Pentagon Sticks With Microsoft for Cloud Computing Contract

Dish switching network to AT&T after calling T-Mobile anticompetitive

Enlarge (credit: Dish Network) Dish Network has agreed to pay AT&T at least $5 billion over 10 years for network access amid a feud between Dish and T-Mobile. Dish is in the early stages of building a 5G network and in the meantime is serving customers as a reseller using network capacity that it purchases […]

Genetic tricks of the longest-lived animals

Enlarge / Bats, remarkable little things. (credit: Bernd Wolter / EyeEm) Life, for most of us, ends far too soon—hence the effort by biomedical researchers to find ways to delay the aging process and extend our stay on Earth. But there’s a paradox at the heart of the science of aging: The vast majority of […]

FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11

Enlarge (credit: Getty | Congressional Quarterly) The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency authorization for the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. The FDA’s authorization follows the recommendation of its independent advisory committee, which earlier this week voted nearly unanimously in favor of authorizing the vaccine. The […]