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Japan to Dump Treated Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean. U.S. partners South Korea and Taiwan joined China in opposing Japan’s plan to release radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean starting in about two years. (Aaron Clark via Bloomberg)
Janet Yellen, Bitcoin And Crypto Fearmongers Get Pushback From Former CIA Director. Bitcoin just received a strong vote of confidence from an unlikely source, a former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In so doing, he put senior government officials who issue public warnings about bitcoin’s alleged use by criminals, such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, on notice. (Steven Ehrlich via Forbes)
Universal child care could boost women's lifetime earnings by $130 billion-and ensure more stable retirement options. Since last February, over 2.3 million women have dropped out of the workforce, compared to just 1.8 million men who left the labor force between February 2020 and 2021, according to data compiled by the National Women’s Law Center. (Megan Leonhardt via CNBC)
The End of Hygiene Theater. Last week, the CDC acknowledged what many of us have been saying for almost nine months about cleaning surfaces to prevent transmission by touch of the coronavirus: It's pure hygiene theater. (Derek Thompson via The Atlantic)
Twitter to set up its first African presence in Ghana. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, via a tweet, announced that the company would be setting up a presence in Africa. “Twitter is now present on the continent. Thank you, Ghana and Nana Akufo-Addo,” he said. (Tage Kene-Okafor via TechCrunch)
Siri says next Apple event is April 20th. Siri appears to have spilled the beans on the next Apple launch event. MacRumors was first to report that asking the voice assistant “When is the next Apple Event” prompts it to say April 20th. We’ve managed to get the same response, though only on a device that’s associated with a US Apple ID. (Jon Porter via The Verge)
China's Message to America: We're an Equal Now. It quickly became obvious in Anchorage, Alaska, last month that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s diplomatic envoys hadn’t come carrying olive branches. Instead they brought a new world view. (Lingling Wei via Wall Street Journal)
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