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At its Search On event today, Google introduced several new features that, taken together, are its strongest attempts yet to get people to do more than type a few words into a search box. By leveraging its new Multitask Unified Model (MUM) machine learning technology in small ways, the company hopes to kick off a virtuous cycle: it will provide more detail and context-rich answers, and in return it hopes users will ask more detailed and context-rich questions. The end result, the company… Source link

mRNA-3705 is Moderna’s second rare disease program to enter clinical studies mRNA-3705 granted Orphan Drug and Rare Pediatric Disease designation by the U.S. FDA MMA associated with significant mortality and morbidity; there are no approved therapies CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 16, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced the first patient has been enrolled in the Phase… Source link

In a paper published last month on the research-sharing platform Arxiv.org, a team of over 100 scientists describe how they set up an array of 20 quantum particles, or qubits, to serve as a time crystal. During experiments, they applied algorithms that spun the qubits upward and downward, generating a controllable reaction that could be sustained “for infinitely long times,” according to the paper. Source link

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) further solidified the landmark health care legislation known as Obamacare while the nation attempts to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic with a uniquely expensive health care system. The 7-2 ruling enables “those who want to build on the ACA to look forward and assume the law will largely remain intact,” Rachel Garfield, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told Yahoo Finance. “Health policy is always evolving,… Source link

Google will delay by nearly two years the phase out of Chrome web browser technology that tracks users for ad purposes, saying that it needs more time to develop a replacement system. The tech giant on Thursday moved its deadline to remove so-called third-party cookies to late 2023 rather than January 2022 as was initially planned. “We need to move at a responsible pace, allowing sufficient time for public discussion on the right solutions and for publishers and the advertising industry to… Source link

Bloomberg TPG-Backed PropertyGuru Eyes $2 Billion Thiel SPAC Deal (Bloomberg) — Bridgetown 2 Holdings Ltd., the blank-check company backed by billionaires Richard Li and Peter Thiel, is in advanced talks to merge with Singapore’s online real estate firm PropertyGuru Pte, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The special purpose acquisition company has been in discussions with PropertyGuru on the potential deal, which could be announced as soon as next month, said the people, who… Source link

Bloomberg Is Gold Set to Tear Even Higher? Four Key Charts to Watch (Bloomberg) — Just when the vaccine rollout and economic optimism left gold looking like last year’s metal, it staged a recovery.Bullion is one of the best-performing commodities this month, erasing almost all of this year’s losses. Investors have been lured back by gold’s appeal as an inflation hedge, while the Federal Reserve maintains its monetary stimulus and says price pressures should prove temporary. Spot gold… Source link

The U.S. COVID-19 vaccine rollout has led to roughly 145.3 million Americans receiving at least one dose and 104.8 million who are fully vaccinated. But the country is now approaching an impasse, with a large share of adults who are now eligible for the vaccine simply choosing not to get it. “The last three months were people who really, really wanted the vaccine and were going to do anything to get it,” Dr. Anand Swaminathan, an NJ-based emergency medicine physician, said on Yahoo Finance… Source link

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

Google announced today what is potentially a large change for certain paid search managers: the broad match modified version of keywords will be going away. This change will start rolling out in two weeks. What’s Happening to Broad Match Modified? Phrase match will now expand to cover broad match modified instances. Google notes it will “continue to respect word order when it’s important to meaning.” Advertisers will not have to take any specific action. Performance data will stay where… Source link