COVID-19 vaccination is underway in India and people taking appointments for shots have started receiving calls for a survey conducted by the government to verify their vaccination status. The calls are being routed through 1921 that the health ministry had introduced as a telesurvey number last year.Read More
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Google said it was leading about 30 companies and trade groups in opposing a lawsuit that seeks to stop over 90,000 spouses of highly skilled US visa workers from having jobs in the country.Read More
A coalition of US labour unions took renewed aim at Amazon, saying a need for speed in warehouses leads to workers being injured.Read More
Two US college campuses are getting a cereal-mixing robot that prepares a breakfast-ready bowl. These breakfast-dispensing robots, created as a joint pilot between Kellogg’s and Chowbotics, have been rolled out at Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On the Kellogg’s Bowl Bot, operated through a touchscreen interface or the Chowbotics app …Read More
Bill Gates became arguably the leading business voice on fixing the world’s woes. But all the revelations about his divorce, dubious workplace behaviour, and ties to Jeffrey Epstein are hurting the billionaire’s carefully crafted do-gooder public image.Read More
Google said it would open its first physical store in New York City this summer, mirroring a retail approach that has helped Apple rake in billions of dollars in the last two decades.Read More
The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official said.Read More
Amazon is testing its front-line staff in Britain for coronavirus variants and feeding the data to public health officials, including in hotspots where a strain first found in India is spreading fast.Read More
The United States announced 25 percent tariffs on over $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,625.51 crores) worth of imports from six countries over their digital services taxes, but immediately suspended the duties to allow time for international tax negotiations to continue.Read More
Professors from top universities and research institutes are together demanding a ban on the use of lethal autonomous weapons against humans. In their appeal to the world governments, they cited a recent UN report of a drone airstrike in Libya by a devious Turkish-made weapons system, STM Kargu-2, that needed no human oversight.Read More