Daily Tech Briefing: Moderna says vaccine works in teens, and a conversation with the one who makes the voice assistant in Tata cars

Leading the briefing today is news that US biotech company Moderna’s vaccine against Covid 19 was found to be 93 percent efficacious in teens in a study of 3,700 participants between 12 years and 18 years of age. Also, IBM is opening up its quantum computers to India’s top research and tech institutes; and we talk to Tapan Barman, co-founder and CEO of Mihup Communications, which makes the voice assistant in Tata Motors’ cars.