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April 26, 2025
The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people, as concern grows about cases in dairy cows across the country, federal officials announced Tuesday. Moderna already has a bird flu vaccine in very early-stage testing
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow, edit a Wikipedia entry or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence. Not everyone is OK with that — especially as the same
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Tuesday that it was providing $504 million in implementation grants for a dozen technology hubs in Ohio, Montana, Nevada and Florida, among other locations. The money would support the development of quantum computing, biomanufacturing, lithium batteries, computer chips, personal medicine and other technologies. The Democratic administration is trying
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GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Tuesday that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year, was confirmed to be the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded at 36 days. Freddy topped the previous record held by Hurricane John, which struck Hawaii and lasted almost 30 days in the
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Our prediction for this Euro 2024 match: France Portugal Expect an electrifying atmosphere at Volksparkstadion when France and Portugal square off against each other in the EURO 2024 quarter-finals. France survived Belgium thanks to Jan Vertonghen’s late own-goal, but it has to be noted that they dominated the game. Midfielder Adrien Rabiot serves a one-game
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From being next to Wake Forest, to enrolling at Wake Forest. Rolesville rising senior Caitlyn Jones, the MVP of the N.C. High School Athletic Association’s 4A girls basketball championship, announced over the weekend on Instagram that she was committing to the Demon Deacons. The point guard earned first-team all-state recognition from HSOT by averaging 23.1
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The 2024 N.C. Gatorade Player of the Year in baseball has a change of plans. Grace Christian of Sanford’s Camron Seagraves was originally committed to Campbell, but had reopened his recruitment following the departure of former head coach Justin Haire to Ohio State. Seagraves announced on X on Monday that he will be enrolling at
READ MOREThe Olympic journey to Paris has a stop in the Triangle. Team USA’s swim practice got underway on Monday at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, where 46 American swimmers, along with their coaching staff, will spend the next week getting ready for the Olympic games. The site was specially chosen due to its incredible training facility,
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WILLIAMS, Ariz. (AP) — One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop. Bone fragments in a piece of fossilized excrement at a new museum in northern Arizona — aptly called the Poozeum — are among the tinier bits of evidence that indicate T. rex wasn’t much
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LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators accused social media company Meta Platforms on Monday of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. Meta has been giving European users the option since November of paying for ad-free versions of Facebook
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