“I was like a kid on a plane for the first time. I look out the window a lot,” Jakkrit told VICE . Jakkrit isn’t the only one crossing international borders in search of vaccination sites. From Thailand to Mexico and European countries, the rich are booking vacations and vaccinations in the US. Broadcaster Jakkrit vaccinated in Virginia (USA). Photo: Jakkrit Yompayorm. Travel combined with vaccination This is the first time Jakkrit has flown out of Thailand since the pandemic broke out in March 2020. Looking around from his seat, he saw that there weren’t many people on the same flight as him. When the plane took off, the 34-year-old man was not only nervous because he was about to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but also extremely excited about his first foreign trip in a long time. On May 8, he was vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine in Virginia (USA), then stayed for a while. Currently, this vaccine is not available in Thailand. In recent months, the land of the Golden Temple has also struggled to increase vaccination in the country. According to some reports, depending on the state in the US will require or not require identification documents certifying citizenship. According to the Wall Street Journal, Hundreds of Thais are booking “vaccine tours” to the United States – where tourists pay about 2,400 USD/person to spend 10 days in California. This is an attractive option for those who want to combine convalescence with the need for vaccination. Many Thais take advantage of this opportunity to travel and enjoy after a long time sitting at home. Photo: iStock. On May 17, Anucha Burapachaisri, a spokesman for the Thai government, said that authorities are aware that Thai nationals are traveling to Europe and the US for vaccination. “We recommend that any Thai who intends to travel abroad, especially to the EU and the US for vaccinations, should carefully check the country’s immigration regulations and public health measures. that family first”, he shared with VICE . Still, many would rather face the long commute and potential obstacles abroad than wait for a vaccine at home. Bee, a 34-year-old Thai woman, said she decided to go to the US with her friends because she “didn’t know when it was time to get vaccinated” back home. The Golden Temple country currently has the lowest vaccination rate in Southeast Asia – only about 1% of the population has received the vaccine so far. “Moreover, we also need to be able to travel. It sounds crazy, but we really wanted to travel,” she said. Bee’s group of friends plans to depart for Miami (Florida state) at the end of May – where they will receive a free Covid-19 vaccine, and attend a hip-hop music festival with the participation of artists A. $AP Rocky, Travis Scott and Post Malone. Bee said her vaccination appointment has been confirmed. Like broadcaster Jakkrit, she will get the Pfizer vaccine. Tired of waiting Currently, the Golden Temple country is facing a new wave of Covid-19 although the country has successfully prevented the epidemic in 2020 with strict measures such as wearing masks, closing borders and social distancing. As of May 17, the total number of Covid-19 infections reached more than 111,000 people, with 565 deaths Bangkok Post. Vaccination rates in Thailand are currently the lowest in Southeast Asia. Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP. In the latest wave of infections alone, Thailand recorded an average of 2,000 new positive cases per day – a number many times larger than last year. Many foreign nationals living and working in Thailand also quickly find a way to return to their homeland for the same reason: they do not trust the country’s vaccine deployment plan. Kevin Cummings (66 years old) is one of them. “The shortage of vaccines and jobs in this country compared to the simple vaccination schedule in the US makes us think and consider. We really hope there is a positive signal in Thailand, not worse, but who can predict what?”, he said. As the pandemic continued into its second year, Jakkrit himself was tired of “just hanging around the apartment”. That was the reason why he booked a ticket from Bangkok (Thailand) to the US. After being vaccinated, the male announcer not only felt more relieved, but also encouraged when Thai people went abroad to get vaccinated like him if they had economic conditions. “Vaccines are the only weapon that helps us fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But it would be even better if people had the choice to get the vaccine they feel most confident in,” he said.

As an endangered species in the wild, the import and trade of Asian arowanas in the US is illegal. But in other parts of the world, arowanas are a highly sought after luxury item and completely legal. They are prized by Yakuza gang members in Japan, business magnates in China, and fish collectors in Europe. A single primitive specimen can be more expensive than a Ferrari. From a swamp creature to a luxury item Asian Arowana. For centuries, Asian arowana has been a popular folk dish of Southeast Asians. Outside of local markets in Malaysia, this fish is neither widely traded nor favored. But everything changed in 1975. As wetland habitats in Southeast Asia decline, Asian arowanas begin to decline in numbers. CITES, a treaty restricting trade in endangered wildlife species, has classified the Asian arowana as threatened. This move aims to ban the trade of arowanas for commercial purposes. But according to Emily Voigt, who has spent nearly a decade delving into the story of the Asian arowana for her book, The Dragon Behind the Glass, “That official endorsement is completely counterproductive. It really turned the fish into a limited edition luxury item.” Smugglers in Malaysia began to smuggle Asian arowanas into Taiwan and Japan. In an effort to stop this illegal trade, CITIES has allowed farmers in Southeast Asia to legally breed, harvest and sell Asian arowanas. But again, everything went to a dead end. In the decades that followed, hundreds of arowana farms sprang up across Indonesia and Malaysia. It is noteworthy that these fish all disappeared from the wild. Today, the biggest market for Asian arowana is China. The fish has a “spirit” and the plastic surgery market for fish blooms Emily Voigt said: “It has become a mystical creature that is said to have the power to protect and help you make good business decisions, bringing wealth and prosperity. There are even stories of arowana jumping out of the tank as a warning of bad luck.” To keep their fish aesthetically pleasing, owners don’t mind spending money on “plastic surgery” to satisfy their hobby with eye lifts ($90), chin augmentation ( $60) and tail editing ($60). This belief has turned farm-raised Asian arowanas into an estimated $200 million/year global market. Huge income from trading arowana In the mid-1980s, a printing industry executive in Indonesia named Tris Tanoto quit his job and bought 12 Asian arowanas for $170. With the help of friends, Tanoto bought a small farm in East Jakarta, raising fish in a pond on the property. Experiencing many failures, to this day, Tanoto’s base of operations is one of at least 250 CITES-accredited Asian arowana farms across Southeast Asia. PT Munjul Prima Utama is one of Indonesia’s largest exporters of Asian arowana, especially “Super Red” – a crimson arowana that is very popular with the Chinese because they consider red to represent vitality and good luck. Each year, the company sells about 1,000 of the 7,000 Asian arowanas, generating about $3 million in annual sales. The average is $3,000/fish, but prices can fluctuate based on many factors such as color, origin, fin size and head shape… Tanoto sells 8 varieties of Asian arowana, with prices starting from 1,200 up to $5,500. Tanoto sold a “perfect” Super Red arowana to a Chinese man for $30,000. The extremely rare Asian Arowana can earn 10 times that amount. A Malaysian breeder specializing in albino Asian arowana once sold one of his arowanas for $300k. Instead of going directly to customers, many farms in Southeast Asia sell in bulk to dealers in other countries. Among these agents is David Carr, who runs Planet Arowana. With a passion for arowanas, David Carr moved to Malaysia and spent a year learning everything about this fish from local breeders. Carr says the process works like this: The lake has 20 arowanas (6 males, 14 females). Each female lays 10 to 80 eggs. Every 2-3 months harvest fry (called fingerlings). The fish are shipped to the UK and sold at 4-6 months of age for between $300 and $4k or more each. Carr sells his arowana to buyers around the world. In recent years, Carr said demand has expanded from Asia to the West.

Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971), is a South African-American engineer, industrial designer, inventor, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. Musk is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; original investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink, co-founder and original co-chairman of OpenAI. Elon Musk. Photo: Reuters. Among his three biggest projects, SpaceX was founded by Musk in 2022 with the main function of manufacturing aerospace and space transportation service company. Here, he holds the position of CEO and chief designer. Musk joins Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), an electric vehicle maker in 2004, a year after the company was founded and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he helped found SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla). In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a technology company focused on developing intellectual computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunneling company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.

Cryogenic technology and the promise of bringing the dead back to life (Photo: Internet) Cryogenics, also known as cryopreservation, is the technique of freezing a dead body or body parts to protect them from decomposition. Proponents of cryogenics see it as a magical technology to bypass death and even reach immortality. They decided to freeze and preserve the body intact, hoping to wait until science developed enough to revive the dead body and cure whatever caused them to die before. . (Photo: Internet) To date, more than 350 dead people worldwide have been preserved at low temperatures at one of four facilities providing this service: two in the US (Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Arizona and Cryonics Institute, Michigan State); 1 in Russia (KrioRus company), and 1 in Portugal (also Alcor lab). About 1,000 people have signed up for the post-mortem resurrection service. In this list, there are famous figures such as Britney Spears, Simon Cowell, Larry King, Don Laughlin (a gambling business magnate in the US) or director Charles Matthau… How are cryogenics performed? Legally, deep freezing is only performed when the patient is dead. The ideal time to start a cryogenics procedure is about 2 minutes after the patient’s heart stops and no more than 15 minutes afterward. First, the body is gradually cooled with ice and injected with chemicals to reduce clotting. After the temperature drops to near 0°C, blood is drawn to be replaced with a solution intended to protect tissues and organs. (Photo: Internet) The technicians also injected the body with another solution to prevent ice crystals from forming, then continued to cool the body down to -130°C. As a final step, the body is moved to a container of liquid nitrogen. There, it will be cooled down to -196°C. Cost of cryogenics The fee that a person has to pay if they want to deep freeze the whole body at the Cryonics Institute is from about 35,000 USD (about 800 million VND). While if you do the procedure at KrioRus in Russia, it will cost you 37,600 USD (about 860 million VND). At Alcor, the cost of preserving a person is 220,000 USD (equivalent to 5 billion VND), if you want to save more, just preserve the brain for about 80,000 USD (approximately 1.8 billion VND). This cost does not include the annual maintenance fee, which means that the longer you keep it, the more money you have to spend. (Photo: Internet) chances of success Many scientists believe that the chance to revive a dead person is almost zero. Because the body’s organs, especially vital organs such as the heart, lungs, brain, and kidneys, must have been damaged when freeze. Until now, the damage that has occurred and resulted in death is irreversible. Due to the severe damage to internal organs and the brain, the law requires technical participants to be scientifically dead, which makes it almost impossible to revive a dead person. (Photo: Internet) Alcor doesn’t offer a clear technique to resurrect someone who’s been dead too long, or a technique under development in the future to bring the dead back to life. A very vague technology on Alcor’s website is described that they will use molecular nanotechnology with microscopic nano-sized robots that can replace damaged chromosomes and can restore individual cells. . It is worth mentioning that Alcor has not researched this technology, in fact they only trade in freezing and preserving the dead and no one is responsible for the patient’s promise to revive. Alcor’s main research is only on techniques to preserve the dead as best as possible. The prospect of resurrecting a frozen body has so far been quite remote and unrealistic. And many in the scientific community even consider this to be unethical.

Farm operators say animal welfare is guaranteed when salmon are kept in shallow pools as they are swimming in artificial water. Photo: Smart Studio. In the row of indoor swimming pools there, 5 million adult salmon were swimming passionately away from their home town. pass cold water fish to a hot area This is a Atlantic salmon species, famous for cold water in Norwegian fjords or in cold water lakes in Scotland. They are not native to hot and warm Florida, so in order to cope with the completely different weather where they were born and the ideal environment to grow, the aquarium is cooled, housed in a large building. cold and of course very good insulation. The building is named the Green House, which has just come into operation in phase 1 since last year. When completed, it will be the largest salmon farm in the world. The investor is the Atlantic Sapphire Company, said the current output of the farm is 9,500 tons / year, and when the farm is operating at full designed capacity – it is expected that by 2031, the output will increase to 222,000 tons. If so, about 41% of the American’s salmon demand each year, or 1 serving serving, would be supplied domestically. Atlantic Sapphire is currently one of the pioneers of the trend of investing in terrestrial and indoor aquaculture. The company is headquartered in Norway. “When we came up with this idea 10 years ago, a lot of people were talking so crazy,” said Johan Andreassen – CEO of the company. “At that time, no one believed that bringing cold-water salmon to terrestrial farming could or was financially viable. The advancement of technology dispelled their doubts. Johan Andreassen introduces salmon farmed in Green House. Photo: Atlantic Sapphire. According to Andreassen, Atlantic Sapphire has proven successful in technology, now only dealing with financial viability and how scalable it can be effectively scaled. Salmon farming in shallow tanks – Pioneering technology New technologies equipped for the Green House to operate are not unfamiliar, but the investment rate to ensure profitability has only been achieved in recent years. The building is equipped with a recirculating aquaculture system called RAS, controlled from data on temperature, salinity, pH, oxygen level, flow, and light in the water. The tank also has an automatic mechanism that removes CO2 and waste and water into a filter for treatment and reuse. Raised in a closed process, salmon is immune to diseases and parasites found in the natural environment, so Atlantic Sapphire does not need antibiotics or other drugs. “Compared to marine farms, we guarantee fewer incidents of disease, the death rate is also among the lowest,” said Neder Snir, chief technician of AquaMaof in Israel. This is the company that provides technology for Atlantic Sapphire and about 10 other businesses around the world. “We ensure farmers do not need vaccines or antibiotics. This technology ensures disease isolation and control of the farming environment ”. Atlantic Sapphire has invested $ 400 million into their US facility in a total of $ 2 billion in funding plans. By 2031, they expect to own a 372,000 square meter aquarium on the 65-hectare project area. Why is it America? A Norwegian company that invests in large farms in Florida raises the question of purpose, especially when the culture is in doubt or does not guarantee the welfare of the chosen fish. According to the Atlantic Sapphire, they ensure a closer supply to the US market instead of bringing fish from Europe to by plane, in addition to taking advantage of the natural conditions endemic to the southern state. Florida sits atop two layers of water – one is the surface freshwater layer, the other is the lower saltwater aquifer. Trout need a freshwater environment in the early stages of growth, larger than they need salt water. In the Green House, the technology system ensures these two water sources. Here, wastewater is pumped into deep underground rock under the salty water layer separated from useful aquifers, so it does not pollute the area’s common water source (only at a very small rate compared to the government’s regulations. ). The salmon tank area at the Green House by technology of AquaMaof. Photo: AquaMaof. According to Andreassen, Atlantic Sapphire’s choices were even more valuable when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The supply chain right in the US enables customers to traceability and create confidence in the end product without having to go through many stages of virus infection. Also, the transport stage is not congested when the cost of the road increases dramatically due to the impact of the epidemic. Atlantic Sapphire salmon has become familiar with American consumers. Last year, the brand “Green House Salmon was sold for 12 USD / kg, 2 times higher than imported Norwegian wild salmon. Would that worry salmon farmers and exporters in Nauuy and Scotland? Ragnar Tveteras – Professor of Commerce at Stavanger University (Norway) explains in a detour: “I think there is a challenge of using energy, about CO2 emissions, but I still do not have enough data. Demand (farmed fish) does not bother me too much, it is important that the price will probably go up ”. And Alan Tinch, technical head of the fishing services firm Benchmark Genetics in Scotland, predicts a change from Scottish farmers to adapt. “Maybe they will transfer the fry to an indoor farm, when healthy, they will be brought back to the natural marine environment. The wild fish still has its quality and location ”. The Green House project is not really smooth, even though it is advertised as a pioneer in technology. In July 2020, a water quality incident forced the company to harvest 200,000 salmon early before they were 20 months old. In March this year, fish also died abnormally and at the beginning of April there was a gas leak incident causing 3 workers to be hospitalized. Animal Rights Protection PETA criticizes the Green House project and about 40 other businesses developing terrestrial aquaculture farms, including a planned seabass farming project in Arizona. “Fish can feel, think, can know pain or joy, they belong to themselves, not people,” said Dawn Carr, Project Director of (food) vegetarian PETA said. “This fish farming is cruel.” But Director Johan Andreassen argues that the criteria for animal welfare, at the Green House, are fin shape and swimming speed, which is continuously and fully controlled by the company.

Samsung has an unexpected move Photo: @Pixabay. It seems that the company has realized that “quantity is not equal to quality” should decide to slow down with the megapixel race. Recently, famous leaker Ice Universe announced that Samsung now intends to return to another “rationality”, and will stop blindly chasing big numbers. Clearly, we’re talking about the fact that the company is recklessly stopping the megapixel-resolution race. “I heard some news that Samsung smartphones are actively changing the camera sensor. It will return to reasonable, instead of blindly large numbers,” Ice Universe stated. In fact, Samsung admits that quality is not at the megapixel count. Priorities will be the tradeoff between the size and resolution of each pixel. And the first result of this approach that we saw in the Samsung ISOCELL GN2 sensor; in which the company offers a record large sensor size of 1 / 1.12 inch; No frills on the megapixel count with just 50 megapixels. Photo: @Pixabay. After the shocking information above, it is still unclear what the fate of the 200 megapixel sensor on a smartphone with up to 6 cameras, with a dual selfie camera and a homegrown chip will be. On the other hand, there are also rumors that, Samsung has set itself a goal of delivering an insane 600MP sensor. The 600 MP sensor that Samsung has developed seems to have a pixel density of 0.8 µm and a size of about 1 / 0.57 inches. So the result is more work the company has to deal with as the sensor will take up 12% of the smartphone’s area, and it will also result in a 22mm protrusion. The Galaxy Note20 is 8.3 mm thick, which means the 22 mm camera bump will make the phone look too out of date. Photo: @Pixabay. With these changing priorities, it remains to be seen whether this will affect the development of the aforementioned sensors in the near term. In July 2019, CEO of Zeiss, Mr. Michael Kaschke made the point that, the race of “dots” on smartphones is meaningless. Because according to him, “the sensor on a smartphone is so small that mobile photography will never be able to overcome some of the limits such as processing speed, signal ratio, noise … and increasing the number of” dots. “Not the right solution in this regard, even a stumbling block”. In fact, the higher the resolution of the sensor, the smaller the individual pixels, and the more difficult it is to illuminate them entirely. The result is that the image will be noisy, which the algorithms must try to limit to reduce this situation. For Kaschke, a 40 MP sensor is more than enough for a smartphone, let alone 64 MP. Therefore, increasing the number of “dots” will not bring any benefit. Photo: @Pixabay. However, it is undeniable that the introduction of the smartphone is one of the most remarkable strides in the history of the technology industry. It is not simply a pocket communication device but gradually meets all human information needs. Photography is also an equally important part. It creates many new needs such as sharing daily photos, taking selfies, video calling. Smartphone photography is gradually asserting itself with a steady decline in sales of travel cameras. According to data from GfK, Canon’s travel camera revenue is down 2% per year due to the replacement of smartphones.