >>

* New trailers: The Harder They Fall, Ted Lasso, The Suicide Squad, and more >>
* YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY TOMATO: How An American, A Brit And An Australian Pronounce Words Differently >>
* A supermassive black hole… in the middle of our galaxy BBC >>

* The next wave of innovation in photonics >>
* NFC Flaws in POS Devices and ATMs >>
* Wuhan lab-leak theory fuels Trump comeback rally >>

* The Netflix generation won’t want to own cars >>
* Why the US can’t just start building more F-22s >>
* Golden Age of Surveillance, as Police Make 112,000 Data Requests in 6 Months >>

* The world’s fastest electric motorcycle has a new aerodynamic challenger >>
* Issac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ lands on Apple TV+ September 24 >>
* Future Starts With Industrial AI >>

* YouTube TV adds a $20 monthly upgrade for 4K support and offline viewing >>
* YouTube to open a 6,000-seat live entertainment arena in California >>
* Samsung and Google preview wearable platform ahead of next Galaxy Watch launch >>

* Linus Torvalds launches Linux 5.13 after just seven release candidates >>
* Vaccines: A Measured Response >>
* Computing At The Cutting Edge >>

* The Story of John McAfee >>
* Cloud envy and virtue-signaling color desperate MWC >>
* Red Hat boosts OpenShift to support a greater range of workloads >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 28 June 2021

* SpaceX Starship requires new booster, Shotwell still suggests July for Orbital Flight Test >>
* Orbital Launch Tower Section Stacking #6 >>
* Pad A Prepared for Super Heavy Testing | SpaceX Boca Chica >>

* Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults >>
* Sydney warned to brace for COVID-19 case surge as lockdown bites >>
* Cuba’s COVID vaccine rivals BioNTech-Pfizer, Moderna >>
* No More Lab Queues: Smartphone Integrated Diagnostic Tool Gives Rapid Results >>

* CEO of Carnival, biggest cruise company says huge demand for travel on its ships outstripping supply >>
* No More Lab Queues: Smartphone Integrated Diagnostic Tool Gives Rapid Results >>

* The New Data Equation: Leveraging Cloud-Scale Data to Innovate in AI, CyberSecurity, & Life Sciences >>
* Mobile World Congress highlights telco transformation >>
* 5 explanations for 144 mysterious flying objects in the government UFO report >>

* The Company That Said: We Failed >>
* London has rolled out its first hydrogen double-decker bus >>
* Robocalls are out of control. But that could change after June 30 >>

* China’s ‘whole-process democracy’ explained >>
* Hackers hit Microsoft customer service system, make off with data >>
* Hypersonic Plane Can Fly Over 14,000 Kmph, Reach Anywhere On Earth In One Hour >>

* Rocky Linux 8.4 Achieves First General Availability Release, Proves Popular >>

* Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips >>
* Now Microsoft’s app will say why your PC isn’t ready for Windows 11 >>
* Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions >>

* As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession” >>
* Americans aren’t just quitting—they are retiring at record rates, too >>
* Future of Silicon Valley headquarters >>
* What if an AI wins the Nobel prize for medicine? >>

* Inflatable implant injected into the spine could relieve chronic pain >>

* New iPad Pro models with larger screens are under development >>
* Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships >>
* Boeing’s Updated 777 Hit With New Safety Concerns From FAA >>

* This Week in Apps: Android apps on Windows 11, App Store Search Ads hit China, Apple argues against sideloading >>
* Startup leaders need to learn how to build companies ready for crisis >>
* How the Pandemic Roiled the Foster Care System >>

* Sunday assorted links >>
* Andreessen on Crypto >>
* Sam Altman and Ezra Klein on the AI Revolution >>

* Unison is in public alpha: A friendly programming language from the future. >>
* China is readying Shenzhou 13 spacecraft in case of space station emergency >>
* Serena Williams confirms she will skip 2020 Tokyo Olympics >>

* Deleted Coronavirus Genome Sequences Trigger Scientific Intrigue >>

* DevOps Community Is at the Epicenter of Software Innovation >>
* Serverless Container Security for AWS Fargate >>
* Argentina death toll creeps towards 100,000 >>

* Elon Musk eyes Starlink IPO as it goes global >>
* Vodafone UK flexes 5G SA muscle with Ericsson >>
* TEDxLondonWomen: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable >>

* Best practices to create & organize Terraform code for AWS >>
* DeepMind AGI paper adds urgency to ethical AI >>
* Amazon launches AWS BugBust to spur adoption of AI-powered coding tools >>

* Here Are The Jobs That Will Disappear In The Next 10 Years >>
* Is the World Giving Up on Democracy? >>
* Composability is Innovation >>

* How the Coming Privacy Layer Will Fix the Broken Web >>
* Decentralized Finance: What It Is, Why It Matters >>
* The race to build a commercial fusion reactor hots up >>

* NSF Live: Starship booster shuffle, SLS stacking continues, Hubble anomaly update, and more >>
* This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 26) >>
* Covid-19 virus highly adapted to infect human cells, says study >>

* Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree >>
* Passenger hospitalized after forcing open an emergency exit door and jumping out of moving plane at LAX >>
* Hyundai reduces ML model training time for autonomous driving models using Amazon SageMaker >>

* Hackers Are Infecting Pirate Games With Malware to Mine Crypto >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 26 June 2021

* Much-anticipated Pentagon UFO report lands today: What to know >>
* Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFO) Report >>
* Everything You Need To Know About The Pentagon’S Big Ufo Report… For Now >>
* I Created ‘The X-Files.’ Here’s Why I’m Skeptical of New U.F.O. Report. >>

* New type of ancient human is discovered in Israel: ‘Nesher Ramla’ people who lived 400,000 years ago >>
* Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the human story >>
* Scientists hail stunning ‘Dragon Man’ discovery >>

* The New Data Equation: Leveraging Cloud-Scale Data to Innovate in AI, CyberSecurity, & Life Sciences >>
* Google is warning users when its search results might be unreliable >>

* AWS BugBust: The World’s First Bug Busting Challenge for Developers >>
* The Oceans Are Ready In Space. Request for 500 Patreon Members To Get There Quicker >>

* Video Friday: Household Skills >>
* Reckoning With Tech Before It Becomes Invisible >>
* To Fly a Drone in the U.S., You Now Must Pass FAA’s TRUST Test >>

* Biden’s New $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Includes $65 Billion for Universal Broadband >>
* Vodafone UK flexes 5G Standalone muscle with Ericsson >>
* All adults in England told to ‘grab a jab’ >>

* Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work >>
* Elon Musk eyes Starlink IPO as it goes global >>
* Telecom industry cheers deal for $65B in broadband funding >>
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* Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported >>
* Intel Macs can’t run Windows 11 without this workaround >>
* Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips >>
* Microsoft Windows 11 revealed with dramatic increase in system requirements >>
* Engadget Podcast: Windows 11 and a chat with Ratchet & Clank devs >>
* Windows 11 Drops Skype As a Default App >>
* Windows 11 Requires an Internet Connection and Microsoft Account At Setup >>
* Watch the Windows 11 event in under 8 minutes >>
* Here are two podcasts from our Windows 11 coverage >>
* Microsoft’s fast game-loading tech won’t come to Windows 10 >>
* Microsoft wants Steam to be part of its new Windows 11 app store >>
* Windows 11 is deleting Internet Explorer >>

* Keynote Analysis | Postgres Vision 2021 >>
* Event Wrap | Postgres Vision 2021 >>
* Cracking the Code: Lessons Learned from How Enterprise Buyers Evaluate New Startups >>
* Josh Berkus, Red Hat | Postgres Vision 2021 >>
* Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL >>
* Serverless Container Security for AWS Fargate >>

* A Newly-Discovered (Almost) Dwarf Planet Will Come Surprisingly Close in 2031 >>
* How Far Can Civilization Go? >>
* Andromeda in a Single Shot >>

* Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need To Be Energy Intensive >>
* UK’s Vodafone network runs trials on standalone 5G in London, Manchester and Cardiff >>
* China Plans Its First Crewed Mission To Mars In 2033 >>

* GitNFT allows you to sell your Github commits as NFTs! >>
* Amazon CEO is blasting into space next month. Why can’t he get insurance? >>
* Kubernetes co-developers aim to make the container orchestration software ‘boring’ >>

* AWS Has Acquired Encrypted Messaging Service Wickr >>
* Equity Live: This is what leadership smells like >>
* The Hazards of a “Nice” Company Culture >>

* The Alarming Blind Spots in Health Care AI >>
* Virgin Galactic receives FAA approval to take passengers into space >>
* Tiny Satellites Could Help Warn of the Next Big Hurricane >>

* Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS >>
* Earth-like conditions on exoplanets in the Milky Way could be A LOT rarer than experts previously believed >>
* AI-Piloted Fighter Jets >>

* SpaceX launches GPS satellite to provide PNT services >>
* Microsoft’s CEO didn’t work from a home office before the pandemic. Having to do so made him rethink how his company’s products work. >>
* JRE #1673 – Colin Wright >>

* They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. >>
* What Is Cloud Automation and How Does It Benefit IT Teams? >>
* Take a data-first approach to modernization >>

* Building Feature Toggles into Terraform >>
* A Cancer Killer That Comes With a Host of Beneficial Side Effects. >>
* The Age of Indifference: We’re Facing Our Greatest Era of Crisis. So How Come Nobody Cares? >>

* How TSMC Builds a $19 Billion Fab >>
* The World’s Largest Fusion Reactor Now Has the World’s Most Powerful Magnet >>
* Who Will Build Consumers a Debt Dashboard? >>

* Airtel, TCS partner for Made in India 5G open RA >>
* China’s Communist Party at 100: the secret of its longevity >>
* BlackBerry CEO Says Turnaround ‘Taking Longer Than I Expected’ >>

* Mainland China and Taiwan propel semiconductor investment frenzy as Singapore and Japan join the game >>
* Asia’s UFO community looks to the skies at Hong Kong Extraterrestrial Expo >>
* Taking DevOps to the Next Level: Your 5-Step Guide to Monitoring Nirvana >>

* The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past >>
* OMG, BUZZFEED IS WORTH 1.5 BILLION?? WIN >>
* FLOAT ON: This Kestrel’s Next-Level Head Stabilization While Hovering In Place Proves That Nature Is Lit>>

* New Ultralight Material Is Tougher than Steel and Kevlar >>
* At 250 MPH, This Strange Ride is the ‘World’s Fastest Electric Motorcycle’ >>
* Everything We Know About The Devastating Building Collapse in Miami >>

* China Just Announced That It’s Sending the First Humans to Mars >>
* Next Phase of Europe’s New Fighter Jet Gets Approval >>
* SpaceX Aims To Launch First Orbital Starship Flight in July >>

* What Google’s $7BN Building Spree Means for Construction >>
* Sex toy recycling programme launched >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 25 June 2021

* Windows 11 Launch Event: >>
* Facebook hints at mysterious ‘converged wireless system’ in test application >>
* Gig Workers Embrace Apps That Make Their Jobs Easier >>

* Breaking Analysis: Mobile World Congress Highlights Telco Transformation >>
* This ‘nano factory’ fits inside a shipping container >>
* First Crossbeam On The Orbital Launch Pad >>
* Starship SN16 is Worked On Again | SpaceX Boca Chica >>

* Chinese XPeng electric car can drive and park by itself >>
* EV price war to heat up as Mitsubishi readies sub-$18,000 car >>
* Luxury shopping centres open new battleground for China’s electric car makers >>
* Tesla’s Supercharger Network Is Reportedly Unlocking for Other EV Cars >>

* Amazon launches AWS BugBust to spur adoption of AI-powered coding tools >>
* New Approach to Testing OTT Media & Entertainment in Telecom >>
* Cloud meets telecom: 5G spread and AI integration signal extensive mobile agenda at MWC 2021 >>

* Herding Metrics in Cloud Native Environments >>
* Apple developing tamper-proof camera indicator for AR headset privacy >>
* Everything in new in Safari 15 and how you can try it yourself right now >>

* Microsoft Windows 11 event in 7 minutes >>
* Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar >>
* Windows 11 unveiled: A new Mac-like design and tons of new features >>
* Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon’s Appstore >>
* Microsoft Windows 11 revealed with dramatic increase in system requirements >>
* Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays >>
* Windows 11 is a free upgrade >>
* Here’s everything Microsoft is removing from Windows 11 >>
* Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow >>
* Windows 11: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the New ‘Start’ of the PC (Exclusive) | WSJ >>

* Env0 raises $17M to help companies manage cloud infrastructure >>
* How femtech is putting women’s healthcare front and centre >>
* DevOps requires a modern approach to application security >>
* Taking DevOps to the Next Level: Your 5-Step Guide to Monitoring Nirvana >>

* Crypto Fund III >>
* China, the country’s first bitcoin exchange, gives up on the cryptocurrency >>
* The Walt Disney Company: HPE Discover 2021 >>

* Open RAN, open source, and the geo-distributed 5G Edge >>
* Nokia finds its 5G mojo, piling pressure onto Huawei and Ericsson >>
* DOCSIS 4.0 and FTTP to shape the future, says Vodafone Germany CTO >>

* One-Click Exploit Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Any Atlassian Account >>
* The Best Java Libraries that Every Developer Should Know >>
* NASA has always needed private companies to go to the moon >>

* The growing list of companies that require employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 >>
* John McAfee’s death is already a meme >>
* Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games >>

* 4 Ways IoT is Rewiring How the World Works >>
* The 5G Revolution has Barely Begun >>
* JRE #1671 – Bret Weinstein & Dr. Pierre Kory >>

* Travel Is Back. So Why Is American Airlines Canceling Flights? >>
* Taking DevOps to the Next Level: Your 5-Step Guide to Monitoring Nirvana >>
* Workflow management for cloud deployments startup env0 raises $17M >>

* I switched from Android to iPhone and found out what my friends really think >>
* Japan Promotes Four-Day Working Week to Boost Productivity >>
* A New Condenser Can Harvest Drinking Water from the Air 24/7 >>

* New ‘Open Rotor’ Engine Concept Might Cut Aviation Emissions by 20% >>
* Dreams Come True: First-Ever Luxury Space Hotel Nears Launch >>
* Ethereal Tower with 99 Floating Islands Designed For Shenzhen, China >>

* World’s largest cruise line aims to be carbon-neutral by 2050 >>
* How Andrew Yang went from rock star to also-ran >>
* Partial building collapse near Miami >>

* Are we ALONE in the Universe? >>
* NASA is Finally Sending a Lunar Lander to the Moon’s far Side >>
* Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Solved. It was… Dust >>
* Space Perspective Puts Tickets for Stratospheric Balloon Tours on Sale >>

* China Tries To Solve Its Rocket Debris Problem >>
* Nuclear Fusion Startup Helion Energy Surpasses 100 Million Degrees Celsius >>
* No, The Other One >>

* Revenge Is Sweet – But Also Bitter >>
* Andreessen Horowitz raises the stakes with a new $2.2 billion cryptocurrency fund >>
* Enterprise databases deployed in Kubernetes? Proceed with caution, warns seasoned analyst >>

* In South Korea the new normal future of work is … a 52-hour work week! >>
* Euro court rules YouTube not automatically liable for users illegally uploading copyright-protected material >>
* MIT develops ‘magic’ carpet that can detect if person sitting on it is doing sit-ups or other exercise and calculate calories burned >>

* NFC Flaws Let Researchers Hack ATMs by Waving a Phone >>
* Google delays the rollout of its third-party cookie replacement to mid-2023 >>
* What Neuralink and other BCIs can and can’t do >>

* Walmart’s AI is getting smarter about grocery delivery >>
* The World Needs Deepfake Experts to Stem This Chaos >>
* Google and Jio reveal a low-cost smartphone that’s ‘made for India’ >>

* Daily Crunch: AWS and Salesforce expand partnership to make cross-platform integrations easier >>
* You can share tweets directly to Instagram Stories now >>
* Nvidia’s Canvas AI painting tool instantly turns blobs into realistic landscapes >>
* Instagram tests placing ‘suggested posts’ throughout your feed >>

* We finally know when the first stars in the universe switched on >>
* A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds >>
* Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe >>

* Banning extreme views on YouTube really does help stop their spread >>
* Aliens orbiting 1402 stars near Earth could be looking at us right now >>
* Buffett Weighs In on Tax-Free Philanthropy >>

* 7-Eleven owners are using surveillance cameras to prevent workers from stealing >>
* China fact of the day >>
* John Stuart Mill on America >>

* How tech will revolutionize retail >>
* Model life-cycle transformation in the next decade >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 24 June 2021

* Morning After: Finally, a laundry detergent for space >>
* SpaceX installs launch tower mechanism to catch Starship boosters >>
* Tesla’s NEW Cost-Efficient Batteries >>

* B1M: The Battle to Build the Big Apple’s Little Island >>
* Super Heavy’s Hot Gas Thrusters Spotted >>
* SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet could achieve global coverage by September >>

* Harrison Ford injures shoulder on Indiana Jones 5 film set >>
* Aliens From Nearly 2,000 Worlds Can See Earth. Should We Be Worried? >>
* Radio Waves From Earth Have Reached Dozens of Stars >>

* Warren Buffett Resigns From Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation >>
* John McAfee Found Dead in Prison Cell After Spanish High Court Allows Extradition >>

* India is tracking a new mutated strain officials call ‘Delta Plus’ >>
* Covid 19 coronavirus: Fears new Delta Plus mutation could resist treatment >>

* Canon Uses AI Cameras That Only Let Smiling Workers Inside Offices >>
* Microsoft is expected to launch Windows 11 this Thursday >>

* NVIDIA’s Canvas app turns doodles into AI-generated ‘photos’ >>
* It’s true, stress really DOES turn hair grey… >>

* China and Russia Announce their Future Plans for the Moon, Including a Human Base >>
* Space Telescopes Could Provide Next-Level Images of Black Hole Event Horizons >>
* Fiber Optic Cables Could Shake Up Our Understanding of Deep-Sea Quakes >>

* The Linux Foundation dives into machine learning with Open Voice Network, dataset licence launches >>
* Boffins promise protection and perfect performance with new ZeRØ, No-FAT memory safety techniques >>
* Containers make life easier for the software vendors you buy from, and that’s why they’ll win >>
* ‘NASA Tide’ will be the first-ever laundry detergent for astronauts >>

* Indian mega-corp Tata unveils surprise 5G networking business >>
* How one founder realized satellite internet didn’t have to be fast or expensive to be useful >>
* Future of Digital Payments >>

* Kickstarter CEO: Let’s Try a 4-Day Work Week >>
* Using machine learning to build maps that give smarter driving advice >>
* Why do we pay so much attention to Russia, a small economy without important U.S. trade relations? >>

* Microsoft Hits $2 Trillion Market Cap >>
* Research: When A/B Testing Doesn’t Tell You the Whole Story >>
* Gogoro teams with Foxconn to make its e-scooters available worldwide >>
* Time Management Won’t Save You >>

* Xbox Cloud Gaming’s next-gen upgrade begins rolling out >>
* Podcast hired by an algorithm >>
* Max Q — China’s space station gets a staff >>

* What to expect from Mobile World Congress: Samsung, Huawei, and more >>
* How to Prevent Air Conditioners from Heating the Planet >>
* 2,000 in UK apply to be an astronaut with European Space Agency along with 20,000 others >>

* Mega comet 300 miles wide will reach its closest point to Earth in 2031 >>
* NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made its EIGHTH successful flight >>
* Pandemic May Have Created a ‘Baby Bust,’ Not Boom >>

* Twitter wants you to test two of its new features, Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces >>
* Men’s 100m sprint final, Tokyo Olympics 2021: what time is the race and can anyone beat Usain Bolt’s record? >>
* From Simone Biles to Adam Peaty, the 20 greatest Olympic athletes in the world right now ahead of Tokyo 2020 >>

* An ‘Uncrashable’ Car? Luminar Says Its Lidar Can Get There >>
* Forward Thinking on China and artificial intelligence with Jeffrey Ding >>
* Founders of South African Bitcoin exchange disappear after $3.6 billion ‘hack’ >>

* HMS Defender: Russian jets and ships target British warship >>
* Pentagon UFO report: Here’s what we know >>
* Hospitals are selling treasure troves of medical data — what could go wrong? >>

* Tim Berners-Lee Defends Auction of NFT Representing Web’s Source Code >>
* Flying Hoverboards Are Finally Real, And They’re Going On Sale >>
* Woman Discovers A Message In A Bottle From 1926 While Diving, Wins The Internet >>

* Scientist Demonstrates How Hydrophobic Objects Zip Through Water Without Drag >>
* Project planning for developers >>
* Alias-Free GAN >>

* AWS and Salesforce are integrating their clouds to simplify application projects >>
* SingleStore says it’s the world’s first database to support analytical and transactional workloads >>

* Keith White, GreenLake Cloud Services | HPE Discover 2021 >>
* Guido Appenzeller, Intel | HPE Discover 2021 >>
* John Gromala, HPE Greenlake Lighthouse | HPE Discover 2021 >>
* Why Empowering Developers Is a Game Changer for Application Security >>

* Xi talks with astronauts stationed in space station core module >>
* At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low >>
* Academics’ LinkedIn Accounts Blocked in China >>

* iPhones, iPads, and iClinics? Apple’s Foray Into Healthcare >>
* Astrocast joins a growing IoT space race >>

* TED Fellows: Shape Your Future: Maternal and child health is a human right >>
* The four-day upgrade: Workplace trends, June 2021 >>
* The four-day work week is finally catching on >>

* Building Sustainable AI/ML Solutions in the Cloud with Federated Learning >>
* Digger automatically generates and maintains infrastructure for your code in your AWS account >>
* JRE: #1671 – A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 23 June 2021

* Apple researching cameras that can capture direction of light for better AR, VR >>
* SpaceX’s genius move on how to build sea and land-based Starship launch platforms! >>
* Pieces of 8th Orbital Launch Tower Section Delivered | SpaceX Boca Chica >>

* Tesla AI Day in About One Month >>
* When Low-Code/No-Code Development Works — and When It Doesn’t >>
* How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder >>
* Why Elon Musk is so rich: The betting economy versus the operating economy >>

* Researchers develop artificial skin for prosthetics that senses injuries and mimics bruising >>
* GitLab 14 aims to do away with DIY DevOps toolchains >>
* IBM launches new cloud database as a service offering >>
* Low code meets the urgency of today’s rapidly changing world >>

* IaC CI with GitLab and Terraform >>
* 5 Lessons Learned From Writing Over 300,000 Lines of Infrastructure Code >>
* TED: Sarah Rugheimer the searchbfor microscopic aliens >>

* Bio Eats World: Building Digital Health’s Github >>
* MWC’s big story is still the cloud cheerleader replacing Ericsson >>
* Why Is Everyone Quitting? >>

* Chip Shortage Starts Hitting Consumers With Higher Prices >>
* Chicken Producer Sanderson Farms Explores Sale >>
* From subs to missiles, US nudges Japan to step up on defense >>
* Housing Market ‘Gone Berserk’ Stirs Unease Over Investors’ Clout >>

* REITs make substantial debut >>
* AI and Machine Learning in Security >>
* SpaceX pre-assembly of the short 8th launch tower section begins. June 22 2021 >>
* Apple is opening a store in downtown LA’s nearly 100-year-old Tower Theatre >>

* How to build a driverless vehicle that doesn’t make you barf >>
* A hospital algorithm designed to predict a deadly condition misses most cases >>
* Epic Games will let developers use its voice and anti-cheat services for free >>
* Facebook is working on visual search for shopping on Instagram >>

* Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely >>
* How to Re-Onboard Employees Who Started Remotely >>
* The Morning After: Robot dog maker Boston Dynamics has a new owner >>
* Hamburger-flipping robotics company Miso introduces an automated beverage dispenser >>

* Oculus loses one of its first in-app VR ad partners following backlash >>
* Gillmor Gang: Who Knew >>
trains its robots to wipe down tables while taking selfies
* Toyota trains its robots to wipe down tables while taking selfies >>
* Facebook’s entry into VR advertising isn’t going too well >>

* These Videos Could Boost COVID Vaccination Rates >>
* Drinking coffee or decaf may help avoid chronic liver disease >>
* How boards can help digital transformations >>

* An AI Toolbox for Space Research >>
* Ep. 610: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Non-Sentient Edition >>
* Astronomers saw the Same Supernova Three Times Thanks to Gravitational Lensing. And in Twenty Years They Think They’ll see it one More Time >>
* What the Delta variant could mean for Covid-19 in the United States >>

* Amazon’s Planned Purchase of MGM To Be Reviewed by FTC >>
* Solar Powered Bioreactors Could Make Food Cheap and Sustainable >>
* SpaceX Says Starlink Will Support Global Coverage by September >>

* Germany’s First 3D-Printed Residential Building is Near Completion >>
* World’s First 100% Hydrogen “Skateboard” Truck Has A 500 Mile Range >>
* Hubble Is Still Offline, and Its Time Might Be Running Out >>
* An Airbus 350 is even more impressive when you go below the cockpit and into the avionics bay. >>

* Peter Pan Literally Crashes Through The Window In This Botched School Play Performance >>
* NASA and Tide team up to solve the space laundry problem >>
* The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming >>

* Ask HN: Anyone built a business with no-code tools? >>
* Google’s Visual Inspection AI spots defects in manufactured goods >>
* Nvidia’s Isaac robot simulations debut on Omniverse >>
* Code Ownership Is Key to Accelerate Debugging >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 22 June 2021

* US Navy Tests Battle Readiness of USS Ford With Real Explosives – causes earthquake >>
* Tokyo 2020: Up to 10,000 Japanese fans will be permitted at Olympic venues >>
* Toyota Research Institute shows how its robotics work with difficult surfaces in the home >>

* Israel Just Tested the World’s First ‘Airborne Laser Weapon’ >>
* Boeing’s 737 Max 10 Successfully Completes First Test Flight >>
* Communal Computing: How do we build devices that are shared by default? >>

* An enormous ‘mega comet’ is flying into our solar system >>
* Tesla Shows Off Its Brand New AI-Training Supercomputer >>
* Engineer Builds Self-Balancing Autonomous Bicycle in Spare Time >>

* The eight trends that will define 2021–and beyond >>
* Steven Spielberg will produce movies for Netflix >>
* American Airlines staff shortages: Is my flight canceled? >>

* Quantum data link established between two distant Chinese cities >>
* What To Expect From Microsoft’S Windows 11 Event >>
* Microsoft Fights Back Against Windows 11 Leak >>

* Uber to become the sole owner of grocery delivery startup Cornershop >>
* Hyundai completes deal for controlling interest in Boston Dynamics >>

* Samsung will show off the new Wear OS experience on June 28th >>
* Video Shows Flying Through Times Square On Giant Drone: Is this really the future? >>
* How Cybercriminals Almost Stole $1 Billion From Bangladesh’s National Bank >>

* PMP2: The Future Of Retail with V. “Paddy” Padmanabhan and Molly Hartney >>
* Acquired: Special: Ho Nam from Altos Ventures — A Different Approach to VC >>

* Evolution, rewards, and artificial intelligence >>
* Speed, security and reliability are now one >>
* Docker Deployments using Terraform >>

* Quartz Daily Brief: Olympic Spectators, Ethiopia’S Election, Lego Typewriter >>
* How to pick the best days to work from home >>
* 17 principles for a successful hybrid workplace >>
* Climate models predicted heatwaves like America’s record-breaking weekend >>

* TED: What your money habits reveal about you >>
* Light Reading Recap: Week of June 18 >>
* Google Executives See Cracks in Their Company’s Success >>
* How Do They Say Economic Recovery? ‘I Quit.’ >>

* Yggdrasil early-stage implementation of fully end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network >>
* Git undo: We can do better >>
* TikTok Jump lets creators enhance their videos with ‘mini-app’ integrations >>
* How to share your Google One storage with your family >>

* Rainbo’s Tonya Papanikolov Believes in the Magic of Mushrooms >>
* What is OpenShift? >>
* Joe Rogan On Everything Wrong With Hollywood And Los Angeles >>

* How Does it Work? | SpaceX Pink >>
* The growth triple play: Creativity, analytics, and purpose >>
* Why Flying Cars Could Be Here Within the Decade >>

* There’s no cheating old age >>
* Maybe the Aliens Really Are Here >>
* New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World >>

* Sport climbing at Tokyo 2021 >>
* Surfing at Tokyo 2021 >>
* Skateboarding at Tokyo 2021 >>

* Houses are selling in just 6 days on average in a red-hot market, and just 3 days in some Midwest >>
* The WHO’s top scientist says we don’t yet know if COVID-19 booster shots are a good idea >>
* We must all learn more about the algorithms that shape our daily lives >>

* EARTH HAS A ‘PULSE’ EVERY 27.5 MILLION YEARS >>
* What Happened When an Entire Town Went Full Crypto >>
* What Does It Take to Build a Culture of Belonging? >>

* Equity Monday: China hates crypto, and the Vision Fund’s vision lives on >>
* 5 Questions Boards Should Be Asking About Digital Transformation >>
* An Algorithm That Predicts Deadly Infections Is Often Flawed >>

* TikTok launches Jump, a third-party integration tool >>
* India’s IT lobby lashes forecast of automation-induced jobs bloodbath >>
* VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come >>

* The Morning After: Amazon Prime Day 2021 kicks off >>
* Amazon Labels Millions of Unsold Products For Destruction, New Investigation Finds >>
* Global supply chain issues threaten to derail this year’s Prime Day discounts, but Amazon says theres more deals than last year >>
* Amazon’s Prime Day Begins Today. Here’s What You Need to Know. >>
* Here Are All The Best Prime Day Deal Categories In Alphabetical Order >>
* Here Are The Most Popular Prime Day Deals So Far >>

Futureseek Daily Link Review; 21 June 2021

* Covid: China administers a billion vaccine doses >>
* Best early Amazon Prime Day deals happening now >>
* Pentagon UFO report arrives this week: Everything you need to know >>

* Petitions to stop Jeff Bezos returning to Earth after space trip get thousands of signatures >>
* Tokyo Olympics: Ugandan tests positive for Covid in Japan >>
* To The Moon, Part 5: The Comedown >>

* Low Code No Code, Part II: How to Ride This Wave >>
* Automate for people, not for processes >>
* The coming productivity boom >>

* Windows 11: Everything we want from the new Microsoft OS >>
* Amazon delivery drivers risk write-ups and injuries as they race to your door >>
* Life in 2050: A Glimpse at Transportation in the Future >>

* How to Version Control the Cloud >>
* The Future of the Economy is Even More Dystopian Than You Think >>
* Cutting Slack: When open source and team chat tools collide >>

* Hybrid Anxiety and Hybrid Optimism: The Near Future of Work >>
* 17 principles for a successful hybrid workplace >>
* How to create an inclusive hybrid working environment >>

* Could Mitochondria Be the Key to a Healthy Brain? >>
* Ransomware highlights the challenges and subtleties of cybersecurity >>
* Economically, covid-19 has hit hard-up urbanites hardest >>

* Third pandemic wave hits as Brazil surpasses half a million Covid deaths >>
* [Amazon] Lethal for career. Think 100 Times before you join Amazon >>
* 2014 UN271: A possible dwarf planet from the Oort Cloud on a tour through the Solar System >>

* The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth >>
* Dumb Money No More: How David Ellison Became a Hollywood High Flier >>
* The Navy’s Railgun Is Finally Dead >>

* mRNA Companies are Now Testing Cancer-Fighting Vaccines >>
* Dilbert Builds An Ai Of His >>
* Astronomers Find a Blinking Star Near the Center of the Milky Way >>

* Demystifying LiDAR: An In-Depth Guide to the Great Wavelength Debate >>
* This $80 quadcopter has a 4K camera and fits in your hand >>
* Each of These Microscopic Glass Beads Stores an Image Encoded on a Strand of DNA >>

* Fight Over Covid’s Origins Renews Debate on Risks of Lab Work >>
* The best mask-wearing study so far? >>
* NASA Struggles to Fix Failure of Hubble Space Telescope’s 1980s Computer >>

* Tokyo Olympics: Inside the athletes’ village >>
* K-wave: How fans are supporting their favourite idols >>
* New Study Reveals Earth Once Tipped Over On Its Side and Back Again >>

* NASA is keeping watchful eye on Jeff Bezos and other billionaires competing in space race >>
* Brazil hits 500,000 COVID-19 deaths as the Amazon Gamma variant accelerates virus contagion >>
* Many Brazilians Insist on Pfizer Even With 500,000 Covid Deaths >>