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Here’s what you need to know: Brazil’s minister of health, Marcelo Queiroga, left, and the U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Todd Chapman, receiving a U.S. shipment of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid vaccine last week.Credit…Carla Carniel/Reuters WASHINGTON — When a commercial plane carrying 2.5 million doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine took off on Wednesday from … Read more
Nodes & Links is a planning platform for large infrastructure projects that defines when and in what order the bolts and nuts for the bridge (for example) should be delivered. Unsurprisingly, this is often wrong with complex infrastructure projects. The company has now raised a $ 11 million Series A financing round led by urban … Read more
Bill Cosby is handcuffed after his 2018 conviction. Mark Makela / Getty Images Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby’s attorney told CNN, “We believe he will be released from prison this afternoon.” Attorney Brian Perry said he was on his way to the jail where Cosby was being held after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled to overturn … Read more
Sony has revealed the next line of games available to PlayStation Plus members starting July 6th. The highlight for many will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the 2018 entry in the blockbuster series. It includes three multiplayer modes: the standard multiplayer affairs that Call of Duty fans have enjoyed for nearly two decades, … Read more
In most states in the country there is a vaccination delay, even as vaccines continue to become available. The culprit behind this delay? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most vaccination reluctance came from young, rural, and low-income people. Additional data shows that at least 10% of people who have received a … Read more
Elizabeth Warren tries to guess which billionaire face she held up during a game on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” last year. (YouTube screengrab) In a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Senator Elizabeth Warren alleged that Amazon’s multi-billion dollar offer for MGM could harm consumers and expand Amazon’s market dominance beyond … Read more
India-based tech startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that has spilled private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education technology giant and India’s most valuable startup. According to historical data from Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases, the server has been unprotected since at least June 14th. … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: A Maricopa County constable signing an eviction notice in Phoenix last year.Credit…John Moore/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to lift a moratorium on evictions that had been imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The vote was 5 to … Read more
An unfortunate mistake today led some people to believe Twitter removed the switch to toggle between an algorithmic and chronological feed while using its web client. Throughout the day, people used the service to tweet their frustration when they found that the star icon that you can use to switch between the two feeds was … Read more
Most Americans – 84% – have heard of the Delta Coronavirus variant, but the number of people who practice safety measures like social distancing and masking continues to decline, according to new poll results released Tuesday by Axios-Ipsos. One in 10 said they were very familiar with the Delta variant, 38% said they were somewhat … Read more