Image copyright Mazen Kourouche Image caption Mazen Kourouche likes to be among the first to get the latest iPhone Every Autumn, Mazen Kourouche heads to the biggest Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, and queues up for hours to be one of the first people in the world to get his hands on the latest iPhone. […]
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Image copyright MOBIUS DIGITAL Action-adventure game Outer Worlds has won the prestigious Best Game prize at the 16th annual Bafta Games Awards. The title’s writer Kelsey Beachum credited its players saying: “Word of mouth has been essential in getting people to play the game, you’re all really beautiful”‘ The game where you explore a distant […]
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Amber, or fossil tree resin, exists in rock layers all over the world. But for some reason, paleontologists never found much of it in Australia or New Zealand. That’s why it was exciting when Jeffrey Stilwell, a paleontologist at Monash University in Melbourne, and a group of students, found a stash in southern Australia in […]
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Last month, residents of Kiryas Joel, a New York village of 35,000 Hasidic Jews roughly an hour’s drive from Manhattan, began hearing about a promising treatment for the coronavirus that had been rippling through their community. The source was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, 46, a mild-mannered family doctor with offices near the village. Since early March, […]
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An experimental stem cell therapy derived from human placentas will begin early testing in patients with the coronavirus, a New Jersey biotech company said Thursday. The treatment, being developed by the company Celularity, has not yet been used on any patients with symptoms of Covid-19, but it has caught the attention of Rudy Giuliani, President […]
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Image copyright Getty Image caption Google is hoping to end poor quality audio during video calls. Google is hoping to end low quality video calls by deploying artificial intelligence to “fill in” audio gaps caused by bad connections. WaveNetEQ works by using a library of speech data to realistically continue short segments of conversations. The […]
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Image copyright Zoom Image caption Zoom has become the app many are using to stay in touch with friends, family and work colleagues Zoom is to pause the development of any new features to concentrate on safety and privacy issues, in the wake of criticism from users of the app. In a blog, the chief […]
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Image copyright Amazon Image caption The court case surrounded unlicensed sales of Davidoff perfume – but the ruling should set a precedent Amazon has been given the all-clear by the European Court of Justice after a legal battle over the sale of bottles of unlicensed Davidoff perfume. The German arm of beauty company Coty – […]
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Image caption Helena from Hampshire had prepared her rainbow picture The NHS has asked people to stop posting rainbow pictures to the new Nightingale hospital in London after a social media request went viral. The BBC was contacted by a nurse who said she had started the campaign because she wanted to create “a sign […]
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The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday asked companies to stop selling all forms of the heartburn drug Zantac, after concluding that a potential cancer-causing contaminant can build up in the drug when stored for long periods. The agency also recommended that consumers who use over-the-counter forms of the drug, also known as ranitidine, stop […]
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