These are the latest updates on Google Maps. Community feed within the app: With this new feature, Google Maps users will be able to access the latest reviews, photos and posts added to the map by people who follow them and local experts. It’s like Longing (Stream) – but it …
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Hungary and Iceland accept ‘immunity passports’. Why not the rest of the world?
(CNN) – With barbed wire and electric fencing on its border and the government’s hostility towards migrants, Hungary’s borders are not always friendly to foreigners. It is during normal time. Amid the epidemic, Hungary has closed its doors to almost everyone, even its European neighbors. Unless, of course, they have …
Read More »G.O.P. Senator: Bilateral coronavirus bill extends evacuation protection, avoids direct payments
The Bilateral Coronavirus Relief Bill extends the dismissal period for those who cannot pay their rent, but does not include a federal stimulus check, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La said. Cassidy, one of 10 senators who drafted the proposed package, said he hoped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Key. And President …
Read More »If United States Was My Patient: Science Can’t Save Us
I would say that is a very good scenario because it is so close to what we are doing, pre-epidemic, it would seem impossible: to make, test, authenticate, produce not just one, but many vaccines in a surprisingly compressed timeline. And delivering – is definitely one of our greatest recent …
Read More »New COVID-19 test uses smartphone camera and CRISPR genetic technology
The new CRISPR-based test for COVID-19, developed by researchers at the Gladstone Institute, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, essentially turns the smartphone camera into a microscope to provide fast and accurate results. Credit: Gladstone Institutions Imagine swabbing your nostrils, swabbing the device, and getting a readout on your phone …
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