Month: July 2020
Lemonade and Accolade open sharply higher as public markets rally
Despite today’s bucket of plus-and-minus economic data, stocks are heading higher in regular trading. And among the shares rising the most are today’s two venture-backed IPOs: Lemonade and Accolade. TechCrunch wrote this morning that the firms’ aggressive IPO pricing arcs
Read MoreThe great stink in software pipelines
Greg Law Contributor Share on Twitter Greg Law is the co-founder and CTO at Undo.io, a software failure replay platform provider. It’s the summer of 1858. London. The River Thames is overflowing with the smell of human and industrial waste.
Read More‘Cancel Canada Day’: Indigenous Activists Protest ‘Ongoing Genocide’
Indigenous activists in Canada peaceful marched in the streets yesterday, as part of the ‘Cancel Canada Day’ protests that took place nationwide on the country’s national holiday. Organized by the Idle No More movement, the march protested the “ongoing genocide”
Read MoreStudents in Alabama Threw COVID Parties to See Who Would Get Infected First, Say Officials
(TUSCALOOSA, Ala.) — Several college students in an Alabama city organized “COVID-19” parties as a contest to see who would get the virus first, officials said. Tuscaloosa City Councilor Sonya McKinstry said students hosted the parties to intentionally infect each
Read MoreBerkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute is rolling out a spit test for COVID-19 testing
Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have begun trials of a new spit test for COVID-19 infections developed by the university’s Innovative Genomics Institute. Since the disease was first identified on U.S. shores, the Berkeley research institute led by
Read MoreBoding well for immunity hope, scientists say all COVID patients make antibodies
The case for immunity from reinfection for coronavirus patients is looking good, say researchers at Tel Aviv University
Read MoreSlain Singer Is Laid To Rest After Days Of Deadly Turmoil In Ethiopia
Since Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was shot dead in Addis Ababa, the country has been riven by ethnic discontent. At least 80 people have died in clashes between protesters and security forces this week. (Image credit: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)
Read MoreSlain Singer Is Laid To Rest After Days Of Deadly Turmoil In Ethiopia
Since Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was shot dead in Addis Ababa, the country has been riven by ethnic discontent. At least 80 people have died in clashes between protesters and security forces this week. (Image credit: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)
Read MorePioneering CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna is coming to Disrupt
Jennifer Doudna, a woman whose work has triggered the explosion in innovation in the field of synthetic biology and has given researchers around the world a way to program and reprogram the living world, will be speaking at Disrupt in
Read MoreAre virtual concerts here to stay?
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the music industry to experiment seriously with virtual concerts. Historically, musicians and their managers have been careful about challenging the traditional concert model that became their main source of income as revenue from album sales disappeared.
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