Enlarge / Chairs for people who want to be vaccinated stand in the waiting room at the Mainz Vaccination Center. Currently, demand for COVID-19 booster vaccinations at vaccination centers and doctors’ offices is low. (credit: Getty | picture alliance) The dreaded winter COVID wave may already be upon us—and based on early signs, we may…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge / A 3D illustration of the HIV virus. (credit: Westend61 / Getty) In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to snip the AIDS-causing virus out of his cells. For an hour, he was hooked up to an IV bag that pumped the…
Enlarge / This Kiwibot robot is waiting to be loaded with my muffin. Afterward, a worker carried it across the street on the scooter. (credit: Timothy B. Lee) I’d been following the robot for about five minutes when it seemed to get hopelessly lost. The four-wheeled vehicle, the size and shape of a large cooler,…
Enlarge / The Czinger 21C features tandem seating and a 3.5:1 lift-to-drag ratio. (credit: Rolex/Tom O’Neal) BMW provided flights from DC to San Francisco and back, plus five nights in a hotel, so we could attend Monterey Car Week in August. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MONTEREY, Calif.—Perhaps the coolest thing I saw at…
We think you’ll be as amazed as we are by the collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final cut, and you’ll find all of them — and only them — exhibiting on the TechCrunch Disrupt show floor on October…
Atman Capital, a year-old early-stage venture firm partially backed by about 20 founders, is sweetening the deal for these individual limited partners. It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s own profits. It’s an…
At this year’s Made by Google event, there weren’t many surprises thanks to an abundance of leaks, but there’s still plenty to dig into. Google unveiled the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, a new Pixel Watch, and…a new Pixel Tablet. What? Yes, the Pixel Tablet still exists and it’s getting an upgrade, too. Not to…
Tracking down the files you need in Microsoft Teams should soon get a lot easier thanks to a new update from the company. The video conferencing service has revealed it will be adding the capability to delete or rename files in a channel and in your OneDrive folder in Teams. Going forward, this means users…
Chinese mobile giant Huawei has reportedly developed strategies to bypass the impact of US sanctions that limit its access to US technology and launch 5G-enabled smartphones as early as next year. The company, which briefly overtook Samsung as the world’s biggest manufacturer in 2020, is blacklisted by the US government – affecting its supply of…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, March 10, 2014. REUTERS/Alexei Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin A cap on the price of Russian oil would give countries more leverage to negotiate better prices from suppliers. A Treasury official added that the US had “positive” talks with…