On the Random Channel this week: We puzzle over Instant Pots; an eclipse photo that seemed too good to be true; a?Dungeons and Dragons podcast; and trying out Headspace, the app that helps you meditate.
On Thursday, the SEC ruled that Amazon will have to let shareholders vote on a proposal to force the company to halt sales of Rekognition to the government, according to The Verge. Shareholder proposals tend to fall flat at big tech companies controlled mostly by insiders, but the vote could be a marker of how widespread opposition to Amazon’s Rekognition policies really is.
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On Wednesday, the spot exchange rate of offshore yuan softened for the tenth consecutive trading day to 6.6164 per US dollar, the lowest level since Dec 20, after it lost nearly 3 percent in the last two weeks.
On social media, netizens greeted the Oscars awards. One netizen said, "I'm in tears when I watched. Can there be any better way to make known the (South) Korean culture to the world (than through Parasite)?" Another netizen said South Korea's deeply-rooted social inequality was made known to the world through the film.
On Thursday, the total trading volume for nine listed PTA futures contracts on the ZCE was 702,373 lots, with a turnover of 13.04 billion yuan.
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On Thursday, three processions will make their way from the palace to the cremation site - a series of specially-erected Thai pavilions that took nearly a year to build.
On Thursday, members of Britain's House of Lords, the upper house of the parliament, debated over the Hong Kong protests and whether to offer United Kingdom citizenship to Hong Kong residents. Hundreds of demonstrators protested outside the British consulate in Hong Kong on Thursday evening.
On the mainland, there has been a spike in technological applications on individual wellness following the coronavirus crisis.
On the economic front, investors were waiting for the release of the Federal Open Market Committee' s minutes of its last meeting to look for hints about the central bank's future monetary policy.