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Queensland Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Shows Promising Results
The race is on to develop a vaccine to fight against the spread of coronavirus and one candidate in Queensland is looking decent so far.
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Tesla Source Code Reveals A Subscription Model For Its Self-Driving Car
A few weeks back it was announced that Tesla was planning on increasing the price of its eventual Full Self-Driving Package. A dig through the source code has now revealed that a pay-as-you-go subscription service is also in the works — and it’s a damn good idea.
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Animal Crossing’s Nature Day Exposes How Worthless Earth Day Is
In the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there’s no such thing as Earth Day. This video game full of cute anthropomorphic villagers celebrates Nature Day instead. Like everything else in the game, Animal Crossing has managed to turn a pretty awful real-world situation (i.e. ecological collapse) into a playful event. That’s part of what…
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Why Is It So Hard To Figure Out If The Coronavirus Is Airborne?
Scientists are debating a key aspect of the coronavirus that causes covid-19: whether the virus lingers in the air for long enough and in a great enough quantity for airborne transmission to be a common source of infection. It seems like a simple enough question, but it’s actually posing quite a challenge to researchers.