A residential building in Sheung Wan was placed under overnight lockdown on Monday evening over a preliminary positive Covid-19 case involving a US arrival. Residents of Centre Point on Staunton Street are required to undergo compulsory testing. Health authorities said a man, 27, who arrived here from the United States on Sunday, tested preliminary positive…
The observatory on Monday issued the Strong Wind Signal Number 3 as tropical storm Cempaka edged closer to the coast of western Guangdong. Senior Scientific Officer Tong Yu-fai said the signal would be in force for some time as the storm’s intensity and track remained uncertain. He said the observatory would closely monitor its movements…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft emerges from the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing facility early Saturday. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now Boeing’s second Starliner crew ferry spacecraft rolled out of its factory early Saturday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for mounting on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket set for liftoff July 30…
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The four passengers who will ride to the edge of space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket Tuesday, from left to right: Oliver Daemen, Wally Funk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Bezos. Credit: Jeff Bezos via Instagram While Jeff Bezos and his three crewmates worked through a two-day “astronaut”…
Competition — Once computationally impossible, AIs now translate protein sequence to structure. John Timmer – Jul 18, 2021 1:45 pm UTC Thanks to the development of DNA-sequencing technology, it has become trivial to obtain the sequence of bases that encode a protein and translate that to the sequence of amino acids that make up the…
Hello, Goodbye? — Researchers used infrared photos and third-party hardware to best facial-recognition tech. Lily Hay Newman – Jul 18, 2021 1:30 pm UTC Clearly the quickest way to bypass Microsoft facial recognition, no?Biometric authentication is a key piece of the tech industry’s plans to make the world password-less. But a new method for duping…
retro games draw modern money — Old-school collectors meet “new money” as sealed prices inflate 10x in two years. Kyle Orland – Jul 18, 2021 1:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Collectors say bare cartridges in “sous vide” condition can command a premium at auction.Aurich Lawson If you aren’t immersed in the world of high-end video…
As looting and rioting swarmed the streets of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, violent protesters destroyed countless businesses. According to Bloomberg, retailers have lost a total of R5bn – a figure that is bound to increase as the damage is totalled up. Perhaps more disheartening for South African’s was the silence of our government. As livelihoods were…
The riots and widespread looting that took the country by storm over the past week or so has been another headwind to corporate South Africa, which is still struggling to get back on its feet after the effects of the various lockdowns implemented to curb the spread of Covid-19. JSE-listed companies make up a trivial…
The NHL announced the protected lists for the 30 teams involved in the NHL Expansion Draft. (Vegas is exempt.) With the names of those protected come the guys who could be snatched up by the Seattle Kraken. There are a number of big names that have everyone trying to figure out just what general manager Ron Francis…
