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Moderna’s omicron booster was only as good as current vaccine in monkey study
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Moderna’s omicron booster was only as good as current vaccine in monkey study

Enlarge / A vial of the current Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: Getty | Ivan Romano) In a small group of monkeys, an omicron-specific version of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine did not protect against the omicron variant better than Moderna's current, highly effective booster. This finding casts doubt on whether a switch to variant-specific doses is necessary.…

Amanda Seyfried makes a winsome Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout trailer
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Amanda Seyfried makes a winsome Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout trailer

Amanda Seyfried stars as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu's new original series, The Dropout. Regular Ars readers have no doubt been following our ongoing coverage of the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial. The disgraced Theranos founder's meteoric rise and equally rapid fall has already been the subject of a 2018 nonfiction book and the HBO documentary…

Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them
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Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) All too often, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people online, including abuse victims and kids. Add to that list the customers of several digital-medicine and genetic-testing companies, whose sites used ad-tracking tools that could have exposed information about people's health status. In a recent…

IRS stops requiring selfies after facial recognition system is widely panned
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IRS stops requiring selfies after facial recognition system is widely panned

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | imaginima) The Internal Revenue Service is dropping a controversial facial recognition system that requires people to upload video selfies when creating new IRS online accounts. "The IRS announced it will transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating new online accounts," the agency…

Battery-powered trains are picking up speed
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Battery-powered trains are picking up speed

Enlarge (credit: Wabtec) Battery-electric power is commonplace in cars and trucks and is being tested in planes, helicopters, and container ships. Now, battery power is coming to trains, in place of the diesel-fueled generators that have powered locomotives for more than a century. Last week, Union Pacific Railroad agreed to buy 20 battery-electric freight locomotives…

Spotify removes 70 Joe Rogan episodes as he faces heat over use of n-word
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Spotify removes 70 Joe Rogan episodes as he faces heat over use of n-word

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Cindy Ord ) Spotify on Friday removed 70 Joe Rogan Experience episodes from 2020 and previous years. Meanwhile, Rogan issued an apology after video showed him saying the n-word on various podcast episodes. The new episode removals weren't related to the COVID misinformation that led Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others…