British scientists are developing ‘universal Covid jab’ to beat all variants

British scientists are developing a ‘universal Covid-19 vaccine’ that would effectively beat all variants of the virus and could be ready in as little as a year. Researchers at Nottingham University are working on a jab that targets the core of the disease – rather than the spike protein – because it is less likely … Read more

Lil Yachty is developing an action heist movie based on the family card game Uno for Mattel Films

Lil Yachty is developing an action heist movie based on the family card game Uno for Mattel Films By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 02:57 GMT, 5 February 2021 | Updated: 02:57 GMT, 5 February 2021 Lil Yachty is turning to the beloved family card game Uno as the basis for a new action heist … Read more

Facebook developing new ‘topic exclusion’ tool that can keep ads away from political News Feed posts

Facebook is developing a new tool that will keep ads away from sensitive posts in your News Feed. The social media platform is testing ‘topic exclusion’ controls that allow advertisers to keep marketing from politics, crime, controversial social issues and other designated topics. It’s already started using the controls with a limited number of advertisers. … Read more

Eating plenty of fish in childhood can halve the risk of developing asthma, study suggests 

Regularly eating salmon, mackerel and sardines as a child can halve the risk of developing asthma as you get older, according to a team of scientists.  Queen ‘Mary University of London researchers studied data from 4,500 children born in the 1990s in the UK – that have been monitored by scientists since birth. Those who … Read more

US Army is developing a briefcase-sized device that turns ‘ditch water’ into IV fluid in six minutes

US Army is developing a briefcase-sized device that turns dirty ‘ditch water’ into a one-liter bag of life-saving IV fluid in roughly six minutes The US Army is building a device that turns ground water into intravenous fluid The device is now a working prototype and about the size of a briefcase Water is injected with … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Scientists ‘should start developing new Covid vaccines now’ to cope with variants

Scientists need to start developing new Covid vaccines now to stop the coronavirus evolving to escape the immune system, an expert investigating new variants of the virus has warned. Professor Ravi Gupta, a Cambridge University microbiologist, fears there is a risk that mutations will ‘chip away’ at the efficacy of the current crop of vaccines … Read more

US Army researchers are developing muscle-bound, Terminator-like war robots that have living tissue

US Army researchers are developing muscle-bound, Terminator-like war robots that use living tissue in place of actuators for better agility and versatility The Army Research Laboratory wants to grow living muscles for robots The team says the living tissue would replace actuators that hold joints This would give robots similar agility and versatility to biological systems  … Read more

Health and tech leaders like Microsoft are developing digital COVID vaccination passports

A coalition of health organizations and technology companies, including Microsoft and Oracle, are working on a project that verifies who has received the coronavirus vaccination and prevent others from making false claims they have. Called Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), the venture aims to help people get encrypted digital copies of their immunization records stored in … Read more

Coronavirus UK: 70,000 people developing Covid-19 every day in the UK, app estimates

Almost 70,000 people are developing coronavirus symptoms every day in the UK, researchers warn. The team behind the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app, carried out with King’s College London, say the number of people reporting symptoms each day is up 27 per cent in a week from 55,226 to 69,958. It comes after the Office … Read more

Zoom could be developing an email service and calendar app in a bid to take on Google and Microsoft 

Zoom could be developing an email service and calendar app in a bid to take on Google and Microsoft A report reveals Zoom is developing a web email and calendar service The firm is developing the email service that could rollout next year It is said to be studying a calendar application but no dates … Read more