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Various approaches are approved for treating blood cancers and a few rare disorders—they may soon become standard care.

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 7 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A Duke University-led study published in bioRxiv showed that Vaxart, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: VXRT) investigational oral tablet vaccine reduced the airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus in an animal model.

These results are consistent with those from Vaxart’s Phase II human flu challenge study, which showed that Vaxart’s oral tablet vaccine was better at reducing shedding than the injectable flu vaccine comparator.

A limitation of the currently approved injected COVID-19 vaccines is that airborne transmission occurs in people who have received them. The preclinical study also demonstrated that Vaxart’s oral vaccine platform induces robust systemic and mucosal responses.

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It’s actually about a company called Varda Space Industries.

After signing a deal with Varda Space Industries, Elon Musk’s next plan could be to revolutionize manufacturing in space. Stay tuned for the latest SpaceX news and subscribe to Futurity.

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It even grasps common reasoning.

Nvidia and Microsoft revealed their largest and most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLG), complete with a staggering 530 billion parameters built together, according to a press release.

MT-NLG outperforms prior transformer-based systems by both companies. MT-NLG is substantially larger and more complex than Microsoft’s Turing-NLG model and Nvidia’s Megatron-LM, with three times as many parameters spread across 105 layers.

And this is not the only industry that AI is working its magic on.

Online shopping platforms and online stores have already been employing smart techniques to thrive. From aggressive advertising to strategic partnerships, they have been highly successful in attracting customers and growing their profits. It is also not unexpected that many businesses are already using artificial intelligence in various forms.

Based on numbers from Statista, the global AI market in the retail industry was valued at $3.9 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow to $5.06 billion in 2021 and $6.55 billion in 2022. It is projected to accelerate its growth to become a $23.32 billion market by 2027.

BCIs stands out as one of the most promising assistive technologies.

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Dresden-based motorcycle think tank Hookie has its eyes set on the moon. The company developed a drivable prototype for a two-wheeled lunar exploration vehicle. Named the Tardigrade, the vehicle is much lighter than your traditional moon buggy, meaning that the concept would be more cost-effective to launch to space.

“A moon buggy requires almost the same space as 3–4 Tardigrades,” Nico Müller, one of Hookie’s co-founders told us in an email interview. “The weight is much less than that of a complete buggy made out of steel.”

There are a lot of movies and TV shows that depict a mass control takeover of self-driving cars.

This seems to be on our minds.

For quite good reasons.

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