Facebook says it will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 is man-made or manufactured from its apps “in light of ongoing investigations into the origin of Covid-19 and in consultation with public health experts.”The move comes amid increasing pressure worldwide to investigate the origins of the pandemic, including the possibility that it came from a lab. Since the pandemic began, Facebook has been changing what it allows on the topic and what it bans. In February, it announced a host of new claims it would be prohibiting — including that COVID-19 was created in a Chinese lab. Other claims it…
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The United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization on Thursday met to discuss Ireland’s demand for an impartial probe into the forced landing of a Ryanair jet by Belarus earlier this week.ICAO’s 36-nation governing council was due to end its meeting at 1 pm ET (1700 GMT) but might not have an agreed statement ready until Friday, spokesman Anthony Philbin said by email. The council has limited powers of investigation.Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and used a false bomb alert to divert the flight to Minsk and detain a dissident Belarusian journalist. The plane had been traveling from Athens to the…
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The United States is looking to convene an in-person summit of the leaders of Quad this fall, Kurt Campbell, who is President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific czar, said lending a certain degree of specificity to a general understanding among member countries that it will be held sometime later in the year. He added that the summit will be focused on infrastructure.The in-person summit, as a follow up to the historic first one of the leaders of the four member countries Australia, Japan, India and the US held virtually in March, was supposed to take place on the sidelines of the G-7…
Two vaccines made by China’s Sinopharm appear safe and effective against Covid-19, according to a study published in a medical journal.Scientists had been waiting for more details about the two vaccines, even though they already are being used in many countries, and one recently won the backing of the World Health Organisation for emergency use.The report, published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association, concluded the two vaccines are about 73 per cent and 78 per cent effective, as Sinopharm has previously claimed.Researchers from Sinopharm and its local partners in the Middle East say the trial involved around…
AstraZeneca Plc is following up with a German laboratory that may have discovered the cause of rare blood clots linked to its Covid-19 vaccine.The UK pharma company said the theory put forward by the Goethe University lab in Frankfurt on Wednesday is one of many that AstraZeneca scientists are investigating.“We are continuing to work with regulators, recommending bodies and the scientific community around the world to understand more about the epidemiology and the possible mechanisms behind these extremely rare events,” said Fiona Cookson, a spokesperson for AstraZeneca.The theory set out in a preprint by the lab, headed by Professor Rolf…
NVIDIA, probably counting cash right now: dollar dollar bills, y’all. (Photo : David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Nvidia Corp. is expected to release earnings figures on February 24. If there’s one thing to be gained from this GPU shortage and cryptocurrency mining boom, it’s money. And NVIDIA is raking in hundreds of millions of it from their specially-designed cryptocurrency mining processors (CMP) GPUs, according to PCGamer. Around USD $155 million, give or take. It seems like NVIDIA’s original plan to sell CMP cards to miners is doing a…
China on Thursday said the US is playing politics with the Covid-19 pandemic by calling for a new investigation into the origin of the virus first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.The Chinese foreign ministry said scientists from the World Health Organization (WHO) had already said that the “lab leak” theory was unlikely.The ministry dismissed the theory that the virus may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan as a “conspiracy”.“Some people in the United States completely ignore facts and science,” ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Thursday.Zhao said that the US ranks first globally…
Finding the best smartphone for your budget is pretty hard right now, especially since some people are still suffering from the effect of the current global COVID-19 pandemic, and with Apple, Google, Samsung, and other giant smartphone manufacturers releasing new flagships. (Photo : Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Apple VP Greg Joswiak announces the new iPhone SE during an Apple special event at the Apple headquarters on March 21, 2016 in Cupertino, California. The company is expected to update its iPhone and iPad lines, and introduce new bands for the Apple Watch. However, these models will surely hurt your bank account…
A recent research has shown that smartwatch use globally has increased by a significant amount. Apple Watch remains on the top of the market, while other brands are still lagging far behind. (Photo : by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 10: The new Apple Watch Series 5 is displayed during a special event on September 10, 2019 in the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s Cupertino, California campus. Apple unveiled several new products including an iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, Apple Watch Series 5 and seventh-generation iPad. As smart wearables continue to develop with new innovative features, more consumers are…