19 October 2020 — Eighteen (18) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 1373 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to four thousand, nine hundred, and ninety-two (4992). To date, four thousand, seven hundred, and ninety-seven (4797) patients have recovered and been discharged, including fourteen (14) in the past 24…
Kelly Ripa is showing off her new ink.The "Live with Kelly and Ryan" morning show host recently got a tattoo of her wedding date with husband Mark Consuelos in honor of their 25th anniversary. The 50-year-old revealed on her Instagram Stories she got "5.1.96" on the inside of her elbow. "Clean mani and fine lines," she captioned the…
Police are investigating the death of a Brooklyn 12-year-old, whose family said he died after being attacked at school over a dollar in a possible dare that turned deadly.Emergency responders found Romy Vilsaint losing consciousness at his Flatbush home Friday morning. The boy was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died.The NYPD is investigating if Vilsaint…
The core of China's Long March 5B rocket is predicted to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in a matter of hours, but scientists and government agencies still cannot pinpoint the point of impact. Core, or first-stage, rockets normally don't go into orbit like the Long March 5B, instead making a controlled re-entry shortly after launch.However, this rocket --…
Now Adam Sandler can have all the milkshakes he wants. On Friday, IHOP announced that it will be offering all-you-can-drink milkshakes at its Long Island locations on Monday. The restaurant chain announced the promotion -- which will benefit the nonprofit Comedy Gives Back -- after a video of Sandler being turned away from a Long Island IHOP went…
About a year into mask mandates, nasal swabs and remote classes, the atmosphere turned tense at the University of Vermont as the school cracked down on rules for social distancing and face coverings amid a spike in student COVID-19 cases.Students were handed hundreds of citations for violations like standing in another student’s doorway or walking…
Brazzaville - With Africa-bound COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India delayed for the foreseeable future, slow vaccine rollouts and new variants making inroads, the risk of a new wave of infections in Africa remains high. Delays and shortages of vaccine supplies are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the…
Monrovia, Liberia: To strengthen Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance and stewardship in Liberia, WHO on 23 April 2021 donated information communication and technology (ICT) equipment and assorted accessories to the Ministry of Health. The ICT equipment and accessories donated include eight laptop computers, seven printers, seven mobile phones and assorted boxes of stationeries and printers’ cartridges,…
The World Health Organization in Ethiopia, in collaboration with regional health bureaus, has launched a national campaign themed ‘choose life, wear a mask’, and ‘frequent hand-washing saves lives’ encouraging communities to wear masks and clean their hands as a health habit. The first billboard was installed in Addis Ababa on April 22, 2021 in the…
04 May 2021 — Forty (40) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3119 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, three hundred, and fifty-one (25351). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three (23523) patients have recovered, including one ten (10) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one…
03 May 2021 — Fifty-eight (28) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2856 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, two hundred, and eleven (25311). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and thirteen (23513) patients have recovered, including one seventy-one (71) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is…
ByRiley BlackPublished May 6, 2021• 7 min readIt’s a golden age for paleontology: In recent years, scientists have gathered all kinds of clues about the way dinosaurs looked and lived, from awe-inspiring fossil reconstructions to preserved footprints and bite marks on bones. Now, paleontologists are showing that some of the most tantalizing indications of how…
ScienceCoronavirus CoverageThe report strengthens the CDC’s recommendation that anyone pregnant be offered the vaccine and sets the stage for more “paradigm-changing” vaccine trials during pregnancy.ByTara HaellePublished May 6, 2021• 11 min readAs each of the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines became available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consistently asserted that they should not be withheld…
ByDouglas MainPhotographs ByDarlyne MurawskiPublished May 3, 2021• 9 min readIn the late spring of 1634, pilgrims in Massachusetts witnessed an incredible sight: Millions and millions of winged, red-eyed insects sprung from the earth. Not knowing better, the Puritan immigrants likened them to pestilential swarms from the Old Testament and called them “locusts.”But they were wrong.…
AnimalsNewsThese unexpected “ecosystem engineers” provide hydration for dozens of animal species, from badgers to elf owls to toads.ByDouglas MainPublished April 29, 2021• 5 min readHumans have a long history of digging wells, but we're not the only species to tap the earth for water: New research reveals wild horses and donkeys, also known as burros,…
ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished April 27, 2021• 12 min readStanding among patches of muddy snow on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, I bent down to pick up a piece of the planet that should have been hidden miles below my feet.On that chilly February day, I was out with a pair of geologists to see an exposed…
SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon 9 rocket reusability. This marked the 10th flight of the first-stage rocket booster used for the launch, which sets…
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive…
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the application of technology. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal energy was a way to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through. The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company is predicting will appeal…
An explosion rocked an oil tanker off the coast of Syria on Sunday, causing a small fire in one of its engines, state media said.The fire on the ship - off the coast of Syria's Mediterranean port of Banias - was extinguished by the crew quickly with no casualties, it said."The technical fault took place…
The IDF has sent an additional three battalions to the West Bank to reinforce four already in the area, following violence in Jerusalem and overall heightened tension in the area.The decision by Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi was made following a situational assessment held at the Salem base in the Menashe Regional Brigade and…
Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of KKL-JNF. Gold broke the ‘glass ceiling’ as the first woman to be appointed manager in a KKL-JNF field position. KKL-JNF Child plants tree sapling (photo credit: KKL) Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of…
Efforts by Likud activists to begin the process of finding a new Likud leader to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were reportedly stymied on Sunday, as Netanyahu loyalists ignored them.Groups of Likud activists have tried in vain to convene the party’s institutions, including its 80-member governing secretariat and its 3,000-member central committee. The chairman of…
Extremist forces won't be allowed to disrupt the peace of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as he issued a warning against those who attack Israel either in its capital city of Jerusalem or on the Gaza border."We won't allow any violent public disturbances," said Netanyahu as he promised to uphold freedom for worship…
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SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon 9 rocket reusability. This marked the 10th flight of the first-stage rocket booster used for the launch, which sets…
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive…
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the application of technology. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal energy was a way to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through. The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company is predicting will appeal…
Kelly Ripa is showing off her new ink.The "Live with Kelly and Ryan" morning show host recently got a tattoo of her wedding date with husband Mark Consuelos in honor of their 25th anniversary. The 50-year-old revealed on her Instagram Stories she got "5.1.96" on the inside of her elbow. "Clean mani and fine lines," she captioned the…
Police are investigating the death of a Brooklyn 12-year-old, whose family said he died after being attacked at school over a dollar in a possible dare that turned deadly.Emergency responders found Romy Vilsaint losing consciousness at his Flatbush home Friday morning. The boy was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died.The NYPD is investigating if Vilsaint…
The core of China's Long March 5B rocket is predicted to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in a matter of hours, but scientists and government agencies still cannot pinpoint the point of impact. Core, or first-stage, rockets normally don't go into orbit like the Long March 5B, instead making a controlled re-entry shortly after launch.However, this rocket --…
Now Adam Sandler can have all the milkshakes he wants. On Friday, IHOP announced that it will be offering all-you-can-drink milkshakes at its Long Island locations on Monday. The restaurant chain announced the promotion -- which will benefit the nonprofit Comedy Gives Back -- after a video of Sandler being turned away from a Long Island IHOP went…
About a year into mask mandates, nasal swabs and remote classes, the atmosphere turned tense at the University of Vermont as the school cracked down on rules for social distancing and face coverings amid a spike in student COVID-19 cases.Students were handed hundreds of citations for violations like standing in another student’s doorway or walking…
Brazzaville - With Africa-bound COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India delayed for the foreseeable future, slow vaccine rollouts and new variants making inroads, the risk of a new wave of infections in Africa remains high. Delays and shortages of vaccine supplies are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the…
Monrovia, Liberia: To strengthen Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance and stewardship in Liberia, WHO on 23 April 2021 donated information communication and technology (ICT) equipment and assorted accessories to the Ministry of Health. The ICT equipment and accessories donated include eight laptop computers, seven printers, seven mobile phones and assorted boxes of stationeries and printers’ cartridges,…
The World Health Organization in Ethiopia, in collaboration with regional health bureaus, has launched a national campaign themed ‘choose life, wear a mask’, and ‘frequent hand-washing saves lives’ encouraging communities to wear masks and clean their hands as a health habit. The first billboard was installed in Addis Ababa on April 22, 2021 in the…
04 May 2021 — Forty (40) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3119 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, three hundred, and fifty-one (25351). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three (23523) patients have recovered, including one ten (10) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one…
03 May 2021 — Fifty-eight (28) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2856 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to twenty-five thousand, two hundred, and eleven (25311). To date, twenty-three thousand, five hundred, and thirteen (23513) patients have recovered, including one seventy-one (71) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is…
ByRiley BlackPublished May 6, 2021• 7 min readIt’s a golden age for paleontology: In recent years, scientists have gathered all kinds of clues about the way dinosaurs looked and lived, from awe-inspiring fossil reconstructions to preserved footprints and bite marks on bones. Now, paleontologists are showing that some of the most tantalizing indications of how…
ScienceCoronavirus CoverageThe report strengthens the CDC’s recommendation that anyone pregnant be offered the vaccine and sets the stage for more “paradigm-changing” vaccine trials during pregnancy.ByTara HaellePublished May 6, 2021• 11 min readAs each of the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines became available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consistently asserted that they should not be withheld…
ByDouglas MainPhotographs ByDarlyne MurawskiPublished May 3, 2021• 9 min readIn the late spring of 1634, pilgrims in Massachusetts witnessed an incredible sight: Millions and millions of winged, red-eyed insects sprung from the earth. Not knowing better, the Puritan immigrants likened them to pestilential swarms from the Old Testament and called them “locusts.”But they were wrong.…
AnimalsNewsThese unexpected “ecosystem engineers” provide hydration for dozens of animal species, from badgers to elf owls to toads.ByDouglas MainPublished April 29, 2021• 5 min readHumans have a long history of digging wells, but we're not the only species to tap the earth for water: New research reveals wild horses and donkeys, also known as burros,…
ByMaya Wei-HaasPublished April 27, 2021• 12 min readStanding among patches of muddy snow on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, I bent down to pick up a piece of the planet that should have been hidden miles below my feet.On that chilly February day, I was out with a pair of geologists to see an exposed…
SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon 9 rocket reusability. This marked the 10th flight of the first-stage rocket booster used for the launch, which sets…
At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. However, the same mission that has helped it grow to a business valued at $2.4 billion with over 500 million registered learners, has led to tensions that continue to define the business. How do you survive…
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the application of technology. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal energy was a way to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
E-bike startup Cowboy has launched the Cowboy 4, its newest generation of urban electric bikes. The bike will come in two different frames, a traditional frame, and a step-through. The C4 is basically an upgrade on the previous version 3, while the ‘C4 ST’ is a step-through model which the company is predicting will appeal…
An explosion rocked an oil tanker off the coast of Syria on Sunday, causing a small fire in one of its engines, state media said.The fire on the ship - off the coast of Syria's Mediterranean port of Banias - was extinguished by the crew quickly with no casualties, it said."The technical fault took place…
The IDF has sent an additional three battalions to the West Bank to reinforce four already in the area, following violence in Jerusalem and overall heightened tension in the area.The decision by Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi was made following a situational assessment held at the Salem base in the Menashe Regional Brigade and…
Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of KKL-JNF. Gold broke the ‘glass ceiling’ as the first woman to be appointed manager in a KKL-JNF field position. KKL-JNF Child plants tree sapling (photo credit: KKL) Anat Gold, 51, from Meitar, has been appointed Director of the Central Region of…
Efforts by Likud activists to begin the process of finding a new Likud leader to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were reportedly stymied on Sunday, as Netanyahu loyalists ignored them.Groups of Likud activists have tried in vain to convene the party’s institutions, including its 80-member governing secretariat and its 3,000-member central committee. The chairman of…
Extremist forces won't be allowed to disrupt the peace of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday as he issued a warning against those who attack Israel either in its capital city of Jerusalem or on the Gaza border."We won't allow any violent public disturbances," said Netanyahu as he promised to uphold freedom for worship…
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Jos, 04 December 2020 – “Everyone individually and collectively must act to prevent this disease from spreading in our villages and WHO is leading the way,” says Mallam Shuaibu Musa, Ward Head for the Angwan Rogo/Rimi community, Plateau State. For Musa, testing is the first step in bringing an end to this pandemic and he…
PELOSI GETS DRAGGED ‘BY THE HAIR’ FOR HYPOCRISY. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives After looking into the camera countless times to preach...
17 September 2020 — Nineteen (19) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2097 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to four thousand, six hundred, and fifty-three (4653). To date, two thousand, eight hundred, and seventeen (2817) patients have recovered and been discharged, including twenty-eight (28) in the past 24…
About a year into mask mandates, nasal swabs and remote classes, the atmosphere turned tense at the University of Vermont as the school cracked down on rules for social distancing and face coverings amid a spike in student COVID-19 cases.Students were handed hundreds of citations for violations like standing in another student’s doorway or walking…
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What Tesla CEO Elon Musk says publicly about the company’s progress on a fully autonomous driving system doesn’t match up with “engineering reality,” according to a memo that summarizes a meeting between California regulators and employees at the automaker. The memo, which transparency site Plainsite obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequently…
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The pandemic has just pushed edtech mainstream, but language-learning startup Duolingo had already spent the past decade figuring out how to build a successful edtech app. In our latest installment of the EC-1 series, Natasha Mascarenhas goes deep with the company to understand how it found product-market fit, then figured out how to grow like…
Long-running German audio company Sennheiser today announced that it has found a buyer for its consumer brand. Swiss holding company Sonova — a giant in the hearing aid business — will be acquiring the brand in a deal expected to close by end of year. The deal will bring headphones and sound bars to Sonova’s…
Arab bodies throughout the Middle East widely condemned Israeli police violence during clashes with worshipers at the al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday. The Islamic Movement in Israel condemned the actions of Israel Police and demanded that they immediately retreat their forces from the Temple Mount region after violent clashes between police and worshippers at the Aqsa Mosque…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Israel's intention to protect the right to worship during a meeting with numerous security heads following a night of violence in Jerusalem's Old City amid Temple Mount clashes.Violent clashes broke out at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday between worshipers and security forces, just as tens of thousands of…
Some 47% of Israelis support the formation of a Lapid-Bennett led government, a new poll has found, according to N12. The poll, conducted by Midgam Consulting and Research, led by Mano Geva and presented on Ophira and Berko this week, also found that some 61% of right-wing voters oppose the formation of this government, while…
India's health ministry reported 4,187 fatalities over the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to just under 240,000, though experts say the real death toll is likely far higher. By REUTERS MAY 8, 2021 11:35 PEOPLE STRUGGLING with COVID-19 wait to receive oxygen at a Sikh temple in Ghaziabad, India, on Tuesday. (photo…
Numerous fires broke out throughout the weekend in southern Israel, mostly along the Gaza border and in the Eshkol Regional Council, amid heightened tensions in the region. Balloon units prepare incendiary and explosive balloons to launch towards Israel, August 12, 2020 (photo credit: SONS OF AL-ZAWARI BALLOON UNIT/TELEGRAM) Incendiary balloons launched from Gaza caused numerous…
ByRiley BlackPublished May 6, 2021• 7 min readIt’s a golden age for paleontology: In recent years, scientists have gathered all kinds of clues about the way dinosaurs looked and lived, from awe-inspiring fossil reconstructions to preserved footprints and bite marks on bones. Now, paleontologists are showing that some of the most tantalizing indications of how…