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Google has announced that Google Duo services will soon come to Android TV. The search engine giant said that services will be available in beta in the form of a native app. This means users will soon be able to make video calls directly from tv sets using Google Duo services. The company has promised to release a beta of Google Duo for Android TV in the coming weeks to make this happen. Those having built-in camera tv sets, don’t require any additional accessory. Users who have a tv set that has no built-in camera set up will also be able to make calls. They only require plugging in a USB camera to dial anyone from their contact list.

Google has already added support for Chromecast on Google Meet. Google Meet is designed in a way that it handles video calls with over 100 members. It is mostly used to meet professional needs. Google Meet was also launched by the company on Nest Hub Max a few months ago. The latest decision to bring Google Duo services on Android TV is a part of Google’s larger push to introduce its video communication apps to bigger screens. The company in a blog post said that big screens are not only meant for professional meetings but for connecting with family and friends as well. It said that users will have an option to launch both one-on-one and group calls with the app which is in the making.

The enhanced services with new features will surely make video calling fun during the pandemic as communicating virtually is becoming a new normal. The video calling app is available on the Android and iOS platforms. Google Duo was first announced by Google at the developer conference in 2016 and was launched worldwide in the same year. The app allows users to make video calls in high definition. The app is based on phone numbers and therefore a separate list of contacts is not required for making calls. Users can make calls to anyone from their saved contact list in the handset.

A startup in Japan has conducted a public demonstration of battery-powered flying cars for the first time. SkyDrive Inc’s new SD-03 flying car model still needs some improvement but the company is hopeful of starting its service for the public in 2023. It envisions that everyday commuting will be done by drone-like vehicles by the year 2030. These vehicles will drive on city roads before taking off like a helicopter. There is some tough competition in the field of vehicles which are generally referred to as aeromobiles or air taxis. Japan is lagging behind companies in the United States, Germany, and China in developing the technology.

SkyDrive conducted the test flight of its new care model at the approximately 2.5-acre Toyota Test Field, the largest in Japan. The single-seat 880-pound test vehicle was in the air for around four minutes. A pilot was at the controls but the computer-assisted control system ensured the smooth flight. Meanwhile, the technical staff was monitoring the performance of aircraft and flight conditions at all times. The aircraft is apparently the world’s smallest electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) model and takes space of two usual cars. According to developers, they eventually hope to include wheels so that the vehicles could be driven easily into a garage. Chief Executive Tomohiro Fukuzawa said the whole aim behind the concept is to develop something that someone could use easily on a daily basis.

There are 8 electric motors that drive rotors fixed at four locations. Each position has two rotors that individually rotate in the opposite direction. Eight motors have been used to ensure the highest safety in case of emergency. The vehicle is so far in position to fly for only five to ten minutes. Fukuzawa said that the machine will have more potential if this time can be increased to 30 minutes. SkyDrive is planning to conduct several such test flights under an expanding range of conditions in order to improve its features.

Many states in the USA are currently thinking of putting a stop on reopening decisions after seeing a massive spike in the number of coronavirus cases. Now president of federal reserves Eric Rosengren said the current situation might put economy again in a bad situation. Fed’s president says he has doubts about the current situation through which the US is going. Currently, every state follows the orders of reopening, but they are losing the long term benefits. As of now, most of the states that reopened the economy are on the opposite side of this decision. The number of cases in the USA are increasing at a very high rate.

This doubt had been raised earlier also by the Central Bank’s president Jeremy Powell. He said the virus is going to affect the viability of full economic rebound for a long time. People suffer the most because of coconuts, which causes lots of trouble for states economically. Rosengren said that as long as the virus is here in this country, we will not recover the economy like it was before entirely. This threat is going to affect the process of economic recovery, and the government will have to consider this fact.

People are still not following the required precautions, like wearing masks and other things. Things are escalating from the government’s hands quickly, which is getting problematic for the whole nation. The labor department’s data shows that new jobs created were just 1.8 million for July compared to 4.8 million in June. The Labor Department report shows half of the people who lost their jobs during a pandemic situation have recovered it, but the rate is getting slower every week. Considering the situation, the Fed’s chairman is having doubts about the full recovery of the economy.

Police killing the black man George Floyd in Minneapolis has now taken a violent turn in the form of protests made by a group of people. Many people gathered together to protest the killing of black men by US police in Minneapolis, and now big retailers are closing down their stores. Apple, Walmart, Target, CVS said they have for a short time, closed down their stores after these retailers’ stores burned down during the violent protest. In big cities, the rally has turned into violence, since people come on the street, and damage the public as well as private properties.

Amazon also said they had suspended deliveries from Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle since the protestors are targeting these cities. Small store owners in Minneapolis said they are still not able to operate at full capacity. This whole incident has changed the people, and protests are getting violent every day. Target, which has six stores in the locality where George Floyd killed, decided to shut down all of its stores for obvious reasons. Target’s store located at Lake Street, faced violent damage, where people broke into, and damaged many things. They were seen getting out of the stores while there was a lot of smoke in there.

Target said they have decided to close down stores located in Chicago, Oakland, California, Atlanta, Philadelphia. The damage done to retailing stores is massive, and big companies are now afraid of operating in there. Small businesses are still in grave danger since the violence is getting stronger every day, even though police are trying their best to lower it. CVS also said to close down stores in those areas where people are protesting for the safety of employees, and customers. It will be hard for those people who depend upon the frequent buying of medication since big stores are suspending their operation.

Even though the big business rivalry between Google and Microsoft stops them from getting together, sometimes they have to forget the big competition and join hands. The current repairs might not clearly say how google and Microsoft are going to work, but for Chromebooks users, there is good news. Google is thinking of bringing Windows applications to Chromebook with the help of Parallels. Google’s product manager Cyrus Mistry said along with Chrome OS, they are going to introduce windows applications also on the Chromebooks. Parallels will provide the boot copy of Windows on Chromebook so that users can run Windows OS too.

Parallels have already developed such boot copy for macOS in which users have an option to run windows on MacBook. Parallels coherence feature allowed MacOS users to run both the operating systems without any problem, and now Google is going to use the same for Chromebook. People usually think that big tech companies can’t come together because of the rivalry. But, since the market is evolving, Google’s decision is going to be helpful for Chromebook users. Mistry talked about making this possible by working parallels since they have already done this for macOS, Linux, so it’s going to work for Google.

Users can enjoy both operating systems in one Chromebook, and that’s fantastic from their point of view. Google is trying to make the market more sustainable, and that’s why they are bringing windows OS on Chromebook also. The reports say Parallels desktop will be made available by the end of this year. So far, the response to Chromebook has been good, but users still want to see more features. Chromebook already recorded double the number of sales in the last year, so now they are trying to increase more customer base than they ever had.

Since the coronavirus pandemic started, Chinese economy witnessed a vast number of losses during that period. But, now they are recovering better than other countries who are still going through a severe economic and health crisis period. Recent reports from China show the Asian country’s exports rose at a higher rate after the reopening of the economy. Custom departments reports of Chinese economy shows exports rose by 0.5% in June as compared to the previous year. Analysts predicted the situation would be drastic because according to them, the country would witness downfall by 1.5% in overall exports.

Imports on the other side also rope up by 2.7% as compared to last month’s downfall of 16.7%, which shows the drastic improvement in the export sector as well. Demandforce PPEs(Personal Protective Equipment) have grown, and China is becoming a major supplier of these goods. Overseas demand for medical products is still quite high, especially during the pandemic situation, which is benefitting a lot for the Chinese economy. Chinese economy might seem to be recovering at the front, but they are suffering from a considerable number of long term losses as the analysts say about this report. Globally coronavirus cases are increasing at a higher rate, and many countries are still going through their worst phases.

Countries like America, India have already started trade bandwidth CHina which is impacting negatively on their import-export sector. Asian market might be recovering at a higher rate than ever before, but the long term which they might suffer because of COVID-19 virus is still higher than anything else. The rise in China’s import is because of significant investment in real estate and other sectors. President Trump already said that he is not thinking of starting a new trade deal with China, and it might severely damage the import-export industry of the Asian country.

When it comes to a trade war, US-China still hasn’t finished it, and now the pandemic situation is making things harder for US farmers. China, a few months ago under Xi Jinping’s leadership, agreed to import agricultural products from the US and finally took some action. The agreement between US-CHina to import US-based agricultural products for $36.5 billion is still pending because the Asia country imported goods worth $4.65 billion in the last four months. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently met with Chinese delegates to talk about trade war issues. He mentioned how both countries are still trying to complete the first phase of a trade deal, which happened four months ago.

Pompeo wrote on twitter about how Chinese delegates have been reminded of completing the unfinished trade deal that happened four months ago. The first phase of the trade deal occurred just before the coronavirus pandemic occurred, and everyone knows how the Trump administration has acted so far. The Trump administration blamed China on the international level for not being able to control the spread of coronavirus, which came from China. Trump criticizes the actions taken by the Chinese government to be selfish and ignorant and decided to shut down the fundings of WHO.

These two countries were already in a trade before this happened; each country levied massive tariffs on other country’s imported products. Huawei, a Chinese tech giant company, is still banned in the US on security concerns. However, now Chinese delegates want to move forward in this trade war by doing what they promised. Agricultural products like Corn, Wheat, Meat have great demand in China, and imports from the USA will be beneficial for American farmers. The market hasn’t given any good news for farmers in the last few months, but this one will give a good trade deal for them.

Wealthy people in the US are known for their lavish lifestyle, and spending enormous amounts of money on buying materialistic thighs. However, since the lockdown happened, this group of people saves money and not spending any money on buying things. A study done by researchers based upon the spending done by the use of credit cards shows us that wealthy people are spending less even after lockdown has lifted. People who belong in lower-income order have seemed to have increased their spending after a lockdown was lifted. Such less spending from wealthy people creates a problem in the economy of the country, and economists are worried about it.

Since the time unemployment benefits have been given to all lower-income people, their spending has increased enormously. However, the same thing did not happen with vibrant people because their spending on buying things has remained quite low. Consumer spending is the backbone of any economy; less spending from the wealthiest people will create problems. Two-thirds of consumer spending comes only from wealthy people. If they stopped spending less money even after the quarantine ended, then it will create further problems in the country’s economy.

Poor people who got the unemployment benefits from the government seemed to have increased their spending right after reopening was done by the government. Wealthy people have lost most of their learning resources. Now it is impacting spending money in restaurants, shopping, etc. restaurants and their businesses that got the hit most during a pandemic are getting on track again slowly. However, those who are not on a paycheck to paycheck are now afraid to spend more money than they have. Till all things get to normal, we might not be able to see everyone living like usual and spending money in the market.

The black lives matter movement, which has become a topic in the USA, is also becoming a significant thing among tech companies employees. Recently a Facebook worker got fired after he criticized his coworker for stating black lives matter movement. He also criticized Mark Zuckerberg, who did not take any action against Trump’s Facebook post on this matter. Brandon Dail is the UI engineer working in the Seattle office recently shared on his social media account that he was fired from the company. The reason behind this action was Dail’s criticism of his coworker in the black lives matter movement.

He also posted several tweets criticizing Mark Zuckerbergeof not taking action against President Trump’s Facebook post. He tweeted because of his actions to support black lives matter by criticizing Mark, and his coworker company finally fired him. The former employee asked his coworker to add a banner in support of #blacklivesmatter, but he privately messaged him when he didn’t receive the response.

However, this is not the first time we see an employee speaking against mark for the controversial post done by president Trump. In his Facebook post, Trump said, “when the looting starts, shooting starts,” this statement became a controversial one when people started to report it after witnessing George Floyd’s death. However, Trump said he doesn’t feel any guilty of the words he used in his FB post, and defended it by not deleting. Twitter, on the other hand, removed that post stating it promotes violence. But, Facebook decided to put it there since, according to their rules, it doesn’t affect their audience. An ongoing protest is raging to a new level since many people are coming for the support of protest, which is becoming more violent every day.

Since the coronavirus pandemic happened, things went down negatively for Trump and his administration. Millions of people filed for unemployment during April and the rate of unemployment was nearly 15%. However, the latest reports reveal that the rate of unemployment went down to 13.3%, as Trump’s decision to reopen the economy benefited people getting back to their jobs. Even though many analysts predicted that the unemployment percentage would rise in May, some of them also said it would touch the benchmark of 20%.

However, in reality, Trump’s decision to restart the economy has given millions of people their jobs back, and he is celebrating it as a victory. The presidential election is now a few months away, some republicans are trying to beat him as a contender, but it seems like Trump us quite enjoying the position. Trump tweeted about the rate of unemployment getting to the lowest rate, such as 13.3%, and added various news sources.

He mentioned big news channels covering this news clearly, and the press praised him for maintaining such a lower level of unemployment in the country. Big news sites mentioned this news by using words like “stunner,” “incredible,” “amazing,” and Trump said these keywords specifically. As everyone knows, the media doesn’t like Trump, and the feeling goes the same from his side also. However, this time, he got praise for taking the rate of unemployment to the lowest level.

This report comes in a tough time because the country is facing health as well as racial problems. This report shows black unemployment stood at 16.8%, while white unemployment, on the other hand, was 12.4%. White House is currently worried more about the ongoing protest in the country because that social issue is increasing at a very high rate.

The famous oracle of Omaha, legendary investor Warren Buffett, recently shocked everyone when his investment firm Berkshire Hathaway declared the sale of airline stocks. Because of the pandemic, many airline companies like United Airline, American Airline, Southwest Airlines reported vast numbers of losses. Buffett, to stop the temporary losses, sold the majority of its stock from the airline industry. However, on Thursday, this sector rose on the wall street after the labour department revealed the number of low unemployment. The reopening of the economy by the Trump administration has given the right amount of benefit to the airline industry, and that’s why these company stocks went up significantly.

Trump now said even the legendary investor like Warren Buffett also made a mistake during this pandemic situation. He said Warren Buffett shouldn’t have sold his stake in the airline industry and should have kept some patience since the latest positive trend benefited this sector a lot. Trump said he has great respect for legendary investor Warren Buffet, but even he also made mistakes. In the last annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett revealed his company sold more than $6 billion worth of airline stock, because of which this sector started to go down.

The investors went into a panic, and now after getting the latest report from the labour department of unemployment slowing down, investors felt good. Buffett who while selling these stocks said he is looking for lots of trouble for this industry since carriers service has stopped. But, now the carrier services have resumed, and big airline companies are aiming to come back on the regular business again in just a few months. Buffett hasn’t given any immediate comment about Trump saying how he failed to predict the outcome for which he is famous.

The crypto market made lots of news a few months ago because of the decline at a rapid rate, which is now creating rebounding. Things are getting quite suitable for crypto investors during the lockdown period because bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are rising well from the last few days. Recently bitcoin crossed the benchmark of $10000 For the first time since February. May was quite good but not that much because bitcoin failed five times to pass the benchmark limit of $10000 five times in a row. However, June has brought news for all crypto investors because now the price has finally crossed $10000 For The First Time since the last three months.

The price of bitcoin crossed over $10500 but slowly went down and now trading safely at above $10000, which is significant. The first time bitcoin reached this limit was on May 7 when the price reached the ten thousand dollars benchmark, but it went down slightly soon to $8000. However, now the market has rebounded, and investors seemed to be quite positive about all of these things. Three months of a pandemic has given lots of benefits to all investors in the crypto market; the stock market, on the other hand, has become weak.

From the last three months, the stock market has gone down approximately 30% from the previous two months. A technical analysis of bitcoin shows that the downward return will come again, and it will retake the bitcoin to $9800 or even more. Things are getting quite exciting for all crypto investors because they are now experiencing what others call a peak. The stock market is still not able to stabilize from the loss of the coronavirus pandemic created in the last few months, and it will become weaker unless the reopening of the economy happens.

A UK based startup named Beacon received millions of dollars of funding from Jeff Bezos and other angel investors. Beacon, a digital freight forwarder is also a supply chain finance firm which gathers the real-time cargo delivery data and traces it. It’s been used as a marketplace for global shipping cost and delivery chargers mainly targeting small, and big businesses. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of tech giant company Amazon is famous for investing very ambitious projects. This investment round was quite an excellent achievement for Beacon because other than Bezos the startup received the funding from 8VC venture firm.

The startup received in total $15 million of financing from series A investment which includes big investors. The company was formed by two former Uber technology executives a few years ago, and it has support from Uber’s former founder Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp. Also, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has given support. Since the world is becoming more and more digital, the traditional way of freight forwarding is also going to need change. The CEO of Beacon Fraser Robinson said the future of conventional freight forward is more precarious than ever before.

Amazon is famous for making investments into the logistic, and related fields since the tech giant company Amazon is looking forward to dominating the e-commerce field. Amazon has already started its own delivery system by investing a considerable amount of money. Since the reliance on USPS and other third party delivery sources isn’t benefiting the company, this new investment in Beacon is also from the point of view that it would help the tech giant company in future. Beacon, the logistic service provider has air and truck freight, and this new funding the company said to be invested in acquiring technology and market expansion.

Restaurant owners in Los Angeles county are eager to reopen the hotels to give the dining services to people. A recent report shows that LA county is soon going to announce the reopening of restaurant services, and service providers are quite excited about it. Representatives of Los Angeles County are going to hold a press conference soon, in which they will talk about the reopening of the restaurant services in some areas. The press conferences by these representatives is reportedly going to reveal how the restaurants near the street can give dining service to ordinary services. It will include the precaution everyone will have to follow since the risk of coronavirus is still there.

Los Angeles City restaurants are also planning to provide some dining services, and they are waiting for permission only. The dining services will be different since the coronavirus situation has changed the way we interact and meet people. The local government in Los Angeles has already permitted to open the restaurants by following some restrictions. However, with the time social distancing and many other restrictions put on by the government on dining services are getting lower. Local government is trying to make sure everyone gets the dining in and out service from restaurants and consider the safety first. Restaurant’s way of operating is going to change entirely since priority will be given to sanitizing everything in the restaurant.

Workers and waiters who will be meeting people will have to follow more restrictions. Restaurant community got a massive hit because of the coronavirus pandemic because, for the last three months, they couldn’t operate in their local area. Even though now the situation is not that much easy, they still can provide service of dining by following required precautions. The loss suffered by restaurant owners is enormous, and they will try to minimize it after getting the permission of reopening.

Coronavirus outbreak has affected everyone, including large companies also. Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett also seemed to be tense about the current situation. In a recent Berkshire Hathaway annual general meeting, Warren told investors what he thinks about the current situation. Even though his answers were not direct, the actions taken by Berkshire Hathaway tells a lot about the market conditions. The Buffet always tells about being positive in the market by buying stocks during hard times. However, this time it’s reversed because he has sold the majority of the airline stocks, which are worth billions of dollars.

Since the pandemic situation happened, airline stocks aren’t performing well, and that’s creating a vast number of problems for big companies to sustain. Another big thing that is worrying Buffet is the uncertainty about the upcoming situation. Many things are uncertain, including the reopening of the economy. Even though the government favors reopening the economy, people are still afraid of going out. Warren Buffet is famous for buying undervalued stocks, and the reason why the Buffet hasn’t made any investment is shocking everyone.

Buffet seems to be waiting for some time to buy the right stock since currently they are quite overvalued, and that’s why Berkshire Hathaway is trying to avoid buying it. Some market experts say Buffet is waiting because they have made some mistakes of buying too early in the last crisis of 2008. The investment made in Bank of America has benefited a lot from Buffet, and now he is waiting for the same thing. Being optimistic about the market, Warren invests very cautiously. Still, the market conditions are not quite volatile for big investors like Buffet, impacting the overall market. Now how the government is going to handle the reopening of the economy is what investors are curious most about.

The ongoing battle between California lawmakers and Tesla founder Elon Musk to reopen the Tesla Factories is getting quite controversial every day. Recently Elon Musk showed his ferocity when the California local government decided not to open Tesla Factories stating the pandemic situation. However, many people are against it, and some are supporting Musk, but president Trump has also joined that list. President Trump recently said in support of Elon Musk to reopen the Tesla Factories and said the California government should permit opening. Musk even went to court to make his point clear, stating the fact that the company is following required guidelines for the safety of workers.

However, the local government is not letting Tesla restart the work during the pandemic situation on the fear that many will get infected. Musk, on the other hand, has prepared for this battle very clearly by stating the facts why Tesla needs to reopen. The productions are halted from March, which is affecting the company and its workers financially. President Trump tweeted about the support for reopening Tesla Factories. He mentioned the California government should let Tedlar Factories open, and Elon Musk replied with the “Thank You” context.

Trump’s latest tweet has created many controversies now again because Elon Musk is already quite serious about this issue. Now the unexpected support from President Trump will increase Musk’s confidence to put pressure on reopening the Factories. Alameda County is refusing to give consent to start the work, but workers in Tesla have seen coming and going out of the Factories recently. Musk is getting support from the company’s workers also who want to start the work after so many weeks of halt. Musk has previously also criticized the current conditions stating the importance of the economy during this time.

Currently, if there’s one thing that’s worrying the world’s influential leaders, then it’s a coronavirus and its impact on their country. The Trump administration got lots of criticism from some people for implementing lockdown lately, which increased the cases of coronavirus significantly. Now, these numbers are soaring every day that has severely impacted on the jobs of ordinary American citizens. Now experts are saying that the increasing number of jobless people will effect on the country’s economy and politics for a long time.

Many companies who have lost their primary source of revenues during this pandemic situation are trying to recover theri cost by letting go of their staff. The number of unemployed people is at its highest peak since the great depression era. The Trump administration is getting advised not to let older adults who are aged above sixty since they are at the highest risk of getting diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. Young folks who will be graduating soon will be out of the jobs about which they might not have ever imagined.

Things are getting changed quickly because many companies are relying more on machinery stuff than manuals now. The pandemic situation has shown a dark side of our economic system might work if things get harder. Tech companies are already telling their workers to work from home since it would be better for the health of themselves, and would save the right amount of money for big companies.

However, these changes, which are impacting severely on the economy, will leave its impact on political parties also. The government administration which was looking forward to making big campaigns to win the general election will have to work hard to make sure everyone’s healthy and safe. Currently, the political environment is quite more toxic than it was the era of the great depression.