The WHO has rushed a team of experts to South Africa’s Gauteng province, the epicenter of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19, to ramp up surveillance and contact tracing efforts as the country grapples with rising cases of infections. Omicron, which was first identified in South Africa exactly a week ago, now has been detected…
Apple is indicating to its iPhone 13 component suppliers that it may not order as many units as expected due to a drop in demand, according to a report in Bloomberg. While the company had already cut orders for the year to 80 million — down from a target of 90 million — it was reportedly planning to…
In February 2021, Nvidia committed to reissuing some of its older GPUs — namely the RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti — to give gamers a couple of low-cost options that scalpers or crypto miners (hopefully) won’t see much use for during the chip shortage. The company is following through on at least part of that promise…
How the outlook for corporate India’s profit growth evolves going ahead could be the biggest driver of India’s equity market instead of further price-to-earnings ratio expansion, Gopal Agrawal, senior fund manager at HDFC AMC NSE -0.18 % told ETMarkets.com in an interview. The profit growth outlook looks robust at this point in time and that bodes, Agrawal…
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is introducing new defamation laws that would force online platforms to reveal the identities of trolls, or else pay the price of defamation. As ABC News Australia explains, the laws would hold social platforms, like Facebook or Twitter, accountable for defamatory comments made against users. Platforms will also have to create a…
A new malware campaign has been invented targeting Crypto currency, non-fungible token (NFT), and Defi aficionados through Discord channels to deploy Crypto named “Babadeda” that’s capable of bypassing antivirus solutions and stage a variety of attacks. “This malware installer has been used in a variety of recent campaigns to deliver information stealers, RATs, and even…
The global adult literacy rate is around 86% With each generation that passes, more and more people are learning how to read, according to UNESCO. These days, around 86% of adults around the world are able to enjoy a book on their own. UNESCO also explained that their data shows “remarkable improvement among youth in terms…
aThe heads on Easter Island have bodies!!!! The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don’t realize what lies beneath the surface. In the ’10s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as…
Tokyo is the world’s largest city with 37 million inhabitants: Tokyo is a booming city—not only by Japanese standards, but also compared to cities around the world. With around 37 million people living in Tokyo, it’s the world’s largest city when it comes to population size, according to Reuters. The next largest city is Delhi, India,…
Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences: The pioneering researcher won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 (shared with her husband) for her study of spontaneous radiation, and then won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her work in radioactivity. That makes her one…
