Consumer agency warns against Peloton Tread+ use, as company pushes back Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:56:53 +0000 Almost exactly a month ago, Peloton CEO John Foley wrote an open letter about the the company’s treadmill. “I’m reaching out to you today because I recently learned about a tragic accident involving a child and the Tread+, resulting in, unthinkably, a death,” it begins. “While we are aware of only a small handful of […] Match ID: 0 Score: 35.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 1 day qualifiers: 35.00 fitness
This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:00:22 +0000 Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android […] Match ID: 1 Score: 35.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 1 day qualifiers: 35.00 fitness
Peloton responds to concerns over Apple GymKit integration Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:18:33 +0000 Third-party hardware integration can be a tricky thing. Peloton this week raised some eyebrows by dropping Apple GymKit compatibility for its Bike Bootcamp program. Users were, naturally, quick to react. The situation left some wondering whether the move was a direct response to Apple’s recent entry into the home exercise market with Fitness+. A Peloton […] Match ID: 2 Score: 35.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 2 days qualifiers: 35.00 fitness
Smartphone Camera Senses Patients' Pulse, Breathing Rate Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:12:00 GMT AI app could enable doctors to take contactless vitals during telemedicine visits Match ID: 3 Score: 35.00 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 2 days qualifiers: 35.00 fitness
Tonal's Home Gym Is Made for Folks Who Want to Get Ripped Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000 In a market dominated by home cardio workout machines, Tonal concentrates on strength-building and muscle toning. Match ID: 4 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days qualifiers: 25.00 fitness
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is preparing for his mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for launch in late 2021. This mission is known as Cosmic Kiss.
In this video log from his current training base at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA, Matthias shows a space food tasting session and shares how astronauts maintain their fitness for a safe return to Earth.
Astronauts exercise for two hours a day, six days a week while on the International Space Station to combat muscle and bone loss caused by an extended stay in microgravity. Diet also plays an important role in maintaining physical and mental wellbeing.
Due to the current situation with COVID-19, all personnel are required to adhere to special safety precautions while training. These include wearing a mask – as seen in the clip.
Matthias will continue his training for Cosmic Kiss at partner agencies around the world over the next weeks and months. Stay tuned for further footage of his training and experiences.
German Astronauten-Vlog/ Matthias Maurer: Weltraumnahrung und Fitness
ESA-Astronaut Matthias Maurer bereitet sich auf seine Mission zur Internationalen Raumstation vor, die Ende 2021 starten soll. Diese Mission trägt den Namen "Cosmic Kiss".
In diesem Video-Log von seiner aktuellen Trainingsbasis im Johnson Space Center der NASA in Houston, Texas, USA, zeigt Matthias eine Verkostung von Weltraumnahrung und erzählt, wie Astronauten ihre Fitness für eine sichere Rückkehr zur Erde aufrechterhalten.
Astronauten trainieren während ihres Aufenthalts auf der Internationalen Raumstation an sechs Tagen in der Woche täglich zwei Stunden, um dem Muskel- und Knochenschwund entgegenzuwirken, der durch den langen Aufenthalt in der Schwerelosigkeit verursacht wird. Auch die Ernährung spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei der Erhaltung des körperlichen und geistigen Wohlbefindens.
Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation mit COVID-19 müssen alle Mitarbeiter beim Training besondere Sicherheitsvorkehrungen beachten. Dazu gehört auch das Tragen einer Maske - wie im Video zu sehen.
Matthias wird in den nächsten Wochen und Monaten sein Training für seine Cosmic Kiss-Mission bei Partneragenturen auf der ganzen Welt fortsetzen. Bleibt dran - Wir werden mit weiterem Filmmaterial über sein Training und seine Erfahrungen berichten.
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Spain dismantles workshop making 3D-printed weapons Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:50:37 GMT The raid in Tenerife unearthed gun parts and manuals on guerrilla warfare, police say, Match ID: 0 Score: 85.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 30.00 spain, 20.00 eu
European football was thrown into turmoil on Sunday night after new plans for a European super league were revealed that would mean six English clubs – Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham – joining the breakaway competition alongside three teams from each of Italy and Spain.
Exclusive: five Ramzan Kadyrov allies subject of criminal complaint for crimes against humanity
Five officials from the inner circle of Chechnya’s autocratic leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, are the subject of a criminal complaint in Germany for crimes against humanity, in a legal attempt to seek justice over the semi-autonomous Russian republic’s anti-gay purges.
The 97-page charge sheet, extracts of which have been seen by the Guardian, accuses the Chechen military and state apparatus of persecution, unlawful arrests, torture, sexual violence and incitement to murder at least 150 individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation since February 2017.
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Robert Habeck or Annalena Baerbock will be named as party’s candidate for chancellorship
Five months before national elections, a Green party that once styled itself as the rebel of German politics is finding itself in an unusually respectable position.
The party’s standing in the polls – in second place at 21-23% of the vote – means it will on Monday, for the first time in its 41-year history, nominate a candidate for chancellor. Furthermore, that candidate will have a realistic chance of filling the top job in German politics by the end of the year.
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How the Pandemic Changed Europe Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:06:19 +0000 The historian Adam Tooze discusses the vaccine rollout and shifting politics in the E.U. Match ID: 5 Score: 68.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days qualifiers: 30.00 europe, 21.43 germany, 17.14 eu
“My favourite thing about Liverpool FC, or moment from LFC’s history,” emails Joel Whitaker, “is easily Robbie Fowler showing solidarity to the striking dockers. That complete dedication and connection to community feels so distant now.”
There is a meeting of the ECA taking place this morning, minus the members of the 12 breakaway clubs, while Uefa tell me that their planned media press conference at 1.30pm is still going ahead. That was originally due to announce plans for a new Champions League format based on the ‘Swiss’ model. Obviously it will be very different in tone now. As for what Uefa and the leagues will do, one prominent source tells me that ‘Uefa and all the leagues and other clubs are going to come out absolutely swinging,’ and predicts that political and public pressure will play its part. ‘It’ll die or change by the 1000 cuts approach,’ is his forecast.
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Russia expels Czech diplomats over explosion row Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:27:52 GMT The Czech Republic says Russia was involved in a deadly blast at a munitions factory in 2014. Match ID: 8 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across Africa Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:57:09 +0000 More than a year after the pandemic began, remote work shows no signs of going away. While it has its cons, it remains top of mind for potential employees around the world before joining a new company. But while most people in Africa still go to physical offices despite the pandemic, a few companies have […] Match ID: 9 Score: 55.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
European football giants to join 'Super League' Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:43:53 GMT Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who agree to join a new European Super League. Match ID: 10 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
'Big Six' agree to join European Super League Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:43:53 GMT Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who agree to join a new European Super League. Match ID: 11 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
UK’s Zilch raises $80M at a $500M+ valuation for its direct-to-consumer buy now, pay later service Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:26:50 +0000 The buy now, pay later model, popularized by companies like Klarn and Affirm has been one of the big e-commerce winners in the last year, giving consumers who might be stretched financially another option to pay for things when they buy them online. While that has prompted the UK financial authority to re-examine how it […] Match ID: 12 Score: 55.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
Boris Johnson likely to announce proposal, including Official Secrets Act update, in Queen’s speech
Britain plans to force those working for foreign governments to sign a central register in an attempt to counter hostile spy activity, the Home Office has confirmed.
Boris Johnson, according to the Times, hopes to formally announce the proposal in the Queen’s speech next month, making it a criminal offence not to declare work in the UK on behalf of a foreign government.
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France kidnapping: Girl found with mother accused of ordering abduction Mon, 19 Apr 2021 06:45:44 GMT The mother, accused of ordering the abduction, is found with her daughter in a squat in Switzerland. Match ID: 14 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
A colourful puzzle from the UK girls’ maths olympiad
Today’s puzzle celebrates the UK’s outstanding performance at last week’s European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad, which is the world’s most prestigious female-only maths competition for pre-university students.
Yuhka Machino and Jenni Voon, both aged 17, placed 6th and 7th overall, each earning gold medals. Overall, the UK ranked fifth out of 55 countries, behind Russia, the USA, Peru and Romania. (The event was held online, allowing 17 non-European countries to participate as guests.)
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He told me my hopes would be dashed when we went in search of pure happiness in Ramsgate. Because while the pubs are now open, the arcades remain desolate
My stepmother, P, lives in Ramsgate, but has caring responsibilities up the wazoo elsewhere, so she hasn’t been in her house for a year. I’m here to check the plants haven’t died, but she knows that isn’t really why I’m here. It’s because I love it. The regular reader will recall that I’ve been barred from the Wetherspoon’s, the most magnificent pub in Europe, but I still love the town. The intensity of the skies, the smell of whelks, the harbour that thinks it’s so fancy (because it is), the neighbourliness – so colourful, so cheerful; every morning is like the establishing shot of a Disney musical – and, most of all, the arcades.
There’s been an awful role reversal in the family over lockdown – worse than TJ, the boy child, getting taller than me. He’s become the manager of my expectations. He spent the entire journey down here explaining why the arcades wouldn’t be open. “They’re not essential by anyone’s terms. Even if you were addicted to gambling, and the 2p machines were like your methadone, that still wouldn’t be essential.”
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This electric fastback is the next Audi A6 e-tron, due in late 2022 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:00:37 +0000 It's the first car to use the new Premium Platform Electric architecture. Match ID: 17 Score: 55.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
Those who think our flags and statues must be protected from blasphemers have taken a step down a sinister road
Though we often hear that depictions of the prophet Muhammad are forbidden in Islam, artworks bearing his image can be found in museums in Europe and the United States. He is on a bronze medallion in the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, holding a book. He is in a Persian miniature in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, ascending to the heavens on a horse. And he is in many carefully curated private collections of Islamic art, appearing from time to time in the catalogues of prestigious auction houses when these artworks change hands.
The prohibition of images of the prophet, no matter how anodyne, is widely accepted today – but, as these examples show, it is a distinctly modern edict. The religious justification for the ban is far less clear than its proponents believe: there is no such instruction in the Qur’an. There is, of course, a pre-Islamic aversion to idol worship shared by all the monotheistic religions, and over the centuries this aversion gradually wore away depictions of Muhammad in Islamic art. But this was only a prelude to the modern charge of blasphemy – which arrived only in the 20th century, after the Muslim world had fractured into nation-states.
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Super League: Why are football's biggest clubs starting a new tournament? Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:00:48 GMT Europe's biggest teams have suffered during the Covid pandemic and say they want financial stability. Match ID: 19 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
European Super League: 'I'm disappointed and disgusted' - Danny Murphy Sun, 18 Apr 2021 22:50:44 GMT Former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy explains why he cannot see any positives from plans for a breakaway European Super League involving England's 'big six' clubs. Match ID: 21 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
'Disappointed and disgusted' - ex-Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Murphy on European Super League Sun, 18 Apr 2021 22:50:44 GMT Former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy explains why he cannot see any positives from plans for a breakaway European Super League involving England's 'big six' clubs. Match ID: 22 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
Russia will face 'consequences' if Navalny dies - US Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:47:33 GMT International concern grows after doctors for the jailed Putin critic say he needs urgent medical help. Match ID: 24 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
Caught on the frontline between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists, Marinka is a town forgotten by the world
Vera Basova stands by her house holding a local newspaper. The front page headline says Russia is bringing tanks to the eastern Ukrainian border. “What do they want from us? Why are they dragging those tanks here?” Basova asks her neighbour.
The 90-year-old worries she will have to go back to hiding in her basement to escape shelling in the war between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbas region that recently entered its eighth year and has taken more than 13,000 lives.
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Foreign secretary hints he believes same Russian cell behind Salisbury poisoning and Czech explosion
The British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said the UK stood in “full support” of the Czech Republic after the country’s police announced they were hunting two Russians, suspected of carrying out the Salisbury poisonings, in relation to an explosion at an arms depot.
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The Zurich students living cheaply in a luxury hotel Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:00:46 GMT Students in one of the world's most expensive cities get stunning views of Zurich in a former business hotel. Match ID: 27 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 1 day qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:00:22 +0000 Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android […] Match ID: 28 Score: 55.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 1 day qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
How the FBI Got Into the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone Sat, 17 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000 Plus: Russian sanctions, Europe’s SolarWinds fallout, and more of this week’s top security news. Match ID: 29 Score: 55.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
The global death toll from the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 rose above 3 million on Saturday, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University, as the case tally climbed above 140 million. The U.S. leads the world in cases and deaths by wide margins, with 31.6 million cases and 566,238 deaths. The U.S. added at least 78,932 new cases and 940 new deaths on Friday, according to a New York Times tracker. The U.S. has averaged 70,117 cases a day in the past week, up 8% from the average two weeks ago.
Outside of the U.S., India has replaced Brazil as the country with the second highest number of cases at 14.5 million, and is fourth globally by deaths at 175,649. Brazil is third by cases at 13.8 million and second with a death toll of 368,749. Mexico is third by deaths at 211,693 and 14th highest by cases at 2.3 million. The U.K. has 4.4 million cases and 127,472 deaths, the highest in Europe and fifth highest in the world.
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On the front line in eastern Ukraine Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:21:36 GMT The BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from the front line between soldiers and separatists. Match ID: 31 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 2 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:24:27 +0000 You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice. The startup behind the “uncanny valley” […] Match ID: 33 Score: 55.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 2 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
The global tally for the coronavirus-borne illness rose above 139 million on Friday, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University, as the death toll climbed above 2.98 million. The U.S. leads the world in cases and deaths by wide margins, with 31.5 million cases, or about 23% of the global total, while the 565,289 death toll makes up about 19% of the global toll. The U.S. added at least 74,312 new cases and 909 new deaths on Thursday, according to a New York Times tracker. The U.S. has averaged 70,514 cases a day in the past week, up 8% from the average two weeks ago. Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Albert Bourla said it is likely that people who receive Covid-19 vaccines will need booster shots within a year afterward, and then annual vaccinations, to maintain protection against the virus as it evolves, the Wall Street Journal reported. "The variants will play a key role. It is extremely important to suppress the pool of people that can be susceptible to the virus," Bourla said during a virtual event hosted by CVS Health Corp. that aired Thursday but was recorded April 1.
Outside of the U.S., India has replaced Brazil as the country with the second highest number of cases at 14.3 million, and is fourth globally by deaths at 174,308. Brazil is third by cases at 13.7 million and second with a death toll of 365,444. Mexico is third by deaths at 211,213 and 14th highest by cases at 2.3 million. The U.K. has 4.4 million cases and 127,438 deaths, the highest in Europe and fifth highest in the world.
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Pelmeni and Beyond at Dacha 46 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000 The married chefs Trina and Jessica Quinn deftly cut through misconceptions about Eastern European food with menus that span centuries, across countries and cultures. Match ID: 35 Score: 55.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days qualifiers: 35.00 europe, 20.00 eu
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Forests cover 70% of the country, but many argue the Swedish model of replacing old-growth forests with monoculture plantations is bad for biodiversity. By Marcus Westberg
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How NASA is Adapting to Busier and Noisier Communications With Mars Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:30:00 GMT Perseverance’s lead telecom engineer explains how to handle interplanetary radio interference Match ID: 38 Score: 47.14 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 30.00 europe, 17.14 eu
The Parisians Housing Refugees During the Pandemic Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:07:40 +0000 Hundreds in the city have joined an ad-hoc shelter system, opening spare bedrooms and living rooms to migrants and asylum seekers. Match ID: 39 Score: 45.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days qualifiers: 20.00 europe, 14.29 migrants, 11.43 eu
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Tell me who your friends are: Neural network uses data on banking transactions for credit scoring Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)) Researchers from Skoltech and a major European bank have developed a neural network that outperforms existing state-of-the-art solutions in using transactional banking data for customer credit scoring. Match ID: 43 Score: 39.29 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 4 days qualifiers: 25.00 europe, 14.29 eu
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My Grandfather Fled the Nazis. I Moved to His Old Neighborhood Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000 I was raised to believe that America was a haven for Jews, but that vision of safety seems illusory now. Match ID: 46 Score: 25.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days qualifiers: 25.00 germany
Boris Johnson has cancelled his planned trip to India. No 10 has just released this joint statement from the British and Indian governments.
In the light of the current coronavirus situation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be able to travel to India next week. Instead, Prime Ministers Modi and Johnson will speak later this month to agree and launch their ambitious plans for the future partnership between the UK and India. They will remain in regular contact beyond this, and look forward to meeting in person later this year.
As my colleague Nicola Davis reported last week, only 77 cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus, B1617, have been found in the UK so far. “It is designated a ‘variant under investigation’ but is worrying researchers as it contains two mutations that it is thought may help the virus to evade the body’s immune responses,” Nicola explained.
This morning Prof Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said he expected B1617 to be upgraded to a “variant of concern” quite soon. That would lead to India being placed on the “red list” for travel, he said (which would probably force Boris Johnson to cancel his trip due to start this weekend). Altmann told Good Morning Britain:
At the moment, this particular variant (from India) is called a variant under investigation, not a variant of concern because it hasn’t been escalated to that level yet.
My assumption from everything I’ve seen is that it will become a variant of concern. When it becomes a variant of concern, I’d be quite surprised if India wasn’t on the red list.
This variant has a couple of mutations that are among those that we think are important that should be watched carefully, but they’re actually probably not at the very kind of top tier of mutations, for example in the B117 - or Kent variant - or the South African variant, that generate the most concern.
And in terms of spread, clearly this variant has increased in frequency in India around the same time as their very large and tragic recent wave.
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Campaigners hope more accurate picture of country’s makeup will challenge government narrative of near-universal Catholicism
Activists in Poland are asking people to consider if they are truly Roman Catholic when filling out a national census, hoping a more accurate picture of the country’s makeup will challenge a government narrative of near-universal Catholicism.
In the last census, completed a decade ago, 96% of respondents claimed they were Roman Catholic. This has been used by the rightwing Law and Justice (PiS) party to justify a series of controversial hardline reforms it supports, including stopping public funding of IVF treatments and a near-total ban on abortion.
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Volvo to supply Chinese ride hailing giant Didi with autonomous driving cars Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:21:37 +0000 As the autonomous driving race in China heats up, Didi is rushing to expand its car fleets by picking Swedish automaker Volvo, an old partner of Uber, as its ally. Didi said on Monday it will be using the XC90 SUVs of Volvo, which has been owned by Chinese auto company Geely since 2010, for its […] Match ID: 49 Score: 20.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 0 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
Changing working patterns due to the pandemic are also helping to push UK property prices higher.
The average UK asking price jumped almost £7,000 this month, Rightmove reports, as some families try to find properties with more space for homeworking away from the office.
‘A combination of lowest-ever interest rates, high loan-to-value mortgages, stamp duty relief and government stimulus, along with a year of on-and-off lockdown, has pushed demand for property to record levels.
If now isn’t the time to buy, then when is? Will we have such an appealing time to buy again, who knows? But with so many positive reasons to buy and people simply needing more space, this trend is set to continue in the short term at least.
In the City, the FTSE 100 index has opened higher.
Four strangers are united by the tensions of late 70s Britain in the latest of Quinn’s gratifying London novels
Set during the dog days of the Callaghan Labour government, Anthony Quinn’s latest period novel extends his richly pleasurable and loosely connected series portraying London down the decades. Since 2011, he has fused romance, mystery and social realism to produce a kind of epic Londoniad, tackling the city’s Victorian slums (The Streets), the first world war (Half of the Human Race), the 30s (Curtain Call), the blitz (Our Friends in Berlin), the 50s and 60s (Freya and Eureka), and now the late 70s, a time of strikes, IRA violence and the imminent election of Margaret Thatcher.
It’s David Peace territory, but Quinn is a steadier, suaver writer, relying on the old-school charms of rounded characters and a clockwork plot. Involving police corruption and showbiz hanky-panky, London, Burning brings together four strangers: Hannah, a go-getting reporter; Vicky, a newly promoted detective; Callum, an English lecturer from County Down; and Freddie, a married theatre director sleeping with a television star angling for the lead role in his new show. At the centre of it all is Thatcher’s shadow home secretary, Anthony Middleton, an ex-spy and former POW vowing to crush the unions and the IRA alike. A fictional version of Airey Neave, he also dies in a car bomb, but Quinn’s aim isn’t to recreate one of the IRA’s most notorious murders so much as use it as a catalyst for events that pull together his central quartet. A kneejerk arrest fuelled by anti-Irish bigotry is only the start, as the killing inspires a network of crooked cops running a drugs racket.
As well as taking a trip down memory lane, Quinn wants to explore how Labour voters were blindsided by Thatcher’s rise
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Gone is the ‘do it for real’ approach – the stars of Mank and Another Round take a more sober approach to acting inebriated
Were there an Oscar for best on-screen drunk (which there really should be), it would be a close-run thing this year. My money would be on Aubrey Plaza, who provides a magnificent display of wastedness in her new movie, Black Bear. Playing a neurotic indie actor at the end of her tether, she spends half the movie stumbling, lurching, wailing and losing her dignity. She wasn’t actually drunk, of course. This is the great challenge: acting drunk when you’re sober is no easier than acting sober when you’re drunk. To get into the right frame of unsteadiness, Plaza would spin round until almost throwing up just before the scene. That’s commitment.
After a year of closed borders, Wellington airport in New Zealand was filled with emotional reunions as hundreds of travellers touched down on the first day of quarantine-free travel from Australia
It has more dress codes than almost any other sport – and yet golfers are some of the worst dressed sportsmen on the planet. But now a group of high-profile amateurs are bringing streetwear to the 18th
When Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters earlier this month, he was handed a crisp green blazer with gold buttons to mark the achievement. Given that the sport’s highest honour is a rather jazzy bit of tailoring, it’s ironic that golf attire at a professional level is so achingly bland. And yet, it’s a different story at amateur level where a new wave of high-profile celebrity players and upstart brands are making golf sartorially interesting for the first time in decades – so much so that it’s starting to spill over from the fairway into real life. Norm- “FORE!” has arrived.
The former England women’s head coach made his debut in charge of Inter Miami on Sunday. But a familiar name came back to haunt him
For new Inter Miami coach Phil Neville, the holidays are over. The former England women’s coach, who midweek spoke fondly of annual family vacations on South Beach during his playing days, tasted defeat in his first game in MLS, as LA Galaxy came from behind twice to earn a late 3-2 win at DRV PNK Stadium.
With all the pre-match talk of the Manchester United reunion between Neville and team owner David Beckham, it was another Old Trafford old boy, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, who spoiled the party with a pair of typically predatory finishes. The visitors sealed the points thanks to substitute Sacha Kljestan’s calm finish with nine minutes left.
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A deflating pattern is emerging in rural, conservative and vaccine-hesitant states as authorities worry that stakes could not be higher in those same communities
Teton county, Wyoming, is at the vanguard of America’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign – but it isn’t celebrating.
The county has vaccinated far more people proportionally than in most of America – 39% – compared to less than a quarter nationally. Local authorities are concerned they may have hit a saturation point. Vast, rural and conservative Wyoming is one of the most vaccine hesitant places in the nation, and fewer people are signing up for vaccine clinics. Similar patterns are emerging across the US.
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Rodgers reaches his first English final, Spurs wait on Harry Kane’s ankle and Norwich make a welcome return
Brendan Rodgers’ previous FA Cup semi-final visit, in April 2015, ended in disaster, a deserved 2-1 loss with Liverpool to an Aston Villa team inspired by a teenage Jack Grealish. That was an afternoon when Liverpool froze but six years on, Rodgers is a manager with considerably more chops. His Leicester team approached their Sunday night visit to Wembley with poise, confidence and patience. On the sidelines, and even above the 4,000 fans in the stadium as part of a post-Covid experiment, Rodgers’s baritone was audible, talking his players through each passage of play. His suit is always reassuringly expensive but Rodgers remains a tracksuit manager, someone who mucks in with his players on the training field, and the revival of Kelechi Iheanacho, the winning goalscorer, is another example of his ability to improve talent. And a first final in English football is a mark of Rodgers’ continued growth as a manager. John Brewin
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In a new docuseries, film-maker Joshua Rofé delved into a myth of a monster that led him to a horrifying murder
Audiences who hit play on Joshua Rofé’s new documentary miniseries Sasquatch in the expectation that someone’s finally gotten some straight answers about that elusive hirsute bastard will be sorely disappointed. “I wasn’t hung up on whether I believe in Bigfoot or whether I buy the details of this story. All of that became secondary and fell by the wayside,” Rofé tells the Guardian via Zoom. “I was struck by the visceral fear present in all these encounter stories. I was taken by how afraid these people were, which was totally authentic.”
Cambodians who break Covid rules could face 20 years in prison under a new law that human rights groups say takes the country “a step towards a totalitarian dictatorship”.
Exclusive: publication by Labour MPs in once safe seats warns party’s problems predate Corbyn’s leadership and Brexit
Labour will never get back into government unless it can reinvent itself to appeal again to working-class voters, a major examination of the party’s future has warned, saying the problems go far beyond Brexit or Jeremy Corbyn’s time as leader.
The conclusion comes in a collection of pieces written by Labour MPs representing once safe seats which are now at risk, among them several shadow ministers, including John Healey, the shadow defence minister, who edited the report.
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Physicists are always looking for eureka moments – but we should be careful with headline-grabbing announcements
There is something curious about the great experiments and discoveries in fundamental physics from the past few decades. They have covered black holes, gravitational waves, the Higgs particle and quantum entanglement. They have led to Nobel prizes, reached the front pages of newspapers and made the scientific community proud. But they haven’t told us anything new: they have confirmed what we expected about the world. All these phenomena were in the university textbooks I studied almost half a century ago. Their existence was predicted by our best established theories. I do not mean to diminish the awe. On the contrary. It is amazing that the phenomena were observed, and even more amazing that they were figured out before we could see them. Their detection is a celebration of the power of scientific thinking to see into the unseen. Yet a malignant voice could have whispered in our ears at each step: “What’s the great surprise? We expected this.” Fundamental experimental physics has long been, in this sense, quite conservative. It has simply been confirming the best theories of last century over and over again.
Last week findings from Fermilab, the US’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory, appeared to contradict what we thought to be the case. The laboratory announced a new measurement of the “magnetic moment” of the muon – one of the universe’s elementary particles, a heavier brother of the electron. The measured value of the muon seems to disagree with the value predicted by the theory. It is an observation that does not complement our established theories; it clashes with them.
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Product packaging created by artists for UK’s Design Museum aims to showcase importance of creativity
It will sell “essential” products including toilet roll, teabags, washing-up liquid, passata and gin but, given this could be the world’s first artist-designed supermarket, not as we know them.
The Design Museum in London will this week reopen its shop as a supermarket, selling a range of products with packaging designed by emerging artists. The aim is to convey the message that creativity is as essential as the stuff we buy in the weekly shop.
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With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio by Marc Chagall, in London’s Ben Uri gallery.
This gouache, ink and pencil study in lilac and grey was executed in April 1945 by Marc Chagall after almost four years in exile in New York. He had fled to the US after the Nazi occupation of France during the second world war. Born into a Hasidic Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia (now in Belarus), in 1887, Chagall arrived in Paris in 1910 and became a celebrated artist of the École de Paris, best known for his dreamlike paintings combining aspects of French tradition with Russian folklore and Jewish motifs. In 1923, he and his wife Bella became naturalised French citizens.
This was probably the first work that Chagall produced after coming out of mourning for Bella, who had died suddenly in September 1944 after almost 30 years of marriage. It was created in response to seeing the horrors of the concentration camps revealed through newspapers and Pathé newsreels. His pencil titles in Cyrillic (upper right) translate as “Apocalypse” and “Capriccio” (fantasy), and his biographer Jackie Wullschläger has described it as “the bleakest of Chagall’s many crucifixions”: combining symbolism with realism and incorporating factual information about the Holocaust for the first time.
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Videoconferences more exhausting when participants don't feel group belonging Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (American Psychological Association) Videoconferences may be less exhausting if participants feel some sense of group belonging, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. Match ID: 66 Score: 20.00 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 0 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
If all goes to plan, craft will ascend to 10 feet above the surface of Mars, hover for 30 seconds, then rotate before descending
Nasa on Monday will attempt to fly a miniature helicopter above the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
If all goes to plan, the 1.8kg helicopter will slowly ascend to an altitude of three metres above the Martian surface, hover for 30 seconds, then rotate before descending to a gentle landing on all four legs. The flight is due to take place at 3.30am US eastern daylight time (8.30am BST/7.30am GMT). But data confirming the outcome is not expected to reach Nasa until about three hours later.
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Car ran off road and hit a tree north of Houston, before bursting into flames, local media says
Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree north of Houston, authorities said.
“There was no one in the driver’s seat,” Sgt Cinthya Umanzor of the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 said of the crash on Saturday night.
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Northern Ireland: Did anyone warn about Brexit border checks? Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:03:41 GMT Border checks have caused tension in Northern Ireland but were there warnings in the Brexit campaign? Match ID: 69 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 20.00 brexit
Abba: Why the UK gave the Swedish band 'nul points' at Eurovision Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:02:02 GMT Björn Ulvaeus on the Swedish band's song contest win on British soil, and the future of streaming. Match ID: 70 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
In contrast, the golf-loving Trump by this point of his presidency had already recorded 19 separate visits to golf courses
During last year’s presidential election campaign, one of Joe Biden’s strongest arguments to voters was that he wasn’t Donald Trump.
After engaging in the favorite pastime of the “former guy” with the first trip to a golf course of his presidency on Saturday, he finds that he still isn’t.
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The scene has been made safe but members of the public are being advised to keep clear of the area
Beachgoers enjoying the warm April sunshine in Brighton were interrupted by police on Sunday afternoon after a possible unexploded mortar shell was found.
A large cordon was put in place by officers on the seafront.
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Outcome is expected to resonate nationwide, particularly in cities that have seen continuing demonstrations over police violence
Protests against police killings flared across the US this weekend, from Minneapolis to Chicago to Portland, as Americans wait for a verdict in the trial of the white police officer charged with murdering George Floyd last year.
Closing arguments are expected in the Derek Chauvin trial on Monday. The most serious charge the former Minneapolis officer is facing in Floyd’s death is second-degree murder, but the jury might choose to find him guilty on third-degree murder or manslaughter, or acquit him altogether.
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As troops prepare to withdraw from the war-torn country, readers reflect on western nations’ involvement and legacy
Your editorial (15 April) asserts that the Taliban were quick to take over when the Russians left. That is simply not true; it actually took seven years, from the end of Soviet combat operations in 1989 to the capture of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996. The crucial event was the withdrawal of Russian subsidies to the Najibullah regime in 1992.
It took a further two years for that regime to collapse, and two years more of chaos and intra-mujahideen fighting to create the void into which the Taliban stepped. This all matters because there was nothing inevitable about the Taliban’s takeover in 1996 and neither is there now.
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Former Liberal Democrat minister Tom Brake responds to an article by Polly Toynbee on the 2014 act
In response to Polly Toynbee’s article (Cameron passed a lobbying act, but it was never meant to curb corruption, 15 April), as a Liberal Democrat minister in coalition, I was involved in drawing up the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014. At no point did I, or any of my colleagues, ever discuss introducing measures designed to target the National Union of Students because we “lived in terror” of it.
What we did discuss was the risk of groups similar to the US National Rifle Association emerging as major players in UK politics. These organisations support a preferred candidate by viciously targeting their main opponent, but because they act “independently”, their spending does not count against their favoured candidate’s election spending limit.
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‘Cosy relationship’ between government and lobbyists ‘stinks of sleaze’, says Rachel Reeves
Labour has accused the government of being too complacent about the lobbying crisis after a cabinet minister claimed the current rules were “pretty good” and “quite robust”.
George Eustice, the environment secretary, used the phrases in interviews in which he also defended David Cameron’s lobbying on behalf of Greensill Capital and played down the need for any wide-ranging reform of the Whitehall probity rules.
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Craig Easton, Sony World Photography awards’ photographer of the year 2021, challenges misconceptions and explores ideas of community with his images of life in Blackburn
Craig Easton rarely tells the subjects of his photographs how they should pose. “I feel that my portraits are gifts that are given to me by those I choose to take pictures of,” he says. Take Mohammed Afzal, an abattoir worker with a passion for pigeons: “I’d seen the loft at the back of his house, and I’d knocked on his door to ask if I could photograph him. The fifth or sixth time we made an arrangement to do this – I kept turning up, but he was always out – he’d just got home, and he was still in his work kit. I thought to myself: this is great. But who am I to say how he should look? He wanted to get showered and changed, and in the end I was pleased that I didn’t impose myself on him. It’s his picture, and he looks just as fabulous in his pristine tracksuit top and jeans.”
Afzal appears in Bank Top, a series of photographs taken by Easton in Blackburn in 2019 and 2020: images that, in turn, were originally part of Kick Down the Barriers, a project instigated by Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery to challenge popular misconceptions of the town. “Kick Down the Barriers was a response to a Panorama programme that asked if Blackburn is the most segregated place in the country,” says Easton. “People were pretty upset – it was so simplistic – and a series of artists were invited to look more closely at its communities.”
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The Cryptic Crossword: No. 47 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000 A free, online cryptic crossword puzzle from the New Yorker’s archive, with answers and clues that exhibit the wit and intelligence of the magazine. Match ID: 79 Score: 20.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
What began as the shaming of David Cameron now threatens to drag the current government into a cesspit
It has been a dreadful few weeks for David Cameron, the former prime minister and golden boy of the Tory party. His reputation – already terribly damaged by losing the 2016 Brexit referendum and his subsequent resignation – has now sunk to depths that once would have seemed unimaginable.
After winning a majority at the 2015 election, and freed of the need for coalition partners, Whitehall civil servants remember Cameron and his chancellor, George Osborne, at their peaks, strutting around Downing Street, radiating extraordinary power and confidence.
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Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 era Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:15:45 +0000 After months of shelter-in-place orders, widespread shutdowns and physical distancing, outdoors became the only location for safe socializing. Match ID: 83 Score: 20.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 1 day qualifiers: 20.00 eu
Sheriffs in Minnesota worried about who would oversee an escrow account, funded by pipeline giant Enbridge, to reimburse the costs of policing protests.
Katie Haun on saying yes to Coinbase and where a16z’s crypto fund is placing its bets now Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:50:00 +0000 Coinbase, the newly public cryptocurrency exchange, has had it share of ups and downs. Still, the nearly nine-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit got a lot right ahead of its highly successful direct listing this week, including, seemingly, inviting in former federal prosecutor Katie Haun to join its board in 2017. At the time, Haun had just […] Match ID: 87 Score: 20.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 2 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
SpaceX wins NASA contract to develop human landing system for returning to the moon Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:11:25 +0000 The winner of NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) contract award is SpaceX, which bid $2.9 billion for the privilege of developing the means by which NASA astronauts will return to the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo program. SpaceX was in the running alongside Blue Origin and Dynetics, but reportedly undercut both […] Match ID: 88 Score: 20.00 source: feedproxy.google.com age: 2 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
Google loses “Location History” court battle in Australia Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:02:47 +0000 Google's confusing privacy settings will earn it some kind of punishment in Australia. Match ID: 92 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
Biomea Fusion Inc. rallied out of the gate Friday, as shares of the California-based biopharmaceutical company focused on treatment of genetically defined cancers opened 17.6% above the initial public offering price. The company said late Thursday its IPO, which was upsized to 9.0 million shares from 7.5 million shares, priced at $17 a share, at the top of the expected range, as it raised $153 million and was valued at $463.6 million. The stock's first trade was at $20.00 at 11:51 a.m. Eastern for 341,119 shares. The stock has pared some gains since then to trade up 16.2% at $19.75. The company went public on a day that the Renaissance IPO ETF fell 1.4% while the S&P 500 gained 0.2%.
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Video Friday: Aquatic Snakebotics Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:42:00 GMT Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Match ID: 94 Score: 20.00 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 2 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
Smartphone Camera Senses Patients' Pulse, Breathing Rate Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:12:00 GMT AI app could enable doctors to take contactless vitals during telemedicine visits Match ID: 96 Score: 20.00 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 2 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
A group of high-profile activists including the media mogul Jimmy Lai have been sentenced to jail terms of up to 18 months for organising or attending ‘unauthorised assemblies’.
In the latest blow to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, Lai and the veteran activist Lee Cheuk Yan were each sentenced to 12 months in jail
Shares of Affirm Holdings Inc. are up 2% in premarket trading Friday after Seaport Global analyst Chris Brendler upgraded the stock to buy from neutral and set an $80 price target. He sees the stock as more attractive following a 34% selloff since he initiated coverage of the company 10 weeks back, whereas the S&P 500 has gained 7% in that time. "In our view, this underperformance comes despite increasing evidence that BNPL [buy-now-pay-later] is going to be huge in the US and based on a string of encouraging data points, we expect Affirm to materially exceed near-term expectations," Brendler wrote in a note to clients. The company offers financial options that let consumers pay in installments, and this trend seems to be reaching a "hyper growth adoption phase in the U.S.," Brendler continued, which could set Affirm up for success. "We also want to be in front of Affirm's Shopify partnership which has the potential to significantly accelerate Affirm's growth," he wrote. "Recent data suggests the wait is nearly over, and we expect management to provide an update on the upcoming earnings call."
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What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +0000 Understanding how other animals dream could help us figure out why it’s so important to the human brain, and why it may have been preserved throughout history. Match ID: 99 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days qualifiers: 20.00 eu
Howard Dean, ex-governador democrata no estado de Vermont, se junta à indústria farmacêutica para lutar contra o compartilhamento de propriedade intelectual para vacinas de baixo custo.
Eli Lilly and Co. said Friday it is seeking a revocation of the emergency use authorization granted by U.S. regulators for its bamlanivimab antibody treatment for COVID-19 alone in order to complete the transition to bamlanivimab and etesevimab together. "Lilly made this request due to the evolving variant landscape in the U.S. and the full availability of bamlanivimab and etesevimab together," the company said in a statement. The combination has proved to be more effective in neutralizing the COVID-19 variants that have been detected in the U.S. after first emerging in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil, and that are more infectious than the original virus. The combination is also better at treating the rapidly growing B.1.427/B.1.429 California strain that currently accounts for 50% of virus cases in California and over 10% of cases in other states. "In the U.S., bamlanivimab alone should no longer be administered. However, sites of care should not dispose of bamlanivimab supply; instead, they should order etesevimab to pair with it," said Lilly. Bamlanivimab was the first neutralizing monoclonal antibody to receive an EUA from the FDA as a treatment for mild to moderate COVID-19 and more than 400,000 patients have been given it. Lilly estimates that has prevented more than 20,000 hospitalizations and at least 10,000 deaths during the peak of pandemic cases. Lily expects that in collaboration with Amgen Inc. , it can manufacture sufficient supply of the two antibodies to meet global supply needs. Lilly shares were up 0.6% premarket, and have gained 10% in the year-to-date, matching the S&P 500's gains.
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Biomea Fusion Inc. was set to go public Friday, as the California-based biopharmaceutical company focused on treatment of genetically defined cancers said its upsized initial public offering priced at $17 a share, at the high end of the expected range of between $15 and $17 a share. The company said late Thursday that it offered 9.0 million shares in the IPO, up from previous expectations of 7.5 million shares, to raise $153 million. At the IPO pricing, Biomea was valued at $463.6 million. The stock is expected to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "BMEA." J.P. Morgan, Jefferies and Piper Sandler are book-running managers. The company recorded a net loss of $5.3 million on no revenue in 2020 after a loss of $1.2 million on no revenue in 2019. The company is going public at a time of tempered investor demand for IPOs, as the Renaissance IPO ETF has lost 3.6% over the past three months while the S&P 500 has gained 10.7%.
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The Grim Compassion of Searching for Missing Migrants in the Desert Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000 The humanitarian volunteer group Águilas del Desierto searches the hostile land near the U.S.-Mexico border for those who have disappeared. Match ID: 103 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days qualifiers: 17.86 migrants
New stations at health clinics improve hygiene in locations where warm water seen as ‘an absolute luxury’, helping to tackle Covid
In Eswatini, the southern African country which lost a prime minister to Covid-19 in December and where most people have no access to hot water, handwashing – a key weapon in the fight against the pandemic – has been a problem.
No government health clinic in the kingdom, formerly known as Swaziland, had hot running water for patients. Nine out of 10 didn’t have hot water for operations and cleaning instruments.
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Wearable sensors that detect gas leaks Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)) Professor Junsuk Rho's research team at POSTECH develops wearable gas sensors that display instantaneous visual holographic alarm. Match ID: 105 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Virtual humans are equal to real ones in helping people practice new leadership skills Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Frontiers) Researchers at the Human Interface Technology Lab New Zealand at the University of Canterbury compared the effectiveness of virtual humans to real ones for helping people practice leadership skills. They found that virtual humans with realistic characteristics can be equally effective in these types of training scenarios. This was especially the case in mixed reality settings, which blend real and digital worlds together, providing an anchor to reality that appeared to positively impact performance and engagement. Match ID: 106 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
USU researchers develop power converter for long-distance, underwater electric grids Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Utah State University) A team of researchers from Utah State University have developed a DC current-to-DC voltage power converter. This converter is equipped for long distances and minimal maintenance, making it particularly useful in underwater power distribution networks. Match ID: 107 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
UK's leadership in advanced materials could shape global cities of the future Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (University of Manchester) A panel of industry and research leaders will discuss how new technologies being pioneered in the UK city-region of Greater Manchester could play a role in building greener and more equal cities of the future. 'Material Gains: Building cities that are better for people and the planet' will take place online on Monday, 19 April (2pm to 3pm). Match ID: 108 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Thermoelectric material discovery sets stage for new forms of electric power in the future Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Clemson University) A Clemson University physicist and collaborators from China and Denmark have created a new and potentially paradigm-shifting high-performance thermoelectric compound. Match ID: 109 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
The fate of the planet Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (American Physical Society) From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon. Scientists will forecast the fate of the planet at a press conference during the 2021 APS April Meeting. Match ID: 110 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Simulations reveal how dominant SARS-CoV-2 strain binds to host, succumbs to antibodies Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) Large-scale supercomputer simulations at the atomic level show that the dominant G form variant of the COVID-19-causing virus is more infectious partly because of its greater ability to readily bind to its target host receptor in the body, compared to other variants. Match ID: 111 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Science Advances publishes proteomics technology from Oblique Therapeutics AB Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Oblique Therapeutics) Oblique Therapeutics AB, a Sweden-based biotech company, in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden), Gothenburg University (Sweden) and several local biotechs published promising research results in the highly-acclaimed scientific journal Science Advances (AAAS) entitled: Rational Antibody design for Undruggable Targets using Kinetically Controlled Biomolecular probes. Match ID: 112 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Researchers develop microscopic theory of polymer gel Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Russian scientists have proposed a theory of phase transformation in polymer gels. It explains the mechanisms of the dramatic reduction in volume of zwitterionic hydrogels when they are cooled. The results are published in the journal Chemical Communications (ChemComm). Match ID: 113 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
New tech builds ultralow-loss integrated photonic circuits Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have developed ultralow-loss silicon nitride integrated circuits that are central for many photonic devices, such as chip-scale frequency combs, narrow-linewidth lasers, coherent LiDAR, and neuromorphic computing. Match ID: 114 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
New nanoscale device for spin technology Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Aalto University) Spin waves could unlock the next generation of computer technology, a new component allows physicists to control them. Match ID: 115 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
New CRISPR technology offers unrivaled control of epigenetic inheritance Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (University of California - San Francisco) Scientists have figured out how to modify CRISPR's basic architecture to extend its reach beyond the genome and into what's known as the epigenome -- proteins and small molecules that latch onto DNA and control when and where genes are switched on or off. Match ID: 116 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Highly dense urban areas are not more vulnerable to COVID-19, researchers say Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Hiroshima University) A person who owns a car or who has a college education may be less vulnerable to COVID-19, according to an analysis of cases in Tehran, Iran, one of the early epicenters of the pandemic. While such variables do not inherently lower a person's risk, they do indicate an infrastructure of protection that persists despite how densely populated a person's district might be. Match ID: 117 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Generation of super-resolved optical needle and multifocal array using graphene oxide metalenses Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Compuscript Ltd) Generation of super-resolved optical needle and multifocal array using graphene oxide metalensesIn a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI https://doi.org/10.29026/oea.2021.200031, Researchers led by Professor Baohua Jia at Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia, Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu at National University of Singapore, Singapore and Professor Tian Lan at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China considered the generation of super-resolved optical needle and multifocal array using graphene oxide metalenses. Match ID: 118 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Combining news media and AI to rapidly identify flooded buildings Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Tohoku University) Artificial intelligence (AI) has sped up the process of detecting flooded buildings immediately after a large-scale flood, allowing emergency personnel to direct their efforts efficiently. Now, a research group from Tohoku University has created a machine learning (ML) model that uses news media photos to identify flooded buildings accurately within 24 hours of the disaster. Match ID: 119 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
CNIO researchers explain the toxicity of USP7 inhibitors, under development for cancer treatment Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)) The researchers have discovered that USP7 inhibitors -under development by several pharmaceutical companies for the treatment of cancer- trigger a premature activation of cell cycle proteins, leading to uncontrolled cancer cell division and death.* The paper rejects the premise that the therapeutic efficacy of these inhibitors is due to their effects on activating the tumor suppressor protein P53, as currently accepted by the international scientific community. These results extend the potential use of USP7 inhibitors to a wider range of patients. Match ID: 120 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Are our oil and gas pipelines safe during an earthquake? Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University) Underground pipelines that transport oil and gas are very important engineering communications worldwide. Some of these underground communications are built and operated in earthquake-prone areas. The research shows that current methods used for calculating stress received by the underground pipelines during an earthquake are incorrect. Match ID: 121 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
A new guide for communicating plant science Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Iowa State University) A new publication offers a comprehensive guide to help plant scientists communicate their work to the world. An Iowa State University scientist who contributed to the multi-institutional effort says it's critical that plant scientists emphasize outreach to make sure plant science is able to meet the demands of climate change and population growth. Match ID: 122 Score: 17.14 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
Shares of Merck & Co. were up 0.1% in premarket trading on Thursday after the drug company said the oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment it is developing with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics did not help hospitalized patients in a mid-stage clinical trial. The companies now plan to test molnupiravir in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a Phase 3 trial, with plans to file for emergency authorization in the second half of the year. They are also planning to see if the experimental therapy works for post-exposure prophylaxis. In a separate news release, Merck said it is discontinuing MK-7110 as a treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19, saying that the Food and Drug Administration's request for additional clinical information would push the launch into 2022. "Merck is now focusing its efforts on advancing molnupiravir, which, as an oral medicine for outpatient use, represents a promising potential new approach, and on accelerating production of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine," Dr. Roy Baynes, chief medical officer for Merck Research Laboratories, said in the release. Merck's stock has gained 6.6% since the start of the year, while the broader S&P 500 is up 9.8%.
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Pausing the J&J Vaccine Was Easy. Unpausing Will Be Hard Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:26:14 +0000 Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine was supposed to be the uncomplicated one. But even with new data, getting people to trust it again will be tricky. Match ID: 124 Score: 17.14 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:50:00 GMT The 2021 AI Index provides insight into jobs, publications, diversity, and more Match ID: 125 Score: 17.14 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 3 days qualifiers: 17.14 eu
We’d like to hear from people aged 16 to 25 from across Europe, including the UK, about the impact of Covid on their lives and futures, for a new Guardian cross-European project on Gen Z
We’d like to understand more about the impact of the pandemic on young people in Europe aged 16 to 25.
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The Inside Story of the First Picture of a Black Hole Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:00:00 GMT Here’s how the Event Horizon Telescope team pieced together the now-famous image of a black hole Match ID: 129 Score: 15.71 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 444 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 4.29 spain, 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu
Sunlight to solve the world's clean water crisis Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (University of South Australia) Researchers at The University of South Australia's Future Industries Institute have developed technology that could eliminate water stress for millions of people, including those living in many of the planet's most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Match ID: 130 Score: 14.29 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 4 days qualifiers: 14.29 eu
Medically savvy smartphone imaging systems Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics) What are the most effective ways to leverage and augment smartphone capabilities? Helpful guidelines are provided in a critical review of emerging smartphone-based imaging systems recently published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO). Match ID: 131 Score: 14.29 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 4 days qualifiers: 14.29 eu
AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Duke University) Researchers at Duke University have developed a method that uses machine learning, satellite imagery and weather data to autonomously find hotspots of heavy air pollution, city block by city block. The technique could be a boon for finding and mitigating sources of hazardous aerosols, studying the effects of air pollution on human health, and making better informed, socially just public policy decisions. Match ID: 132 Score: 14.29 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 4 days qualifiers: 14.29 eu
A new drought monitoring approach: Vector Projection Analysis (VPA) Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology(UNIST)) South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has proposed a satellite-aided drought monitoring method that can adequately represent the complex drought conditions into a single integrated drought index. Match ID: 133 Score: 14.29 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 4 days qualifiers: 14.29 eu
$50 million for WA to process signals from the dawn of time Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) The Australian Federal Government will invest $64.4 million to establish a centre in Western Australia to process and analyse data from the SKA radio telescope. Each year, around 600 petabytes of SKA data will be stored for astronomers and astrophysicists from all over the world to access and analyse. The funding to establish a facility in Perth is part of $295 million announced this week. Match ID: 134 Score: 14.29 source: www.eurekalert.org age: 4 days qualifiers: 14.29 eu
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China's Most Popular EV is No Longer a Tesla Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:28:00 GMT A new EV made by General Motors and Chinese manufacturers underlines the virtues of Lilliputian size Match ID: 138 Score: 14.29 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 4 days qualifiers: 14.29 eu
Morpheus Turns a CPU Into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:00:00 GMT University of Michigan’s Todd Austin explains how his team’s processor defeated every attack in DARPA's hardware hacking challenge Match ID: 139 Score: 11.43 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 5 days qualifiers: 11.43 eu
Ansys 5G Mobile/UE Solutions Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:00:00 GMT Ansys Whitepaper 5G Mobile/UE Solutions Match ID: 140 Score: 11.43 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 5 days qualifiers: 11.43 eu
A Theory of (Almost) Everything Thu, 08 Apr 2021 18:30:00 GMT A new book analyzes the seven grand transitions that have formed the modern world Match ID: 141 Score: 11.43 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 10 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has started training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA. Set to launch for her second mission in spring 2022, Samantha is already getting reacquainted with International Space Station systems in a series of refresher courses.
Samantha was last on the International Space Station in 2014 for her Futura mission. She spent 200 days in space, conducting European and international scientific experiments and Space Station operations.
In the coming months, her schedule will intensify as she trains for the specific experiments and tasks she will perform in space during her second mission.
As a collaborative, international effort between the United States, Europe, Canada, Russia and Japan, Space Station training takes place across the globe. Samantha will be training between Johnson Space Center in the USA, the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia and the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
Samantha and her fellow Class of 2009 astronauts will soon welcome new colleagues. For the first time in over a decade, the European Space Agency is seeking new astronauts and applications are open from 31 March to 28 May 2021. A six-stage selection process will start thereafter. This is expected to be completed in October 2022.
Ready to make #YourWayToSpace? Check out the dedicated website with all the information relating to ESA’s 2021–22 astronaut selection.
Most importantly, get ready to apply. Perhaps you will find yourself where Samantha is today.
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A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:00:00 GMT Scientists have spent three decades cleaning up the Hanford Site’s 177 giant tanks of radioactive sludge. And they’re just getting started Match ID: 143 Score: 11.43 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 355 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu
Building an Orbiting Internet Just for Satellites Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:00:00 GMT Kepler Communications’ CubeSat routers will keep other satellites in constant contact with the ground Match ID: 144 Score: 11.43 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 451 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu
European Space Agency Targets Orbital Debris, Solar Storms Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:57:00 GMT The ClearSpace-1 and Lagrange missions will try to make life safer both in orbit and here on Earth Match ID: 145 Score: 11.43 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 452 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu
Robotic Exoskeletons Could One Day Walk By Themselves Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:00:00 GMT AI and wearable cameras could help exoskeletons act a bit like autonomous vehicles Match ID: 146 Score: 8.57 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 6 days qualifiers: 8.57 eu
On 31 March 2021, the European Space Agency is opening the application process for its first astronaut selection in over a decade.
If you meet the minimum requirements and want to join Europe’s journey into space, this is your chance to apply.
Website esa.int/YourWayToSpace provides everything you need to know to prepare your application. All applications must be submitted to ESA’s careers website by 28 May 2021.
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The Mars Sample Return Mission Will Be a First for Humankind Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:00:00 GMT The biggest challenge for a multi-mission robotic lift-off from an alien planet: It must work right the first time Match ID: 148 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 24 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Space leaves its mark on materials: exposure to such a harsh environment can darken, crack or crater their surfaces – or even erode them away entirely. The nothingness of hard vacuum can also provoke ‘outgassing’ vapours from materials that might degrade delicate mission systems. Accordingly ESA and the French space agency CNES are giving European researchers the chance to pit the latest aerospace materials directly against space.
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Today's Cyberattacks Foreshadow Wars to Come Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:00:00 GMT SolarWinds, the Florida water treatment hack, even Texas's grid outage: These are what threats to a nation's cybersecurity look like Match ID: 150 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 25 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Hungary has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe, and the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is spending significant money trying to convince young people to have babies. Leah Green and Ekaterina Ochagavia visit Budapest, where they meet three women of similar age and with very different outlooks on the country’s parenting drive
Special Report: Top Tech 2021 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:00:00 GMT After months of blood, toil, tears, and sweat, we can all expect a much better year Match ID: 154 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 100 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
10 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2021 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:00:00 GMT Expect advances in Mars missions, wearable brain scanners, and quantum communications Match ID: 155 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 101 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Russia, China, the U.S.: Who Will Win the Hypersonic Arms Race? Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:00:00 GMT When missiles fly beyond Mach 5, materials melt, airflow turns turbulent, and budgets enter the stratosphere Match ID: 156 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 152 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Spotting Mystery Methane Leaks From Space Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT A fleet of microsatellites will identify emitters of the gas, which is responsible for a quarter of global warming Match ID: 157 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 173 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:30:00 GMT Should crewed exploration of Venus come before we try to go to Mars? Match ID: 158 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 215 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Japan on Track to Introduce Flying Taxi Services in 2023 Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:00:00 GMT SkyDrive’s success in conducting a piloted eVTOL test indicates short-hop flights are close to commercial reality Match ID: 159 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 226 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
ITER Celebrates Milestone, Still at Least a Decade Away From Fusing Atoms Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:00:00 GMT Machine assembly has commenced, but this gigantic nuclear fusion experiment costing tens of billions of dollars is nowhere near starting up Match ID: 160 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 237 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
China Launches Beidou, Its Own Version of GPS Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:00:00 GMT China places the final Beidou navigation system satellite into orbit Match ID: 161 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 249 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
AI Seeks ET: Machine Learning Powers Hunt for Life in the Solar System Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:00:00 GMT NASA team pioneers AI algorithm to help Mars rover and Titan drone drill for astrobiological evidence Match ID: 162 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 282 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Wiggly Wheels Could Help Keep Rovers From Dying on Mars Wed, 13 May 2020 18:00:00 GMT Unconventional gaits keep this rover from getting stuck in tough terrain Match ID: 164 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 340 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
U.S. Transportation Officials Seek Alternative Tech for GPS Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:00:00 GMT Ten years after decommissioning the previous backup to the country’s global satellite fleet, government agencies are taking steps to create a new one Match ID: 165 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 359 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Here’s Where and How We Think China Will Land on Mars Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:13:00 GMT China’s 2020 HX-1 Mars mission will draw on previous lunar explorations and human spaceflights Match ID: 166 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 389 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Can Astronauts Use GPS to Navigate on the Moon? NASA Scientists Say Yes Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:00:00 GMT Scientists say lunar explorers could ‘see’ enough Earth-orbiting satellites to make an expensive new system unnecessary Match ID: 167 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 397 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Spacety Has Big Plans for Small Satellites Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:00:00 GMT Spacety was one of China’s first private space companies and has so far been involved in 10 space launches Match ID: 168 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 424 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
U.S. Commercial Drone Deliveries Will Finally Be a Thing in 2020 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 14:00:00 GMT Practical commercial deliveries will take off, albeit with intense regulatory scrutiny Match ID: 170 Score: 7.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 473 days qualifiers: 5.00 europe, 2.86 eu
Don't Believe the Hype About Hypersonic Missiles Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:00:00 GMT Hypersonic tech represents merely evolutionary change that isn't worth the price Match ID: 171 Score: 6.43 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 72 days qualifiers: 3.57 germany, 2.86 eu
The Networks That Aim to Track GPS Interference Around the World Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:00:00 GMT Troubleshooting the world’s navigation systems could streamline transport and save lives Match ID: 173 Score: 4.29 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 46 days qualifiers: 4.29 spain
Sergey Brin's Revolutionary $19 Airship Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:27:00 GMT Brin’s humanitarian airship company LTA is trying to reinvent airships for the 21st century Match ID: 174 Score: 3.57 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 263 days qualifiers: 3.57 germany
Solar-to-Hydrogen Tech Sees "Remarkable" Efficiency Jump Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:23:00 GMT Researchers in Japan reported a 100-fold improvement in their solar energy conversion method Match ID: 175 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 9 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
His Blue LEDs Changed How We Light Our World Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:22:00 GMT Nearly 30 years ago, Isamu Akasaki dazzled journalists with a bright pen light Match ID: 176 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 10 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
DARPA Prepares for the Subterranean Challenge Final Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:44:00 GMT Three years of underground robotics competitions culminate in a final event in September with $5 million in prize money Match ID: 177 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 10 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Diamond-Based Quantum Accelerator Puts Qubits in a Server Rack Mon, 05 Apr 2021 14:06:00 GMT Its makers envision this device growing to 50+ qubits and fitting aboard satellites, autonomous vehicles Match ID: 178 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 13 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Here's What You Need to Know About China's Mars Rover Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:00:00 GMT Tianwen-1 is expected to attempt a difficult Martian landing in May; if it survives, expect to hear much more Match ID: 179 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 20 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
One of the cheapest experiments ever flown in orbit has finished operating after 22 months on the International Space Station. Running on a Raspberry Pi Zero costing just a few Euros, ESA’s CryptIC payload was exploring cryptography techniques running on off-the-shelf hardware, to ensure cybersecurity for future low-cost space missions.
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Students' Lunar Pad Could Help NASA Return to the Moon Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:30:00 GMT A student team's lunar landing pad could help NASA astronauts avoid Apollo's risky moon landings Match ID: 181 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 40 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
NASA Takes Steps to Reduce Aviation Emissions, Invigorate US Economy Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:58 EST NASA is seeking proposals for ground and flight demonstrations of integrated megawatt-class powertrain systems for subsonic aircraft. Match ID: 182 Score: 2.86 source: www.nasa.gov age: 54 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
3D-Printed Thruster Boosts Range of CubeSat Applications Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:16:00 GMT Inexpensive and accessible electrical propulsion could be a boon for satellite-based Internet and Earth observing networks Match ID: 183 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 66 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Planetary Sleuthing Finds Triple-Star World Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:40 EST Years after its detection, astronomers have confirmed a planet called KOI-5Ab orbiting in a triple-star system with a skewed configuration. Match ID: 184 Score: 2.86 source: www.nasa.gov age: 97 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Nuclear-Powered Rockets Get a Second Look for Travel to Mars Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:00:00 GMT NASA is investing in the technology for future space exploration missions Match ID: 186 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 116 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Japan Prepares to Welcome Home Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:02:00 GMT Return of the space probe launched six years ago could help answer the question of how life began on Earth Match ID: 187 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 133 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
When a Giant Mylar Balloon Was the Coolest Thing in Space Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:00:00 GMT The Echo 1 satellite delivered mail, probed the ionosphere, and captured traces of the big bang Match ID: 188 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 157 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
China to Launch Space Mining Bot Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:00:00 GMT Chinese company sets out first steps towards extracting space resources Match ID: 190 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 214 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Hanford Has a Radioactive Capsule Problem Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:00:00 GMT Researchers still don’t have a way to neutralize the former nuclear-weapons complex’s 1,936 capsules of radioactive cesium and strontium Match ID: 191 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 215 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
NASA’s Mars Rover Required a Special Touch for Its Robotic Arms Thu, 27 Aug 2020 05:30:00 GMT ATI Industrial Automation brings its Force/Torque Sensor from the factory floor to the harsh environment of Mars’ surface. Match ID: 192 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 235 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Attention Rogue Drone Pilots: AI Can See You! Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:00:00 GMT Israeli machine learning system turns drone tracking data into a finger pointed right at a concealed pilot Match ID: 193 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 269 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
NASA’s Next Mars Rover Will Carry a Tiny Helicopter Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:00:00 GMT The upcoming Perseverance mission will attempt the first powered flight on another planet Match ID: 194 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 296 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
SpaceX Returns U.S. Astronauts to Space Sat, 30 May 2020 19:40:00 GMT The new Dragon 2 spacecraft is reminiscent of the Gemini spacecraft, not the space shuttle Match ID: 195 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 323 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
What It’s Like to Sweat the Launch of a New Spaceship Wed, 27 May 2020 14:19:00 GMT A former mission controller remembers the last time the United States dared to put humans in a new type of spacecraft—and some hard-won lessons for today Match ID: 196 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 326 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Sabrewing Cargo Drone Rises to Air Force Challenge Fri, 01 May 2020 14:38:00 GMT The Rhaegal cargo drone pivots to new possible military missions under a U.S. Air Force contract Match ID: 197 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 352 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
NASA Funds Project for Spacecraft That Make Their Own Landing Pads Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:30:00 GMT Landers that generate their own pads as they touch down would mean faster, cheaper, and safer planetary exploration Match ID: 198 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 360 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Gets a Major Upgrade Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:00:00 GMT While the SETI@home project winds down, one of the world’s most versatile telescope arrays gears up to scan the skies for alien life Match ID: 199 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 366 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Galactic Energy Prepares Ceres-1 Rocket for First Launch Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT The June launch is just the start of the company’s grand plans for future spaceflight Match ID: 200 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 394 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Satellites and AI Monitor Chinese Economy’s Reaction to Coronavirus Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:00:00 GMT Researchers at WeBank mine satellite, GPS, and social media data to conclude that the Chinese economy is well on the way to recovering from COVID-19 Match ID: 201 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 404 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Unmanned Solar Aircraft Aims to Compete Commercially With Satellites and Drones Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:30:00 GMT BAE Systems’ new plane has the potential to fly without landing for a year, and can maintain its position over a specific point for monitoring purposes Match ID: 202 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 418 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
How Robotics Teams Prepared for DARPA's SubT Challenge: Urban Circuit Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:00:00 GMT With the Tunnel Circuit completed, teams are working harder than ever to prepare for the urban underground Match ID: 203 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 424 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Boeing Sponsors $1 Million GoFly Prize for Best Personal Flying Machines Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:00:00 GMT Startups compete to build small, safe one-person flyers that can fit in a garage and take off from a driveway Match ID: 204 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 429 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
No Job Is Too Small for Compact Geostationary Satellites Sun, 05 Jan 2020 20:00:00 GMT Astranis and GapSat will launch GEO smallsats in 2020 and 2021 to fill gaps in satellite coverage Match ID: 206 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 469 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
Boeing’s Autonomous Fighter Jet Will Fly Over the Australian Outback Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:00:00 GMT Robotic aircraft will accompany human-piloted planes, adding firepower and thwarting enemy attacks Match ID: 207 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 472 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
4 Products That Make Sense to Manufacture in Orbit Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:00:00 GMT Organs and fiber optic cables will justify the “made in space” label Match ID: 208 Score: 2.86 source: spectrum.ieee.org age: 509 days qualifiers: 2.86 eu
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