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Halting the vaccine rollout is baffling, said Dr. Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton.
Speaking to the Science Media Centre on Monday, Head said that data suggested that the number of blood clots in the vaccinated population was the same as, or even lower than, in the general population. Halting a vaccine roll out during a pandemic has consequences. This results in delays in protecting people, and the potential for increased vaccine hesitancy, he said.
Also speaking to the SMC, Dr. Stephen Griffin of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds called the suspensions probably not proportionate.
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Stripe announced a $600 million funding round on Sunday, boosting its valuation to $95 billion.
Stripe is now more valuable than SpaceX and is likely the most valuable private tech company ever.
Stripe s CFO says that Europe is a major growth opportunity, even as it doubles down on enterprise.
Stripe has raised a new $600 million round of funding that sends the online payments processor s valuation skyrocketing up to $95 billion, the company announced on Sunday.
That valuation makes Stripe the most valuable private tech company in the world, beating out SpaceX s last valuation of $72 billion. In fact, the Financial Times reports that Silicon Valley-based Stripe is now the most valuable privately-held tech company in history, surpassing the $80 billion or so mark achieved by Facebook ahead of its own IPO, or the $72 billion high-water mark hit by Uber.
The tech giant said in a blog post that it will be moving away from technologies that track individual people round the web.
This followed a similarly privacy-minded announcement in January, when Google promised to phase out third-party cookies which also help advertisers target people with ads by 2022. Today, we re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products, Google director David Temkin wrote in the blog post.
In its blog Google touted a new ad system that gives individuals anonymity online by grouping them together with people who share similar interests, called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC).
Tesla is often cited as a disrupter of the auto industry.
But Tesla is less disruptive than a new company, Fisker Inc.
Fisker s asset-light model is closer to the true theory of disruptive innovation.
Nobody really saw this one coming. A year ago, Henrik Fisker was an admired auto-industry veteran, but with a failed startup behind him. Fisker Automotive s 2013 bankruptcy sent Fisker back to his roots in design for a spell, but it didn t discourage him from taking another crack at building a car company.
But Fisker Inc. was mainly concept vehicles and Henrik s one-man marketing machine until mid-2020. Up to that point, much of the electric-vehicle narrative revolved around Tesla, with the traditional car industry s frantic efforts to catch up to CEO Elon Musk forming the key subplot.