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Fauci Wants to Start Fighting Next Pandemic Now

It won't come cheap, with the cost totaling "a few billion dollars" a year, Fauci said, and the first round of results wouldn't emerge for at least five years. Also, a huge number of scientists would be needed to conduct the necessary studies.

Survey: Parents Split on COVID Vaccination for Kids Under 12

In this June survey of more than 2,000 parents with at least one child between 3 and 18 years of age, 49% parents with kids aged 3 to 11 said they would likely get their child vaccinated, while 51% said they were unlikely to do so.

Kids Still Dying From Accidental Exposure to Fentanyl Pain Patches

The FDA warns accidental exposure to fentanyl pain patches is putting children's lives at risk.

When Are Head Injury Risks Highest for Young Soccer Players?

A small, preliminary study shows young soccer players have more head impacts during practices but experience more severe head impacts during games.

This YouTube channel is using AI to gloriously remaster classic game cutscenes

Twenty years ago, when photorealistic games were still just a faraway dream, companies like Square sent our imaginations soaring before we played, with big-budget intros and cutscenes. Long before Overwatch normalized the practice of releasing Pixar-quality animated shorts for each new character, Blizzard’s Diablo II and Capcom’s Onimusha 3 put us in the demon slaying mood with incredible mini-movies stretching to six minutes each. But if you dare try watching these classics on a modern 4K TV or even a 1080p monitor, they’ll look like a pixelated mess. That’s where a YouTube channel named Upscale and machine learning comes in — making them look nearly as good as they did on your old CRT. Or perhaps even better. It just depends how well... Continue reading… * This article was originally published here

MediaTek Dimensity 1300T to potentially be unveiled on July 26, specs suggest a beefed-up Dimensity 1200

Info on a fancy upcoming high-end Honor V7 Pro tablet surfaced yesterday, mostly teasing the design and suggesting a MediaTek Dimensity 1300T chipset at its core. Press release A new source now claims to have a bit more detail on the unannounced Dimensity chip. A photo showing a confidential MediaTek press release document, addressed to Honor definitely lends credibility to the leak as well. We still don't get the full specs sheet for the Dimensity 1300T, but it looks to follow the general trend with the rest of the lineup and is a similar, yet beefed-up derivative of the... http://dlvr.it/S4Pk6r

The day I thought Amazon had sent me a bomb

What would you do when a mysterious package appears on your doorstep? http://dlvr.it/S4Pk5g

Google Software Engineering Manager Prep bundle: Get this training package for just $40

There's no longer any need to limit yourself to the number of tech skills you can learn, or the time it takes to learn them. http://dlvr.it/S4Pk4p