A coronavirus strain discovered for the first time in Los Angeles, California. Although it appears to be widespread, scientists are still studying different types of transmissibility and virulence. A team of researchers from Cedar-Sinai said a variant called CAL.20C was found in July before it began moving rapidly in November …
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Brain organoids with Neanderthal DNA grown by scientists
From the fossilized skulls we know that his brain was bigger – a little bigger than ours, in fact – but it tells us little about his neurology and development. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have come up with a provocative and exciting way to answer this …
Read More »The Jaguars announced Urban Meyer’s first coaching staff
Getty Images When Urban Meyer held his inaugural press conference in January, he stressed the need to keep top-ranked coaching staff. Jacksonville has now completed that process, releasing a list of 31-member staff on Thursday. As previously reported, Darrell Bewell is the team’s offensive coordinator, Jul Cullen is the defensive …
Read More »Disney is wrong in Gina Carano’s ‘Mandlorian’ firing
WAS SHINGTON – Texas G.O.P. Sen. In a tweet on Thursday after Ted Cruz fired actress Gina Carano by the company over controversial social media posts, Disney accused the culture of bending over. The former MMA fighter was slammed from the “Star Wars” spin-off show “The Mandal Ndolorian” when he …
Read More »Nvidia: Researchers train AI to reward dogs for responding to commands
Colorado State University researchers Jason Stock and Tom Cavey have published a paper on the AI system that rewards dogs for doing tricks. Computer science grade students have trained an image classification network to determine if a dog is sitting, standing, or sleeping. If a dog responds to commands by …
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