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Pharma is winning the big business popularity contest

It used to be easy to hate pharmaceutical companies. Between soaring drug costs and the opioid crisis, the industry was widely perceived as one that put profits over people’s health. In a 2019 Gallup survey, pharma was ranked dead last for positive perception among United States institutions. People had more positive feelings about the federal… Read more

Taito announces mini arcade cabinet with rotating screen and trackball controller

Taito is the latest Japanese video game publisher to resurrect old hardware in mini form. The company behind Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, and many more arcade classics has just announced the Egret II Mini, which like Sega’s excellent Astro City Mini is a shrunken-down version of a popular arcade cabinet. The original Egret II was… Read more

The Great Wings Rush

It was March 2020, and restaurants across the country were shutting down, setting up takeout windows, or doing whatever they could to absorb the shock of COVID. But it was Chuck E. Cheese, of all places, that had the foresight and steely clarity to see not just what the new era required, but what it… Read more

Time, money, and the new vaccination push

In the US, COVID-19 vaccines are free, but it turns out that money is still a big barrier to vaccination. See, even though the vaccines don’t cost a thing, it still takes time to go and get a shot and potentially recover from any side effects. For working adults, that may mean taking time off… Read more

Vaccine drives in the US are getting younger

This week, the FDA authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for people 12-15, a moment that many families have been eagerly waiting for since the vaccine rollout began in the US. As shots became available, parents rushed to get their kids the vaccine. But the decision has also contributed to ongoing discussions about how to best distribute… Read more

The first problem was vaccine supply. Now, it’s demand.

Thursday marked a major milestone in the United States’ COVID-19 vaccination campaign: 200 million shots given in President Biden’s first 100 days in office. Over 40 percent of the US population now has at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. But over the past week, the average number of vaccinations reported per day started… Read more

Coachella has been canceled for the third time due to the coronavirus pandemic

Health officials have ordered the Coachella music festival scheduled for April to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the third time the pandemic has forced the annual outdoor festival that draws hundreds of thousands of fans to the California desert to be postponed or canceled. “The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and… Read more

A year into coronavirus, we’re still counting the dead

A year ago this week, The Verge published our first story about the virus. It was January 21. The first case had arrived in the US. We’d only heard of about 300 cases reported in China and six deaths. We still knew there was a chance it could get bad. “It’s bringing back SARS flashbacks… Read more

IT job market: many academics, but too few skilled workers

The trend towards academization in Germany continues. In the winter semester 2020 / 2021 there were around 2, 80 million students than ever at German universities enrolled. However, the number of freshmen has been falling for years; five years ago it was 0.1 percent, this year it is 4 percent less. The percentage decline in… Read more

Nuclear power: Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant has run out of fuel elements

The Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, which was shut down in June 1984 and since April 2018 is being dismantled, no longer contains any nuclear fuel. Operator Preussenlektra announced that the last loading of a transport and storage container of the Castor type was successfully completed on Tuesday. The container was from the The reactor building… Read more

Elon Musk says he’s tested positive (and negative) for COVID-19

Elon Musk took to Twitter Thursday night to say that he has received mixed results after being tested for COVID-19 and is currently experiencing symptoms of a common cold. Musk says he was tested four times using a rapid antigen test: two tests came back positive and two came back negative. He’s also awaiting the… Read more

heise offer: IT security day: fending off cyber attacks in the home office

Anyone who would like to learn how companies can protect their employees in the home office from cyber attacks can be found on the IT Security Day on 19. November answers. In eleven lectures by renowned experts, you will learn which methods are used to detect potential attacks and how you can analyze the threats…. Read more

#innovationsland Germany: From 6 p.m. on the digitization of the healthcare system

In the third live talk of the series of talks “Curiosity: the digital Q & As” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), c’t editor-in-chief Dr. Jürgen Rink with Stephanie Kaiser, founder of Heartbeat Labs and member of the digital council of the federal government, about the digitization of the health industry. Interview… Read more

COVID tests: Google sister Verily ignores the reality of the poor

COVID – 19 – Tests only with Gmail account and smartphone, and only if you divulge health data and approve their disclosure to unknown third parties – that’s how the Alphabet subsidiary Verily launched government-funded coronavirus testing in California. The 55 million US dollar project was supposed to help poor and otherwise underserved people to… Read more