City worker climbs into New York vent to retrieve woman s ring
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Feb. 3 (UPI) A worker with New York s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is being applauded for climbing into a sidewalk vent near a subway station to find an heirloom ring dropped by a pedestrian.
The MTA said Shawn Fallon, a Maintenance of Way infrastructure supervisor, rushed into action last week when he heard a woman had dropped a ring given to her by her grandmother into a vent near Grand Central Terminal.
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Fallon climbed into the vent and was able to find the ring and return it to the grateful woman.
February 2, 2021
Despite turbulent second quarter, global green bond market grows for ninth straight year.
Green bond issuance grew for the ninth straight year, climbing to a record high of $269.5 billion at the end of last year, up from $266.5 billion in 2019, according to not-for-profit organization Climate Bonds Initiative, which said 2021 could be another record year, with issuance rising to as high as $450 billion.
The $3 billion increase in issuance from 2019 was rather modest compared with the previous year, when issuance ballooned by more than $95 billion between 2018 and 2019. The sharp deceleration in growth was due the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the green bond market during the second quarter. However, record-breaking issuance during the third quarter helped prevent the end of the market’s nearly decadelong winning streak.
Why Are We Still Deep-Cleaning Surfaces for COVID?
The coronavirus behind the pandemic can linger on doorknobs and other surfaces, but these aren’t a major source of infection
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Volunteers spray disinfectant in the town in Handan city in north China s Hebei province Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. The number of coronavirus patients bounced up recently in northern China. Credit: Getty Images
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When Emanuel Goldman went to his local New Jersey supermarket last March, he didn’t take any chances. Reports of COVID-19 cases were popping up across the United States, so he donned gloves to avoid contaminated surfaces and wore a mask to prevent him inhaling tiny virus-laden droplets from fellow shoppers. Neither gloves nor masks were recommended at the time.
Apple is making it faster for iPhone users to unlock their devices while wearing a face mask in the first iOS 14.5 beta, by confirming the presence of an Apple Watch.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused problems for people who use iPhones, as wearing a mask prevents Face ID from properly working. Users were forced either to remove their mask temporarily or to enter in their security code to unlock the iPhone.
In the beta for iOS 14.5, Apple is trying out a way to get through Face ID authentication while wearing the mask, by taking advantage of the Apple Watch. In a similar fashion to how an Apple Watch could be used to unlock a Mac, an Apple Watch wearer can set up their iPhone to unlock through Face ID, if they are wearing the Apple Watch and it s nearby.
in iOS edited February 1 Apple is making it faster for iPhone users to unlock their devices while wearing a face mask in the first iOS 14.5 beta, by confirming the presence of an Apple Watch.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused problems for people who use iPhones, as wearing a mask prevents Face ID from properly working. Users were forced either to remove their mask temporarily or to enter in their security code to unlock the iPhone.
In the beta for iOS 14.5, Apple is trying out a way to get through Face ID authentication while wearing the mask, by taking advantage of the Apple Watch. In a similar fashion to how an Apple Watch could be used to unlock a Mac, an Apple Watch wearer can set up their iPhone to unlock through Face ID, if they are wearing the Apple Watch and it s nearby.