Instituto de la Ciencia y Tecnología en América Latina (ICTAL) - Tag - Estados UnidosPortal dedicado a la ciencia, el desarrollo, y los derechos humanos... 2024-03-18T13:03:04-04:00urn:md5:c3c53f2c54ac152a71614d9b9f660d3dDotclearHow Sam Bankman-Fried’s Possible 110 Year Sentence Stacks Up Against Other Ex-Billionaires And Billionaires Who’ve Served Timeurn:md5:05125afb28dd8378ff21a40b703d27342023-11-12T10:28:00-04:002023-11-12T10:28:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroDigitalEconomíaEstados UnidosTecnología <p><br />
Source: Forbes</p>
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<p>At least 11 billionaires or former billionaires have spent time behind bars. Here is what they did and how long they were in the clink.</p>
<p>Former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted Thursday on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. The 31-year-old, who was once worth as much as $24 billion and ranked No. 41 among America’s richest, faces up to 110 years in prison and is expected to be sentenced on March 28th. After his crypto trading firm FTX filed for bankruptcy and shut down in November 2022, Forbes reduced our estimate of Bankman-Fried’s fortune to nothing.</p>
<p>The fallen titan of crypto might be in prison longer than any billionaire has been before, given his age and possible sentence, but he certainly wouldn't be the first to be locked up. At least 11 billionaires or former billionaires have been to the big house, with three of them still behind bars and another under home confinement. White collar crime has been the weapon of choice for most of these unlawful elites, with them doing time for crimes ranging from orchestrating sweeping cases of fraud to bribery. One exception: the infamous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, better known as El Chapo, who Forbes called a billionaire from 2009 through 2012 based on his leadership of the Sinaloa cartel, which was allegedly responsible for 25% of all drugs smuggled from Mexico into the U.S. He is serving a life sentence for narcotics trafficking and money laundering. Of the 11 below, seven are no longer members of the three-comma-club, many as a result of their crimes.</p>
<p>All net worths are as of Friday November 3, 2023.</p>
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<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinseanmartin/2023/11/04/billionaires-behind-bars-sam-bankman-fried-will-join-ranks-of-rich-whove-served-time/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinseanmartin/2023/11/04/billionaires-behind-bars-sam-bankman-fried-will-join-ranks-of-rich-whove-served-time/</a></p>
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<p> </p>Sam Bankman-Fried Faces 110-Year Max Sentence After FTX Trial—Here’s How Long Experts Think He’ll Be Behind Barsurn:md5:c7abd7fb5902131766638325b4a0467b2023-11-12T10:26:00-04:002023-11-12T10:26:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroDigitalEconomíaEstados UnidosTecnología <p><br />
Source: Forbes</p>
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Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts Thursday after a massive fraud and money laundering trial involving now-collapsed crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, charges that can lead to a maximum of 110 years in prison—and lawyers told Forbes he may face a decades-long sentence, unlike other white-collar defendants.<br />
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<p>Most white-collar criminals whose maximum sentences could take up the rest of their lives end up only facing a small fraction of the maximum, with judges often basing their sentencing decisions on similar cases, Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor and member of the law firm Rottenberg Lipman Rich, told Forbes.</p>
<p>However, Epner said Lewis Kaplan, the Manhattan-based federal judge who presided over Bankman-Fried’s case, may decide to break the trend and give Bankman-Fried a majority of the 110-year maximum permitted by federal law when he’s sentenced next year—citing Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, who received a 150-year sentence in 2009.</p>
<p>Both Epner and Vermont Law School professor Jared Carter told Forbes they think Bankman-Fried will likely be sentenced to multiple decades in prison, with Epner adding he would be surprised if Bankman-Fried receives a sentence below 25 years.</p>
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Cont'd.</p>
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<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/britneynguyen/2023/11/03/sam-bankman-fried-faces-110-year-max-sentence-after-ftx-fraud-trial-heres-how-long-experts-think-hell-be-behind-bars/?sh=649191776050">https://www.forbes.com/sites/britneynguyen/2023/11/03/sam-bankman-fried-faces-110-year-max-sentence-after-ftx-fraud-trial-heres-how-long-experts-think-hell-be-behind-bars/?sh=649191776050</a></p>
<p> </p>Blaine Harden on the Persistence of Marcus Whitman's Myth in the Westurn:md5:f2a39a39eb452b67b15a2ae2ee7deb1a2023-11-12T10:22:00-04:002023-11-12T10:22:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroDerechos HumanosEstados Unidos <p><br />
Source: HNN </p>
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<p>As the result of a good story, the Reverend Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa became perhaps the most revered pioneer couple in the history of America’s westward expansion.</p>
<p>Six decades ago, as a student in Spokane, Washington, I learned of the Whitmans in a course on our state history, a requirement in Washington schools.</p>
<p> In our textbooks and lectures, the Whitman couple was virtually deified as benevolent Christian pioneers who offered Indians salvation as they brought civilization to their backward flock. At the same time, they encouraged others from the East to join them where land was plentiful and open for the taking. And Reverend Whitman was celebrated as an American patriot who saved for America the territory that became the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho from a plot hatched by the British with Catholic and Native co-conspirators.</p>
<p>We also learned of the Whitman massacre: the shocking and gruesome 1847 murders of the gracious Whitmans and eleven other white people by renegade Cayuse Indians in an unprovoked attack at their mission near present day Walla Walla. The massacre became a flashpoint in the history of the West.</p>
<p>It turns out that the Whitman story we were taught decades ago was rife with lies, as acclaimed journalist and author Blaine Harden reveals in his lively recent book, a masterwork of historical detection, Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the West (Viking).</p>
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<a href="http://hnn.us/blog/154786">http://hnn.us/blog/154786</a></p>
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<p> </p>The EPA plans to sunset its online archiveurn:md5:39caff42628867eae56d2775c0c70ca92022-03-24T14:04:00-04:002022-03-24T14:04:00-04:00cguajonNuclearDerechos HumanosEstados Unidos <p><br />
Source: The Verge</p>
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Come July, the EPA plans to retire the archive containing old news releases, policy changes, regulatory actions, and more. Those are important public resources, advocates say, but federal guidelines for maintaining public records still fall short when it comes to protecting digital assets.</p>
<p>“Web services is the language of the government now, [but] we’re not treating it with the same sort of respect that we are paper documents,” says Gretchen Gehrke, one of the co-founders of a group that initially came together to prevent the Trump administration from destroying environmental data. The group, called Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), is still fighting for public access to resources like the EPA’s online archive.<br />
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The archive is the only comprehensive way that public information about agency policies, like fact sheets breaking down the impact of environmental legislation, and actions, like how the agency implements those laws, have been preserved, Gehrke says. That makes the archive vital for understanding how regulation and enforcement have changed over the years. It also shows how the agency’s understanding of an issue, like climate change, has evolved. And when the Trump administration deleted information about climate change on the EPA’s website, much of it could still be found on the archive. Besides that, Gehrke says the content should just be available on principle because it’s public information, paid for by taxpayer dollars.</p>
<p>Cont'd.</p>
<p>LINK:<br />
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22993628/epa-online-archive-sunset-digital-records">https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22993628/epa-online-archive-sunset-digital-records</a></p>
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<p> </p>Harvard Study Finds Link Between Fracking and Premature Deathsurn:md5:32590af579a211655e0f7852ec472c6b2022-02-05T09:19:00-04:002022-02-05T09:19:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroAmbienteEstados UnidosMedicina <p><br />
Source: Gizmodo</p>
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<p>We know for a fact that fracking sucks for people and literally poisons the area where it occurs. So many of us have seen terrifying videos of rivers and other bodies of water on fire, and reports of seemingly healthy people suddenly plagued with headaches, random nosebleeds, and rashes. Now, a new study has linked fracking to premature deaths of people who live nearby this dirty fossil fuel extraction process.</p>
<p>Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have connected premature deaths for elderly populations living near or downwind unconventional oil and gas development (referred to as UOGD) involving extraction methods including fracking.</p>
<p>“Although UOGD is a major industrial activity in the U.S., very little is known about its public health impacts. Our study is the first to link mortality to UOGD-related air pollutant exposures,” Petros Koutrakis, professor of environmental sciences and senior author of the study, said in a press release.</p>
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<a href="https://gizmodo.com/fracking-premature-deaths-harvard-study-1848455161">https://gizmodo.com/fracking-premature-deaths-harvard-study-1848455161</a></p>
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<p> </p>Apple Earnings Call Transcripts: Apple CEO Tim Cook on the company's Q1 2022 earningsurn:md5:53e4d1dc2f6a2754fc7f8dee41e0f46a2022-01-28T10:54:00-04:002022-01-28T10:54:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroEstados UnidosTecnología <p><br />
Source: iMore</p>
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<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri spoke with analysts during the company's Q1 2022 earnings call. Here's our ongoing live transcript of their remarks! If you want some quick analysis on Apple's results, we recommend checking out these excellent charts from Six Colors.</p>
<p>Cook's opening remarks</p>
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<p>Tim Cook</p>
<p>Thank you, Tajius, and good afternoon. Today we are proud to announce Apple's biggest quarter ever. Through the busy holiday season, we set an all time revenue record of nearly $124,000,000,000, up 11% from last year and better than we had expected at the beginning of the quarter, And we are pleased to see that our active install base of devices is now at a new record with more than 1.8 billion devices. We set all time records for both developed and emerging markets and saw revenue growth across all of our product categories except for iPad, which we said would be supply constrained. As expected, in the aggregate, we experienced supply constraints that were higher than the September quarter. Before I discuss our results in greater detail, I want to first acknowledge the toll that COVID continues to have on communities around the world. In many places, case counts are higher and health systems more strained than at any point throughout the pandemic. On behalf of all of us at Apple, I want to extend our deep gratitude to the scientists, doctors, nurses and so many others on the front lines of combating COVID-19. This is our 8th quarter reporting results in the shadow of the pandemic, and while I can't say it gets any easier, I can say I'm incredibly proud of the way our teams have come together and continue to innovate on behalf of our customers.</p>
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Cont'd.</p>
<p>LINK:<br />
<a href="https://www.imore.com/apple-earnings-call-transcripts-q1-2022">https://www.imore.com/apple-earnings-call-transcripts-q1-2022</a></p>
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<p> </p>Apple’s riding high after another record quarter, but where is it headed?urn:md5:9ff92d46a0c13d23942d1f12161700ce2022-01-28T10:52:00-04:002022-01-28T10:52:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroEstados UnidosTecnología <p><br />
Source: MacWorld</p>
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<p>I ran out of ways to summarize Apple’s quarterly results a while ago. When they’re all records, all-time greats, rolling up numbers so big it’s hard for the human brain to quantify them, what can you say? My wife comes home on days Apple releases its quarterly results and asks me, “So, how’s Apple?” And I respond with some variation of, “Apple’s just fine.”</p>
<p>Here’s the news about Apple’s fiscal first quarter of 2022, covering the holiday season of 2021: So many of Apple’s arrows are pointing up that, due to issues with the global supply chain, they’ve run out of arrows.</p>
<p>Apple’s just fine.</p>
<p>Every record has been broken</p>
<p>So, most revenue in a quarter ever. Biggest profit ever. But if you’re looking for places to find a weakness in the purring machine that is Apple Inc., you’re going to be hard-pressed to find one. Apple’s strength crossed every geographic segment.<br />
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Cont'd.</p>
<p>LINK:<br />
<a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/609454/apple-first-quarter-2022-earnings-record-subscriptions-installed-base.html">https://www.macworld.com/article/609454/apple-first-quarter-2022-earnings-record-subscriptions-installed-base.html</a></p>
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<p> </p>Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair argues nuclear power isn’t a climate solutionurn:md5:60c14d4a5345a1f38da38b94210abbc42022-01-27T17:46:00-04:002022-01-27T17:46:00-04:00cguajonNuclearAmérica LatinaEstados UnidosInternacional <p><br />
Source: The Verge</p>
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Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko (C) and fellow commissioners Kristine Svinicki (L) and George Apostolakis (R) wait for the beginning of a joint hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Clean Air and Nuclear Safety December 15, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images<br />
Former heads of nuclear regulatory bodies across Europe and the US put out a statement this week voicing their opposition to nuclear energy as a climate solution.</p>
<p>The debate over the benefits and risks of nuclear energy has been polarizing for years, but it’s escalating as world leaders work to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. On one side of the debate, some argue that renewables alone are too dependent on the weather to provide a consistent power supply. Nuclear technology, which today provides about half of America’s carbon-free electricity, can reliably back it up, they say. And new nuclear technology is unlikely to trigger disasters like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima that have frightened the public in the past, proponents argue. But not everyone is convinced.</p>
<p>Nuclear energy is still too costly and risky to be a viable clean energy source, the authors of the statement write. They include Gregory Jaczko, former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the former leads of similar agencies in Germany, France, and the UK.</p>
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<p>LINK:<br />
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904943/nuclear-power-climate-change-solution-gregory-jaczko">https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904943/nuclear-power-climate-change-solution-gregory-jaczko</a></p>
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<p> </p>Brazil in the Global Nuclear Order, 1945–2018urn:md5:815231055ed2b4d4d9e27c36a2c0add62022-01-11T13:48:00-04:002022-01-11T13:49:05-04:00cguajonLibrosBrazilEstados UnidosTecnología <figure style="float: left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;">
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<p style="text-align: justify;">By Carlo Patti<br />
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.</p>
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The first comprehensive and definitive history of Brazil's decision to give up the nuclear weapon option.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Why do countries capable of "going nuclear" choose not to? Brazil, which gained notoriety for developing a nuclear program and then backtracking into adherence to the nonproliferation regime, offers a fascinating window into the complex politics surrounding nuclear energy and American interference.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Since the beginning of the nuclear age, author Carlo Patti writes, Brazil has tried to cooperate with other countries in order to master nuclear fuel cycle technology, but international limitations have constrained the country's approach. Brazil had the start of a nuclear program in the 1950s, which led to the United States interfering in agreements between Brazil and other countries with advanced nuclear industries, such as France and West Germany. These international constraints, especially those imposed by the United States, partly explain the country's decision to create a secret nuclear program in 1978 and to cooperate with other countries outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT] regime, such as Argentina and China. Yet, in 1998, Brazil chose to adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it so actively opposed only three decades prior, although the country still critiques the unfair nature of the treaty.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Patti draws on recent declassified primary sources collected during years of research in public and private archives in eight different countries, as well as interviews with former presidents, diplomats, and scientists, to show how US nonproliferation policies deeply affected Brazil's decisions. Assessing the domestic and international factors that informed the evolution of Brazil's nuclear diplomacy, Brazil in the Global Nuclear Order, 1945-2018 also discusses what it means with respect to Brazil's future political goals.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">LINK:<br />
<a href="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/brazil-global-nuclear-order-1945–2018">https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/brazil-global-nuclear-order-1945–2018</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>Tesla will hike prices on self-driving mode, againurn:md5:ca587dc786fe8df73441d5f45bf3676c2022-01-08T07:45:00-04:002022-01-08T07:45:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroEconomíaEconomía PolíticaEstados UnidosTecnología <p><br />
Source: Engadget</p>
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<p>Tesla's "full self-driving" (FSD) feature has had something of a rocky history, to put things generously. It's been implicated in multiple crashes, seemingly persistent software bugs and a cavalcade of scrutiny from a panoply of regulatory bodies. Also, it's about to cost more money.</p>
<p>The bump represents an additional $2,000 being tacked onto the not insubstantial price tag: a new grand total of $12,000, or most of the way to a Honda Civic. Nor is it the first time FSD has gotten more expensive. In 2020, Musk (again, on Twitter) announced a roughly $2,000 price increase. This most recent hike, Musk clarified, will only apply in the US; he added that the feature's "price will rise as we get closer to FSD production code release."</p>
<p>Whether that means there are plans for even further price increases is anyone's guess — Tesla famously dissolved its corporate communications department around the same time FSD gained it's $10,000 price tag.</p>
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Cont’d.</p>
<p>LINK:<br />
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/tesla-fsd-price-increase-12000-002847392.html? ">https://www.engadget.com/tesla-fsd-price-increase-12000-002847392.html? </a></p>
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<p> </p>Ahmaud Arbery: cadena perpetua para los 3 hombres blancos que mataron a un joven negro que hacía deporte en Estados Unidosurn:md5:2cbc14464835a8611d5953c513a1c51e2022-01-08T07:43:00-04:002022-01-08T07:43:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroDerechos HumanosEstados Unidos <p><br />
Fuente: BBC</p>
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<p>Un padre y un hijo blancos condenados por matar a un corredor negro en el sur de Estados Unidos fueron sentenciados este viernes a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional.</p>
<p>El pasado noviembre, un jurado declaró a Travis y Gregory McMichael y a su vecino, William Bryan, culpables del asesinato de Ahmaud Arbery en febrero de 2020.</p>
<p>Bryan también recibió la pena máxima de cadena perpetua, pero se le ofreció la posibilidad de optar a la libertad condicional en 30 años.</p>
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<p>Cont’d.</p>
<p>LINK:<br />
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-59917705?">https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-59917705?</a></p>
<p> </p>Warning of possible hidden cluster as U.S. sees 2nd coronavirus deathurn:md5:11a526b1a47607b9c2801b353b16b6902020-03-02T08:18:00-04:002020-03-02T08:22:06-04:00cguajonNoticieroEstados UnidosMedicina <p><br />Source: CBS NEWS<br /><br /><br />With two deaths confirmed in the U.S. and scientists warning the new coronavirus could already have spread much more widely than believed in one state, the disease that emerged in central China was taking a mounting toll on American nerves by Monday morning. Stores in regions with COVID-19 clusters were selling out of basic goods as people stocked up.<br /><br />The virus has now spread to at least 12 states, with almost 90 cases in all. Both U.S. fatalities were in Washington state — residents of a King County nursing home where dozens more were sick and being tested for the virus. Both of the victims had underlying health conditions.<br /><br />The disease has killed more than 3,000 people globally and infected more than 88,000, with the vast majority of cases and deaths in China. While the number of new cases recorded daily in that epicenter country has declined for weeks, the virus continues spreading fast in South Korea, Iran and Italy, prompting increased travel warnings and restrictions.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.ictal.org/public/noticias/2020/coronavirus_us.png" title="coronavirus us.png, Mar 2020"><img src="https://www.ictal.org/public/noticias/2020/.coronavirus_us_m.png" alt="coronavirus us.png, Mar 2020" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.ictal.org/public/noticias/2020/coronavirus_wash.png" title="coronavirus wash.png, Mar 2020"><img src="https://www.ictal.org/public/noticias/2020/.coronavirus_wash_m.png" alt="coronavirus wash.png, Mar 2020" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" /></a><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br />https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-outbreak-death-toll-us-infections-latest-news-updates-2020-03-02/<br /><br /></p>Oregon and Rhode Island both announce second presumptive casesurn:md5:b6092f907eb6bc752065441a09c125de2020-03-02T08:16:00-04:002020-03-02T08:16:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroEstados UnidosMedicina <p><br />Source: CBS<br /><br /><br />The states of Oregon and Rhode Island both announced their second presumptive positive cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday.<br /><br />"The second case is an adult household contact of the first presumptive case. The second adult is not hospitalized and is recovering," the Oregon Health Authority said Sunday.<br /><br />The Rhode Island case is a teenager and is at home with "mild symptoms," the state's Health Department said Sunday. In addition, a third person with mild symptoms is being tested. Both the teenager and the person being tested, a woman in her 30s, went on the same trip to Europe as the man who tested positive for coronavirus Sunday morning.<br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-outbreak-death-toll-us-infections-latest-news-updates-2020-03-02/">https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-outbreak-death-toll-us-infections-latest-news-updates-2020-03-02/</a><br /></p>Travelers will face new restrictions and cancellations as coronavirus cases grow in the USurn:md5:cb6f01f66f7ac2c0073d8d328dcb92342020-03-02T08:15:00-04:002020-03-02T08:15:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroEstados UnidosMedicina <p><br />Source: CNN<br /><br /><br />(CNN) — Travelers entering the United States will face new protocols as cases of novel coronavirus grow around the world.<br />The US is expanding travel restrictions from Iran and heightening a travel advisory for certain regions of South Korea and Italy, Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday. Meantime, President Trump in a tweet on Sunday announced new screening procedures for people traveling from "high-risk countries."<br />New screening methods<br /><br />There was already a ban on travel related to Iran, but the administration said Saturday that it is being expanded "to include any foreign national who has visited Iran within the last 14 days." As of Monday morning, there have been 978 cases of coronavirus in Iran and 54 deaths.<br /><br />The US is also increasing the travel advisory for Italy and South Korea to Level 4 -- the highest level -- advising Americans not to travel to specific regions in those countries hit hardest by the virus, Pence announced through the State Department.<br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/coronavirus-travel-restrictions/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/coronavirus-travel-restrictions/index.html</a><br /><br /><br /></p>Research on Washington State Coronavirus Cases Suggests that Between 150 to 1,500 People Could Be Infectedurn:md5:7d9cc7cd74b3875654a2a6f8284e52062020-03-02T08:08:00-04:002020-03-02T08:08:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroEstados UnidosMedicina <p><br />Source: Gizmodo<br /><br /><br />New research suggests that there could be hundreds of undiagnosed cases of coronavirus in Washington state. On Sunday, the U.S. recorded its second death from coronavirus in the state.<br />New research suggests that there could be hundreds of undiagnosed cases of coronavirus in Washington state. On Sunday, the U.S. recorded its second death from coronavirus in the state.<br />Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)<br />New research on the coronavirus cases in Washington state suggests that the virus may have been spreading through the area for about six weeks, the New York Times reported. This means that between 150 and 1,500 people could be infected with the disease, officially known as COVID-19.<br /><br />To arrive at that conclusion, two state researchers analyzed the genomes of two coronavirus infections. This included the genome of the state’s first known case, which was announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Jan. 20. The unique circumstances and the genetic similarities of both cases led the researchers — Dr. Trevor Bedford of the University of Washington and Dr. Mike Famulare of the Institute for Disease Modeling — to determine that the virus may have been spreading through the community for weeks.<br /><br />According to the Times, although the two infected people live in the same county, they did not come into contact with each other. In addition, the second case occurred after the first patient would no longer be considered contagious. Nonetheless, in both cases the virus contained a rare genetic variation, which researchers say indicates that it is likely that they are related.<br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://gizmodo.com/research-on-washington-state-coronavirus-cases-suggests-1842014601">https://gizmodo.com/research-on-washington-state-coronavirus-cases-suggests-1842014601</a><br /><br /></p>NASA soars and others plummet in Trump’s budget proposalurn:md5:9cb5a615b6218bdb53d877c4e9d56a742020-02-12T12:02:00-04:002020-02-12T12:02:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroEstados UnidosPolitica <p><br />Source: Nature<br /><br /><br /><br />US research on artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing would see dramatic boosts in funding for 2021, under a proposed budget released by the White House on 10 February. The budget request issued by President Donald Trump makes cuts across most science agencies for the 2021 fiscal year, which begins on 1 October 2020. Although Congress has repeatedly rebuffed such requests for cuts — and has, in fact, increased science spending in the enacted budgets — the 132-page document from the White House offers a view into the administration’s priorities and ambitions leading up to the November election.<br /><br />Among US agencies that fund and conduct research, NASA would see big gains. The National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Energy (DOE), among others, are slated for budget reductions.<br /><br />“Trump is being Trump,” says Michael Lubell, a physicist at the City College of New York who tracks federal science-policy issues. All of Trump’s budgets have sought to slash funding for the US research enterprise, but he has yet to convince lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Lubell says. “He can ask for what he wants, but it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.”<br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00348-2">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00348-2</a><br /><br /></p>Destruction of US cultural artifactsurn:md5:f501f88f528d3e1afd92a3ed256e5a132020-01-14T08:59:00-04:002020-01-14T08:59:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroCulturaDerechos HumanosEstados UnidosPolitica <p>Source: Rogers</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ictal.org/public/noticias/2020/trumpusconstitution.png" title="trumpusconstitution.png, Jan 2020"><img src="https://www.ictal.org/public/noticias/2020/.trumpusconstitution_m.png" alt="trumpusconstitution.png, Jan 2020" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" /></a></p>Obama señala los bulos como uno de los mayores problemas de Interneturn:md5:8f29685b352d4c2260ccf6b30051476a2019-05-29T07:12:00-04:002019-05-29T07:12:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroDerechos HumanosDigitalEstados Unidos <p><br />Fuente: El Pais<br /><br /><br /><br />En el Movistar Arena, el principal escenario de conciertos de Bogotá (Colombia) y ante 6.000 entusiastas espectadores, el anterior presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, ha cerrado este martes (medianoche en España) un evento de marketing y nuevas tecnologías (Exma) en el que, sin nombrar a su sucesor, Donald Trump, aunque estaba en la mente de todos los asistentes, ha cargado contra “los políticos que dicen lo que se les ocurre”, los bulos (que ha considerado uno de los principales problemas de Internet) y la negación del cambio climático.<br /><br />“Uno de los problemas que veo en Internet es la gente que se cree lo que lee como verdad. Es un gran error. Algo es verdad o no. Algunos políticos dicen lo que se les viene a la cabeza. Y eso puede que les merezca la pena durante un tiempo, pero la verdad les cogerá. Puedes negar que el calentamiento global, pero los datos están ahí”, afirmó Obama al ser preguntado sobre los desafíos de la sociedad.<br /><br />Entre estos retos de la humanidad, Obama se refirió a la educación, de nuevo al cambio climático y la paz. “Lo que descubrí cuando era presidente es que, ante los mayores problemas que afrontamos, no es que no tengamos respuestas, sino que no tenemos líderes que promuevan esas respuestas”, afirmó el presidente.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2019/05/29/actualidad/1559091818_351489.html">https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2019/05/29/actualidad/1559091818_351489.html</a><br /><br /></p>Johnson & Johnson on trial in Oklahoma over the so called “opioid epidemic”urn:md5:2f7d2f8e134ab08fd76703872af902082019-05-29T07:08:00-04:002019-05-29T07:08:00-04:00cguajonDerechos humanosEstados UnidosMedicinaPuerto Rico tecnologia <p><br />Source: MercoPress<br /><br /><br />Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's largest drug manufacturers, has gone on trial in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the US state of Oklahoma. Prosecutors accuse the firm of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying addiction risks, fuelling a so-called “opioid epidemic.”<br /><br />Johnson & Johnson denies wrongdoing and says it marketed products responsibly.<br /><br />It is the first of 2,000 cases brought by state, local and tribal governments against pharmaceutical firms in the US. On average, 130 Americans die from an opioid overdose every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<br /><br />In 2017, of the 70,200 people who died from an overdose, 68% involved a prescription or illegal opioid.<br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://en.mercopress.com/2019/05/29/johnson-johnson-on-trial-in-oklahoma-over-the-so-called-opioid-epidemic">https://en.mercopress.com/2019/05/29/johnson-johnson-on-trial-in-oklahoma-over-the-so-called-opioid-epidemic</a><br /><br /></p>Monsanto Loses Another Roundup Cancer Trial, With Jury Awarding Over $2 Billionurn:md5:287467805b0a642dd15de89d453c02b92019-05-14T07:08:00-04:002019-05-14T07:08:00-04:00cguajonDerechos humanosBiologiaDerechos HumanosEstados Unidos <p><br />Source: Gizmodo<br /><br /><br /><br />Monsanto Co. lost a legal battle over its massively popular Roundup herbicide on Monday to the tune of $2.055 billion, with a jury in San Francisco ordering the court to pay out the stunning sum to a couple that said it caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.<br /><br />That figure, which consists of $2 billion in punitive damages and $55 million in compensatory ones, is all but certain to be reduced by the trial judge or on appeal—University of California, Hastings School of Law professor David Levine told the Associated Press there is “There is zero chance it will stand.” But it is still yet another blow to Monsanto, which lost two prior suits in San Francisco and is further awaiting “an estimated 13,000 lawsuits” that remain pending around the country, the AP wrote.<br /><br />The plaintiffs in the case, Alva and Alberta Pilliod of Livermore, California, said they used Roundup once a week for nine months of the year for more than three decades before being given their cancer diagnoses in 2011 and 2015 respectively, according to BuzzFeed News.<br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/monsanto-loses-another-roundup-cancer-trial-with-jury-1834737903?/setsession">https://earther.gizmodo.com/monsanto-loses-another-roundup-cancer-trial-with-jury-1834737903?/setsession<br /></a></p>