The Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wants to pave the way for a third term in office for party leader and President Xi Jinping. The party’s 370 or so members gathered in Beijing on Monday for a four-day meeting to discuss a “historic resolution.” It is only the third […]
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Prime Ministers of German federal states want action to be taken now to prevent a lockdown and an overload of hospital care. The number of coronavirus infections is rising rapidly in the country, and more and more corona patients are being admitted to hospitals. “If we take too much […]
Facial recognition company Clearview AI has violated Australian privacy law, the Australian regulator says. As a result, the company must remove all data from Australians. Clearview AI makes facial recognition based on a database of ten billion images of faces. The company says it will pick it up from […]
Democrat Eric Adams, a former New York City Police Chief Superintendent and until recently Brooklyn borough president, was elected New York’s 110th mayor on Tuesday (local time). US media confirmed Adams’ victory ten minutes after polls closed at 9 p.m. (local time). The official result may still be days […]
Epic Games, the hugely popular “Fortnite,” video game developer, has announced that it will shut down the game’s Chinese servers in mid-November. As a result, young people in China will no longer be able to play the game. Epic Games has not given an official reason for the decision, […]
A 24-year-old man attacked passengers with a knife on a train in Tokyo on Sunday. Seventeen people were injured, one of whom is in critical condition. The suspect would have been dressed as ‘The Joker’ from the Batman films. The knife attack took place around 8 p.m. local time […]
Video conferencing platform Zoom has expanded its Events feature to include conferences. That allows users with a Zoom Events license to host multi-session conferences. The solution was already demonstrated at the end of September during Zoomtopia 2021, which 33,000 participants virtually attended. Zoom Events Conference offers hosts, among other […]
Americans with a weakened immune system who have received a third corona shot are recommended to get a fourth vaccination six months later. The US health service CDC writes in the vaccination guidelines that the fourth vaccination can be of all approved vaccines. In the United States, people with […]
China added 307 billionaires last year. In other words, almost every day, there is a new dollar billionaire in the country. This is evident from the new rich list of the Chinese magazine Hurun on Wednesday. The world’s second-largest economy now has a total of $1,185 billionaires. That number […]
In a house in Houston, Texas, the police found the body of a 9-year-old boy in a distant state of decomposition and three severely neglected children. The police speak of a “horrific situation”. One of the children, a 15-year-old boy, is said to have called the police himself and […]