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FBI seizes electronic devices of NYC Mayor Eric Adams

21/09/2024Diah Kusuma

The FBI seized the electronic devices of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as part of a federal investigation that previously brought the FBI to the home of his top fundraiser, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News.

The FBI declined to comment to ABC News.

The mayor’s office confirmed that the seizure took place on Monday. The major has denied any wrongdoing.

“As a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my staff to follow the law and fully cooperate with any sort of investigation—and I will continue to do exactly that. I have nothing to hide,” Adams said in a statement .

PHOTO: Major Eric Adams speaks during a Veteran's Day breakfast celebration at Gracie Mansion on Nov. 9, 2023, in New York. — Major Eric Adams speaks during a Veteran’s Day breakfast celebration at Gracie Mansion on Nov. 9, 2023, in New York.

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Federal prosecutors with the Southern District of New York declined to comment.

The FBI previously searched the home of Brianna Suggs, Adams’ main fundraiser. The investigation seeks to determine whether the mayor’s campaign received illegal foreign donations from Turkey with a Brooklyn construction company as a conduit source told ABC News.

Boyd Johnson, a campaign attorney for Adams, said that it was discovered an individual recently acted

Advancing toward wearable stretchable electronics

14/09/2024Diah Kusuma

Intrinsically stretchable transistors and integrated circuits under large deformation after being released from the supporting substrate. (Image credit: Donglai Zhong, Jiancheng Lai and Yuya Nishio of Bao Group at Stanford University)

Small wearable or implantable electronics could help monitor our health, diagnose diseases, and provide opportunities for improved, autonomous treatments. But to do this without aggravating or damaging the cells around them, these electronics will need to not only bend and stretch with our tissues as they move, but also be soft enough that they will not scratch and damage tissues.

Researchers at Stanford have been working on skin-like, stretchable electronic devices for over a decade. In a paper published March 13 in Nature, they present a new design and fabrication process for skin-like integrated circuits that are five times smaller and operate at one thousand times higher speeds than earlier versions. The researchers demonstrated that their soft integrated circuits are now able to drive a micro-LED screen and detect a braille array that is more sensitive than human fingertips.

“We’ve made a significant leap forward. For the first time, stretchable integrated circuits are now small enough and fast enough for many applications,” said Zhenan Bao, a KK Lee

Vietnam Amends Law on Electronic Transactions

16/07/2024Diah Kusuma

The law in Vietnam on e-transactions, issued in March 2006, exhibits some deficiencies concerning modern electronic transactions. Therefore, to promote electronic trade, the National Assembly of Vietnam in June 2023 approved the revised Law on Electronic Transactions. Here’s what this might mean for foreign firms.

In June 2023, the Vietnamese government approved the amended Law on Electronic Transactions (LoET) No. 20/2023/QH15. This was to ensure that Vietnam’s economy would keep pace with global technological advances and accurately conduct real-time transactions online.

The new law lays the groundwork for electronic transactions and adds new features to the original scope of application, definitions of e-transactions, e-contract performance, data sharing, and regulations on databases.

These efforts were made to reduce cross-border transaction fees for foreign firms and facilitate business transactions in the electronic environment. The amendments to the new law have also abolished unnecessary administrative procedures in the implementation of certain e-transactions, helping foreign firms to quickly adapt to the ever-evolving global digital payments landscape.

What’s an e-transaction?

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As per the LoET 2005, an e-transaction is defined as a transaction that is carried out by electronic means, which are unrestricted by geographical boundaries and are devoid of direct face-to-face interactions.