NASA celebrates the launch of its most advanced Mars rover always today (July 30), even when engineers tackle a glitch that left the spacecraft in a protective “safe mode” shortly after takeoff. Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover launched towards the Red Planet at 7:50 am EDT (1150 GMT), riding an Atlas …
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The $ 2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit from Google will face increased scrutiny from EU regulators. Reuters He reports that the deal will face a large-scale antitrust investigation, which the European Commission will open next week. Regulators and consumer advocacy groups have shared fears about Google’s planned acquisition of Fitbit, …
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A serious vulnerability named BootHole has been discovered in the bootloader GRUB2. Millions of systems are at risk of being exposed to hackers, mainly those running Linux, but Windows is also affected. Discovered by security researchers at Eclypsium, the BootHole vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2020-10713 (“GRUB2: The designed grub.cfg file …
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Nearly $ 6 billion has been allocated. Clinical trials are entering a crucial third phase, and Operation Warp Speed is approaching the goal of delivering 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by January. But when Americans line up to get their shots, the shot they get may not be …
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Scientists in the United States have urged the government to re-establish its approach to the coronavirus pandemic, warning that the world’s worst affected country “was not on track to control” an outbreak that has so far killed 150,000 people and infected 4.4 millions. Wednesday’s call from Johns Hopkins University researchers …
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