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BusinessHuffPostElon Musk Sending Dogecoin Into Space After His 'SNL' Jokes Smacked It On The Nose
Musk is barking up Dogecoin again after its value dropped nearly 30% during his appearance on "Saturday Night Live."
SciencePeopleShrunken Head Used in '70s Film Wise Bloods Revealed to Be Real and ‘Made from Human Tissue’
The head, known as a tsantsa, was authenticated to be sent back to the Ecuador government
HealthBusiness InsiderCOVID-19 patients in India are developing deadly 'black fungus' infections which can lead to blindness
Doctors say steroids, which have proven effective for those severely ill with COVID-19, may inadvertently fuel cases by dampening the immune system.
TechnologyEvening StandardCovid vaccine passport will be on the NHS app from next week
UK holidaymakers who have received two jabs will be able to use the NHS phone app as a so-called Covid vaccine passport from next week. Once the foreign travel ban is lifted on May 17, Downing Street said those going abroad could open the app upon arrival to prove they have had two doses. The app, developed by NHS Digital and NHS England, was originally designed to allow people to book appointments, repeat prescriptions and see their full medical records.
NewsBusiness InsiderLos Angeles County could reach herd immunity by end of July, health officials say
There are over 2 million more first doses that need to be administered before 80% of adults and adolescents in LA County will have at least one shot.
NewsPA Media: Tech70% of under-18s seeking help from charity ‘have gambling issues’
GamCare says young people are unaware of when gambling becomes harmful to them.
NewsPA Media: ScienceProtesters call for AstraZeneca to share Covid-19 vaccine techonology
Demonstrations are also taking place outside the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical firm’s Macclesfield site.
BusinessPA Media: TechApple faces billion-pound legal action over App Store charges
The claims accuse the technology giant of breaching UK competition law by abusing the dominant position of the App Store.
HealthPA Media: ScienceCovid-19 patients not admitted to hospital ‘go to GP more after infection’
Researchers compared people who tested positive for the virus with those who received negative test results.
LifestyleBusiness InsiderMiso butter potatoes and veggie pineapple tacos headline a free cookbook aimed at helping COVID-19 long-haulers enjoy food again after losing their sense of taste and smell
Chefs spent months formulating the science-based recipes, which include miso butter potatoes with green herb vinegar and cherry and almond tarts.
BusinessThe TelegraphBranson's Virgin Galactic faces new space flight delay
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is set to delay its latest flight to space yet again in a new setback to the billionaire’s plans to send tourists into space. The company said on Monday that it was “currently re-evaluating launch timing” for its next test flight after discovering a possible “wear and tear” issue on VMS Eve, the plane that carries its spacecraft into the air before it launches into space. It had previously said it would carry out its next test flight this month, before further test flights involving its staff and Sir Richard himself later in the year. It is unclear when the first commercial flights will take place. Around 600 prospective tourists have waited more than a decade, paying up to $250,000 (£177,000) per ticket, to travel into sub-orbital space on Galactic’s flights. Sir Richard founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, and the company started selling tickets in 2005, but the company has faced repeated delays and setbacks, most notably a fatal test flight in 2014.
BusinessAssociated PressEXPLAINER: Why the Colonial Pipeline hack matters
A cyberattack on a critical U.S. pipeline is sending ripple effects across the economy, highlighting cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation's aging energy infrastructure. The Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel used along the Eastern Seaboard, shut down Friday after a ransomware attack by gang of criminal hackers that calls itself DarkSide. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE COLONIAL PIPELINE?
NewsBusiness InsiderHow coral reefs made with human remains are restoring Florida's coastline
People seeking a "green burial" can choose to be laid to rest in artificial reefs, where their remains will become a habitat for sea creatures.
TechnologyYahoo Life Shopping'Game changer': Amazon just knocked the Apple MagSafe Charger down to $30, an all-time low
It even works with just about any Android phone or charging case that's Qi-compatible.
BusinessYahoo EntertainmentAll-time low: Amazon just knocked $100 off the latest Apple MacBook Air
Time to pounce: Apple's newest fully loaded M1 MacBook Air is massively discounted right now.
NewsAssociated PressNTSB: Tesla owner got into driver's seat before deadly crash
Home security camera footage shows that the owner of a Tesla got into the driver's seat of the car shortly before a deadly crash in suburban Houston, according to a government report Monday. The National Transportation Safety Board said it's still investigating all aspects of the crash. A computer that records air bag and seat belt status as well as speed and acceleration was damaged and is being examined at an NTSB lab.
HealthBusiness InsiderA 23-year-old Italian woman received 6 times the recommended amount of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine
Medical experts said getting too much vaccine usually doesn't lead to serious side effects - but it's important not to waste any doses.
HealthThe IndependentAir pollution from farming results in 16,000 US deaths a year
Scientists looked at specific foods linked to poor air quality, and red meat is top of the list
ScienceABC NewsCoral reefs could stop growing in 10 years unless greenhouse gases are significantly reduced, new study says
The fate of coral reefs around the world remains grim should global warming continue at its current rate, according to new research. Coral reefs will stop growing in the next decade or so unless a significant reduction in greenhouse gases is achieved, a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests. A team of researchers led by Christopher Cornwall, a marine botanist at the Victoria University of Wellington in Australia, analyzed data from 183 reefs worldwide to estimate the effects of ocean warming and acidification, which are posing increasing threats to underwater ecosystems.
HealthHuffPost UKPeople Got Drunk With Their Mates For Covid Research
How much does booze affect social distancing? Quite a lot, actually.
HealthPA Media: ScienceRisk of death cut by 80% after one dose of AZ and 97% after two doses of Pfizer
The latest data shows for the first time protection against mortality from the AstraZeneca jab and extra protection after two Pfizer doses.
NewsThe IndependentWhy do whales swim up the Thames?
‘Rare and worrying’ behaviour can be due to a variety of reasons, including human activity, or the whales making navigational errors, experts say
BusinessABC NewsSpaceX to launch satellite mission funded entirely in dogecoin
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced his private space company was launching a lunar satellite mission dubbed "Doge-1" early next year that will be paid for entirely with the cryptocurrency dogecoin. The price of dogecoin, a digital currency which originally started as a joke, reacted tepidly on Monday to the Sunday evening announcement, rising by just a few percentage points.
HealthThe IndependentVaccines and public health measures should keep UK on top of India variant, say experts
Scientists believe B.1.617.2 is at least as transmissible as the variant originally detected in Kent last year
NewsThe TelegraphUS pipeline attack raises fears over global cybersecurity
It took just two hours for cyber criminals to steal almost 100 gigabytes of data from one of the biggest energy pipelines in the US. On Friday, a shadowy criminal gang, known as Darkside, was able to use that data to lock the computers of the Colonial pipeline, halting the movement of nearly half of the US east coast’s fuel supply. Officials are still scrambling to fully restart operations at Colonial, which transports 2.5m barrels per day of gasoline and other fuels through 5,500 miles (8,850km) of pipelines linking refiners on the Gulf Coast to the eastern and southern US. Colonial Pipeline said on Monday it was only able to bring parts of its system back online, and added service will disrupted until the end of the week. “This is as close as you can get to the jugular of infrastructure in the United States," says Amy Myers Jaffe, managing director of the Climate Policy Lab. "It's not a major pipeline; it's the pipeline." Little is known about Darkside, the Eastern European collective that targets businesses using ransomware, a type of computer virus that involves hackers taking control of a computer system and blocking access to it until a ransom is paid. Evidence from past campaigns show it demanding between $200,000 (£141,000) and $4m to release files and computer systems, often attempting to dress up its criminals in a veneer of respectability. It sends out press releases and offers chat support to victims to help them pay up. It promises not to target hospitals, non-profits, schools or governments. It even claims to have made donations to charities from the profits of their hacks. DarkSide also offers to sell its malware to others in what is known as “ransomware-as-a-service,” according to the cybersecurity firm Cybereason. In a message posted on the dark web, where DarkSide maintains a site, the group suggested one of its customers was behind the attack. Attacks on national infrastructure on the rise In the latest incident, in which Colonial Pipeline was forced to shut down its system, emergency powers have been enacted by Joe Biden’s administration which allow fuel normally transported through pipes to be loaded into trucks for transportation. Gasoline prices have risen to their highest level since 2018 in a knock-on effect for consumers at the pump. “If this were a nation state attack it would be incredibly dangerous,” says Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert at the University of Surrey. “Physically trying to turn the lights off is a world away from espionage. This takes us away from the kind of ‘virtual’, victimless cyber attack into something that is very real.” Ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure are on the rise. In February, for instance, hackers changed the level of sodium hydroxide in water after penetrating cybersecurity at a Florida treatment plant.