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If the ongoing studies are successful, and the vaccine candidate receives regulatory approval, the companies said they expect to make up to 100 million doses by the end of this year and potentially more than 1.2 billion doses by 2021-end. … [Read more...] about Pfizer, BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccines get FDA’s ‘fast track’ status

For Google software such as Google Maps, Gmail, and its eponymous search engine, the contours of helpfulness are well established. Hardware is much more of a green field. Kaufman gives an example: Using a Home speaker in the kitchen to set a timer to remind you to turn down the oven. That’s useful. But if the timer announces its completion when you’re in another room, isn’t it no more helpful than a plain old kitchen timer? And maybe true helpfulness involves anticipating that you want to turn down the oven, so your cookies don’t burn? Regardless of whether ATAP is actually tackling the scourge of burnt cookies, it’s asking itself similarly open-ended questions about the areas it’s investigating.Along with tweaking ATAP’s research areas, Kaufman has also rethought how the group goes about conducting its work. The original DARPA-inspired vision was that no research effort would last for more than a couple of years. If it died along the way, … [Read more...] about Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices

“The cash flow model is incredible,” said Adrian Hoffman, an owner of Four Star Seafood, in San Francisco, which over a single weekend in March rerouted its fleet of 13 fish trucks from high-end Bay Area restaurants to the home addresses of individual customers. Why not keep supplying them with special soy sauces from Japan, unusual oils and, on special request, eggs, Hoffman thought, for at least a portion of his trade? … [Read more...] about Coronavirus impact | Your kitchen can be as well stocked as restaurants now