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On fixing priorities for vaccinating children

Which high-risk sub-group and age sub-group to start with has to be determined by reviewing hospitalisation and mortality data from India: Chandrakant Lahariya

A beginner’s guide to birdwatching in Chennai

Meghna Majumdar

A digital render using Unreal Engine 5

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Epic Games on Unreal Engine 5, and why it has the right building blocks for the open metaverse

Divya Kala Bhavani As Epic Games makes a statement by greenlighting blockchain-based games, we learn more about the company’s busy road map with Unreal Engine 5’s imminent release, the future of game design and the convergence of gaming and the crypto metaverse

Stranded tourists being evacuated by the National Disaster Response Force from Nainital.

Watch | Explained: Why is India facing bouts of extreme weather?

The Hindu Net Desk A video explainer on the large variations in the country's monsoon cycle and how it is related to global warming.

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A health worker shows a vial of Covaxin vaccine. File

COVID-19 | Australia recognises Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin

Kallol Bhattacherjee This will enable travellers fully vaccinated with the vaccine to travel to the country

Zydus Cadlia earlier had proposed a price of ₹1,900 for its three-dose regimen. File

Zydus Cadila agrees to reduce its Covid vaccine price to ₹265 a dose, final decision soon: Sources

PTI Zydus Cadila's ZyCov-D is the first vaccine cleared by India's drug regulator for inoculation of those aged 12 years and above

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Seen on the screen of a device in Sausalito, Calif., Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces their new name, Meta, during a virtual event on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021.

Metaverse pioneers unimpressed by Facebook rebrand

Reuters The term metaverse has become a tech buzzword this year, with companies and investors keen to be a part of the next big thing.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook whistleblower Haugen urges Zuckerberg to step down

Reuters The former Facebook product manager said: "Maybe it's a chance for someone else to take the reins...Facebook would be stronger with someone who was willing to focus on safety."

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SoftBank leads $93 mln investment in NFT gaming firm the Sandbox.

SoftBank leads $93 mln investment in NFT gaming firm the Sandbox

Reuters The Sandbox, majority-owned by blockchain gaming developer Animoca Brands, allows players to build, own, and monetize their virtual gaming experiences on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he makes a statement at the CoP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021.

CoP26 summit CoP26 summit | India aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, says PM Modi

Special Correspondent Mr. Modi said “India’s contribution in climate change mitigation far outstrips its role in emissions.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers the National Statement at the COP26 Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1, 2021.

Experts hail India's announcement to achieve net zero carbon emission by 2070

PTI PM Modi has announced India's updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) at the COP 26, first time since 2015.

Ganges river dolphins are still listed as ‘Endangered’ on the IUCN Red list.

Ministry releases guide for safe rescue, release of Ganges River Dolphins

Shiv Sahay Singh The manual has details of identification of the species, on-site and off-site operations

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Indian farming practices: Learning from elsewhere in the world

D. Balasubramanian

Strip cropping, as seen in the U.S., is when wheat is grown along with corn and soyabean, in the same farm in an alternative manner

The Vilwadri cattle.

Vilwadri cattle established as genetically divergent

E.M. Manoj Will get prominence in conservation along with other native cattle of Kerala

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SoftBank leads $93 mln investment in NFT gaming firm the Sandbox

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Experts hail India's announcement to achieve net zero carbon emission by 2070

CoP26 summit | India will achieve net zero emissions by 2070, says PM Modi

50% of energy will be sourced via renewable route by 2030, he tells COP26

Ministry releases guide for safe rescue, release of Ganges River Dolphins

The manual has details of identification of the species, on-site and off-site operations

Whistleblower likely to depose before IT panel

You are not being ignored, Shashi Tharoor assures Sophie Zhang

CoP26 summit | World is strapped to a “doomsday device”, says U.K. PM Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson kicked off the world leaders’ summit portion of a U.N. climate conference.

‘Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy’ review: A ‘flarking’ good game, that’s probably better than the movies

Video game ‘Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy’ from Square Enix wisely chucks out the service bloat from ‘Marvel’s Avengers’, to bring you one of the funniest and enjoyable games of 2021

Google to let kids, teens delete their images from search results

Once removed, the images won’t reappear in the Images tab or as thumbnails in any feature in Google Search.

COVID-19 | Australia recognises Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin

This will enable travellers fully vaccinated with the vaccine to travel to the country

Sega, Microsoft explore cloud gaming alliance

Cloud gaming cuts ties to bulky hardware but requires a fast internet connection. Deep pocketed Microsoft's push into the nascent sector comes as Xbox is widely seen as being on the backfoot in the console battle with Sony's PlayStation.

Most Indian firms to increase cybersecurity budget in 2022: PwC survey

As per the PwC's 2022 Digital Trust Insights Survey, the risk landscape is continuously evolving and organisations are investing more than ever in cybersecurity to manage their risks.

German union calls for strikes at seven Amazon sites

The strikes are planned to start on Monday at some of the distribution centres and will initially last through Tuesday.

Indonesian researchers breed 'good' mosquitoes to combat dengue

The trial results, published by the New England Journal of Medicine in June, showed that deploying mosquitoes with Wolbachia reduced dengue cases by as much as 77% and hospitalisations by up to 86%

After Facebook change, Big Tech's FAANG considers toothless MAANG

The elite FAANG stocks have a combined market capitalisation of about $7.416 trillion so far this year, up from about $5.8 trillion last year.

Punjab bats for conservation of Indus river dolphin

The cetaceans are found in the Beas river.

Ahead of COP26, Indian database highlights emissions gap

Climate Equity Monitor underlines India’s demands for climate justice being at the heart of negotiations

G20 ends without time-bound promise on climate change

Final text only commits to ‘net zero’ emissions by or around mid-century.

Two-week long COP26 climate meet formally opens in Glasgow

The meeting will see negotiators from almost 200 countries try to tackle issues left hanging since the 2015 Paris climate accord was forged

Zydus Cadila likely to reduce price of COVID-19 vaccine

Negotiations with government still on.

Public-private partnership built in fight against COVID-19, can strengthen healthcare system, says Dr. Naresh Trehan

‘We don’t know if this virus can come in a new mutant form. Besides, active surveillance across India is required to contain any future outbreak at the earliest.’

Explained | How is Facebook embedding the real world in computing?

Why is Mark Zuckerberg betting on metaverse? How will it change the way social media is used?

The birth of the miners’ safety lamp

English chemist Humphry Davy is best known for discovering several chemical elements. Davy, however, also invented the Davy lamp, often credited as the first miners’ safety lamp. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at a lamp that contributed to furthering industrialisation...

The Northern shoveler in the house

Four duck species make up a good number of the “wintering crowd” at the Perumbakkam wetland. A small flock of Northern shovelers has arrived

CoP26 | The race to tackle global warming

At the Glasgow summit, nearly 120 countries will seek consensus on rules to cut emissions, mechanisms to adapt to climate events and compensation for nations for loss, damage

‘Local growers yet to savour rising global coffee prices’

Government intervention sought to check cartels, say trade sources

Indian farming practices: Learning from elsewhere in the world

Strip cropping, as seen in the U.S., is when wheat is grown along with corn and soyabean, in the same farm in an alternative manner

Scientists find a mineral seen in the depths of the Earth in a meteorite

The study by IIT Kharagpur scientists adds a clue to the puzzle of the formation of the Moon

On fixing priorities for vaccinating children

Which high-risk sub-group and age sub-group to start with has to be determined by reviewing hospitalisation and mortality data from India: Chandrakant Lahariya

Vilwadri cattle established as genetically divergent

Will get prominence in conservation along with other native cattle of Kerala

Olive Ridley nesting: Mobile app to alert fishermen on no-fishing zones

Last year, around 3.5 lakh turtles laid eggs in the Gahiramatha coast

A beginner’s guide to birdwatching in Chennai

Where should a budding birder in Chennai go, for their first sighting? When is the best time of day? What are the biggest Dos and Don’ts? As the winter migration picks up pace and Chennai’s birders anticipate healthy numbers of winged guests, they spell out some handy tips for first-time birdwatchers

Kerala’s odonate fauna documented for the first time; State is home to 181 species

A landscape-based approach has been adopted to list the odonata distribution along Agasthyamala, Periyar, Munnar, Nilgiri, Wayanad and Coorg.

Epic Games on Unreal Engine 5, and why it has the right building blocks for the open metaverse

As Epic Games makes a statement by greenlighting blockchain-based games, we learn more about the company’s busy road map with Unreal Engine 5’s imminent release, the future of game design and the convergence of gaming and the crypto metaverse

In the post-Covid era, community-based rehabilitation is most urgent: Balakrishna Venkatesh

With the glaring limitations in our healthcare services exposed, community involvement and rehabilitation for the disabled poor become absolutely essential, says the activist

Apple objects to links to outside payments ahead of Epic Games hearing

Apple on Friday for the first time signaled that its strongest objections are to the requirements to allow buttons and links that provide a "mechanism" for outside payments.

Govt seeks details of Facebook's algorithms, processes amid hate speech allegations

These revelations have led to concerns that Facebook has done little to shed its 'growth at all costs' culture that turbocharged its rise to capture 2.91 billion monthly active users globally, including over 400 million in India.

These Hyderabad design students created steps for safety in a small colony on a steep hill

A group of students change the lives of residents at Hyderabad’s Hill Top Colony by adding steps to the steep hill, and tidying a network of leaky pipes

Suicides among farm workers rose 18% in 2020

However, suicides among landowning farmers dropped slightly during pandemic year

Facebook's Metaverse fortune is tied to Oculus

The $2 billion Oculus acquisition is the arrow in Zuckerberg’s quiver that can hit his holographic future target

China proposes guidelines on internet platform responsibilities

The responsibilities outlined by the SAMR relate to issues for which these companies have already been criticized over the past year as part of a wide-ranging crackdown by Chinese regulators.

Watch | Explained: Why is India facing bouts of extreme weather?

A video explainer on the large variations in the country's monsoon cycle and how it is related to global warming.

How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage

Higher iPhone shipments helped Apple gain at least 3% market share in global smartphones in the third quarter, even as overall shipments shrunk by about 6% due to the chip shortage.

Supreme Court prefers to wait and watch for Covaxin’s WHO approval

Plea wants people vaccinated with Covaxin to be administered two doses of Covishield

Meta Platforms shares rise as Facebook rebrands to focus on metaverse

Meta Platforms rose 1% to $319.95 in pre-market trading, after gaining as much as 4.3% on Thursday.

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