Here’s what you need to know: At his D.C. holiday celebration, Trump declares ‘a lot of progress’ against the virus. The numbers say otherwise. As Houston’s hospitals near capacity, they feel the echoes of New York City. Local governments in hard-hit states are taking aim at newly imposed restrictions. The …
Read More »Coronavirus Live Updates: White House Scrambles to Stem Its Own Outbreak
Here’s what you need to know: The spread of the virus in the White House complicates Trump’s push to reopen the country. The U.S. economy is in tatters. Tens of millions are unemployed. Yet stocks keep climbing. U.S. is to accuse China of trying to steal data as nations step …
Read More »White House Airlifts Medical Supplies From China in Coronavirus Fight
WASHINGTON — A commercial aircraft carrying 80 tons of gloves, masks, gowns and other medical supplies from Shanghai touched down in New York on Sunday, the first of 22 scheduled flights that White House officials say will funnel much-needed goods to the United States by early April as it battles …
Read More »Microsoft, White House, and Allen Institute release coronavirus data set for medical and NLP researchers
The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a repository of more than 29,000 scholarly articles about coronavirus family viruses from around the world, is being released today for free. The result of work by Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for AI, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of …
Read More »Cosmophobia is Dreadhalls studio White Door’s newest VR horror game
White Door Games, the developer behind Dreadhalls (one of the original — and still scariest — VR horror games), is back. Its new title is called Cosmophobia, and it looks equally as terrifying. Like Dreadhalls, Cosmophobia is a first-person, rougelike horror game. Unlike its predecessor, though, this new game has …
Read More »White House’s proposed budget would increase investments in AI and quantum computing
The White House’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 includes sizable increases in federal funding for AI and quantum computing projects. All told, the overall increase in federal R&D funding is 6% compared to fiscal year 2020, reaching $ 142.2 billion. Although much of the funding is aimed at R&D …
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