COVID-19: Suffering from Skin Damage from Protective Masks? Researchers Offer Remedies to Heal Healthcare professionals on the COVID-19 frontline are spending many hours a day wearing face masks, and many members of the general public are doing the same. But although the devices offer invaluable protection, they can be the …

NBA Hints To Rapid Blood Tests For COVID-19. What Silver didn’t discuss, however, is that the league and the National Basketball Players Association have been investigating the possibility of acquiring rapid blood tests that could diagnose COVID-19 within 15 minutes. Multiple league sources close to the situation said the league …

Paul Rudd Is The Latest Celeb To Star In An Audible Series Audible is well known for the being the world’s largest library of audiobooks, but they’ve started moving onto other forms of spoken word as well such as radio and TV programs. They’ve also started supplying audio only series, …

The future of identity in a cookieless world Identity is hard, and it’s getting even more complex with Google’s recent announcement that it plans to end support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser within two years. This move will have the greatest impact on digital channels that rely on …

Why TFLOPS Are Bad for Comparing PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X Performance With the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 both coming to market at some point between now and the heat death of the universe, it’s a decent moment to revisit the strengths and weaknesses of using TFLOPS to …

Microsoft Edge Surpasses Firefox Usage Share Microsoft launched its Edge browser alongside Windows 10 almost five years ago, but it never gained traction in its original form. That’s why Microsoft took the unexpected step of redesigning Edge from the ground up with a Chromium base. It looks like that gamble …

Anti-Parasitic Drug Inhibits Replication of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Cell Cultures A team of scientists from the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University and the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) has found that a single dose of the FDA-approved drug, Ivermectin, can stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus growing …

Paper-Based Device Could Detect SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Wastewater An approach called the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), which is already recognized as an effective way to trace illicit drugs and obtain information on health, disease, and pathogens, could provide an effective and rapid way to predict the potential spread of SARS-CoV-2, a …

COVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov trails Europe in its response The UK government is reportedly looking at a range of options to support the startup industry, possibly involving a co-investment model involving state-owned funds (via the British Business Bank) and private VC funds. Investors have …

UK court to Google: Expose algorithm or withdraw key piece of defense evidence A UK High Court judge is offering Google a difficult choice: let a working SEO see confidential algorithm documents or withdraw those documents as evidence of Google’s ranking impartiality in a years-old civil case tied to alleged …