IBM: begin national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed

India 17.5% increase/last 2 days combined  (new cases/active cases) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/India 

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Brazil  5.8% increase/day https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil

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Mexico  348/1508= 23% increase/day  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/mexico

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bright sun and soaring temperatures after weeks of record rainfall.  Sergei Kiselyov / Moskva News Agency

6-9-20  After months under lockdown, Moscow was back to life Tuesday as restrictions eased  https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/06/09/traffic-jams-and-jubilation-as-moscow-emerges-from-virus-lockdown-a70527

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  IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today….Krishna said in the letter. “We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies.”

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21284683/ibm-no-longer-general-purpose-facial-recognition-analysis-software
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  Apple Inc. is preparing to announce a shift to its own main processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel Corp as early as this month….In addition to the main central processing unit, there would be a graphics processing unit and a neural engine for handling machine learning, a popular and powerful type of artificial intelligence, the people said.

In the past, Apple has made chips for specific Mac functions, such as security.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) would build the new Mac processors using a 5-nanometer production technique — the same approach as for the next iPhones and iPad Pros.  https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2020/06/10/2003737934
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6-9-20   Harvard researchers say satellite images show an increase in traffic outside five hospitals in tWuhan from late August to December 2019.

The traffic spike coincided with a rise in online searches for information on symptoms like "cough" and "diarrhoea".

China said the study was "ridiculous" and based on "superficial" information.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52975934