Epidemologist explains why COVID-19 mutations shouldn’t scare you Mutating coronavirus DNA, or in the case of the coronavirus, RNA, is the set of genetic instructions that tell an organism which bricks are needed and in what order to create the proteins it needs to survive. Mutations affect these instructions, meaning the number or type of amino acids that make up a particular protein get changed. This, in turn, has the potential to change the properties of the protein....

In 2010, New York City took the world by surprise,unleashing a flood of start-upsand funding power, giving Silicon Valley a run for its money, literally. There are severalbig startups to watch in New York Citythis year, likeGroupMe,Of A Kind,Meetup,Tumblr, Foursquare andVYou, but the smaller “barely legal” startups are the future of this industry, and as we all know, the future is approaching with lightning speed. Start-ups incubators like Y-Combinator in Silicon Valley andTechStars, based in Boulder, Colorado have become breeding grounds for cultivating new talent, unleashing waves of innovation on the world upon “graduation,” which traditionally ends in an intensive “Demo Day” where the startups are asked to give short speeches, essentially elevator pitches in hopes of attracting investments....

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator(ERA) is one of the newest startup incubators to launch in New York City. 10 early-stage startups participated in ERA’s inaugural summer 2011 program, which kicked off at its Times Square offices on June 6th and culminates today at Stern Business School with the program’s first Demo Day. Steven Szaronos and Rishi Prahbu were first accepted into ERA’s accelerator program with their startupNabfly, a simple mobile tagging platform for QR codes that lets people scan posters with their phones and engage with a brand through a native application....

As we sat and watched Google CEO’s Eric Schmidt’s keynote for theMobile World Congress, we were rather surprised. No, Schmidt didn’t admit anything that he shouldn’t have. In fact, he didn’t even say anything shocking. For that matter, he didn’t really admit or say much of anything. One of our editors noted that perhaps Google was getting boring. Looking at Schmidt’s speech, it was as if someone cut up the portions of his 4 previous ones and then pasted them together in a different order than before....

The former CEO and current chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, is set for a September 21st testimony in a Senate antitrust subcommittee hearing. Schmidt had previously declined to appear, but the threat of a subpoena changed his mind. The hearing will look at Google’s widespread reach, which includes products in a huge array of niches from search to location, and attempt to determine whether the company has used its dominance in the search market to hinder competitors while listing its own products higher....