Author: Admin

In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, into humans. The result was the SARS pandemic, which spread to 33 countries and claimed 774 lives. A few months into it, scientists discovered the coronavirus in mammals known as palm civets sold in a market at the center of the outbreak.In a study published on Wednesday, a team of researchers compared the evolutionary story of SARS with that of Covid 17 years later. The researchers analyzed the…

Mike Musheinesh gets about 75 percent of the auto parts his company sells from China. But even with plenty to lose in a trade war, Mr. Musheinesh gave President Trump the benefit of the doubt when he started increasing tariffs on the company’s most important trading partner.The president “needs to shake it up, and I’m actually paying for the shake-up,” Mr. Musheinesh said in mid-April. “But at the end,” he added, “I think it’s going to be much better off.”These days, he is less certain. The U.S.-China trade deal he thought would have materialized by now remains elusive. To blunt…

Vietti Food Group is voluntarily recalling some canned baked beans for undeclared soy on the label that could people with a soy allergy at risk, the FDA said. The 15 oz. cans of Yellowstone Brown Sugar Molasses Baked Beans were distributed in Illinois, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.The recalled cans are identified by Lot Code: Best if Used by Feb 17, 2008, which is printed on the bottom of each can. No illnesses or adverse reactions have yet been reported,…

The EU has flexed its regulatory muscles under the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), imposing hefty fines on Apple and Meta for non-compliance. In its first enforcement actions of this kind, the Commission levied a €500 million fine against Apple and a €200 million fine against Meta. The EU Commission found Apple breached its obligations regarding “anti-steering” practices within its App Store, while Meta was found to have failed to provide users with adequate choice concerning the use of their personal data under its previous “consent or pay” model. Teresa Ribera, Executive VP for Clean, Just, and Competitive Transition, said:…

Bob Pockrass FOX Motorsports Insider Just how dominant has Alex Palou been at the start of the 2025 INDYCAR season? After four races, he could skip this weekend’s race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and still be leading the points.Thanks to his three victories, Palou has a 60-point lead on Christian Lundgaard in the standings. The maximum a driver can earn in a race is 54 points.Drivers 10th and back are more than two races behind Palou That includes Josef Newgarden, who is already 118 points in arrears. With 13 races left in the season, Palou is well on…

Some of the passwords that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used to register for websites were exposed in cyberattacks on those sites and are available on the internet, raising new questions about his use of personal devices to communicate military information.Mr. Hegseth did not appear to use those passwords for sensitive accounts, like banking. But at least one password appears to have been used multiple times for different personal email accounts maintained by Mr. Hegseth. If hackers access email accounts, they can often reset other passwords.Like many Americans, Mr. Hegseth appears to have reused passwords to remember them more easily. At…

The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key rate steady on Wednesday, after a series of cuts that lowered rates by a full percentage point last year.That means consumers looking to borrow are likely to have to wait a bit longer for better deals on many loans, but savers will benefit from steadier yields on savings accounts.The central bank is waiting for more clarity on the economic outlook and the impact of President Trump’s policies on tariffs, immigration and widespread federal job cuts. Mr. Trump has publicly attacked the Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell, and his colleagues for keeping…

A California court has ordered Israeli spyware merchant NSO Group to pay $167.25m in punitive damages, and $444,719 in compensatory damages, for enabling state-backed hacks of mobile devices belonging to 1,400 users of Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service. The judgment, handed down this week in a federal courthouse, comes five months after US district judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled in favour of Meta in the case, having reviewed evidence that NSO’s Pegasus code had transited WhatsApp’s California-based servers 43 times during May 2019 after exploiting a vulnerability, CVE-2019-3568, in the WhatsApp voice calling feature. The court had also ruled NSO infringed…

For years, Genevieve Ko would make this dessert for her kids. Now that they’re grown, she’s streamlined it for them — and you.The whole point of carrot cake is to enjoy layers of tangy cream cheese frosting.Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seneviratne.By Genevieve Ko Genevieve Ko has baked more than 60 birthday cakes for her kids, including one shaped like a pirate ship.Published May 7, 2025Updated May 7, 2025On my first day as a line cook in a pastry kitchen, I was tasked with turning lemons into little bowls for housemade sorbet. I angled a…

SANTA CLARA, California :Cadence Design Systems unveiled on Wednesday a new supercomputer based on chips from Nvidia that will speed up its software offerings for everything from designing chips to jets to new drugs.Cadence supplies software that firms such as Apple use to design chips. But over the past several years, it has expanded to help customers such as Boom, a startup making supersonic jets, design their planes, or biotech startup Treeline Biosciences find new drug candidates by simulating molecules.Its software was originally written with central processor units, or CPUs, in mind during an era when PCs were common. On…