Sprayer, bloated welts, citronella. It is mosquito season. And in a typical year, the Delaware County Health Department in Ohio would put up more than 90 mosquito traps per week – black tubs of standing water with nets designed to catch small insects. But this year, due to COVID-19, the …
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Player Ranking: Crystal Palace 0-2 Manchester United
Starters David De Gea: 10/10 He denied Wilf Zaha several times, as well as stopping a guaranteed goal from a free kick by Luka Milivojević to keep the goal to zero. Excellent performance of the besieged Spanish. Aaron Wan-Bissaka: 06/10 Another decent change. It’s understandable that AWB had a couple …
Read More »Alex Trebek says he plans to stop cancer treatment if current course fails
Alex Trebek said he plans to stop treatment if his current course of treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer is unsuccessful. A day after the legendary host issued a video update saying he felt “good” and that his “numbers are good,” the New York Times published an interview in which …
Read More »NVIDIA faces a tough new rival in artificial intelligence chips
British chip designer Graphcore recently unveiled the Colossus MK2, also known as the GC200 IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit), which it calls the world’s most complex chip for AI applications. The chip offers eight times the performance of its predecessor, the Colossus MK1, and is powered by 59.4 billion transistors, which …
Read More »Instagram rival TikTok is going global
Instagram announced on Friday that it is preparing to launch its own video-sharing feature, Reels, in the United States and 50 other countries, just a week after it began testing the platform in India. Reels’ announcement comes when TikTok is in a recently weakened position, after India banned the short-form …
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