Logistics companies had hoped for increased business in the last half of this year, but retailers are cautious about placing orders after being overstocked for months last year and earlier in this one, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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TURNS OUT, EBOLA LIKELY LEAKED FROM A LAB AS WELL
In December 2013, Zaire Ebola hemorrhagic fever broke out in Guinea and over the next three years spread across West Africa, ultimately killing 11,323 people. It was the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A Congressional appearance this past week by TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was widely viewed as a disaster for the company.
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MICROSOFT SAYS CHATGPT4 AN “EARLY FORM” OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
Has the newest version of ChatGPT achieved a human level of general intelligence? Microsoft is now making that claim for ChatGPT4.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Several reports involving cryptos and a possible U.S. CBDC were released this past week. But the reports themselves, and much of the media attention surrounding them, failed to get at the core issue.
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BITCOIN GETS BANK BOOST IN GERMANY
Several moves in Germany spell good news for bitcoin adoption and investment. Via a new platform called wpNex offered by securities processing giant Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank), some 1,200 German banks will be able to offer bitcoin to retail customers.
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LARRY FINK ON CRYPTOS, THE BANKING CRISIS AND DE-GLOBALIZATION
Gerald Celente named “Self-Sufficient Economies” as a de-globalization related Top Trend in November of 2021.
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NASDAQ SET TO BECOME A CRYPTO CUSTODY PROVIDER
Nasdaq is currently working out regulatory clearances in order to offer crypto custody services. That’s according to a 24 March Bloomberg report.
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FEDNOW FURTHERING GOVERNMENT CBDC AND DIGITAL PAYMENTS GOALS
The fast approaching FedNow instant payments system serves two goals.
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INTRODUCING THE OXYGEN-ION BATTERY
Engineers at the Vienna University of Technology have created a battery that needs no hard-to-come-by materials, uses no nickel or cobalt, can’t catch fire, and can be regenerated when the performance begins to degrade with time.