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Mon. 03/29 – Ok, Will Digital Vaccine Passports Work?
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New York, Japan, China and the EU are all gonna try out digital vaccine passports. Visa is gonna try out a stablecoin to settle transactions. The official PHP Git repository was hacked. Boston Dynamics has a new robot that isn’t as scary… unless you’re a warehouse worker. And what is Amazon’s aggressive PR recently all about?
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New York launches nation's first 'vaccine passports.' Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out. (USAToday)
Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters)
PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (BleepingComputer)
Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (The Verge)
OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day (The Verge)
Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy (The Verge)
Amazon Union Vote Ends as Both Sides Brace for Contentious Count (Bloomberg)
Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed (Recode)