New York, NY – July 13, 2020 – Respiratory disease is the third leading cause of death worldwide, and lung transplantation remains the only cure for patients with end-stage lung disease. Despite advances in the field, lung transplantation remains limited by the low availability of organs from healthy donors, and …
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WASHINGTON – The signal was not subtle. While China practiced amphibious landings in a disputed area of the South China Sea earlier this month, the US Navy sent two aircraft carriers to the area “to support a free and open Indo-Pacific,” the Navy said in a statement. It is unclear …
Read More »Vision scientists discover why humans literally don’t meet face to face
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Humans may not always agree on politics, religion, sports, and other matters of debate. But we can at least agree on the location and size of objects in our physical environment. Or can we? Not according to new UC Berkeley research, recently published in the Proceedings …
Read More »Hong Kong protest movement blocked by China’s ties to Apple – Quartz
Hong Kong protesters have a tortured relationship with Apple. While the iPhone’s AirDrop feature has helped protesters spread messages quickly in crowded situations, the U.S. tech giant has also thrown obstacles on its way, especially when it removed a real-time protest map app from its app store last year. Now, …
Read More »Google cracks down on stalkerware ads.
Google Office in New York on June 3. Drew Angerer / Getty Images In the popular Netflix series Your, a stalker accesses his girlfriend’s text messages by stealing her phone. (To the misfortune of viewers, she cannot desynchronize the lost device from her iCloud account before replacing it.) Later, install …
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