Yale University announced on Wednesday that it will reject $6.9 million in federal bailout funds that the institution was entitled to receive under the CARES Act. Yale releases a statement saying: “We hope that the Department of Education will use Yale’s portion of the funding to support colleges and universities in Connecticut whose continued existence is threatened by the current crisis.
Video conferencing service Zoom has reportedly reached 300 million users despite its growing number of security and privacy issues. The company’s userbase has surged 50% in just the last month based on the economy and education system relying on the service.
More than 1,000 Spanish healthcare workers have gone into isolation after wearing faulty medical masks bought from China.
DeVos said she is urging Congress to change the CARES Act to ensure that elite, wealthy schools are not eligible for the taxpayer funding.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was one of the people announced to be joining President Trump’s new economic advisory council, despite Musk claiming that the President “screwed” him after he joined two White House advisory councils in 2017.
Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio announced on Tuesday that it will be covering 100 percent of tuition costs for new students enrolling for the fall 2020 semester.
A recent report states that as the video-conferencing software Zoom has exploded in popularity due to the Chinese virus pandemic, many are finding themselves developing “Zoom fatigue” after constantly communicating via video chat.
Cal State Fullerton announced this week that fall classes will begin online as part of ongoing Chinese virus mitigation efforts. Cal State Fullerton is one of the first institutions to move their courses online for the upcoming fall semester.
Internal National Health Service (NHS) documents seen by a British newspaper have revealed that London’s emergency coronavirus field hospital has turned away critically ill patients as a result of a shortage of critical care nurses.
Italy’s mafia is seeking to profit from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic by soliciting small businesses and poor families that are facing financial ruin over the virus, prosecutors told Reuters.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has called on the CEOs of Google and Apple to accept personal legal liability for protecting user privacy as they move to implement “contact tracing” technology in smartphones to track the spread of the Chinese virus.
Is Mark Zuckerberg’s God complex getting worse? Every day seems to bring a new, mind-boggling act of overreach from Facebook.
Google-owned YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki appeared on Brian Stelter’s CNN show, Reliable Sources, to discuss the kind of “misinformation” that YouTube is removing during the Chinese virus pandemic. The YouTube chief promised to remove “anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations.”
The University of Pennsylvania announced recently that it is canceling its Dean’s List awards to combat “stress” experienced by students by the ongoing Chinese virus pandemic.
Students at the University of Chicago are threatening to withhold tuition payments if university officials do not issue refunds for the ongoing spring semester. In a letter to university officials, students argued that they are entitled to a 50 percent refund on tuition costs due to the ongoing Chinese virus pandemic.
Over 300 Amazon employees are reportedly planning on calling out of work starting on Tuesday to protest the e-commerce giant’s treatment of workers during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, according to the Hill.
Workers for the grocery delivery startup Instacart have reportedly still not received the safety supplies they were promised by the company during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
The mainstream media are out in force defending Microsoft founder Bill Gates, alleging that he has become a “right-wing target” due to his involvement in Chinese virus vaccine development.
The institutions that comprise the Ivy League will receive millions of dollars in federal bailouts despite the billions of dollars in their endowments. Harvard University, for example, currently boasts an endowment of $40.9 billion.
Facebook has launched an interactive map based on self-reported symptoms of the Chinese virus, showing the number of reported symptoms per U.S. county.
A recent report from The New York Times reveals that file-hosting service Dropbox privately paid hackers to find bugs in the software of video conferencing firm Zoom and then pressured the company to fix them. It reportedly took more than three months for Zoom to fix one of the security lapses identified by Dropbox.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) announced over the weekend that he will allow citizens of the state to receive marriage licenses remotely from their own homes during the Chinese virus pandemic — and even be married by video conference.
Some analysts predict that multiple colleges and universities around the country will be forced to close their doors in the aftermath of the Chinese virus pandemic.
A report has found that the government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, failed to contain the spread of the Chinese coronavirus through a series of missteps and inaction, with Johnson missing five COBRA meetings during the crucial initial phases of the pandemic.
The New York Post’s editorial board has penned a scathing article about Facebook’s fact-checking operations, revealing that an erroneous fact check performed on one of the newspaper’s opinion pieces about the origins of the Chinese virus relied on information from a professor who has conducted projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
A recent poll reveals that 77 percent of college students find online courses to be “worse” or “much worse” than in-person classes.
A leading professor has warned that the United Kingdom could face up to six waves of the Chinese coronavirus while calling on the government to adopt contact tracing of citizens to reduce the impact of the pandemic.
Following a number of articles relating to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s donation — or lack thereof — of medical-grade ventilators to hospitals around the country, Breitbart News reached out to multiple hospitals Musk listed as evidence of his donations to confirm if they had received the ventilators needed to treat the Chinese virus.
The ACLU criticized a new tracking feature designed by Apple and Google to limit the spread of the Chinese virus. The feature uses BlueTooth technology to track a smartphone user’s distance from other users that have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.
Goldman Sachs said this week that it predicts iPhone shipments will drop by 36 percent during the third quarter due to Chinese virus lockdowns around the world, advising shareholders to sell their shares of Apple stock.
Security and privacy experts are warning that Apple and Google’s Wuhan coronavirus tracing technology could be abused and must be closely monitored.
Facebook is relying on a “fact checker” that uses “expert opinion” from a researcher who conducted projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the biolab next to the wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the Chinese virus originated.
The online systems of banks are reportedly being put to the test as many U.S. citizens log on to check if they have received their $1,200 stimulus check from the IRS. PNC called the levels of banking activity “unprecedented.”
Verily, the life sciences wing of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., will not comply with a request from lawmakers to drop its mandatory Google account sign-in for its Chinese virus screening website. The Masters of the Universe also believe they can ignore HIPAA laws because they are “not acting as a covered entity or business associate.”
College fraternities across the country have decided to hold meetings virtually in response to restrictions on gatherings over the deadly Chinese virus pandemic.
University of Minnesota historian David M. Perry argued in a column this week that American colleges and universities may change permanently as a result of the Chinese virus pandemic. Perry believes academia is “going to be forced to rebuild, and thus we have an opportunity to create something more sustainable.”
Facebook announced this week that it will promote content from the WHO to users that encounter misinformation about the Chinese virus on the platform. The decision comes in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s decision to place a hold on funding to the WHO.
A diversity official at the University of Washington told students this week that the Chinese virus may have originated in the United States. The comment was made by Vice President for Minority Affairs and Diversity Rickey Hall on Wednesday during a webinar on discrimination in the age of the Chinese virus.
The editorial board of the student newspaper for the UNC Chapel Hill claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the “biggest” threat to public safety, even during the Chinese virus pandemic.
The University of Oregon has announced that hundreds of its employees will be furloughed due to revenue restrictions over the Chinese virus pandemic.
