New Stimulus Proposals Gain Support While Lawmakers Push for Second Stimulus Checks to Help Americans
Two new stimulus packages have been proposed while lawmakers continue to push for second stimulus checks to help Americans cope with the coronavirus-led economic crisis. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to add stimulus measures to the spending bill that must be passed before the Dec. 11 deadline. Stimulus Measures Could Be Added to Spending Bill That Must Pass This Week U.S. lawmakers unveiled...
China Airdrops Digital Yuan Worth $3 Million — 10,000 Stores Will Accept It
Twenty million yuan ($3 million) in China’s central bank digital currency will be given away to 100,000 people in the country’s largest test of the digital yuan to date. The digital currency will be accepted at 100,000 stores, including JD.com, one of China’s largest online retailers. $3 Million in Digital Yuan Giveaway The Chinese city of Suzhou, located west of Shanghai, is reportedly gearing up to hand out 20 million yuan in the...
DMCA Review Triggers Opposition Against Site Blocking and Staydown Requirements
When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was introduced in 1998, file-sharing was a fringe activity, and online streaming a futuristic idea. The developments over the past two decades have transformed the way people consume media, both legally and illegally. Calls for DMCA Reform Despite these drastic changes, the DMCA still dictates how many online services respond to copyright-infringing content. While most service providers...
Spotify’s Anti-Plagiarism Tool To Protect Copyright is Too Black Mirror
When I started writing music in in my teens, I didn’t even think about how to begin. I just did what every other starting writer does – I copied, emulated, plagiarized and otherwise ripped-off everything I’d enjoyed from the music I’d listened to thus far. Badly. Deprived of divine inspiration, it wouldn’t have been possible any other way. Show me a composer who hasn’t committed at least one of the above at some point and I’ll show...
Optimize your GNOME experience with the Gedit text editor
Being the default text editor is a thankless job. People usually regard a default text editor almost as a demo app—a slightly elevated “hello world” example of how an application on that platform is meant to run. Users resort to the default text editor in the rare occasions they need to dump some text into a file they’ll probably never look at again. For “serious” work, they turn to a word processor or an IDE,...
