Trump administration to shake up states’ COVID vaccine allocation methods

[ad_1] The Trump administration is changing the way coronavirus vaccines are allocated to states, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Tuesday. Rather than handing out vaccines based on population, the administration will instead assign doses based on how quickly they can deliver the vaccines, as well as the size of the population … Read more

Check Out This NYT Story About Losing $ 220 Million In Bitcoin

[ad_1] There aren’t many good ways to lose $ 220 million, but this New York Times The article highlights a particularly glaring problem: losing millions of dollars in bitcoin because you forgot your digital wallet password. Stefan Thomas’ 7,002 bitcoins (worth around $ 220 million) are locked in an IronKey hard drive, according to NOWIt’s … Read more

Biden to extend break on federal student loan payments

[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden to extend nearly a year hiatus on federal student loan payments on “day one,” the first concrete pledge the new administration has made to tackle the $ 1.6 trillion debt crisis of dollars. Biden’s transition manager David Kamin told reporters on Friday that “easing the crushing financial burden of student debt” … Read more

Visa and Plaid cancel $ 5.3 billion merger after Justice Department opposition

[ad_1] Visa Inc. and fintech startup Plaid announced on Tuesday that they had ended their proposed merger following the Justice Department’s antitrust crackdown. Visa V, -1.89% Managing Director Al Kelly said in a statement that if he was “confident” that the payments giant would have succeeded in the Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit, he believed … Read more

Exclusive: Apple spoke to start-up EV Canoo in 2020

[ad_1] Apple held meetings with California-based startup Canoo in the first half of 2020 as part of the Silicon Valley giant’s covert effort to advance its own electric vehicle project, said three people familiar with the discussions. . The edge. The two companies discussed options ranging from an investment to an acquisition, according to two … Read more