California lays out a plan to treat the coronavirus as a manageable risk, not an emergency.

The plan would expand wastewater surveillance testing and genomic sequencing; expand access to Covid-19 treatments; and create a special office of community partnerships that would send hundreds of workers into immigrant, disadvantaged and other hard-to-reach communities to combat disinformation and

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UK’s CMA accepts Google’s post-cookie pledges, will ‘closely monitor’ Privacy Sandbox plan

The UK’s competition authority has accepted commitments from Google over how it develops the post-cookie future of interest-based ad targeting online under its self-styled “Privacy Sandbox” proposal. In an announcement today, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it is

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San Francisco Board Approves Mayor’s Plan to Crack Down on Homeless Camps in Tenderloin District

San Fransisco Mayor London Breed speaks about drug use in the Tenderloin district, December 18, 2021. (NBC Bay Area/via YouTube) The San Francisco board of supervisors voted 8-2 early Friday morning to codify Mayor London Breed’s state of emergency declaration,

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Kraft Heinz, Mondelez Plan to Hike Prices for Popular Snacks and Sweets amid Rising Inflation: Report

Kraft and Heinz products on a grocery store shelf in New York in 2015. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Kraft Heinz and Mondelez plan to raise prices on a number of their classic consumer favorites for retail customers beginning next year due to

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