Apple makes an exception to its controversial rules for payments within its App Store. Where apps normally have to submit 30 percent of the paid amounts to the iPhone maker, this no longer applies to paid live streams on Facebook. Payments within apps that have been downloaded from Apple’s appstore should always be handled through that tech giant’s own payment …
A U.S. Marine who was detained in the Philippines for the murder of a transgender was put on a plane to the United States in Manila. Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton received a full pardon prior to his departure from Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte. The murder was in 2014. The Marine got angry when he found out that he was sharing …
Inflation in the United States rose to 1.3% annually in August, from 1% in July. That’s what the U.S. government announced. The increase in the average price level was slightly stronger than expected by economists in general. They expected an average inflation of 1.2%. The so-called core inflation, excluding the fluctuating prices of energy and food, came to 1.7%, from …
The death toll has risen from 6 to 14 as a result of Hurricane Laura. With wind speeds of up to 150 miles per hour, the hurricane swept across the southern states of Texas and Louisiana and caused a lot of damage. Most people died of carbon monoxide poisoning after turning on internal generators to generate electricity. Four people were …
Once again, protests against police violence have broken out in the United States. This after Jacob Blake, a black American from Wisconsin, was shot by the police on Sunday. What happened and what are the consequences? 29-year-old Jacob Blake is the father of six children. He is from the city of Winston-Salem in the U.s. state of North Carolina, but …
The American big-data company Palantir Technologies is going to the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which inter alia cooperates with intelligence services in the fight against terrorism, is preparing for one of the biggest fairs of the year. Palantir applied to the US financial market regulator, the SEC, in July for a listing. On Wednesday it became known that …
Joe Biden had already made it clear in March that his running mate would be a woman. Now America knows who it’s gonna be: Kamala Harris, 55, could be the first black vice president of the United States. What can we expect from the California senator? One thing is clear when you look at Harris’ CV: she was the first …
The United States Navy has stopped searching for seven Marines and the skipper of a sunken amphibious assault vehicle on Sunday. The Navy assumes they’re no longer alive. The Navy says there’s “only a very small chance” that the missing seven Marines and the skipper are still alive. After a search of more than 40 hours, Sunday, the Navy reports …
Facebook responded to the Order of the Brazilian Supreme Court on Saturday to block profiles of 12 supporters of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. The accounts would maintain a ‘network of fake news’. On Friday, the Brazilian Supreme Court fined Facebook some $330,000 for failing to comply with the order. The court previously ruled that a number of accounts of supporters …
One in three children worldwide has lead poisoning. This is mainly due to contaminated tap water in lead water pipes and dangerous recycling. A total of 800 million children have been affected. They have a lead content of 5 micrograms higher in their flour, says the United Nations Children’s Organization, Unicef. Unicef talks about shocking conclusions after groundbreaking research in …
