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* Almost 100,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. Here is that tragic story in figures

!!! A state-by-state breakdown of US coronavirus cases !!!

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(Mon) Trump threatens to regulate or shut down social media companies
트럼프, 소셜미디어 규제 및 폐쇄 협박

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to regulate or shut down social media companies, apparently furious after Twitter flagged some of his tweets with fact check warnings - as in, potentially misleading or false. He wrote, "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives’ voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen." It is unclear whether that threat suggests he might take legal action. A day earlier he accused Twitter of "completely stifling free speech." Twitter on Tuesday took the step of adding the warning badges to Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots after the president claimed without evidence that voting by mail would result in fraud. Readers who clicked the blue text were taken to a news story debunking Trump's claims. Some have urged Twitter take stronger action against Trump's online allegations. The social media platform declined to remove tweets by the president regurgitating unsubstantiated claims that TV host Joe Scarborough might be involved with the death of a woman, which was ruled accidental, 20 years ago. The president appears eager to push back against Twitter, and on Wednesday reiterated his unproven claims about mail-in ballots.

(Tue) Renault, Nissan shelve merger, aim to repair ties - sources
르노와 닛산 동맹 재건, 합병은 보류

Renault and Nissan have shelved all plans for a merger, but will renew their alliance. That’s what five senior sources have told Reuters. A full union was long craved by former boss Carlos Ghosn. But the plan’s demise will probably come as a relief to many at Nissan. The Japanese automaker had long resisted merger proposals, arguing Renault didn’t pay its fair share for engineering work. Ghosn said his 2018 detention on financial misconduct charges was part of a plot by Japanese executives to stop a merger. Now the pair are expected to overhaul their alliance instead, while also restructuring the business. A joint news conference Wednesday is expected to detail a new ‘leader-follower’ model for different products and markets. For example, Nissan may take the lead in Europe on sport-utility vehicles, while being the follower on vans and small city cars. Nissan is then expected to set out cost cutting measures, including major job cuts, on Thursday. Renault will set out its plans a day later. The moves come as the global health crisis leaves carmakers reeling. It has sparked a slump in sales and interruptions to production around the world. Though their relationship may have gone cool, Renault and Nissan seem to have decided that this is no time for a divorce.

(Wed) Astronauts strap into SpaceX capsule before launch day
발사일 전 스페이스X 캡슐에 탑승 리허설한 우주 비행사들

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken strapped into the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday to rehearse Wednesday's expected launch to the International Space Station. They will become the first astronauts launched from American soil since the U.S. space shuttle program was terminated in 2011. The two arrived in Cape Canaveral last week and said they'd spend some time with their families at the beach before their mission to space. On May 27th, they're set to blast off on the commercial space vehicle to help the short-handed crew aboard the ISS for more than a month, and swap out the station's batteries. The use of the state of the art technology from Elon Musk's SpaceX is part of NASA's flagship campaign to use the private sector for ISS missions and curb its reliance on Russia's Soyuz rocket. Musk is also the CEO of Tesla, and new for Wednesday's launch ceremony will be a pre-departure transfer to the launch pad by the electric car company. "I'm thinking about going." Among those who may attend the launch is U.S. President Donald Trump, who has reportedly been given the green light to go and watch.

(Thu) Facebook to adjust pay based on where you live
페이스북, 원격 근무자 거주지에 따라 임금 조정할 것

Facebook's move to permanently embrace remote work for its employees may unleash dreams of drawing a tech-sector salary without having to pay Silicon Valley rent. Well, dream on. The social networking company will require those who are approved to work remotely to notify the firm by January where they will be based. At that point, Facebook will adjust their salaries to reflect the local cost of living, whether it’s Palo Alto or Poughkeepsie. It’s part of a plan to stymie what’s known as “paycheck arbitrage,” the idea that remote workers could earn San Francisco-level salaries while living in Sioux Falls, Iowa. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will monitor where employees access their virtual private networks known as VPN. He says those who try to get around pay adjustments will be subject to what he called, "severe ramifications." To avoid violating tax laws, the company needs to account for where employees are located. Within a decade, Zuckerberg said he sees half of Facebook's employees working from home. Facebook is one of the Valley's biggest employers. Its move could prompt other tech companies to compete for engineers by embracing remote work. What's more, other states could compete to lure Californian talent, prompting one venture capitalist to opine that the biggest loser could be California.

(Fri) Gap ramps up robot workforce for online sales
갭, 온라인 매출 처리위한 물류창고 로봇 확충

Who benefits when workers are forced to stay at home? Robots. Marin Tchakarov is COO of robotics company Kindred, which is helping retailer Gap speed up its rollout of warehouse robots. “There has been an unprecedented, for Kindred, surge in volumes – far beyond actually what we’ve experienced in the most peak volumes of 2019.” Automation is not new to Gap. The retailer had already planned to triple the number of item-picking robots in various warehouses to 106 by the fall. It’s now looking to ramp up its robot workforce by July. A surge in online sales from stay-at-home shoppers has proven to be a lifeline for the company, which temporarily shut all its North American stores, including Banana Republic and Old Navy. Gap last month said it faced a cash shortage, prompting it to borrow more than $2 billion. Each Gap robot helps pick multi-item orders and handles a workload typically performed by four people. “They don’t call in sick. They don’t get hungry. They don’t get tired.” Once all the items in a customer's order are in a bin, a worker puts the bin on a conveyer for packing and delivery. Kindred and Gap say they’re aiming for the technology to complement workers, not replace them. Gap says it will still scout for new warehouse hires, and potentially new machines.

** Other Latest Headlines **

* Former 'comfort woman' renews attack on activist-turned-lawmaker-elect

Former sex slavery victim Lee Yong-soo on Thursday reconfirmed her condemnation of Yoon Mee-hyang, a former activist for so called "comfort women" and now a lawmaker-elect, saying she felt betrayed. "The feeling of betrayal was too big to overcome. Together with loneliness, I felt like committing suicide," Lee said during an interview with a local radio station. Ending her three-decades of advocacy work at the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (Korean Council), Yoon was elected as a lawmaker of the Together Citizens, the satellite party of the ruling Democratic Party, through the proportional representation vote in the April 15 general election. Thursday's comment came only three days after a press conference during which the victim made accusations and even expressed contempt for Yoon ― Lee even invited Yoon to the press conference to explain her stance. Lee dismissed an argument that Yoon could do more work to seek justice for the victims at the National Assembly. "Yoon has done this for 30 years. No one is better than her and she has to continue her work here," the victim said, adding Yoon should have declined an offer to become a lawmaker.

* National Guard summoned to aid cities amid police clashes

Protesters burned businesses in Minneapolis. They smashed police cars and windows in Atlanta, broke into police headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and chanted curses at President Donald Trump outside the White House. Thousands also demonstrated peacefully, demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck. As anger over Floyd’s killing spread to cities nationwide, local leaders increasingly said they could need help from National Guardsmen or even military police to contain the unrest. Georgia’s governor declared a state of emergency early Saturday to activate the state National Guard as violence flared in Atlanta. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler also declared an emergency and ordered a nighttime curfew for the city. Another 500 Guard soldiers were mobilized in and around Minneapolis, where Floyd died and an officer faced charges Friday in his death. But after another night of watching fires burn and businesses ransacked, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said early Saturday that he was moving to activate more than 1,000 more and was considering federal help.

* ROK-US disagree on exercises; OPCON transition may be delayed

South Korea and the United States are yet to reach agreement over how to execute planned joint military exercises in August, according to sources, Sunday, raising speculation that the disagreement may expand to pushing back the transfer of operational control (OPCON) of South Korean troops during wartime from Washington to Seoul. Hoping that it will regain OPCON by 2022, South Korea wants the upcoming exercises to be focused on assessing its relevant capabilities, but the U.S. is stressing that they need to focus on maintaining the joint military posture that may have been undermined following the postponement of annual drills in the first half of the year due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The OPCON transition calls on a South Korean general to command the Combined Forces Command (CFC), with a U.S. general taking a supportive role. Currently, the CFC is headed by the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) commander who also leads the United Nations Command (UNC). In February, the allies decided to indefinitely delay their annual joint military exercises amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the Korean Peninsula, so the U.S. military believes that the upcoming exercises in August should serve as grounds to prove their combat readiness rather than preparing for the OPCON transfer, according to the sources.

* To be black and a journalist at this moment

For many Americans, “space” means leaving the Earth’s atmosphere and exploring the galaxy. They think of this weekend’s SpaceX launch. Or going where no one has gone before on “Star Trek.” But the concept of space has a different meaning for African Americans. It’s about finding places in American society — white society — where we are free to just be. Those spaces have been shrinking in recent months. With the flames lit in Minneapolis spreading to other cities after yet another black man’s death, it felt like only an airhole was left. I am tired. Tired of how routine violence against African Americans at the hands of white people has been and continues to be. Angry as a journalist that this has happened so often that we all know the angles that must be covered, the questions to be asked, the stories to be written. Angrier still that as an African American journalist, I must explain, again and again, how dehumanizing this all is.

* Zoom booms as teleconferencing company profits from coronavirus crisis

The teleconferencing company Zoom has seen a massive increase in profits and has doubled its annual sales forecast, driven by a surge in users as more people work from home and connect with friends online during the coronavirus crisis. The once-obscure Zoom Video Communications, which has rapidly emerged as the latest Silicon Valley gold mine, released financial results on Tuesday showing the astronomical growth that has turned it into a stock market star. Zoom’s boom has come despite privacy problems that enabled outsiders to make uninvited and sometimes crude appearances during other peoples video conferences. Zoom’s revenue for its fiscal first-quarter between February and April more than doubled from the same time last year to $328m, turning a profit of $27m compared with $198,000 a year ago. The numbers exceeded analysts already heightened expectations, providing another lift to a rocketing stock that has more than tripled in price so far this year. After a big run-up leading up to Tuesday’s highly anticipated announcement, Zoom’s stock gained nearly 3% in extended trading to $213.60 – more than five times the company’s initial public offering price of $36 less than 14 months ago. The surge has left Zoom with a market value of about $59bn greater than the combined market values of the four largest US airlines, which have seen their businesses hammered by the coronavirus outbreak that has dramatically curtailed travel.