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Film to Explore Holocaust Survivors Who Gave Largest-Ever Donation to Israel

Posted on Tue Feb 23, 2021, 6:03 am

The late Dr. Howard and Lottie Marcus, whose estate donated $400 to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Photo: Dani Machlis/BGU.

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Bitcoin tanks 10% after Elon Musk says prices seem high

Posted on Mon Feb 22, 2021, 7:18 am

Bitcoin sank over 10% on Monday, briefly dipping below the $50,000 level. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Saturday that bitcoin prices seemed excessive. The digital coin is still up more than 80% so far this ...

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'COVID-19 crisis a wake-up call': Azim Premji bats for need to improve public...

Posted on Sun Feb 21, 2021, 12:59 am

IT czar and philanthropist Azim Premji on Saturday said companies should not be legally mandated to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) as such contributions to society need to "come from ...

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The Future (2000) 60 Minutes Timeless

Posted on Fri Feb 19, 2021, 8:51 pm

For its first programme of the new century, 60 Minutes takes viewers on an astounding journey into the future. The guides will include sci-fi visionary, Arthur C. Clarke, Internet guru Jeff Bezos, ...

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Billionaire computer magnate Michael Dell launches $575M SPAC IPO

Posted on Fri Feb 19, 2021, 5:49 pm

Billionaire computer pioneer Michael Dell and executives from his $19 billion family office launched a SPAC IPO to raise as much as $575 million for MSD Acquisition Corp.

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Twins pitchers again in prove-it mode, starting with Berrios

Posted on Fri Feb 19, 2021, 3:22 pm

Microsoft Technology Economy Real Estate Sports Seahawks Huskies Cougars Kraken High Schools Mariners Sounders Snow Sports Geoff Baker Matt Calkins Larry Stone Bob Condotta On TV/Radio ...

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Former Nuance CEO takes over at Qualifacts

Posted on Wed Feb 17, 2021, 12:51 pm

David Klements has stepped aside as president and CEO of health care software firm Qualifacts after 15 years at the helm. Paul Ricci, the former chairman and CEO of tech giant Nuance Communications, ...

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A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRC...

Posted on Wed Feb 17, 2021, 5:57 am

The analytical process for assessing interactions with known BC susceptibility SNP is summarised in Fig. 3 and for the detection of novel modifiers in Fig. 4. Fig. 3: Analytical process for ...

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Seer Appoints Deep Nishar and Mostafa Ronaghi, Ph.D. to its Board of Directors

Posted on Wed Feb 17, 2021, 5:00 am

Seer, Inc., (Nasdaq: SEER), a life sciences company commercializing a disruptive new platform for proteomics, today announced it has appointed Deep ...

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Kineta, Inc.-Developing Novel Immunotherapies to Transform Patients' Lives

Posted on Tue Feb 16, 2021, 9:00 pm

Dr. Shawn Iadonato, CEO of Kineta, Inc., will discuss the clinical stage biotechnology company committed to developing disruptive life science technologies that address unmet patient needs especially ...

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Graphene-enhanced composites in the works

Posted on Tue Feb 16, 2021, 4:00 pm

Ray Gibbs, Haydale Chief Executive, added: "We have identified the composites market as a strategic sector for our functionalized graphene and other nano materials with HCS being a fundamental route ...

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OtoNexus Medical Technologies Receives 4th Consecutive Funding Round from Kei...

Posted on Mon Feb 15, 2021, 3:59 pm

We are confident in this company and team; they continue to meet their milestones and deliver on targets," said Nathan McDonald, Managing Partner and CEO of Keiretsu Capital. OtoNexus has ...

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Posted on Mon Feb 15, 2021, 3:59 pm

Before founding Nantero, Greg Schmergel was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy for About Inc., the fifth-largest Web property. Previously, he was President and CEO of ExpertCentral.com Inc ...

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The 'father of the internet' gave a thumbs up to the Google employees who wal...

Posted on Mon Feb 15, 2021, 3:59 pm

Vint Cerf, an internet pioneer who works at Google, said he supports employees who staged a walkout last month. The walkout, which was to protest Google's handing of sexual misconduct allegations ...

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DXC Hires GE Executive as CIO

Posted on Sun Feb 14, 2021, 4:00 pm

DXC Technology Co. has appointed Chris Drumgoole, chief information officer of General Electric Co. and a veteran of the company's cloud efforts, as its new technology chief. Mr. Drumgoole ...

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Alan Turing's Answer to the Critics of the Future

Posted on Sun Feb 14, 2021, 4:00 pm

We are only creating the mansions for the souls that only He can create. Being a leader is about more than the job title. You have to earn respect.

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" While The Cat's Away ... "

Posted on Sun Feb 14, 2021, 4:00 pm

This landmark priveledge, was to ensure that under HAVA Sequoia could file to demand that the vote counting is done in secret. But, several provisions in HAVA show this unconstitutional and Sequoia ...

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Internet activist, programmer Aaron Swartz dead at 26

Posted on Sat Feb 13, 2021, 4:00 pm

science fiction author Cory Doctorow. RSS, which stands for Rich Site Summary, is a format for delivering to users content from sites that change constantly, such as news pages and blogs.

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MD+DI Invites You To 2nd Dare-to-Dream Medtech Design Challenge

Posted on Thu Feb 11, 2021, 4:00 pm

He is also a physician-entrepreneur and founder and CEO of MD Revolution, a digital health company. Damani, who has directed numerous studies in digital health, also recently led a National Institutes ...

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Rendered.ai and Quadridox Inc. Announce Partnership Agreement on Synthetic Da...

Posted on Thu Feb 11, 2021, 5:02 am

Rendered.ai and Quadridox Inc announce a partnership that will bring Quadridox's QSim X-ray simulation tool to Rendered.ai's Common Application Framework ...

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High resolution cryo EM analysis of HPV16 identifies minor structural protein...

Posted on Wed Feb 10, 2021, 1:54 pm

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a significant health burden and leading cause of virus-induced cancers. HPV is epitheliotropic and its replication is tightly associated with termina ...

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iRobot Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2020 Financial Results

Posted on Wed Feb 10, 2021, 1:06 pm

"iRobot delivered a strong finish to 2020 with revenue, operating income and EPS that surpassed the plans that we outlined at the end of October," said Colin Angle, chairman and chief executive ...

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Fla. water-supply hack exposes gaps in industry defenses

Posted on Tue Feb 9, 2021, 4:01 pm

INL's Andrew Bochman and Sarah Freeman have described the strategy as a forensic analysis by utilities of their most important operations. "It zeros in on the comparative handful of most vital ...

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New Blackburn and Burnley kidney units finally get opening dates

Posted on Tue Feb 9, 2021, 8:24 am

The purpose-built larger centre in Briercliffe, also with 24 stations, will replace the existing 15-station unit at Burnley General Hospital and the satellite ... Dr Mark Brady, Lancashire ...

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Expansion Management: Heliae's Future Cash Crop: Algae

Posted on Mon Feb 8, 2021, 4:00 pm

"I can safely say that none of us would be here without the combined vision of Frank Mars, one of our founders, and Bill Harris of the Science Foundation Arizona,"said Heliae's CEO Dan Simon at the ...

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This Smart Ring Can Detect COVID-19 Symptoms Before Wearer Feels It

Posted on Mon Feb 8, 2021, 5:16 am

"With wearable devices that can measure temperature, we can begin to envision a public COVID early alert system," said Benjamin Smarr, the paper's corresponding author and a professor at UC San Diego.

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Tad Wilson News

Posted on Sun Feb 7, 2021, 4:00 pm

Performers included cast members Becca Kotte, Garth Kravits, Lindsey Brett Carothers, Ian Ward, Scott Foster, Noa Solorio and Mitchell Jarvis. GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER Cast Album Available ...

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Tertill CEO: Three consumer tech predictions for the new year

Posted on Fri Feb 5, 2021, 10:26 am

Helen Greiner is the CEO of Tertill, formerly known as Franklin Robotics. She is the co-founder of iRobot. Want to stay ahead of who & what is next? Sent daily, the Beat is your definitive look at ...

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Pair Of Tech IPOs Soar After Exceeding $1.3B Combined

Posted on Wed Feb 3, 2021, 5:05 pm

"Today has been an exciting day for our team, and we believe it's just the beginning," ON24 Chief Marketing Officer Steve Daheb said in a statement. "Businesses have experienced ten years of ...

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NPS-Led Research Reveals Greater Abundance of Life Under Arctic Ice Than Prev...

Posted on Wed Feb 3, 2021, 4:00 pm

of Energy, led by researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS ... by Oceanography Professors Jaclyn Clement Kinney and Wieslaw Maslowski modeled Arctic under-ice primary production from ...

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The Cybersecurity 202: Suspected Chinese hack of SolarWinds raises concerns i...

Posted on Wed Feb 3, 2021, 1:24 pm

Christopher Bing, Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn at Reuters report that ... with a focus on coronavirus efforts both The Financial Times and Reuters reported. The technology, which ...

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Curt Storlazzi, PhD

Posted on Tue Feb 2, 2021, 11:43 pm

My interests span the coastal zone, from seacliff erosional processes to sediment dynamics in the shallow coastal ocean. My research focuses on the quantitative study of hydrodynamics, sediment ...

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Singtel offers 5G edge computing on Microsoft Azure

Posted on Tue Feb 2, 2021, 6:23 pm

Microsoft's corporate vice president for operators Yousef Khalidi said: "Today marks a new chapter in our collaboration with Singtel to unlock the power of 5G and bring the cloud closer than ever ...

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The Future of Space Exploration: A Hitchhiker's Guide

Posted on Tue Feb 2, 2021, 4:00 pm

Will the results of the Google Lunar X Prize competition stand that assumption on its head? From making their own swabs to staying in constant communication across the board, Northwell Health dove ...

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Chorus Ltd. ADR

Posted on Tue Feb 2, 2021, 4:00 pm

Stocks: Real-time U.S. stock quotes reflect trades reported through Nasdaq only; comprehensive quotes and volume reflect trading in all markets and are delayed at least 15 minutes. International ...

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American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC)

Posted on Tue Feb 2, 2021, 4:00 pm

With us on today's call are Daniel McGahn, chairman, president, and chief executive officer; and John Kosiba, senior vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer. American Superconductor ...

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Five Universities Researching, Developing Innovative New Aerospace Technology

Posted on Mon Feb 1, 2021, 3:20 pm

VerdeGo Aero CEO Eric Bartsch said in the release. Embry Riddle developed the technology and is licensing it to VerdeGo Aero under a technology transfer process that the university periodically ...

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We cannot allow Arm to become another Cadbury

Posted on Sun Jan 31, 2021, 12:00 am

Even by the sycophantic standards of Silicon Valley, the soundbites that accompanied a £32bn bid for Arm by California chip giant Nvidia stretched the boundaries of credibility to new levels.

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Cooper-Hewitt Museum Names Bill Moggridge Director

Posted on Fri Jan 29, 2021, 3:59 pm

During an interview Wednesday, Moggridge, who designed the first laptop computer and cofounded the design firm Ideo, offered a ... and Shanghai. After Tim Brown was named president and chief ...

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Paul Crutzen: 1933-2021

Posted on Fri Jan 29, 2021, 3:03 pm

Kimberly Prather, distinguished professor of atmospheric chemistry, UC San Diego In addition to being among the most far thinking and creative Earth scientists of our time, Paul Crutzen was also a ...

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Happy Birthday Vinod Khosla: The Indian Tech Mogul

Posted on Wed Jan 27, 2021, 9:03 pm

In 2004, Vinod Khosla founded Khosla Ventures, which revolutionised the industries with its path-breaking work and strategies. Interestingly, he was the man who changed the course of microprocessing ...

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Parentsquare Making the Grade in Closing the School-to-Home Communication Gap

Posted on Wed Jan 27, 2021, 4:00 pm

Founder and president Anupama Vaid calls it a one-stop shop for all school communication with ways for administrators and teachers to send out information to families and confirm whether people ...

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Influenza A Virus Discovered in Heart Muscle Tissue Causing Damage Long After...

Posted on Wed Jan 27, 2021, 10:49 am

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Hero MotoCorp to commence operations in Mexico, enters in distribution agreem...

Posted on Wed Jan 27, 2021, 3:32 am

For this, the company entered into a distribution agreement with Grupo Salinas, a group of dynamic ... value founded by Mexican entrepreneur Ricardo Salinas. The agreement will form one of ...

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Lehi City Council continues discussion on ranked-choice voting

Posted on Wed Jan 27, 2021, 2:00 am

Utah Rep. Mike Winder, R-West Valley City, is sponsoring a bill this legislative session that would require ranked-choice voting to be used in primary elections for state and county office.

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Salesforce discusses where the future of work is headed post-coronavirus

Posted on Tue Jan 26, 2021, 2:34 pm

Companies must develop the resilience to adapt to change and be prepared for multiple scenarios post-pandemic, says Peter Schwartz at Salesforce. Got a confidential news tip? We want to hear from you.

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EdgeQ touts RISC-V chips for open RAN 5G

Posted on Tue Jan 26, 2021, 1:24 pm

EdgeQ, a 5G systems-on-a-chip company, announced today that Dr. Paul Jacobs and Matt Grob have joined ... former CEO of Qualcomm and CEO of XCOM. "This inflection point creates the opportunity ...

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AARNet's Hancock gets a gong

Posted on Tue Jan 26, 2021, 12:15 am

Chris Hancock, CEO of AARNet, has been made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2021 Australia Day Honours. The award recognises Hancock's significant service to education and on-line ...

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Disneyland to make the Jungle Cruise more inclusive after yearslong complaint...

Posted on Mon Jan 25, 2021, 5:12 pm

The re-imagined scene, one initially dreamed up by master Disney animator-designer Marc Davis as an advertisement for the ride, solely features hapless participants of a previous Jungle Cruise ...

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Covid: Israel vaccine fears 'out of context and inaccurate'

Posted on Mon Jan 25, 2021, 2:31 pm

Israel, one of the top countries when it comes to vaccinating against Covid-19, bought large stocks of the jab in exchange for acting as the world's guinea pig. And scientists are watching data ...

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