Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers Gabrielle Carlos, top, and Joao Vericimo, move a COVID-19 patient to an ambulance as he is transferred to a municipal hospital dedicated to COVID-19 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) April is shaping up to be Brazil’s darkest month…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Up to 80 percent of people offered the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine In Sicily refuse it out of fears over its safety, according to the southern Italian region’s president Nello Musumeci. Public confidence in the Anglo-Swedish jab has been badly shaken by reports linking it to rare, but potentially fatal, blood clots,…
India has banned the export of remdesivir as infections soared to a new daily high and hospitals grappled with increasing demand for the coronavirus treatment drug India on Sunday banned the export of remdesivir as infections soared to a new daily high and hospitals grappled with increasing demand for the coronavirus treatment drug. The vast…
Logitech promises to continue supporting its Harmony service for “as long as customers are using it.” Logitech Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by TechHive’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Well, the other shoe finally dropped. After years of speculation about the fate of its Harmony line of universal remotes, Logitech…
About | End the tyranny of cable! Get better recommendations, set up profiles, find your watchlist, and lots more. Jared Newman / IDG Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by TechHive’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors As promised in February, Amazon has started rolling out a major update to more Fire…
Samsung cut a few corners to make this premium phone more affordable. Ryan Whitwam/IDG Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Table of Contents Show More The new Samsung Galaxy S21 family has gotten a mostly positive reception, thanks to some notable hardware and software…
Government and investors are quickly moving to quantify the risks posed by climate change and make that part of their financial decision-making. But many companies remain unsure how to measure the threat of climate change to their business, and whether or how to report those risks to investors and the public.Financial regulators in the US…
“Oatly has crossed the line from hip to basic,” Bloomberg food reporter Deena Shanker recently declared on Twitter. That may be a diss, but it’s also a testament to the 27-year-old Swedish oat-milk company, which counts Oprah, Jay-Z, and Natalie Portman among its investors. When you’ve got an upcoming IPO with a rumored valuation of…
Plans announced by Senegalese-American singer Akon last August to build “Akon City,” a futuristic hub in his ancestral homeland, were initially greeted with enthusiasm. But that quickly gave way to confusion: What was “Akoin,” and why was it appearing on billboards, postcards, and candy wrappers across the country advertising the 2,000 acre project?Envisioned as a…
We have all heard the mantra that dolphins and whales (cetaceans) are highly intelligent animals. Some claim they’re on par with great apes and humans—maybe even smarter. But where does this concept come from?There are two lines of thought. Firstly, a range of cetacean behaviors are interpreted as displays of notable intelligence. Second, cetaceans have…
