📉 U.S. life expectancy fell by 1.5 years in 2020, the biggest decline in generations
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U.S. life expectancyfFell by 1.5 years in 2020, the biggest decline in generations. Life expectancy in the U.S. fell by 1.5 years in 2020, the biggest decline since at least World War II, as the Covid-19 pandemic killed hundreds of thousands and exacerbated crises in drug overdoses, homicides and some chronic diseases. (Betsy McKay via Wall Street Journal)
Twitter tests a TweetDeck revamp it hopes to make a subscription product. Twitter announced today it will begin testing a new set of features for TweetDeck, the company's often-ignored social media dashboard aimed at Twitter's power users, which Twitter may soon turn into a new subscription service. (Sarah Perez via TechCrunch)
Google Maps' new features are designed to help you navigate life after lockdown. Google has introduced a few Maps features that could help you ease back into the world, now that COVID-19 vaccines are available. One of the most useful changes to Maps is the expansion of transit crowdedness predictions to over 10,000 cities in 100 countries. (Mariella Moon via Engadget)
More Variants Are Coming, and the U.S. Isn't Ready to Track Them. There’s no good place to stand inside the Pandemic Response Lab’s sequencing facility in Queens, N.Y. Take a wrong step, and you’re blocking a gowned-up lab tech as she ferries a plate with the RNA from 384 Covid-19 test samples to a machine that runs a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, identifies positives, and extracts them with a robotic arm. (Cynthia Koons via Bloomberg)
Bitcoin Alert: Biggest Private Crypto Deal Ever Is Closed. Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has just raised the largest private equity round in the industry’s history, nearly doubling the previous record. Today, FTX Trading Ltd., owner and operator of the exchange, announced the $900 million Series B fundraise at an $18 billion valuation – a major milestone for FTX, which was worth only $1.2 billion a year ago. (Nina Bambysheva via Forbes)
Netflix set to report second-quarter earnings after the bell. Netflix reports its second-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. Analysts aren't expecting blockbuster results this quarter, with Jefferies analysts using the word 'meh' to describe anticipated performance in their earnings preview. (Jessica Bursztynsky via CNBC)
Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47. The American carbon tax, an alluringly simple policy once hailed by environmentalists, scholars, and politicians as a cure-all for climate change that, for all its elegance in economic models, could not overcome its enduring unpopularity with the…(Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic)
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