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FDA advisors for COVID shots left in the dark over how they’ll be regulated
At the outset of the meeting, the FDA's new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, said he and FDA leaders wanted to "give people a little more time to digest the policy." He said that the FDA is still ...
Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariff to force iPhone manufacturing into US
Donald Trump woke up Friday morning and threatened Apple with a 25 percent tariff on any iPhones sold in the US that are not manufactured in America.
Rocket Report: SpaceX’s expansion at Vandenberg; India’s PSLV fails in flight
The Kinetica-1 rocket launched Wednesday for the first time since a failure doomed its previous attempt to reach orbit in December, according to the vehicle's developer and operator, CAS Space. The ...
Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike battery
E-bike batteries are, for the most part, a collection of 18650 batteries, packaged together and welded in series and parallel, attached to a battery management system (BMS). A "dead" e-bike battery ...
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”
In November, Microsoft began testing an update that allowed users to rewrite or summarize text in Notepad using generative AI. Another preview update today takes it one step further, allowing you to ...
Glass redux: Google aims to avoid past mistakes as it brings Gemini to your face
It's been 13 years since Google announced its Google Glass headset and 10 years since it stopped selling the device to ...
The Pentagon seems to be fed up with ULA’s rocket delays
ULA retired its Delta IV Heavy rocket in April 2024, and the handful of Atlas V rockets that remain are committed to other missions. This has left the Air Force dependent on SpaceX, with its Falcon 9 ...
What I learned from my first few months with a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, part 1
But I could never quite imagine myself using one consistently enough to buy one. Then, this past Christmas, my wife forced the issue by getting me a Bambu Lab A1 as a present. Since then, I've been ...
Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in yet another discovery showing the hidden threats users of such open ...
Topic: azure ai
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Topic: e-bike battery
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FAA: Airplanes should stay far away from SpaceX’s next Starship launch
The Federal Aviation Administration gave the green light Thursday for SpaceX to launch the next test flight of its Starship ...