Documentation submitted by Sony in Peru shows that the PlayStation 5 will benefit from Bluetooth 5.1 and Wi-Fi 6, which means that the wireless performance will be better than the existing PlayStation 4. While it is hardly a surprise that the Japanese giant is the latest using standards available for …
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Coronavirus pandemic response poll puts US and US governments at the bottom of the pile
And they come in a statistically common last place with the British over whether their country has handled the pandemic properly, the poll finds. In the United States, less than two in 10 people (18%) said the country is now more united. This is a full 21 percentage points among …
Read More »Pelosi and Meadows to discuss coronavirus help weeks after stimulus talks broke out
The two have not spoken since talks were imploded weeks ago and negotiators ran away without a deal meant to bolster the economy and help struggling Americans pay their bills amid the pandemic. There is little optimism on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue that there will be progress on stimulus …
Read More »Being overweight increases the risk of complications from Covid-19
The researchers say there are also concerns that a vaccine may be less effective for overweight people due to a weakened immune response. Scientists at UNC are reviewing data from 75 studies conducted between January and June with 400,000 coronavirus patients. They found obese people a 46% greater risk of …
Read More »Researchers use fossil teeth to open up dietary shifts in ancient herbivores and hominins
Throwing in two important specimens: Paranthropus aethiopicus (left) and P. boisei (right) Credit: Zeresenay Alemseged A new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents dietary changes in herbivores that lived between 1-3 million years ago in the Lower Omo Valley of Ethiopia. …
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