According to Google, 99% of Duo calls have to deal with jumbled or lost packets. A tenth of those calls lose more than 8% of their audio. Generating speech: To fix the problem, the team built on a neural network developed by DeepMind that can generate realistic speech from text. Called WaveNetEQ, the new neural network … Read more
by informedamerican Oil prices rallied the most in history last week, but the 40%-plus gains only lifted prices from just under $20 to near $30. That’s not going to make anyone in Texas or North Dakota feel better. U.S. shale producers need oil prices over $50 to be comfortable, and even at that level they don’t … Read more
by informedamerican Most Western nations are locked up tight as drums during the coronavirus scare, but several Nordic countries are charting a different course. Sweden took the rational approach, asking those at risk to remain under self-quarantine and for the rest of the population to pay attention to social distancing. They figured the virus would spread … Read more
Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: The path for gold is up, investors are reaching far to get their hands on physical gold, and an overview of which nations hold the most bullion. … Read more
Rumors of a food shortage have swirled on social media for weeks, in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown that stopped tens of millions of people from going to work, and a leaked government document made public on Thursday shows that government officials have also been planning for a shortfall in food supplies. … The … Read more
By Irina Slav Russia may be willing to reduce its oil production by as much as 1 million bpd, or a little under 10 percent of its March average but only if the United States joins the cuts, Bloomberg has reported citing sources it said were familiar with the dominant sentiment in the industry. The report comes … Read more
by Mac-Bomaco Here are the headlines (in-order) from MarketWatch.com this morning: Barron’s on MarketWatch: Economic damage can’t be reversed, and stocks will resume decline, says stratigist Jim Rogers: Worst is yet to come for U.S. markets Last month Bill Ackman said ‘hell is coming.’ Now he’s ‘optimistic.’ Market bottom or ‘very tough times ahead’? Here’s what one chart watcher is … Read more
by beerdlaw Sorry guys/gals, this is just a post to vent. Playing by the rules and relying on politicians apparently never pays off. I run a solo law firm which has been effectively shut down for almost 4 weeks now and while I have been operating for a couple years with modest success, my business … Read more
The CEO and Chairman are having shares called in. “Following the occurrence of a default by Haode Investment Inc. (the “Borrower”), a shareholder of Luckin Coffee Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: LK), under a US$ 518 million margin loan facility (the “Facility”), a syndicate of lenders, as secured parties under the Facility (the “Lenders”), has instructed … Read more
Behind The Scenes At The $2 Trillion 'Coronavirus' Bailout – with Rep. Thomas Massie — today on the Liberty Report:https://t.co/0trrRpqjvh — Ron Paul (@RonPaul) April 6, 2020
Seeing way too many people treating this market as a run or the mill sell off, the likes of which we have seen regularly 2009-2019.. and assuming that policy action = buy the dip 1/ — Igor Shatz (@Copernicus2013) April 6, 2020 JAMIE DIMON WARNS: We’re getting a ‘bad recession’ plus ‘financial stress’ like the … Read more
Paypal seeing an opportunity in a crisis, one of wanting to manage the US Governments distribution of $1200 Coronavirus stimulus payments to every adult American who earns under $75,000 per year and $500 for each child and thus have started a campaign of buttering up the public and politicians in allowing PAYPAL access to YOUR … Read more
Amazon faces another NYC warehouse strike as dozens of workers have coronavirus Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse on Monday was hit with its second labor protest since the coronavirus outbreak began. Some 50 workers gathered outside the Bloomfield distribution center, called JFK8, to protest the company’s handling of the virus amid complaints that 25 people there … Read more
By Tsvetana Paraskova Saudi Arabia and Russia are “very, very close” to reaching an agreement on how to react to the low oil prices, Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive at Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), told CNBC on Monday. “I think the whole market understands that this deal is important and it will bring … Read more
by DCG The bureaucrats have gone insane. From Daily Mail: Germans risk being fined up to 500 euros (£440) for standing too close to each other from today as officials crack down on people flouting rules brought in to control coronavirus. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has ordered people not to leave their homes unless they have an exceptional … Read more
by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) became “the most hated man in America” when he dared to demand that Congress actually vote on the biggest bailout of Wall Street in history – the two trillion dollar “coronavirus” bill. What happened behind the scenes and what are the dangers? Rep. Massie tells all … Read more
by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St Sunday night, oil futures opened up hours ago up almost 12% and then crashed and have gotten down to as low as 6%. This is a lot of volatility for the oil market in only a few hours. The OPEC+ meeting is delayed and Putin is lobbing verbal moltov … Read more
Tropical Cyclone Harold Hammers Vanuatu as a Category 5 and Will Pass Near Fiji and Tonga This Week Tropical Cyclone Harold became a Category 5 beast as it carved through Vanuatu. Destructive winds, flooding rain and storm-surge flooding have likely impacted parts of Vanuatu. Harold was only the fifth Category 5 cyclone to track near … Read more
You may have noticed aggressive tweets from me tonight about the Chinese Communist Party. It was a test to draw attention from new CCP propaganda accounts and it worked. Check these accounts: all replying in unison, all new accounts, few followers. Will @Jack look into this? pic.twitter.com/G03LKHHrVH — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 5, 2020
by NineteenEighty9 https://twitter.com/statedeptspox/status/1247147129665204233?s=21 South China Sea The American equivalent of China’s “9 dash line”. This is why arbitrary territorial grabs like the one the PRC is attempting in the South China Sea are illegal and against international law. China illegally claims large parts of the South China Sea. By that logic America should be able … Read more