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Image: © Daisy-Daisy | iStock Emily Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer of Solve M.E., discusses the significant socioeconomic burden of Long COVID, highlighting advances in research that can improve understanding of Long COVID and enable targeted interventions and better treatment protocols Long COVID is an increasingly serious burden to the US economy. Even by conservative calculations, existing cases of Long COVID could cost up to $6.6 billion (Bartsch et al., 2025).  Breakthroughs in Long COVID research shape how we understand, mitigate, and reduce the socioeconomic impact of the disease. Knowing who is more likely to develop Long Covid means interventions can be targeted — potentially reducing the proportion of people impacted. Improved understanding of the mecha...

Samsung's first dual-folding device, the Galaxy Z TriFold, sold out in minutes in both Korea and the US, despite its eye-watering $2,899 price, due to extremely low stock levels. Now, a new report from Korea purports to let us know when we can expect to see it back in stock in the US. Samsung will allegedly bring it back before the end of this month. It's unclear if it will make its return before Samsung's next Unpacked unveiling event, where it will make the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra official on February 25. The Galaxy Z TriFold has a 10-inch 1584x2160 folding AMOLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate and 1,600-nit peak brightness, the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC at the helm, a 6.5-inch 1080x2520 cover display, a 200MP main camera with OIS, a 10MP telephoto with 3x optical zoom, a 12MP u...

Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection, which previously launched on Nintendo Switch, will soon be delisted. Limited Run Games shared the news today that impacts all platforms.The delisting will take place on March 31, 2026. After that date, it will no longer be possible to buy the package from the Nintendo eShop. However, those that previously made a purchase will be able to access everything as normal.The full message is as follows:We wanted to give you an early heads-up that the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection will no longer be available for purchase on digital storefronts after March 31, 2026.If you already purchased the game, don’t worry – you’ll still be able to redownload and play it anytime.In the past, we learned how important it is to provide plenty of notice for changes l...

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SANTA CLARA, CA, Feb. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SANTA CLARA, CA - February 12, 2026 - - Interview Kickstart has launched a new Data Science course designed for working professionals seeking to build practical, production-ready skills in data analysis, machine learning, and applied artificial intelligence. The program enters the market at a time when data science roles are rapidly evolving, with employers placing increasing emphasis on hands-on execution, real-world problem solving, and the ability to deploy models into production environments. More information about the course is available at https://interviewkickstart.com/courses/data-science-course Over the past several years, data science has shifted from primarily academic modeling and exploratory analysis toward a more eng...

Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands of different queries — including one campaign that prompted Gemini more than 100,000 times.In a report published Thursday, Google said it has increasingly come under “distillation attacks,” or repeated questions designed to get a chatbot to reveal its inner workings. Google described the activity as “model extraction,” in which would-be copycats probe the system for the patterns and logic that make it work. The attackers appear to want to use the information to build or bolster their own AI, it said.The company believes the culprits are mostly private companies or researchers looking to gain a...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have found new evidence that Earth's climate did not completely grind to a halt during its most extreme ice age, a time often called Snowball Earth. This dramatic chapter unfolded during the Cryogenian Period, between 720 and 635 million years ago. Scientists have long thought that during this interval, the planet's climate system essentially shut down. Massive ice sheets stretched all the way to the tropics, covering much of the globe in ice. From space, Earth may have looked like a giant snowball. Under these conditions, experts believed that exchanges between the atmosphere and oceans largely stopped, suppressing short term climate shifts for millions of years. A new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters challenges that assum...

Image: Limited Run GamesJust over two years after it was released on Switch and other platforms, Limited Run Games' Jurassic Park: Classic Games Collection is getting delisted from digital storefronts. The publisher and distributor announced the news on Steam (thanks Wario64) earlier today. From 31st March 2026, you'll no longer be able to purchase the game digitally. However, if you already own it (physically or digitally) or buy it before 31st March, you'll be able to redownload and play it at any point. No reason for the delisting was given, but it's likely due to licensing rights expiring, similar to what happened with Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection a few years back. Here's Limited Run Games' statement in full: We wanted to give you an early heads-up that the Jurassic Par...

Microsoft has rolled out fixes for security vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, which the company says are being actively abused by hackers to break into people’s computers. The exploits are one-click attacks, meaning that a hacker can plant malware or gain access to a victim’s computer with minimal user interaction. At least two flaws can be exploited by tricking someone into clicking a malicious link on their Windows computer. Another can result in a compromise on opening a malicious Office file. The vulnerabilities are known as zero-days, because the hackers were exploiting the bugs before Microsoft had time to fix them. Details of how to exploit the bugs have been published, Microsoft said, potentially increasing the chance of hacks. Microsoft did not say where they had bee...

The Winter Olympic Games, this year hosted in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, have increasingly had to rely on human-made snow due to climate change. Shrinking snowpacks, rising temperatures, fewer freezes and shorter snow seasons have led to an estimated 85% of competition surfaces in the 2026 Olympics requiring artificial snow. The two host cities this year have created massive artificial reservoirs to provide sources of water for snowmaking. Cortina d’Ampezzo itself has experienced a 3.6 degrees Celsius increase in average February temperature and 41 fewer freezing days annually since they first hosted the games in 1956. This could also have significant financial implications for cities scheduled to host future Winter Games, as many may soon be unable to do so. By the 2050s, only 52...