The Daily Populous

Holders of current Huawei smartphones with Google apps, however, will continue to be able to use and download app updates provided by Google, a Google spokesperson said, confirming earlier reporting by Reuters.

The Trump administration on Thursday added Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist, immediately enacting restrictions that will make it extremely difficult for the company to do business with U.S. counterparts.

Huawei’s European business, its second-biggest market, could be hit as Huawei licenses these services from Google in Europe. »

Welcome to life in China’s “Social Credit System,” where a low score can ruin your life in more ways than one.

The clerk at the ticket counter turns you away because — you guessed it — your social credit score is too low.

There are reports that those whose social credit score falls too low are preemptively arrested and sent to re-education camps. »

Amanda Miller, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, the umbrella company for the Trump family’s many business interests, said: “We have no knowledge of any ‘flagged’ transactions with Deutsche Bank.”

She said the Trump Organization currently has “no operating accounts with Deutsche Bank.”

Mr. Trump and his family sued Deutsche Bank in April, seeking to block it from complying with the congressional subpoenas. »

A new study has found that permanently frozen ground called permafrost is melting much more quickly than previously thought and could release up to 50 per cent more carbon, a greenhouse gas.

In some parts of Canada’s Arctic, permafrost is melting so fast the ground is collapsing, transforming the landscape and making travel dangerous for Indigenous people who live there.

It notes that unlike slow thaw, abrupt thaw releases more methane which is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. »