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COVID-19 is back and so is testing. (Double ugh.) The COVID surge has us scrambling plans for holiday parties, travel to grandma’s house and return to office. It’s also creating a mad rush for COVID tests. Welcome (back) to our onerous new reality, with vaccine mandates, masks requirements and testing protocols. And with testing comes the oh-so familiar questions: When were you tested? Where? Which kind of test? I was thinking about the sheer volume of human, never mind economic activity… Source link

Russian internet search engine Yandex has with some partners brought out the first delivery of servers produced in Russia, reports Telecomdaily.ru. The servers will be used in data centres for the expansion of cloud platform Yandex.Cloud and supercomputers from Yandex. The servers are currently being tested on Yandex infrastructure. Source link

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) has an enviable problem: It can’t produce enough rapid at-home COVID-19 antigen tests to keep up with demand. The company had previously warned that there would be a shortage of tests, though they are not the result of the supply chain issues many companies are facing. In a statement, Abbott explained that the company had started to reduce production when demand waned earlier this year. But following the surge of the Delta variant in recent months, which resulted in a… Source link

Cue Health, which makes at-home Covid-19 testing kidds, made its public market debut Friday. Cue Health In April, Google started sending at-home Covid-19 tests to its U.S. employees from a little-known start-up in San Diego called Cue Health. Most of Cue Health’s business up to that point had come from a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide rapid tests to the federal government. Google instantly became the health-tech company’s biggest private sector customer. Cue Health has used… Source link

WASHINGTON — For months, Apple and Google have been fighting a bill in the South Korean legislature that they say could imperil their lucrative app store businesses. The companies have appealed directly to South Korean lawmakers, government officials and the public to try to block the legislation, which is expected to face a crucial vote this week. The companies have also turned to an unlikely ally, one that is also trying to quash their power: The United States government. A group funded… Source link

Google’s Privacy Sandbox aims to create a framework for advertising across the open web that respects the users’ privacy while enabling marketers to continue to provide ad-funded access to digital properties. Criteo participated in Google’s first Origin Trial of its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), part of Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox … Source link

Sha’Carri Richardson won the 100m at the Olympic Trials last month in just 10.86 seconds, and was expected to compete for a Gold medal in Tokyo. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, a medal favorite in the 100-meter dash at the upcoming Olympics, tested positive for marijuana last month and won’t be able to run her signature race at the Tokyo Games. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday morning that Richardson had accepted a one-month suspension after… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.’s Instagram is testing a feature that lets users post photos and videos from their desktop computers, after more than a decade without the capability. “We know that many people access Instagram from their computer,” said Facebook spokeswoman Christine Pai. “To improve that experience, we’re now testing the ability to create a Feed post on Instagram with their desktop browser.” Instagram, founded in 2010, long resisted building a web version of its… Source link

Many U.S. colleges made standardized testing optional in this year’s admissions cycle — some are even making the moves permanent.  But Janet Godwin, CEO of Iowa City-based ACT, told Yahoo Finance that she isn’t concerned about the test-optional movement. “Four-year colleges use assessment data from ACT and College Board’s SAT for many, many purposes, not just admissions,” Godwin, who has spent 30 years at the company and assumed the CEO role in November 2020, said. “So in the spirit of… Source link

Google is testing a new feature for its Chrome browser on Android that lets users “follow” sites to create an updating list of new content they publish. The feature is based on RSS, an open web standard that’s been the backbone of many popular web aggregation tools in the past. That includes Google’s own, much beloved (and now defunct) Google Reader. The test is small-scale: following sites will only be an option for some US users of Chrome Canary (the bleeding-edge version of… Source link