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Mastercard and Verizon Announce New 5G Contactless Cost Partnership
Mastercard and Verizon announced a new partnership on Tuesday that will focus on 5G contactless payments for consumers as well as small and medium-sized businesses. They hope to have some innovations from the partnership by 2023. The collaboration is intended to enable companies to use new payment technologies to turn smartphones into cash registers, turn…
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Boeing cuts 787 Dreamliner manufacturing, supply goal after new flaw discovered
Boeing cut its delivery target for its undelivered 787 Dreamliner planes and said it will temporarily lower production rates after a new defect was detected on some of the wide-body jets. Boeing said Tuesday it would deliver fewer than half of the Dreamliners that it has already produced but has not yet delivered to customers.…
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Sam’s Membership is testing a scan-and-ship choice for patrons
Shoppers shop for merchandise at a Sam’s Club store on January 12, 2018 in Streamwood, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images For Sam’s Club buyers, a visit to the store usually means lugging home large and often cumbersome items. A month’s supply of diapers. Deck chairs. Big boxes of chicken broth or huge boxes of…
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Dubai Opens 60-Foot-Deep Pool with Underwater “Sunken Metropolis”
The tallest building in the world is already in Dubai. Now it can also claim the deepest plunge pool in the world. Deep Dive Dubai opened on July 7th, just 10 days after it was named the world’s deepest plunge pool by the Guinness World Records. The new indoor pool is almost 60 meters deep…
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‘This group has much more room to run’
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday revealed his top three solar stock plays. “I think your portfolio needs some solar exposure, ideally with First Solar, Enphase or Generac,” the “Mad Money” host said. Cramer noted that stocks in the alternative energy space have regained ground after losing momentum from swings that began late last year driven…
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Inventory futures mislead buyers and create shopping for alternatives
CNBC’s Jim Cramer turned stock futures into a worthless tool for measuring the temperature of the market after stock indices hit records on Monday. “If you wake up at 4am you will learn a lot about the market. I encourage you to try it out if you want to see how stocks do,” Cramer said…
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Most absolutely vaccinated individuals who get Covid delta infections are asymptomatic, WHO says
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus R speaks at a daily briefing in Geneva, Switzerland. Chen Junxia | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are still getting infected with the delta variant, but global health officials said the shots have protected most people from getting severely sick…
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Pfizer plans to deliver US officers ahead on Monday
Long Beach City Department of Health & Human Services is hosting an evening COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic on Long Beach City College Pacific Coast Campus. on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 in Long Beach, CA. Francine Orr | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Pfizer meets with federal health officials on Monday to campaign for Covid-19 vaccine…
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Richard Branson’s house flight was a significant milestone
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday praised Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson after traveling to the edge of space as a passenger on his company’s VSS Unity spacecraft. “We put Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom in suborbit 60 years ago, and now we’ve got there and I think it’s great,” said Nelson, who went into…
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England expects the lockdown to be confirmed regardless of fears of a surge within the delta
Football fans wrapped in English flags stand in front of Wembley Stadium ahead of the Euro 2020 England v Italy final. SOPA pictures | LightRakete | Getty Images LONDON – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to confirm on Monday that the final easing of lockdown rules in England will take place on July…