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Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 percent effective

The two-shot COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax is 90 percent effective against the disease, the company said today. The Novavax shots are a different type of vaccine than the ones already available: it’s a protein-based vaccine that directly delivers bits of the coronavirus spike protein, which the body then makes antibodies against. Novavax tested its… Read more

Chia Coin Won’t Drive Up Most HDD Prices, Analysts Claim

Home News (Image credit: Toshiba) Financial analysts believe that while hard disk drive pricing has spiked in recent weeks due to Chia coin mining and will continue to be higher than usual for a while, average HDD prices will not get considerably higher than they are today as there is extraordinary demand for specific models… Read more

The autonomous vehicle world is shrinking — it’s overdue

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge ‘The AV industry has promised too much for too long, and has delivered too little’ After years of positive vibes about the future of autonomous vehicles and nearly unrestricted access to cash from Kool-Aid-drunk venture capitalists, the AV industry is confronting some hard truths. The first is… Read more

So you’re vaccinated — what are you waiting for?

I asked experts when vaccinated people can resume high-risk activities — and got a whole bunch of answers It’s been over a year since my office shut down. Over a year since I went to a bar, a fitness class, a movie theater, a concert, a Knicks game, or to the many other public events… Read more

E3 2021 Will Be All-Digital and Free of Charge

Home News (Image credit: Electronic Software Association) E3 2021 will be an all-digital event. The Electronic Software Association has announced that this year’s event, which will be free of charge, will take place from June 12 to June 15. Last year, the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is still ongoing. For… Read more

E3 is going digital this summer, will return in person next year

E3 2021 will take place June 12th-15th this year as a free, “reimagined, all-virtual” event, the Entertainment Software Association announced today. Organizers announced that the lineup includes companies such as Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive, and Warner Bros. Games. Sony is notably missing from that list so far. E3, gaming’s biggest annual conference… Read more

2020 GPU Sales Failed to Impress, Despite Record Demand

Home News (Image credit: ASUS) Sales of PCs increased sharply in 2020 as people needed new desktops and notebooks to work and learn from home. As a result, shipments of GPUs (graphics processing units) also increased compared to 2019, mostly because the majority of today’s CPUs (central processing units) come with integrated GPUs. But while… Read more

Speciality DRAM Prices Expected to Rise Throughout 2021

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) DigiTimes today reported that DRAM prices are expected to rise throughout 2021 as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron maintain flash memory production levels despite increasing demand. The report claimed that suppliers are cautious about building additional DRAM capacity which could result in limited global bit output growth. Demand for flash memory… Read more

Apple: Analysts hope for highest sales ever

Apple is apparently about to publish excellent quarterly figures. At least that’s what most analysts on Wall Street assume. The consensus forecasts indicate that the iPhone company has managed to break the 2020 mark in the last three months of the year to skip billions of US dollars in sales – more precisely, it should… Read more

iPhone 12 Pro, skyrocketing question: Apple transfers production to the detriment of the mini

Apparently Apple is selling more models Pro che mini, compared to the company’s initial forecasts. Consequently, the production of the more expensive models is increasing to the detriment of the cheaper ones. by Nino Grasso published 21 January 2021 , at 17: 01 in the Apple channel Apple iPhone According to new rumors obtained from… Read more

iPhone 12: Less mini, more pro

Is the iPhone 12 mini a slow seller? At least the smallest Apple smartphone seems to have been less popular with customers for years than expected by the manufacturer. As the banking house Morgan Stanley has found out, a production shift has now been ordered. A total of two million less of the iPhone 12… Read more

The developers of an acclaimed Skyrim mod just made it to the big leagues

In 2016, a team of modders released a game they developed a game in their spare time to nigh-universal acclaim — a mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that they called Enderal, with its own 30+ hour quest with gobs of original dialogue and professional voice acting. “[It’s the most fun I’ve had in… Read more

Bjarne Stroustrup: Every C ++ standard is a snapshot

Bjarne Stroustrup has achieved some fame as the father of the C ++ programming language; even today he is still involved in the standardization of C ++. In an interview with heise Developer, Stroustrup explains what will be of long-term importance for developers in C ++ 20 and how the others will Future programming language… Read more

New Trailers: Locked Down, Supernova, Losing Alice and more

So with all the chaos of the past week, you may have missed that Friday was the final episode of Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host. Trebek, who died in November at age 80 after a battle with cancer, hosted the answer-and-question game show for 37 years. The show posted a best-of highlight reel of… Read more

eBay could pull out of South Korea despite a profit

South Korean media reports that eBay is putting its subsidiary there for sale. The financial institutions Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are to help eBay Korea sell to a foreign investor for an estimated value of up to 5 trillion won (about 3.7 billion euros). The usual purchase test is already being prepared. eBay Korea… Read more