World: As countries around the world continue to witness a surge in Covid-19 cases, some governments have heightened measures to help control it, announcing more stringent guidelines for arriving passengers. While some announce PCR testing for arrivals, others have begun analysing swabs and conducting virus sequencing to help identify new variants of the virus. Here […]
San Francisco: Elon Musk‘s huge cost-cutting measures have forced some Twitter employees to bring their own toilet paper because there are no janitors to replace supplies at the company’s headquarters in the US. The absence of janitors has “left the office in disarray,” as per reports. “Bathrooms have grown dirty and smell of leftover takeout food […]
Nevada: Actor Jeremy Renner is in “critical but stable condition with injuries suffered after experiencing a weather-related accident while ploughing snow,” his spokesperson said. Renner who is a two-time Oscar nominee is the star of the returning Paramount+ series The Mayor of Kingstown and Marvel’s ‘Hawkeye’ series on Disney+ as well as the Avengers and Captain America […]
World: Elon Musk announced that a new navigation tool will arrive on Twitter in the New Year, as he aims to rejig the whole experience to make the platform faster. “Twitter navigation coming in January that allows swiping to the side to switch between recommended & followed tweets, trends, topics, etc,” he said in a […]
Washington: A group of researchers has sent radio signals into space with the purpose of bouncing them off a 500-feet asteroid to learn about its interior. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme (HAARP), a powerful transmitter in remote Alaska, aimed its antennas at asteroid 2010 XC15, a space rock categorised as a near-Earth potentially […]
World: Cristiano Ronaldo completed a move to the football club Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr in a groundbreaking deal for Middle Eastern footbal. Al Nassr, the football club posted a picture on social media of the five-time Ballon d’Or holding up the team’s jersey, with the club hailing the signing as “history in the making.” […]
Legendary football player Pele, passes away at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo. The 82-year-old, widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, had been since late November. He was originally nicknamed “Dico” by his family. He received the nickname “Pelé” during his school days, when it is claimed he was given […]
Dubai: In 2021, AI/Machine Learning was rated by Statista as the most impactful disruptive technology. Here, Salesforce executives share four disruptive technology predictions from 2022 that will shape the future in 2023. 1. Generative AI will empower mass customizations of experiences “Generative AI uses machine learning algorithms that enable computers to use existing content like text, […]
Abu Dhabi: The biggest celebration of Indian cinema, the International Indian Film Academy and Awards (IIFA), returns with its 23rd edition to Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, on February 9 to 11, 2023. As the countdown to the biggest celebration of Indian Cinema worldwide draws near, International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards announces its 12 Popular […]
Seoul: The first infection from Naegleria fowleri, or “brain-eating amoeba,” has been reported in South Korea, the health authorities said. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed that a Korean national who died after returning from Thailand was infected with Naegleria fowleri, which destroys human brains. The man in his 50s came back to […]
The calculator application has been one of the most used apps on the iPhone, but it turns out that many of us aren’t using it properly. In fact, there are several features in the calculator that you probably never knew about. Did you know that if you make one tiny mistake you don’t need to hit C […]
