Moderna announced this week an expansion plan for its production network to boost its capacity to up to 3 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses in 2022. Reuters | , Zurich PUBLISHED ON MAY 01, 2021 05:48 AM IST The World Health Organization has listed Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, the agency said on Friday, the fifth to be given the status meant to expedite countries’ own approval of shots.”The objective is to make medicines, vaccines and diagnostics available as rapidly as possible to address the emergency,” the WHO said in a statement.WHO Assistant Director-General Mariangela Simao said on Friday it…
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Utilizing social media for digital marketing Marketing has always been an integral part of any business model. From startups to well-established ones, everybody is reliant on good marketing strategies for their business growth. Now with time, the medium of marketing is changing. Realizing the potential of online platforms, people are readily investing in digital marketing. With the increased involvement of social media and other digital tools in our daily life, digital marketing proves to have unparalleled outreach. This outreach makes it extremely crucial for startups to have digital marketing strategies in place. Digital marketing can help startups get the initial…
The Biden administration’s version of a COVID-19 vaccine-finding website launched today, along with a Spanish-language version, text messaging tool, and phone hotline. The new website, vaccines.gov, is a new version of VaccineFinder, a site run through a partnership between Boston Children’s Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. VaccineFinder was originally created during the 2009 swine flu outbreaks and has hosted COVID-19 vaccine information for the past few months. The new version has the same features as the old site. It lets people locate sites offering COVID-19 vaccines nearby, shows which vaccines are on offer at each location,…
(Photo : 8 Tools to Help You Create and Deliver A Killer Business Presentation) Whether you are trying to pitch a new idea to your boss, present a new product to the shareholders, or acquire new investors, there are times when you need to put together a strong business presentation. These meetings can quickly turn into something dull and, about 15 minutes in, most members attending have lost their interest. If you want to create engaging presentations that catch the attention of your audience, you need all the help you can get. Thankfully, the World Wide Web provides lots of…
(Photo : Pexels/Brett Jordan) Facebook AI DINO Facebook announced on Friday, Apr. 30, that it developed an algorithm, in collaboration with Inria, called DINO that enables the training of transformers, a type of machine learning model, without labeled training data. Facebook DINO The company claims that it sets a new state-of-the-art tech among unlabeled data training methods and leads to a model that can discover and segment objects in an image or video without a specific objective, according to Tech Crunch. Segmented objects is used in numerous tasks, from swapping out the background of a video chat all up to…
A Chinese airport has a toilet that allegedly contains fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old. This shocking discovery was first found by a professor in a TV program, revealing that the material used to build some of the toilet’s sinks are filled with fossils. (Photo : Photo by Carol Coelho/Getty Images)Passengers wear protective face masks in a toilet after arrives in Houston International Airport on March 14, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Passengers are wearing masks to avoid the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Shen Shuzhong, a professor from Nanjing University’s School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, discussed…
(Photo : Pexels/freestocks.org) Streamer sentenced to prison Russian streamer, Stanislav Reshetnyak, also known as Stas Reeflay, was sentenced to six years in prison after he appeared to force his girlfriend outside in the cold during a livestream. His girlfriend died of hypothermia. Russian Streamer Sentenced to Prison According to The Moscow Times, during the livestream on December 2020, Reshetnyak’s girlfriend, Valentina Grigoryeva, was wearing only underwear when she was seemingly forced onto the balcony by Reshetnyak. He later appeared to realize that she was not breathing and called medics, who told him that she had died. The footage of the…
This new Instagrammable bird has a weird look since it looks like it has a frog’s mouth. Despite its appearance, a new study revealed that this weird-looking creature can still gather a lot of likes on Instagram. (Photo : Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)A tawny frogmouth, its neck feathers missing and rescued from a fence in a bushfire zone, recovers at the Higher Ground Raptor Center on January 28, 2020 in Fitzroy Falls, Australia. The center, run by renowned raptor specialist Peggy McDonald, specializes in rehabilitating wounded and sick birds of prey, many of which resulting from the current bushfire…
(Photo : SingularityDAO Raises $2.7M to Build AI-Powered Defi Solution) Defi project SingularityDAO, which spun out from SingularityNET, has secured $2.7 million in private funding to develop an AI-based platform for decentralized finance. A host of known names in the blockchain venture capital space participated, with AlphaBit leading the round and Genesis Block Ventures participating. Other firms to get in on the act include SMO Capital, QCP Capital, AU21, Jun Capital, Magnus Capital, and Moonwhale Ventures. Creating Smarter Defi Solutions Blockchain marketplace SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel, one of the leading AI researchers in the industry. He’ll be…
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) now offers a $50 monthly subsidy. The independent U.S. agency confirmed that its new financial support program is specifically created to help various households pay their WiFi bills. (Photo : Photo illustration by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)In this photo illustration a woman uses a credit card to buy something online on August 11, 2014 in Bristol, United Kingdom. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the first online sale. Since that sale – a copy of an album by the artist Sting – online retailing has grown to such an extent that it is now claimed that…