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Pfizer and BioNTech said a study found that an improved vaccine against the Omicron variant produced a significantly larger immune response than the company’s existing vaccine. The modified booster shot for Omicron resulted in study volunteers having neutralizing antibody levels 13.5 to 19.6 times higher than the current vaccine one month after dosing, depending on […]

Hackers stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from blockchain bridge Horizon. Blockchain bridges play an important role in decentralized financial systems, providing a way for users to transfer assets from one blockchain to another. In the case of Horizon, users can send Ethereum network tokens to Binance Smart Chain. Horizon said it was working with

Scientists report the most comprehensive study of aging and longevity to date, including data collected in the wild from 107 populations of 77 reptile and amphibian species around the world, according to a study published in the journal Science. For the first time, researchers have recorded particularly low rates of aging in sea turtles, crocodiles

Over 73,000 developers in 180 countries participate in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey . The results showed that Rust was the favorite programming language for developers for the seventh year in a row, followed by Elixir, Clojure, TypeScript, and Julia. JavaScript remains the most commonly used language, followed by HTML/CSS, SQL, Python, and TypeScript. Phoenix

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) announced on GitHub that the proposed cryptocurrency regulation bill, the Responsible Financial Innovation Act , has attracted 56 Issues and 21 Pull requests, many of which are hoaxes. There is also serious discussion that authors need to follow the pattern of publishing content on GitHub. There have also been proposals

Scholars who study China have noticed changes in China’s Internet over the past few years. Vincent Brussee, an analyst at the Mercator China Research Center, a Berlin-based think tank, regularly scours the Chinese Internet for data, noting that reliable data is increasingly difficult to come by. Some government websites may be geo-blocked, limiting access to

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced that CNKI has launched a cybersecurity review. HowNet is the operator of China’s largest academic database. The Cyberspace Administration of China stated that CNKI has a large amount of personal information and data related to key industries such as national defense, telecommunications, transportation, and natural resources. The database, known

ESA launched the Mars Express spacecraft in 2003, and it has been operating for more than 19 years. The most important discovery is the discovery of a huge glacial lake under the surface of Mars. The key scientific instrument that helped make this discovery is Sub-Surface Sounding Radar Altimeter (MARSIS). The software of MARSIS was

A rocket wreckage crashed on the lunar surface on March 4. The wreckage was initially thought to be the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched in February 2015 and later believed to belong to the Long March 3C carrier rocket that launched Chang’e 5 in October 2014, a notion China has denied.

Those who can afford luxury brands tend to buy and show off, and the myriad social benefits associated with affluence and high social status make such practices unsurprising. But a recent study found that in some cases the practice can also be detrimental, as it is seen as more self-interested than cooperative . The study

The city of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan announced that it had recovered a USB flash drive containing information about 460,000 residents. The city commissioned a company to handle the work of subsidized households affected by the new crown. The employees of this company drank too much after get off work, fell asleep on the road,

Italy is the latest country to issue a warning against the use of Google Analytics. Italian regulators have found that some web publishers are not complying with EU data protection rules on the use of Google Analytics because user data is being transferred to the US, which lacks EU-equivalent protection of user information. User information

Artificial intelligence has transformed the practice of science by allowing researchers to examine the vast amounts of data generated by today’s scientific instruments. Using deep learning, you can learn from the data itself, finding a needle in a haystack of data. Artificial intelligence is driving advances in gene search, pharmacy, drug design, and compound synthesis.