News Headlines - 07 December 2020
▽Payment Service PayPay Hacked - JIJI PRESS
The operator of Japanese smartphone payment service PayPay said Monday that a server containing information on all 2.6 million stores using the service has been hacked.
There is a possibility that some 20.07 million items of information such as store names and bank accounts may have been compromised, but there are no traces of malicious use of such data, PayPay Corp. said.
President Nicolás Maduro won control of Venezuela's National Assembly on Sunday in an election that the U.S.-backed opposition urged voters to boycott... National Assembly President Juan Guaidó and his allies declined to seek reelection, saying they didn't trust the authoritarian Maduro to hold a fair vote. In their absence, most of the candidates were Maduro allies or supporters.
The loss of the assembly is another blow to an opposition that has struggled, despite U.S. and other international support, to make progress toward ousting the socialist government founded by Hugo Chávez.
▽NASA will pay a company $1 to collect moon rocks
NASA will pay an amazingly low price - a dollar - to have a company make a single small collection of moon dirt on the agency’s behalf.
Colorado-based start-up Lunar Outpost bid $1 and won a NASA contract to complete a mission under the agency’s low-cost lunar resource collection program announced earlier this year.
NASA wants to pay companies for individual collections of lunar regolith, or Moon soil, between 50 grams and 500 grams. The agency explicitly outlined it is only paying companies to collect material and say where NASA can find it on the moon’s surface - not to develop the spacecraft or return the regolith to Earth.
▽TIME's 2020 Kid of the Year: Meet Gitanjali Rao | Time
The world belongs to those who shape it. And however uncertain that world may feel at a given moment, the reassuring reality seems to be that each new generation produces more of what these kids—five Kid of the Year finalists selected from a field of more than 5,000 Americans, ages 8 to 16—have already achieved: positive impact, in all sizes.
▽Californians Endure Another Lockdown as COVID-19 Patients Overwhelm Hospitals | US News
Most Californians faced heavy new restrictions on Monday aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, while New York's governor threatened to ban indoor restaurant dining in New York City as the United States feared infections would continue skyrocketing.
Restaurants in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the state's agricultural San Joaquin Valley shut for all but takeout and delivery. Playgrounds closed, stores reduced capacity and hair salons and barbershops shuttered.
The moves affected about three-quarters of the nearly 40 million people in America's most-populous state.
