It’s the “one drug right now that we think may have real efficacy” against COVID-19, according to World Health Organization officials. Two patients “near death” who recently took an experimental dose made remarkable recoveries. But it’s not the overhyped antimalaria drug being pushed by President Trump. Remdesivir started out with similar hopes as a tool many thought could be effective against Ebola, the virus which caused […]
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So many people were trying to use the Ethereum blockchain during Thursday’s market meltdown that many applications simply stopped working as intended. The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector was hit particularly hard. The decentralized services that feed price information into these headless lending platforms – known as “oracles” in the industry – simply couldn’t keep up. Oracles could not send accurate price data and traders could not execute trades […]
Events across the world are being canceled and or postponed because the liability via organizers to have a mass Covid-19 outbreak would be devastating for their image. It’s also due to governments banning public gatherings to arrest the spread of the virus. This could mean, most large events with thousands of attendees are likely to be canceled for the first half of the year. So far, the fast-spreading virus […]
Like many adopted children, Gary Stewart grew up with abandonment issues, and as a result he eventually sought out his biological parents. What he found was much more than he expected. His mother Jude Gilford had made headlines as a 14-year-old fugitive alongside her 27-year-old husband Earl Van Best, Jr. When Gilford gave birth to Stewart, Best was uninterested in his newfound parental responsibilities, and ditched […]
UK 14:20 GMT 28.02.2020Get short URL When a pregnant woman in London was killed with a crossbow in November 2018 her local MP was promised by the government they would look into toughening up the laws on owning the lethal medieval weapons. But as a second crossbow killer is sentenced, why has the government not taken action on the weapons? A martial arts expert who lured […]
A Russian visa is notriously difficult to obtain, so spare a thought for World Cup winner Alessandro Del Piero who was prevented from obtaining a visa in Italy, instead traveling from LA to Armenia due to coronavirus fears. For those of you who have ever attempted traveling to Russia, you’ll know that ahead of the extreme climate and imposing language barrier, there is one roadblock that […]
JULIEN BESSET/AFP via Getty Images The growing threat of climate change has unleashed a scourge out of a horror movie: hordes of enormous ticks that are literally sucking the life out of the Vermont moose population. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Facebook page recently posted this counter-intuitive announcement: “Moose Hunt Proposed To Improve Moose Health In Northeast Corner Of VT.” The agency explained that the ticks […]
As the United States looks to develop artificial intelligence weapons to keep up with Russia and China, the Pentagon has adopted a set of guidelines that it says will keep its killer androids under human control. The Department of Defense adopted a set of “Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence” on Monday, following the recommendations by the Defence Innovation Board last October. “AI technology will change much […]
Despite its 4,000km border with China, Russia currently has no live reported domestic cases of the pathogen which has sent its neighbor into lock-down. Authorities clearly want to try and keep it that way. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced on Friday that over 2,500 people have already been ordered into quarantine due to the risk of the Covid-19 coronavirus. He also explained on his blog that […]
When a Chechen exile was shot dead in a Berlin park last summer it strained relations between Germany and Russia. A new investigation suggests his alleged killer may have been trained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was regarded as a terrorist by Moscow for his role in conflicts in the Caucasus during the early 2000s. He moved to Germany after apparently surviving an […]
The uncertainty and the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic are growing with each passing day. One week after the White House asked scientists to finally investigate whether the Covid-19 virus was bio-engineered (i.e., created in a lab), none other than CNBC jumped on the bandwagon and echoing a similar question by Senator Tom Cotton – and of course, Zero Hedge – said “maybe […]
The only clue was a faded tattoo above her right breast: two red cherries attached to a green stem. Thirteen years ago, the woman’s dismembered torso washed up on a beach in Mamaroneck, in New York’s Westchester County. She was stuffed in a suitcase. She had no limbs, no head, and no DNA profile. The police dubbed her “Cherries Doe.” “It was a particularly violent crime […]