As widely expected, and following a recent Presidential memorandum, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a memo on January 5, 2026 implementing major changes to the government’s recommended vaccination schedule for children, adding to other changes previously made in 2025. Collectively, these changes reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children…
Getty Images The British Medical Association union is recommending members accept a ew pay deal Scotland’s resident doctors have called off a planned four-day strike over pay. They had been set to go on the first national walkout staged by NHS workers on Tuesday, having accused ministers of going back on promises over pay. But…
For a field that was not well known outside of academia a decade ago, artificial intelligence has grown dizzyingly fast. Tech companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing are betting everything on it, venture capitalists are pouring billions into research and development, and start-ups are being created on what seems like a daily basis. If our…
Today, Nature published its 150th anniversary issue with the news that Google’s team of researchers have achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing known as quantum supremacy. It’s a term of art that means we’ve used a quantum computer to solve a problem that would take a classical computer an impractically long amount of time….
Physical AI sounds like a contradiction in terms. A computer, but a body? But for the marketing architects, it’s the latest term of art, a buzzword meant to point us citizens toward a bright and promising technological future. Back here on earth, the term is maybe most useful as a way to understand how automotive…
Today we introduced Gemini, our largest and most capable AI model — and the next step on our journey toward making AI helpful for everyone. Built from the ground up to be multimodal, Gemini can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information, including text, images, audio, video and code. This…
From launching Gemini to celebrating our 25th birthday, 2023 was a busy and exciting year at Google. Explore the stories below to learn more about some of the biggest launches, moments and highlights of the year. Cheers to 2023 — we’re ready for you, 2024. Source link
Becky MortonPolitical reporter Getty Images Some people are waiting more than a year to have their disability benefit claims processed, which risks pushing them into debt and poverty, MPs have warned. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) aims to process 75% of new claims for Personal Independence Payment (Pip) within 75 working days but…
Joanne WrittleBBC Midlands Today Health Correspondent, Birmingham BBC Tom Blyth, a consultant at Heartlands Hospital, said patients sometimes carry knives while in hospital Knife amnesty bins are being installed outside hospitals in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield after weapons were found by health workers in toilets, on a footpath and even just before a patient’s MRI…
Reverse engineers must have a good understanding of the environment where malware are executed (read: the operating system). In a previous diary, I talked about malicious code that could be executed when loading a DLL[1]. Today, I’ll show you how a malware can hide suspicious information related to created processes. The API call CreateProcess() is…
