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Boris Johnson said 'pile the bodies high' rather than lockdown. Boris Johnson reportedly said he would rather 'let the bodies pile high' than impose a second lockdown last year. Sources told the Daily Mail that Johnson made the comments at a meeting in October. (Thomas Colson via Business Insider)
The ease of tracking mobile phones of U.S. soldiers in hot spots. In 2016, a U.S. defense contractor named PlanetRisk Inc. was working on a software prototype when its employees discovered they could track U.S. military operations through the data generated by the apps on the mobile phones of American soldiers.(Byron Tau via Wall Street Journal)
The burden on black boys. Social workers and educators who see young people—especially Black boys who live in poor, segregated neighborhoods—react aggressively, become irritable, or have trouble concentrating, often identify such behavior as maladaptive. (Adam Harris via The Atlantic)
Total Suspends Mozambique LNG Indefinitely on Security Threat. French energy giant Total SE suspended its $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique indefinitely due to an escalation of violence in the area, including a March attack by Islamic State-linked militants. (Francois De Beaupuy via Bloomberg)
Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina. Apple announced on Monday that it plans to open a new campus in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. Apple will spend over $1 billion on the campus, and it will employ 3,000 people working on technology like software engineering and machine learning. (Kif Leswing via CNBC)
YC-backed Kidato raises $1.4M seed to scale its online school for K-12 students in Africa. In public schools across Africa, classrooms are often overcrowded and this affects how teachers and students interact. The large classroom creates too much work for teachers leaving students' individual problems unattended. (Tage Kene-Okafor via TechCrunch)
Internet Outage in Canada Blamed on Beavers Gnawing Through Cables. Rascally beavers took down internet service for about 900 customers in a remote Canadian community this weekend after gnawing through crucial fiber cables, the Candian Broadcasting Corporation reported Sunday. (Alyse Stanley via Gizmodo)
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