For more than half a century, the prospect of nuclear fusion feeding the modern power grid has been a long but unrealistic dream. But on Tuesday in a city in southern France, the assembly will officially begin in a massive device designed to show that nuclear fusion has applications that …
Read More »Scientists have awakened microbes trapped under the seabed for 100 million years
Researchers have successfully revived dormant microbes trapped in an apparently lifeless area of the seabed for more than 100 million years. A team of scientists from Japan and the United States was looking to see if microscopic life survives in less hospitable conditions below the sea floor of the Pacific …
Read More »Apple’s Tim Cook releases opening statement ahead of antitrust hearing
Apple CEO Tim Cook released his opening statement ahead of the landmark technology antitrust hearing before the House Judiciary Antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday. Cook will appear alongside Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and CEO Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, as part of an investigation into …
Read More »Pfizer sees long-lasting demand for Covid-19 vaccine
© pfizer / Reuters Pfizer Inc. expects global demand for vaccines against coronavirus diseases to last at least several years, sharpening a long-term prognosis for its experimental Covid-19 vaccine as the company progresses to the final stage of clinical trials. Mass vaccines worldwide may be required by 2022, and booster …
Read More »Facial masks are ruining facial recognition software
This is the key finding of a new report released Monday by federal researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, which is a branch of the US Department of Commerce, whose functions include measuring the accuracy of recognition algorithms. facial that companies and researchers send to …
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