Day: July 30, 2022
Biden tests positive for Covid only days after testing negative | Joe Biden
Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 only days after testing negative and having apparently largely shrugged off an infection with the virus, the White House physician said in a statement. The president had contracted Covid and apparently recovered. But Biden had been taking the medication Paxlovid, which has reported numerous cases of effectively reducing […]
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Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts
Comment on this story Comment The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative team’s effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts this year, according to four people with knowledge of the decision and internal records reviewed by The Washington Post. In early February, after learning that the […]
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DOE Announces First Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan in More than a Decade
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) today announced it closed a $102.1 million loan to Syrah Technologies LLC for the expansion of its Syrah Vidalia Facility—a processingfacility that produces graphite-based active anode material (AAM), a critical material used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean energy […]
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 30)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DeepMind Has Predicted the Structure of Almost Every Protein Known to ScienceMelissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review“From today, the Alphabet-owned AI lab is offering its database of over 200 million proteins to anyone for free. …The update includes structures for ‘plants, bacteria, animals, and many, many other organisms, opening up huge opportunities for […]
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Informational meetings scheduled for proposed carbon pipeline through Bremer, Buchanan counties | Political News
Public informational meetings have been scheduled next month to discuss a private enterprise’s proposal to build and operate 1,300 miles of carbon capture and sequestration pipeline. The Navigator Heartland Greenway will end up passing through Bremer, Buchanan and other nearby counties, but not Black Hawk, according to filings with the Iowa Utilities Board. According to […]
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