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A potential therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal neurological disorder, may allow patients to live several months longer than they otherwise would have, according to a study published Friday. The two-drug combination, dreamed up by two college students, is one of several potential treatments raising the hopes of patients …

This briefing has ended. Read live Covid-19/coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: Less than 10 percent of Americans have coronavirus antibodies, a new study finds. In the U.S., the virus is spreading fastest in the heartland. Florida lifts restrictions for restaurants and other businesses. ‘I feel sorry …

With summer here and more people choosing to escape their coronavirus prisons into yards, parks, woods and streets, a recent study suggests yet another potential health risk, albeit one far less concerning than the virus: exposure to pyrethroids, a major group of insecticides widely used to protect against everything from …

A newly published study by University of Michigan researchers shows facial recognition technology in schools presents multiple problems and has limited efficacy. Led by Shobita Parthasarathy, director of the university’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program, the research say the technology isn’t suited to security purposes and can actively …

Black children are more than three times as likely to die within a month of surgery as white children, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday. Disparities in surgical outcomes between Black and white patients have been well established, with researchers attributing some of the difference …

VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, coauthors affiliated with Harvard and Autodesk propose extending current facial …

Unbundle cable TV, they said. It will be cheaper, they said. Google this week “updated” (its wording, not mine) the pricing of YouTube TV from $ 50 per month to $ 65 per month. The price increase for the over-the-top internet television service comes just over a year after the …

Author’s Blurb: If you’ve read enough of my articles on edutech startups, you’ll know by now that I wasn’t cut out for academia. I didn’t do too badly at it, but I was never excited about it (save for a few subjects in university). I choose not to remember my …

The first confirmed coronavirus infections in Europe and the United States, discovered in January, did not ignite the epidemics that followed, according to a close analysis of hundreds of viral genomes. Instead, the outbreaks plaguing much of the West began weeks later, the study concluded. The revised timeline may clarify …