By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Aug 19 (Reuters) – AMC Theaters and other movie theaters will set fire to projectors this week, offering admission, cheap popcorn and new security measures to seduce audiences despite the pandemic. However, theaters will remain closed, in some of the major movie markets, including Los …
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Microsoft finishes Internet Explorer for Microsoft Office
Microsoft will soon release Internet Explorer across all its apps and platforms, marking a major first step on the road to the end of the Internet browser. What’s happening: Microsoft plans to end support for Internet Explorer 11 on Microsoft 365 apps and services on August 17, 2021. Internet Explorer …
Read More »Blood Plasma Treatment for Covid-19 Now Pending at FDA
An approval for emergency services would now “change the way people view tears,” said Dr. Mila B. Ortigoza, an infectious disease specialist at NYU Langone Health who began a trial with colleagues at Montefiore Medical Center. “We want to make sure that when we say it works, we are confident, …
Read More »What to watch for Wednesday at the DNC: Heavy hitters go to bat for Biden
As the Democratic National Convention (DNC) draws closer to its final inning with Joe Biden’s acceptance speech Thursday night, Wednesday will have a slate of the heaviest hitters in the party piling on the plate for his no- officially nominated. The highest-ranking Democratic elected official in the U.S. and perhaps …
Read More »A new study suggests a possible disease vector: Germy Dust
For the past A few years, until the pandemic hit, Bill Ristenpart, a chemical engineer at UC Davis (and coffee-geek at the next level) had brought a team of researchers and boxes of expensive instruments across the country to New York City each summer and into the lab of Nicole …
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