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Biotech company Moderna announced on Tuesday that a potential coronavirus vaccine has produced a “robust” immune response in all patients participating in early vaccine trials. The trials centered on three groups of 45 patients, each of whom received the trial vaccine. While preliminary data from the trials was released in May, those results have now …
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Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. has rolled out technology at its Tokyo headquarters that can recognize employees’ faces even when they’re wearing masks. NEC is reportedly using the advanced facial recognition system in an experiment it started Monday that aims to reduce the amount of touching in its offices and stem the spread of the …
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Many predictions by Nikola Tesla, one of the world’s most celebrated inventors, have already come true and some might in the near future. As a technology-obsessed culture, we love our tech heroes. The champions of the tech industry are treated like rock stars, and their announcements of new gadgetry reverberate with billions of people around …
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Spotify, Pinterest and Tinder crashed Friday morning — and Facebook is the suspected culprit. Users are reporting that dozens of iPhone and iPad apps went down, according to DownDetector.com, and initial investigations point to Facebook’s software development kit (SDK) as the probable cause. Many of the broken apps rely on SDK to manage user logins, …
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The Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general will meet on Friday to discuss the scope of a possible antitrust suit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Federal and state officials will discuss how best to proceed with the suit, although it is not yet clear how many states …
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American tech firms condemned the Trump administration’s decision to extend a pause on high-skilled H-1B visas, which are frequently used in the industry, warning that it “puts American’s global competitiveness at risk.” The new restrictions, signed by Trump in an executive order on Monday, go into effect on Wednesday and will last through the end …
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect new information from Google. Google is threatening to ban the right-wing political news website The Federalist from generating advertising revenue on the company’s platform, a Google spokesman told Adweek. Google says it will implement the ban because of posts in The Federalist’s comments section that allegedly violated …
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Apple’s next iPhone may have a lot in common with the iPad Pro. Images purporting to be of the molds that case-makers use to create their designs have leaked onto Twitter, and indicate that Apple is cribbing a number of design elements from its premium tablet. The sides are squared off, just like the rumored …
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Talk about reality TV. A producer for “The Real Housewives of NYC” bought a new house — without ever seeing it in real life. Maty Buss bought her new Old Greenwich, Conn., home after touring it via Zoom and doing the vital final walk-through on FaceTime, according to Gloria Dillard of Keller Williams realty firm. …
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IBM says it is getting out of the facial recognition business over concern about how it can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. A letter to US lawmakers Monday from new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the tech giant “has sunset its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software products.” Krishna was addressing …
Biotech company Moderna announced on Tuesday that a potential coronavirus vaccine has produced a “robust” immune response in all patients participating in early vaccine trials. The trials centered on three groups of 45 patients, each of whom received the trial vaccine. While preliminary data from the trials was released in May, those results have now …
