The world’s longest undersea electric cable is set to be switched on this week, as testing begins for the 720km interconnector that will trade power between the UK and Norway. Electricity will start flowing through the €2bn North Sea Link in coming days, with the joint venture between the UK’s National Grid and Norway’s Statnett…
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A small study offers the first hint that an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccines just might give some organ transplant recipients a needed boost in protection. Even as most vaccinated people celebrate a return to near normalcy, millions who take immune-suppressing medicines because of transplants, cancer or other disorders remain in limbo — uncertain how…
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Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts. “I have to be here to watch my princess grow up,” the Mexican American restaurant worker wrote on Facebook. “My heart feels broken into pieces.” Ramos…
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The UK opposition Labour Party on Monday accused prime minister Boris Johnson of “complacency” regarding the Delta variant first identified in India and border policies. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, said that ministers had failed to heed warnings and had left UK borders as secure “as a sieve”. US consumer inflation forecast for the year…
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After two years of struggling to raise money, Chinese start-ups are seeing interest from venture capitalists pick up again, as the boom in the US crosses over the pacific. “The capital winter is over, competition for deals is fierce,” said Ming Liao of Prospect Avenue Capital. “You need to bring something to the table more…
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Daily Crunch time for Monday, June 14. I will be standing in for Alexander Wilhelm while he’s off enjoying his time away from the news cycle — if I don’t have…
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Humana on Monday announced it had signed a definitive agreement to purchase One Home Healthcare Solutions from private equity affiliate Waypoint Capital Partners, according to a news release. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the sale is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. The acquisition of the home-based service provider One Home…
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An ambitious new target to fully vaccinate two-thirds of England’s adult population by July 19 will test staff on the frontline of the country’s vaccination rollout who have warned of supply shortages and a growing struggle to combine the programme with clearing a huge backlog for non-coronavirus related treatment. The central role of vaccines in…
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The Supreme Court has given LinkedIn another chance to stop a rival company from scraping personal information from users’ public profiles, a practice LinkedIn says should be illegal but one that could have broad ramifications for internet researchers and archivists. LinkedIn lost its case against Hiq Labs in 2019 after the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court…
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Senior primary care provider Cano Health has acquired medical provider University Health Care for $600 million. The bolt-on acquisition grows Miami-based Cano’s projected 2021 revenue to as much as $1.5 billion. The combined company has 143,000 members, 88 medical centers and more than 1,000 staff and affiliated providers nationwide. The news comes amid a flurry…
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