Kodak stock sinks 45% after alleged insider trading halts its pharma pivot

Aug10
by on August 10, 2020 at 10:33 am
Posted In: Hard Fork


Eastman Kodak stock is down nearly 45% during Monday’s pre-market trade after the US government signalled alleged insider trading has jeopardised its pivot into pharmaceuticals. “On July 28, we signed a Letter of Interest with Eastman Kodak,” tweeted the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) on Friday. “Recent allegations of wrongdoing raise serious concerns. We will not proceed any further unless these allegations are cleared.” On July 28, we signed a Letter of Interest with Eastman Kodak. Recent allegations of wrongdoing raise serious concerns. We will not proceed any further unless these allegations are cleared. — DFCgov (@DFCgov) August 7,…

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In space, bacteria is even more deadly and resilient to antibiotics

Aug09
by on August 9, 2020 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Space, syndication


China recently launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission marked the Arab world’s foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we saw NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover finally take off from Florida. For many nations and their people, space is becoming the ultimate frontier. But although we’re gaining the ability to travel smarter and faster into space, much remains unknown about its effects on biological…

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5 free resources every data scientist should start using today

Aug08
by on August 8, 2020 at 9:00 am
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Four years ago, I was a recent college grad, starting out my career at a four-person IoT startup. One of my first assignments was to research and propose a solution for an AI-based digital assistant for military settings. Although I studied engineering in college and worked in a lab assisting machine learning research, undertaking a huge natural language processing project without an experienced data scientist/engineer in-house was a daunting task. Inevitably, I had to resort to online resources to fill in the gaps and find mentors outside the organization for direction as well as personal growth. Fast forward to the present, I…

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