Author: Alan Binder

November 7, 2020TNothing here Just like the captive crowd. When Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, announced its latest set of quarterly results on October 28, the star of the performance was the company’s video game division, which makes the PlayStation lineup. Had it been a normal year, revenues would likely have fallen, as Sony’s current model – PlayStation 4 – is nearing the end of its life.But in a year marked by shutting down and working from home, gaming revenue grew instead 11.5% year-over-year (and operating profit 61%) as internal consumers reached for their consoles. Sony is not alone. Microsoft,…

Panasonic is working with one of Japan’s largest rail companies to solve a new problem that has arisen in recent years: the rising number of people dropping wireless earphones on train tracks. JR East, part of the former Japan Railways Group that covers the Tokyo and Tohoku regions of the country, says there were 950 incidents of headphones dropping across 78 train stations in Tokyo in the July-September quarter. Gigi Press reports. The number appears to represent a quarter of the total items dropped. According to JR East, station employees typically use a “magic hand”-style grabber to pick up larger…

DrEnmark set the alarm bells this week by announcing that it is culling the nation’s entire mink flock – the largest in the world – to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in valuable furs due to potentially dangerous mutations. The leaps of viruses between species make scientists nervous – as do suggestions about potentially important mutations that result from those hops. In this case, the Danish authorities say they have found some genetic changes that may undermine the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines currently in development. But is this latest development in the Covid-19 saga a cause for deep concern? Several…

The studio issued an apology in a statement: “We filmmakers and Warner Bros. Pictures are so sad to learn that our portrayal of fictional characters in The Witches can upset people with disabilities, and we apologize for any offense they cause.”The statement continued: “In adapting the original story, we worked with designers and artists to come up with a new interpretation of the cat-like claws described in the book. Viewers were never intended to feel that imagination, non-human creatures were intended to represent. This movie is about the power of Kindness and friendship. We hope families and children enjoy the…

President Trump’s team launched a series of lawsuits in key battlefield states that seemed less of legal common sense and more of a slowing of Joe Biden than walking above the threshold of the electoral vote. Sometimes, lawsuits have challenged the two-digit votes – hundreds if not thousands of votes – far from any potential outcome for any state.”Admitting defeat is not a reasonable response soon after the election, so they have thrown a lot of Hill Mary’s lawsuits on the wall and hope something will continue,” said Ben Ginsberg, a longtime Republican election attorney and contributor to CNN. These…

The San Francisco 49ers wide receivers Brandon Ayuk and Debu Samuel and offensive attack Trent Williams have been placed on the Reserve / COVID-19 roster and will exit for Thursday night’s match against the Green Bay Packers, which is still in operation as scheduled, NFL Network’s Mike Jaravolo reported Wednesday night . The three players were placed on the list as being in close contact with Kendrick Born, who tested positive for the Coronavirus. A positive Born test led to him turning 49 The team facility closes on Wednesday. Samuel was already disqualified Thursday due to a hamstring injury, but…

Santa Clara, California – One day before the Green Bay Packers are scheduled to play on Thursday night soccer, the San Francisco 49ers closed their facilities due to a positive COVID-19 test Wednesday morning.The Niners confirmed the positive test after a source in the league told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the wide receiver is Kendrick Born It was tested positive. League sources told ESPN that Thursday’s match is expected to continue as scheduled, pending further contact and information tracing.In a statement, the Niners team acknowledged the positive experience and said they had entered into “intense protocol” in the league.”The San…

Election officials in some states described it as a night and planned to resume counting in the morning, while some counties in Pennsylvania did not even begin scheduling their votes by mail until later Wednesday morning. Mailed ballots, which broke records this year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, are expected to endorse Biden, whose campaign encouraged Democrats to vote early, while in-person voting on Election Day may have given Trump an advantage. Trump and his allies have repeatedly called for the results to be counted quickly so that the winner is announced on election night, although officials technically…

The USPS failed to meet a court-imposed deadline Tuesday afternoon for the urgent processing of nearly 300,000 mail-order ballot papers that had not been delivered to the election offices as the deadlines approached.US District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan, That set the deadline, He said it appeared the postal service had failed to comply with his order and told the organization to be ready to discuss the matter at a hearing on Wednesday noon.Meanwhile, the postal service said it was working “as fast as possible” as mailing deadlines approached and threatened to deny voters the right to vote. Dozens of states…

Public opinion polls and election forecasts indicate that a Trump victory is possible, although it is unlikely to be on the margins that Trump and other allies say they envision – and perhaps with fewer than the 306 electoral college votes he received in the 2016 election. The president has repeatedly bemoaned the possibility that the victor will not be known by dawn on Wednesday, given the crushing of mail ballots counting countries during this election cycle. Trump cast doubt on Legitimacy of a lengthy processDemanding the election night decision and insisting that anything else increases the risk of fraud…