Structural and functional characterizations of infectivity and immune evasion of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron
Highlights:
• Omicron spike stably maintains an active conformation for receptor recognition
• Improved stability of Omicron enhances attachment but compromises viral fusion
• Mutations perturb the conformation of antigenic sites recognized by most antibodies
• Structurally restrained regions of RBM can be targets for COVID-19 countermeasures
Please see here:
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induces immunological T cell memory able to cross-recognize variants from Alpha to Omicron -
Highlights
•T cells of vaccinees recognize SARS-CoV-2 variants, including Omicron
•RBD memory B cells’ recognition of Omicron is reduced
•A median of 11 CD4 and 10 CD8 spike epitopes are recognized in vaccinees
•Average preservation > 80% for Omicron at the epitope level
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‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da
becomes first robot to paint like an artist | Robots | The Guardian AI algorithms prompt
robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting Devised
in Oxford by Aidan Meller, Ai-Da was created over two years by a team of
programmers, roboticists ... |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-61006816
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Isle of Wight: Council's
electric vehicle chargers hacked to show porn site - BBC News Isle of Wight
Council said staff were visiting the charge points to cover up the "inappropriate"
website showing on the screen Electric vehicle charging points in a council's
car parks have been ... |
Please take a look at Welcome to Processing! / Processing.org - a flexible software sketchbook and an object-oriented language (with support for inheritance) for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.
A useful book with step-by-step tutorials from elementary operations to genetic algorithms and neural nets is this: The Nature of Code
The significance of this environment is that it is for artists - it is geared towards the development of visual images. It is not a general purpose environment for solving generic dry and constipating problems.
From Grauniad of the UK
It will be even better
when we have robot policemen riding robot police horses patrolling the streets
of our cities. Now, that's going to make things so much better.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/robot-dogs-us-mexico-border-surveillance-technology
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The border has long
been a testing ground for a range of emerging surveillance and policing
technologies, which activists have argued make the space even more dangerous
to migrants, all in the ... |
"I get other people to sweat on my behalf: members of staff, that kind of thing... So, you could say I delegate the sweating to those who are good at it. Some people are, somehow, born with an ability to sweat for it."
I must say, it wouldn't be good for The Duke of York, A.K.A. Randy Andy. The Duke
would probably counter that he would have strictly no use for the smartwatch in
question, since he does not sweat - and has never sweated.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/sweat-cortisol-smartwatch-stress/
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Sweat-analyzing smartwatch
could warn wearers of elevated stress It's important for
people with conditions such as depression and anxiety to know when they're
becoming stressed, so they can initiate coping strategies. An experimental
new smartwatch could ... newatlas.com |
If you use conda to manage your packages, you might be interested in switching to mamba (Welcome to Mamba’s documentation! — documentation). It can be installed by running: conda install mamba -y
I noticed that the times that take to create an environment are reduced a lot just by changing to mamba. Also helped me reducing my TFS pipeline Docker build to go from over 20 minutes to approximately 4 minutes.
More discussion here:
Conda or Mamba for production? | EPI2ME Labs Blog
Alexa
tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny - BBC News
Amazon has updated its
Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to
touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The suggestion came after
the girl asked Alexa for a ...
From the Guardian, U.K.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/26/missing-from-desk-ai-webcam-raises-remote-surveillance-concerns
