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âWhen Australia shuts down, it shuts downâ: Fauci praises Australia
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Americaâs COVID-19-fighter-in-chief has praised Australiaâs coronavirus response, saying the country has led the world on containment and management of emerging variants.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Australiaâs approach to lockdowns had successfully stopped outbreaks in a way the United States had never done.
âWhen Australia shuts down, they shut down,â he said at a joint appearance with Australiaâs Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly on Wednesday.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with US President Joe Biden. Â
Slave to the algo: facial recognition and fraud in a Covid-19 world
Keith Oliver is Head of International and Amalia Neenan is Civil Fraud & Commercial Litigation Legal Researcher at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP
Facial recognition software is everywhere - from entering sports stadia to opening up your phone (Photo by Steffi Loos/Getty Images)
“There will come a time when it isn’t, ‘they’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be, ‘my phone is spying on me’.” American author, Philip K. Dick, warned us about the rapid advancement of technology.
Incredibly, this warning was given long before his death in 1982, when mobile phones were the size of bricks and computers were still shrouded in mysticism. Dick’s prophetic novels have since graced the big screen – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep became Blade Runner, and Tom Cruise showed us the value of a black market in ‘working/reusable eyes’ as the lead in the ad
Elon Musk is Chinaâs favourite capitalist . for now
In Shanghai, Chinese consumers who want a number plate for their petrol-powered car have to buy one at auction, at about $18,100, but plates for electric vehicles are free, and thatâs helped Elon Musk sell more Model 3s in that country. Â
Matthew Campbell
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Last year on February 10, as authorities in China ended work stoppages intended to halt the novel coronavirus, much of the country remained quiet. Transportation was still disrupted, and many workers were stuck in their home provinces. Others had been told to avoid their factories and offices until managers formulated plans to reopen safely.
| UPDATED: 16:40, Wed, Jan 20, 2021
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