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Enlarge / Residents wear protective masks while waiting to be vaccinated at a West Virginia United Health System Covid-19 vaccine clinic in Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S., on Thursday, March 11, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) The US logged another 4 million or so vaccinations Friday, bringing the total doses administered in the country over 200 […]
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Enlarge / The featureless, very Apple-like physical Apple Card. (credit: Apple) Apple plans to build its own in-house technology and infrastructure for financial services, according to a new Bloomberg report citing people with knowledge of the matter. The initiative is internally codenamed “Breakout” as an allusion to the idea of users breaking free from the […]
The debate continues: ‘Oumuamua could be remnant of Pluto-like planet
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