A new startup is recruiting gig workers to help landlords evict people who can't afford to pay rent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Civvl, which Motherboard described as 'Uber, but for evicting people,' has posted job listings across the US that…
The Financial Times
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Clive Cookson in London
– Sep 23, 6:32 AM
The UK is to host the world's first Covid-19 human challenge trials — in which healthy volunteers are deliberately infected with coronavirus to assess the effectiveness of experimental vaccines. The government-funded studies are expected to…
Venezuela's government has given cryptocurrency miners mixed news this week. Firstly, the government department responsible for regulating cryptos has legalized the mining industry, local industry news site CriptoNoticias reported Tuesday. The new…
The Financial Times
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Olaf Storbeck in Frankfurt and Dan McCrum in London
– Sep 22, 8:00 PM
Wirecard's fabricated Asian business was not its only deception. The rest of the once-lauded German payment provider's business was chaotic, beset by byzantine reporting lines, hobbled by lamentable IT and racking up losses, according to a report…
The New York Times
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Carl Zimmer
– Sep 23, 3:45 AM
Buoyed by positive results in its earlier studies, Johnson & Johnson has begun the final stage of clinical trials for its coronavirus vaccine. Although they are a couple of months behind the other so-called Phase 3 trials in the United States…
