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Days after Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to do just that • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 3, 2020
The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill which includes a $500m election security provision. A Friday vote went mostly along party lines as reps decided by a 217-197 margin to pass the 2021 Spending Bill. The bill will now go to the Senate. The $1.3tr spending package [PDF] is likely to be
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Coronavirus: Levels of herd immunity in UK may already be high enough to prevent second wave, study suggests 0
- BUSINESS
- July 17, 2020
The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a contribution. Levels of herd immunity within the UK may already be high enough to prevent a second wave of coronavirus, a new study by Oxford University scientists suggests. The researchers posit that some of the population may
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Mac adoption in enterprise grows, survey suggests 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 12, 2020
With Apple’s online WWDC 2020 event promising huge news for the ecosystem, spare a thought for the company’s push into the enterprise, where most businesses now already use or permit the use of Macs. Change already happened Parallels recently published a survey exploring Mac use in small and medium-sized enterprise, it found that 55% of
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Twitter suggests people should actually read articles before retweeting them 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 11, 2020
Here’s a novel concept: actually taking the time to read an article before hitting the retweet button based upon the headline. Twitter thinks so too and is testing a new prompt on Android that will ask users whether they’d like to open the article in question and examine its contents before committing to sharing it
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Cambridge University suggests one-way public spaces and using tongs while shopping when easing lockdown 0
- BUSINESS
- April 16, 2020
Normalising walking clockwise in public spaces and using tongs when shopping could help reduce spread of the coronavirus when easing lockdown measures, a study has claimed. When the UK was placed in lockdown on Monday 23 March, the government said it would conduct a review on the situation in three weeks’ time. Now that the
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Research in Sheep Suggests Possible Early Test for Fetal Heart Health 0
- HEALTH
- December 10, 2019
Changes in heart rate, due to low oxygen conditions, experienced by the fetus during pregnancy, could be used to predict the future heart health of babies, shows research published in The Journal of Physiology today. Previous research has shown that sustained low levels of oxygen (called chronic hypoxia) during pregnancy significantly impair the growth of the fetus, leading to a condition known as intrauterine growth
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