Compared to coronavirus cases earlier in the pandemic, infections with the Delta variant lead to worse outcomes for unvaccinated pregnant women, new data suggest. Doctors studied 1,515 pregnant women with COVID-19 who received care from a large public health system in Dallas from May 2020 through Sept. 4, 2021. Overall, 82 women – 81 of…
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Canadian health officials said on Friday data suggests reported cases of rare heart inflammation were relatively higher after Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine compared with the Pfizer/BioNTech shots. The data also indicated heart inflammation occurs more often in adolescents and adults under 30 years of age, and more often in males. The statement from the Public Health…
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Former US President Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Florida on Friday to ask Twitter to restore his account, which the company removed in January citing a risk of incitement of violence. Trump filed a request for preliminary injunction against Twitter in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, arguing the…
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The popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has a feature that you can use to message on your own number to add notes or save some important information. The “click to chat” feature allows you to start a chat with someone without having their phone number saved in your phone’s address book. Here’s how you can…
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Receive free Quantum technologies updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Quantum technologies news every morning. The first quantum computer company to pull off a stock market listing made its debut on Wall Street on Friday, marking a milestone for a technology that until recently was thought to be…
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There is some good news for the Mortal Kombat game franchise as one of its installments titled Mortal Kombat X will be available on PlayStation Plus in October without any cost. PS Plus will also see free of cost access to several games that is Mortal Kombat X, PGA Tour 2K21, and the upcoming game…
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Receive free Coinbase updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Coinbase news every morning. Hackers stole cryptocurrencies from at least 6,000 customers of the Nasdaq-listed digital asset exchange Coinbase by exploiting a flaw in its two-factor authentication system. The news, first reported by Bleeping Computer, comes just a week…
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Receive free Venture capital investment updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Venture capital investment news every morning. Venture capitalist are increasing the valuations they give to start-ups at the steepest rate in the past decade, stoking fears of overheating in the market for emerging technology companies. Private companies that…
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Newsletter: #techFT The latest news and comment on the most pressing issues in the technology sector. Delivered every weekday. This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday The ethereum blockchain has come to prominence over the past year, with its…
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Receive free Zoom Video Communications Inc updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Zoom Video Communications Inc news every morning. Zoom Video’s near-$15bn acquisition of call centre software company Five9 is off. Shareholder opposition and regulatory scrutiny made the deal a hard sell from the start. Rising bond yields…
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