93.7%
Increase in voter registrations in Georgia after the state enacted automatic voter registration (AVR). More than a dozen states either have or are in the process of implementing AVR.
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NPR
Increase in voter registrations in Georgia after the state enacted automatic voter registration (AVR). More than a dozen states either have or are in the process of implementing AVR.
More than half the world’s banks are too weak to survive a global recession, according to a new report from McKinsey and Company, A 58-page report from the consultancy says the banks are not making enough money to withstand the high costs of operating while competing against fintech startups and the long shadow of companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google poised to increase their presence in the financial services industry. McKinsey says banks have three choices to survive the stress — innovate their existing practices, buy innovation or merge together.
The continued slide of the United States in funding university research as a share of GDP. The top 12 governments on the list invest more than double that of the United States. Such investments have been credited for undergirding the U.S. technological dominance since World War II.
The number of American states that use one or more election services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to a presentation seen by Reuters. “While it does not handle voting on election day, AWS … now runs state and county election websites, stores voter registration rolls and ballot data, facilitates overseas voting by military personnel and helps provide live election-night results.”
The number of electric vehicle charging stations that will constitute Ford-Amazon’s proposed network. The two companies teamed up to establish the largest charging station network in North American with 12,000 different locations.
Already, 320 people have paid the fee for a near-space-orbit trip aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, which comes with exclusive gold-lined space suits by Under Armour that were unveiled earlier this week. When asked where else she would wear it, one would-be space tourist said, “every Halloween for the rest of my life.”
The remaining number of founding members of Libra, the embattled Facebook-led cryptocurrency effort that now lacks many of the high-profile companies that originally voiced support for the effort. PayPal, an original signatory to the Libra Association charter, announced last week it was withdrawing its support. On Friday, payment giants Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and eBay announced they would no longer be associated with the project followed by the defection of Internet company Booking, which operates sites like Booking.com, OpenTable and Kayak.