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‘Vaccines appear effective in preventing severe illnesses caused by COVID-19 variants of concern in India’

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JIPMER Director Rakesh Aggarwal says the surge is happening partly because ‘people are no longer taking precautions as seriously as they were previously’.

Starship’s heat shield is designed to withstand multiple entries to Mars atmosphere. Credit: https://www.spacex.com/

Musk says SpaceX to land Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030

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What is the Butterfly Effect?

In School Team What has this effect got to do with the field of mathematics and weather predictions?

Coronavirus | Premas Biotech, Oramed report early success with oral vaccine

Jacob Koshy However the findings of the Indian-Israeli collaboration have not been reported in a scientific publication yet.

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The chef who lost her sense of smell 30 years before the COVID-19 pandemic

Sweta Akundi As this writer recovers from COVID-19, she speaks to a chef who lost her sense of smell 30 years ago

Rakesh Aggarwal

‘Vaccines appear effective in preventing severe illnesses caused by COVID-19 variants of concern in India’

Bindu Shajan Perappadan JIPMER Director Rakesh Aggarwal says the surge is happening partly because ‘people are no longer taking precautions as seriously as they were previously’.

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Free apps that scam people later made $400 million in revenue.

Free apps that scam people later made $400 million in revenue, report says

Aditya Saroha If users fail or forget to cancel the subscription within the device’s app market settings, they are likely to be charged.

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The company had said that Giphy's integrations with other social platforms like Twitter, Snapchat and ByteDance's TikTok would not change.

UK gives Facebook, Giphy five days to address competition concerns

Reuters It found that Giphy, once a rival to Facebook in digital ads through paid sponsorships outside the UK, had plans to expand sponsorship deals to other countries, including the UK.

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The team identified 286 Apple stores and service providers on Instagram and monitored 75,000 randomly chosen followers.

Instagram is the top marketplace for fake Apple products: report

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Other platforms for showcasing fake products include e-mail, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat. Some sellers also accepted bitcoin and wire transfer to facilitate payments.

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Is the sociable house sparrow finally making a comeback?

Nivedita Ganguly The friendly bird, whose population has been declining in cities for decades, has found an ally in citizen-led movements across various States

Male Indian house sparrow (Passer domesticus) perched on a branch

Environment Monitoring and Action Initiating invites applications for house sparrow population survey

Special Correspondent This initiative is aimed at making sparrow conservation in the city a community-driven activity that creates awareness and urges action.

Red eared terrapin, an invasive turtle, is also being left in city lakes.

Exotic aquarium fish species threatening lake biodiversity

Swathi Vadlamudi Three dead Alligator Gar discovered in Neknampur Lake

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Farmer destroys cabbage crop

Special Correspondent He was depressed for not getting a decent price for the crop he grew on his farm

Farmers upbeat on kharif prospects in Chittoor

K. Umashanker CHITTOOR Water situation encouraging, drinking water needs can be met even beyond June, say officials

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Free apps that scam people later made $400 million in revenue, report says

UK gives Facebook, Giphy five days to address competition concerns

Instagram is the top marketplace for fake Apple products: report

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Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order

In the SolarWinds case, hackers suspected of working for the Russian government infiltrated its network management software and added code that allowed the hackers to spy on end users.

Celebrate an eco-friendly Holi with organic and skin-safe colours

As Holi nears, here is a look at some home-grown brands that offer organic, skin-safe colours to make your celebrations guilt-free

Proton accuses Apple of blocking app updates and violating human rights in Myanmar

People of Myanmar turned to ProtonVPN to bypass internet blocks and seek accurate news, when the military forces imposed internet shutdown to prevent evidence of wrongdoings from getting out.

Europe needs $355 billion for 5G rollout, industrial study says

The study by consulting firm BCG, commissioned by telecoms lobbying group ETNO, comes as the European Union pins its hopes on 5G to lift it out of a COVID-19 pandemic-induced recession and take the lead in internet-connected devices.

Chinese hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs living abroad

China is facing criticism for its treatment of the predominantly Muslim Uighurs community in Xinjiang in China. The U.S. has also accused China of committing genocide against the community.

PUBG Mobile reports 1 billion accumulated downloads since 2018 launch

The announcement came as Tencent reported its online games revenue rose 29% in the fourth quarter, driven by a surge in paying users for video games in China and international markets.

U.S. tech companies use their expensive stock to pay for acquisitions

The six largest technology deals in 2020 all used stock, including semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc's $35 billion acquisition of Xilinx Inc and Salesforce.com Inc's agreement to buy messaging app Slack Technologies Inc for $27.7 billion.

Coronavirus | Vaccines appear effective in preventing severe illnesses caused by COVID-19 variants of concern in India, says JIPMER Director

Prof. Rakesh Aggarwal says the surge is happening partly because ‘people are no longer taking precautions as seriously as they were previously’.

Competition regulator orders probe on WhatsApp’s new privacy policy

The regulator noted that the existing policy allows users to choose whether they want to share their data with WhatsApp and Facebook, but the latest version mandates that they agree to such data sharing mechanism with Facebook.

Tableau introduces new AI-powered analytics for business users

Tableau’s tool can help create models, make predictions, frame what-if scenarios, run other analytical methods – all using clicks, not code.

Xiaomi president says chip shortage has increased costs, may pass on to consumers

While originally concentrated in the automotive industry, the shortage has expanded to affect all types of chips in a range of hardware products, including smartphones.

NFT artwork by humanoid robot sells at auction for nearly $700,000

Sophia, who was unveiled in 2016, produced her art in collaboration with 31-year-old Italian digital artist Andrea Bonaceto.

Facebook, Google CEOs suggest ways to reform key internet law

In testimony prepared for a joint hearing, Zuckerberg acknowledged the calls from lawmakers for changes to a law called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Arctic warming is causing heat waves in India: study

Results of study published in a reputed British journal

The chef who lost her sense of smell 30 years before the COVID-19 pandemic

As this writer recovers from COVID-19, she speaks to a chef who lost her sense of smell 30 years ago

Google, Microsoft partner to fix compatibility issues in their browsers

The cross-browser effort named #Compact2021 aims to eliminate compatibility problems in five key focus areas such as CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, and others.

Coronavirus | India reports unique ‘double mutant’ coronavirus variant

Still to be established if it has any role to play in increased infectivity or in making COVID-19 more severe.

Best from science journals: Reading minds with ultrasound

Here are some of the most interesting research papers to have appeared in top science journals last week

Amazon picks Adam Selipsky to lead its cloud business

Amazon’s next cloud computing chief was one of the first vice presidents hired in AWS, and ran AWS’s sales, marketing, and support for 11 years.

Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn share over 50% user data with third party firms, study says

The observations highlight the growing problem of lack of online privacy as companies share their users’ data with third party firms without their knowledge.

Shell says it was hacked; personal and corporate data exposed

“The ongoing investigation has shown that an unauthorized party gained access to various files during a limited window of time,” Shell said in a statement.

Intel to spend $20 billion on U.S. chip plants

The California-based company says the Arizona expansion will create 3,000 permanent jobs as Intel builds a foundry business to provide chips for other firms

Coronavirus | Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despite easing of virus ban

They cited their own analyses of public health data, other safety considerations and workers' preferences.

Microsoft Exchange servers are being hacked faster than one can count, report says

According to a report by cyber security firm F-Secure, only about half of the Exchange servers visible on the Internet have applied Microsoft’s patches for these vulnerabilities even after many weeks.

Tencent boss meets China antitrust officials as scrutiny widens

Beijing has vowed to strengthen oversight of its big tech firms, which rank among the world's largest and most valuable.

Tesla's in-car cameras raise privacy concerns

Consumer Reports said the usage potentially undermines the safety benefits of driver monitoring, which is to alert drivers when they are not paying attention to the road.

Musk says SpaceX to land Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030

Musk has said that he intends to fly Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon with the Starship in 2023.

How Shubham Jain’s ‘Make Fewer Mistakes’ destigmatises start-ups’ vulnerabilities

Shubham Jain’s ‘Make Fewer Mistakes’ speaks of the obstacles one faces in the start-up journey

Environment Monitoring and Action Initiating invites applications for house sparrow population survey

This initiative is aimed at making sparrow conservation in the city a community-driven activity that creates awareness and urges action.

Major decline in TB incidence in Kerala

State will be awarded bronze medal today, World TB Day

Farmer destroys cabbage crop

He was depressed over not getting a decent price for the crop he grew on his farm

Reporters without Borders sues Facebook over hate speech

RSF said that a court ruling against Facebook in France had the potential to have a global impact and that it was considering filing similar lawsuits in other countries.

Abu Dhabi funds invest $150 million in Telegram messaging app

Telegram, along with messaging app Signal, have seen an increase in users this year amid privacy concerns with larger rival Facebook-owned WhatsApp.

China’s Tencent faces concessions to win green light for giant videogaming merger

Huya and DouYu are ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, as China's most popular video game streaming sites, where users flock to watch e-sports tournaments and follow professional gamers.

Four Indian cosmonauts complete training in Russia for Gaganyaan mission

The four cosmonauts shortlisted for Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission, have completed their training in Russia, according to an official

Microsoft headquarters to accommodate more employees

Employees who work at Redmond work sites or nearby campuses have the option to continue working remotely, return to those facilities, or do a mixture of both, the software giant noted in a blog post.

A thumbs up for COVID-19 vaccination with a song by doctors

How medical professionals, belonging to the class of ‘78 from Madurai Medical College, have come out with a ‘Covid Vaccine Song’ to leave a positive message on vaccination

This surveillance firm says it can track nearly any car on Earth

The US-based company claims of having access to over 15 billion vehicle locations around the world every month as of now.

Telegram’s new Clubhouse-like audio chatting feature

With this feature, channel admins and public groups can now host conversations for millions of live listeners, synonymous to a “public radio reinvented for the 21st century”.

Facebook’s wrist watch will use nerve signals to control AR device

In AR, the wrist inputs will help users touch and move virtual objects and be able to control them at a distance, according to Facebook

Russia launches 38 satellites for 18 countries

Among them was the Challenge-1, the first satellite made completely in Tunisia

1 in 3 COVID-19 survivors suffer long-term health issues: review

30% of patients studied reported at least one symptom, such as fatigue, shortness of breath and psychiatric conditions

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