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Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma, went on leave earlier this month. (Athira Pharma photo) The lawsuits have started. Less than a week after the CEO of Athira Pharma was given a temporary leave of absence on allegations of altered images in the scientific papers she wrote, three class action lawsuits were filed on behalf … Read more
A neighbor’s zebra-cobra snake escaped and is at large in a North Carolina neighborhood, Raleigh. At 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, neighbors woke up with a warning from local police about the poisonous snake. The zebra cobra is not native to the country; in fact, it is not even native to the country. Zebra cobras … Read more
2U, a SaaS platform that helps nonprofits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all of Harvard’s assets and MIT-founded edX for a $ 600 million deal, according to multiple sources. 2U did not immediately respond to requests for comment and it is unclear if this is a pure cash transaction. The deal gives … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Dia King, 49, left, and Shakeara Mingo dancing to a local band during a Juneteenth celebration and reopening party in Washington this month.Credit…Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times World Health Organization officials, concerned about the easing of precautions meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus even as the most … Read more
Maybe we have to say goodbye to SoftBank’s adorable humanoid robot Pepper. According to Reuters, the Japanese conglomerate stopped producing the robot last year and is cutting jobs in robot-related companies in several countries. Apparently there wasn’t much demand for Pepper, and SoftBank only ever produced 27,000 units of Foxconn. Nikkei has also reported that … Read more
Some of the games available on Xbox Game Pass as seen on Google Chrome on June 28th. (Microsoft screenshot) Microsoft announced on Monday that its Xbox Cloud gaming service, formerly known as Project xCloud, has officially expanded to the web browser world. Starting today, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers with Windows 10 PCs or iOS … Read more
As July 4th approaches this Sunday, health officials are concerned about the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in those parts of the nation where vaccination rates remain low. President Joe Biden had hoped to have 70% of adult Americans at least partially vaccinated by the holidays, but the White House said last week … Read more
The math is simple: Big research universities produce great startups. Pittsburgh certainly has little shortage of the former, with two world-class research schools – Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh – in the city. The latter has posed a challenge to Pittsburgh in the past as local startups often headed to the greener … Read more
Thanks to fast charging models with a range of up to 300 kilometers in the city, electric motorcycles now offer a practical alternative to their counterparts with combustion engines. But a little-known British company wants to make future electric motorcycles much faster. To get there, White Motorcycle Concepts built a unique prototype that is claimed … Read more
