The effectiveness of our protections against future pandemics will hinge upon how we think about where they come from. The emerging conventional wisdom casts pandemics as fundamentally inscrutable and unpredictable, comparable to . The most society can do to gird itself, in that case, is hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Bill Gates researching and developing vaccines and mobilizing soldiers and medical workers. Former White House biodefense adviser Rajeev Venkayya suggests. And Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, calls for .But a wide range of potentially...…The effectiveness of our protections against future pandemics will hinge upon how we think about where they come from. The emerging conventional wisdom casts pandemics as fundamentally inscrutable and unpredictable, comparable to . The most society can do to gird itself, in that case, is hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Bill Gates researching and developing vaccines and mobilizing soldiers and medical workers. Former White House biodefense adviser Rajeev Venkayya suggests. And Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, calls for .But a wide range of potentially...WW…

Wednesday, September 14, 2022DUBAI: WhatsApp’s 2 billion active users face a dilemma. WhatsApp recently announced a new Terms of Service (ToS) and Privacy Policy. The “key updates” state that WhatsApp users must accept the new terms and policy — or the app gets deactivated. It was later rolled back.WhatsApp plans to offer users the ability to review the new privacy policy inside its app, ahead of the new May 15th launch (moved from February 8th). The company already tried to reassure users through WhatsApp’s Status feature, but now WhatsApp will include a banner that can be tapped to pull...…Wednesday, September 14, 2022DUBAI: WhatsApp’s 2 billion active users face a dilemma. WhatsApp recently announced a new Terms of Service (ToS) and Privacy Policy. The “key updates” state that WhatsApp users must accept the new terms and policy — or the app gets deactivated. It was later rolled back.WhatsApp plans to offer users the ability to review the new privacy policy inside its app, ahead of the new May 15th launch (moved from February 8th). The company already tried to reassure users through WhatsApp’s Status feature, but now WhatsApp will include a banner that can be tapped to pull...WW…