Stampede in SoHo leaves grandmother hospitalized for her birthday
Stampede in SoHo leaves grandmother hospitalized for her birthday.....»»
Child marriage and domestic violence: What we found in 16 African countries
The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with nearly four in 10 girls married before age 18. In Niger, fo.....»»
Amazon Devices Will Soon Automatically Share Your Internet With Neighbors
If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have just over a week to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and security hanging in the balance. From a report: On June 8, the merchant, Web host, and entertainment behem.....»»
Viral TikTok Video Attracts 2,500 Teenagers to Rowdy California Birthday Party. 175 Arrested
A birthday party for 17-year-old Adrian Lopez turned into a viral TikTok event that drew thousands of unruly party-goers to Huntington Beach, California, reports the Los Angeles Times. Just not Adrian Lopez, "who in the days leading up to the party.....»»
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs. Enlarge (credit: Amazon) If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have only 10 days to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and sec.....»»
Facebook no longer removes posts claiming Covid-19 was manufactured
As reported by Politico, Facebook altered its policy following a Wall Street Journal report of three scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology being hospitalized in late 2019 with symptoms similar to those experienced when infected with the virus.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Nothing was delivered
Somehow it’s Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday this week. Some of you may not think that’s a big deal, but I do. The fact of his talent pretty much drowns out most other ideas of what to write about, but here’s to the birthday boy. Ke.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Nothing Was Delivered
Somehow it’s Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday this week. Some of you may not think that’s a big deal, but I do. The fact of his talent pretty much drowns out most other ideas of what to write about, but here’s to the birthday boy. Ke.....»»
Shedding new light: A new type of immunosensor for immunoassay tests
Immunosensors are widely used in immunoassays to detect antigens. One such immunosensor is a quenchbody (Q-body), which contains a modified antibody fragment with a quenched fluorescent dye. When an antigen binds to the Q-body, the dye leaves the ant.....»»
Bimini dredge leaves its mark on sharks" DNA
Scientists have discovered changes in DNA patterns for juvenile lemon sharks that lived through a dredging event to construct a commercial marina in Bimini, Bahamas......»»
New findings to boost IVF success rates
In vitro fertilization fulfills the wishes of half a million parents each year, yet the fertility treatment leaves plenty of room for improvement. A majority of potential embryos are ruled out for implantation, flagged by a genetic test designed to r.....»»
Study: Fluorescent light clarifies relationship between heat stress and crop yield
Scientists report that it is possible to detect and predict heat damage in crops by measuring the fluorescent light signature of plant leaves experiencing heat stress. If collected via satellite, this fluorescent signal could support widespread monit.....»»
This Fitbit for Your Water Meter Started as a DIY Project
How an EE tinkering with home automation turned a hobby DIY project into a consumer product I brush some dead leaves from the top of the slab of cement that covers my curbside water meter and pry it off with a long screwdriver. I’d never real.....»»
Esper raises $30M Series B for its IoT DevOps platform
There may be billions of IoT devices in use today, but the tooling around building (and updating) the software for them still leaves a lot to be desired. Esper, which today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round, builds the tools t.....»»
Google is opening a retail store in New York this summer
Google has explored storefronts for a while now. Here’s a pop-up in Manhattan’s SoHo district that we took a trip to some four+ years back. But the company’s own branded retail experience has been fairly limited — unsurprising, given that.....»»
Startup studio eFounders reaches portfolio valuation of $2 billion
European startup studio eFounders has now been around for 10 years. And because a birthday sounds like a good opportunity to share some metrics, the portfolio companies have reached a valuation of $2 billion together — only 18 months after rea.....»»
Clinical trial suggests convalescent plasma may improve survival with severe COVID-19
A randomized double-blind controlled trial of convalescent plasma for adults hospitalized with severe COVID-19 found that mortality at 28 days in the treatment arm was half the rate seen in the control arm (12.6 percent vs. 24.6 percent), although tr.....»»
Study finds 80 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients have neurological issues
A new paper presents early results of the global effort to gather information about the incidence, severity and outcomes of neurological manifestations of COVID-19 disease......»»
How to predict severe influenza in hospitalized patients
Researchers have identified predictors of both severe disease and recovery in hospitalized influenza patients, finding that the immune system works in concert to fight influenza......»»
Pregnant women hospitalized for COVID-19 infection do not face increased risk of death, new study suggests
Pregnant women who develop severe COVID-19 infections that require hospitalization for pneumonia and other complications may not be more likely to die from these infections than non-pregnant women. In fact, they may have significantly lower death rat.....»»
Undetected early heart damage raises risk of death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
First-phase ejection fraction, a possible indicator of heart failure, is a strong predictor of survival in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a new study. Hospitalized patients who had impaired first-phase ejection fraction were nearly 5 ti.....»»