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Antiviral Molnupiravir Reduces Risk of Hospitalization/Death by ~50 Percent
At the Interim Analysis, 7.3 Percent of Patients Who Received Molnupiravir Were Hospitalized Through Day 29, Compared With 14.1 Percent of Placebo-Treated Patients Who were Hospitalized or Died Merck Plans to Seek Emergency Use Authorization in the U.S. as Soon as Possible and to Submit Applications to Regulatory…
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Sinch to acquire Mailgun
Pathwire, along with its portfolio of brands including Mailgun, has entered an agreement to be acquired by Sinch, a global leader in cloud communications. Learn more.
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Dude, where’s my stuff
The global supply chain mess will require increased vaccination and acquired immunity, semiconductor capacity expansion and the end of extraordinary housing/labor supports to resolve. A close look at some very anomalous charts on shipping, semiconductors, inventories, labor shortages, foreclosures and mortality.
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You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)
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Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools
Update on pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools for a safer experience for users under 13.
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What our research says about teen well-being and Instagram
Instagram's research shows that on 11 of 12 well-being issues, teenage girls who said they struggled with those issues also said that Instagram made them better rather than worse.
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Sustainable coffee grown in Finland with cellular agriculture
VTT has successfully produced coffee cells in a bioreactor through cellular agriculture. The innovation can help to make the production of coffee more sustainable. The first batches produced by VTT in a laboratory in Finland smell and taste like conventional coffee.
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Paint.NET 4.3 is now available
This is a big release, with a lot of performance improvements across the whole app. Some of this is due to the migration from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 5, which may not sound like much but is act…
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EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters
For the last month, civil liberties and human rights organizations, researchers, and customers have demanded that Apple cancel its plan to install photo-scanning software onto devices. This software poses an enormous danger to privacy and security. Apple has heard the message, and announced that it...
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What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2021176 points226 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The impact of Evergrande has caused financial distress to spread faster and more forcefully than Beijing’s financial regulators expected, putting pressure on them to move quickly to stop the contagion. But they cannot rescue Evergrande’s creditors without also undermining their fight against bad debt.
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AWS Region Coming to New Zealand
We are currently working on regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain , Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Auckland, New Zealand in the Works Today I am happy to announce that the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region is in the works and will open in 2024. This region will have three Availability…
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Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing
Today, Brave launched Brave Talk, a new privacy-focused video conferencing feature built directly into the Brave browser.
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Introducing Age Verification
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)
It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
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Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover
Excerpt from a speech Adm. Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) gave at Columbia University in 1982 outlining his leadership style.
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Tailscale free for open source projects
Tailscale is now free for open source projects using GitHub organizations. Enjoy up to 25 users, 5 devices per user, and more.
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Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) is going public today
Ginkgo Bioworks [https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ginkgo-bioworks] is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. To celebrate their IPO, here’s the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC’s first biotech startup. In 2014, YC had been funding…
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Treasury Dept. Seeks to Track Transactions of Personal Bank Accounts over $600
The Biden administration is proposing that banks be required to report all transactions greater than $600 to collect more tax revenue. This policy is poised to suffocate businesses and stifle the financial privacy of Americans.
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Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co
H&Co designs fonts for print, web, and mobile environments.
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The Perils of an .xyz Domain
Create your virtual HQ in seconds with a free trial of Spot.
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The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
This article is by our founders and sole shareholders, Daniel Berntsson and Fredrik Strömberg. Mullvad VPN is here to stay, and we are not interested in ever selling it.
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The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas
The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different.
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Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020)
Case study of flawed conception due to requirements synthesis (slide 1 of 2)