The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males, giving the authorities a powerful new tool for their emerging high-tech surveillance state. They have swept across the country since late 2017 to …
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Alongside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), IBM announced in March that it would help coordinate an effort to provide hundreds of petaflops of compute to scientists researching the coronavirus. As part of the newly launched COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, IBM pledged to assist in …
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President Trump revealed on Monday that he had been taking an anti-malaria drug as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, the same medicine that he has been promoting for two months with scant evidence of its efficacy and despite several warnings of dangerous side effects. The drug, hydroxychloroquine, has been …
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The spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has prompted local governments around the U.S. to institute shelter-in-place orders and business closures. As millions suddenly find themselves confined to their homes, the shift has strained not only internet service providers, streaming platforms, and online retailers, but the utilities supplying …
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Author’s Blurb: From my years in uni, I do know the very basics of video editing through software like iMovie and Final Cut Pro. Watching some of my more experienced friends edit a video so effortlessly has often made me curious to learn, but some controls are just way too …
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The Mayo Clinic today announced a partnership with Bestmile and the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) to deploy autonomous shuttles that transport medical equipment and COVID-19 tests collected at the hospital’s drive-thru testing site. The hope is that they’ll expedite the delivery of much-needed supplies while reducing the risk of human …
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This month, under the strain millions of people self-quarantined by COVID-19 have placed on broadband infrastructure, Netflix, Facebook, Disney, Microsoft, Sony, and YouTube agreed to temporarily reduce download speeds and video streaming quality in countries around the world. Nearly 90 out of the top 200 U.S. cities saw internet speeds …
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Lendio, a company that provides a platform that taps algorithms to match customers with lenders and secure loans, announced that it raised $ 55 million. CEO Brock Blake says the influx of funds will bolster Lendio’s marketplace while enabling it to introduce new bookkeeping and lender services functions. Lendio claims …
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Reader, I owned a Brita water pitcher for an entire year before I realized I was using it wrong. I just thought that every time I used it to pour water, a little bit was supposed to spill out onto the floor. This was just my reality! I was used …
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