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CureVac priced its initial public offering at $ 16 per share. The stock grew rapidly more than 200%, to about $ 49. The company that competes with the likes of Modern (MRNA), Novavax (NVAX), BioNTech (BNTX) en Pfizer (PFE), is also supported by billionaire Dietmar Hopp, the co-founder of German …

The first digital scanner, used to take the first digital photo in 1957 (left) and the first digital photo, an image of Russell Kirsch’s new baby in 1957 (right)Image: NIST (Fair use) Russell Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel and the first person to take a digital photo, died Tuesday …

Fortnite has been pulled from the App Store and the Google Play Store. Epic games Would you rather have 99 small opponents than two really, really big fights? On Thursday, Fortnite publisher Epic Games was embroiled in a spat with both Apple and Google over fees charged by tech behemoths …

Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Yesterday used Epic Fortnite essentially waging an open war against Apple’s and Google’s mobile app markets. First, it added a discounted “Epic Instant Payment” option in addition to the standard iOS App Store and Google Play payment options in Fortnite, in direct violation of the …

A new study finds that deaths in New York City in the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic were comparable to deaths in the city at the height of what is considered the deadliest pandemic to date – the 1918 flu pandemic . © Topical Press Agency / Getty Images …