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Suez Canal Traffic Blocked by Container Ship Stuck in Waterway. A giant ship could be stuck in the Suez Canal for days, blocking one of the world’s busiest maritime trade routes that’s vital for the movement of everything from oil to consumer goods. (Robert Tuttle via Bloomberg)
Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault and Flutterwave. Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are over 100 million adult Nigerians, of which more than half have little or no access to financial services. (Tage Kene-Okafor via TechCrunch)
Intel is spending $20 billion to build two new chip plants in Arizona. Intel announced on Tuesday that it will spend $20 billion to build two new chip factories, called fabs, in Chandler, Arizona. Intel stock rose as much as 5% on the news in extended trading on Tuesday. (Kif Leswing via CNBC)
Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court To Let Cops Enter Homes And Seize Guns Without A Warrant. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral argument in Caniglia v. Strom, a case that could have sweeping consequences for policing, due process, and mental health, with the Biden Administration and attorneys general from nine states urging the High Court to uphold warrantless gun confiscation. (Nick Sibilla via Forbes)
Amazon delivery drivers have to consent to AI surveillance in their vans or lose their jobs. Amazon is well-known for its technological Taylorism: using digital sensors to monitor and control the activity of its workers in the name of efficiency. But after installing machine learning-powered surveillance cameras in its delivery vans earlier this year, the company is now telling employees: agree to be surveilled by AI or lose your job. (James Vincent via The Verge)
Major flaws found in machine learning for COVID-19 diagnosis. A coalition of AI researchers and health care professionals in fields like infectious disease, radiology, and ontology have found several common but serious shortcomings with machine learning made for COVID-19 diagnosis or prognosis. (Khari Johnson via VentureBeat)
Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux. Linux is the poster-child for the C language. But times change. The Rust language has been slowly gathering support for use as a system language in Linux. (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via ZDNet)
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