BEIJING (AP) – China has placed a rocket in position to launch a rover to Mars on one of three missions close to the red planet, one from the United States and one from the United Arab Emirates. The Long March-5 carrier rocket is the heaviest launch vehicle in China …
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Update from July 16 below, post originally posted on July 17. The news that Apple was moving from Intel to ARM was one of the expected highlights of the 2020 World Developers Conference. What was not expected was the speed of the transition, with Tim Cook’s ambitions for the range. …
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Pradeep Gaur | Peppermint | fake pictures Google next month prohibits publishers from using its ad platform to display ads alongside content promoting Covid-19 conspiracy theories. It will also ban ads promoting those theories. In cases where a particular site publishes a certain threshold of material …
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In the race to develop a treatment for COVID-19, Gilead Sciences may have found a winner with remdesivir. In a study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Gilead, researchers found that the experimental drug inhibited the coronavirus in human lung cell cultures …
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered a type of metal-eating bacteria. The bacterium is reportedly suspected to have existed for more than a century, but has not been proven. The tiny microbes were discovered by accident, as scientists were conducting experiments unrelated to manganese, a mineral …
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