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With US President Donald Trump describing hydroxychloroquine as a “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19 and several countries, including India, approving it for emergencies, pharmacies are reporting a surge in demand for the drug yet to be proven as a cure against the disease.

Despite lack of clinical evidence, demand surges for hydroxychloroquine as drug against COVID-19

Though there have been no large-scale clinical trials of the drug’s efficacy in treating coronavirus, chemists all over say they are facing a shortage of the medicine.

Coronavirus | Health Ministry says ‘limited community transmission’ in India

Quick spread: Lombardy region, a district of 10 million, is the epicentre of the epidemic in Italy.

Silent spread of novel coronavirus in Italy went undetected for weeks

R. Prasad By the time the first case was reported, the virus had already spread to most areas in southern Lombardy

Specialised camera: A montage of images of the retina taken using fundus photography.

How artificial intelligence can aid eye testing

Aswathi Pacha A tool to detect diabetic retinopathy has been developed by Google and an international team of researchers

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With US President Donald Trump describing hydroxychloroquine as a “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19 and several countries, including India, approving it for emergencies, pharmacies are reporting a surge in demand for the drug yet to be proven as a cure against the disease.

Despite lack of clinical evidence, demand surges for hydroxychloroquine as drug against COVID-19

PTI Though there have been no large-scale clinical trials of the drug’s efficacy in treating coronavirus, chemists all over say they are facing a shortage of the medicine.

Ginger, lemon and turmeric: How dieticians at Chennai’s GH are using these to help Coronavirus patients

Srinivasa Ramanujam The patients who have tested positive are fed a healthy diet of idli, chapati and mint rice

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File photo of a student taking online classes at home, with his companions, using the Zoom APP during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.

Today’s cache | Zoom’s response, backing up your documents, and more

John Xavier Today's cache is your daily download of the top 5 updates from the world of technology.

The community mobility reports are now available for 131 countries, including India

COVID-19: Google data shows drop in movement in public areas

Yuthika Bhargava Health officials can go to the ‘COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports’ website, pick their country and download a PDF that charts the community movements

As usual, people took to Twitter to report the outage

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp back to normal after outage in some regions

IANS According to outage tracking website Downdetector, people across the reported problems with the platforms, as they stay home owing to the ongoing lockdowns amid the novel coronavirus pandemic

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How you can bring the sparrows back

K Jeshi N Dhanasekar of Coimbatore’s Chittukuruvigal Arakattalai Trust has some tips for the return of the once-ubiquitous bird

Small Indian Civet

Urban wildlife spotting during COVID 19 lockdown

Anasuya Menon While wildlife experts caution against fake news, the lockdown has certainly had a positive impact on urban wildlife. Now, birders take on a balcony safari as Bird Count India commences a 21-day lockdown birding challenge

Breathing well: NOx pollution levels have dropped by 38% in Mumbai.

National lockdown | Air quality improves in over 90 cities

PTI Lockdown has reduced vehicular traffic across the country, leading to a drop in PM2.5, NOx levels

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Farmers’ groups said there were large gaps between allocation of funds and actual expenditure.

Budget 2020 | Rail, flight services to transport farm produce

Special Correspondent FM announces ‘Kisan Rail’ programme

A ‘kasturi manjal’ plantation

How three friends are giving a new lease of life to ‘kasturi manjal’ or wild turmeric

Athira M The spice is becoming extinct and is also facing threats from a counterfeit variety

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Watch | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ends its mission

Watch | Coronavirus: Can masks protect you?

Latest solar probe to get first close up of the sun's polar regions

China doing good job on coronavirus: Trump

Local body creates online marketplace in Kerala

Facebook warns of hit to Oculus production from cornonavirus

Facebook’s Twitter account hacked

A Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a third-party platform.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest doubled in January 2020 compared to 2019, says govt data

The agency released data only for the first 30 days of the month, without explanation.

Coronavirus: death toll in China soars to 722

There are now more than 34,500 confirmed infections across the country.

Credit, debit card details of 4 lakh Indians up for sale on dark net

CERT-in alerted to stolen data on offer on dark net.

Love in the time of CAA: Do your political opinions decide who you date?

With Valentine’s Day barely a week away, it is one of the busiest times for online dating apps — so what makes you swipe right?

Indian-led team develops software to reduce space taken by smartphone apps

The software “streams” data and code resources to an app from a cloud server when necessary, allowing the app to use only the space it needs on a phone at any given time

Indian leopards suffered 75% to 90% population decline: paper

Spotted cats suffered massive fall in numbers a century ago, and need protection akin to tigers, scientists argue.

The virus is spreading

The five most alarming forwards going around today about Coronavirus — if you haven’t yet got them, please be alarmed

Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes a dig at WhatsApp with free phone hack emoji

Musk posted the image with the caption: “New emoji! Last one comes with free phone hack”

Twitter adds option to disable multi-column view for iPad

With the latest update, users can now hide the right-hand column altogether so that their attention is centred on the content of their timeline, MacRumers reported

You can now disable Netflix’s annoying autoplay feature

Users can now can choose to disable autoplay in two different formats — one that automatically starts the next episode in a series and one that autoplays previews while browsing

Meet the two women scientists who won the Infosys Prize this year

It’s the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11. And for Manjula Reddy and Sunita Sarawagi, their awards are not just personal but of universal significance

Watch | What happened to BlackBerry?

A video tracing the mobile company's journey through the years

Watch | How is India dealing with coronavirus?

A video on how coronavirus that originated in China's Wuhan, has now spread to 20 countries, including India

Most cities in India turning into “urban heat islands”: study

The IIT Kharagpur study notes that the relatively warmer temperatures in urban areas have potential health hazards.

Google Maps to expand commute options to more cities across India

“The public transport tab on Google Maps for Android now informs users about a journey that combines auto-rickshaw and public transport. It indicates how much time it will take, and which station they should take an auto-rickshaw to/from. The feature is available for Delhi and Bangalore and we’re looking to bring it to other cities across India,” Google Maps vice president Jen Fitzpatrick said in a statement.

Tinder users appropriating app for political campaigning, marketing: Study

The study found that Tinder’s off-label use — a term borrowed from pharmacology describing when people use a product for something other than what the package says — appropriates its infrastructure and sociocultural meanings

China’s mobile giants to take on Google’s Play Store: sources

Four companies — China’s Xiaomi, Huawei Technologies, Oppo and Vivo — are purportedly ironing out kinks in what is known as the Global Developer Service Alliance

Netflix starts streaming data saving AV1 videos on Android

AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9 encodes.

Google Maps seeks business, transit reviews in new look as it turns 15

The new look, which coincides with Google Maps’ 15th birthday, introduces a ‘Contribute’ tab to a menu at the bottom of the service’s mobile app, Google said in a blog post

Facebook, LinkedIn tell Clearview AI to stop scraping images

The controversial app uses over three billion images to find a match. These images have been sourced from various social media sites including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth after record mission

The American astronaut set the record for the longest stay in space by a woman.

Chinese whistleblowing doctor dies of coronavirus

Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the outbreak, was one of eight people reprimanded by Wuhan police last month for spreading “illegal and false” information about the coronavirus.

Coronavirus: death toll in China hits 636, infections exceed 30,000

The central province of Hubei in China, where the deadly coronavirus originated, continued to be hardest-hit.

Centre persists with ‘toothless’ pharma codes

Compliance should be compulsory: experts

Explained | When can people transmit the novel coronavirus?

The main driver of nCoV transmission is people who exhibit overt symptoms. Such people will spread the virus more readily through coughing and sneezing, WHO says.

OnePlus files patent for under-display selfie cameras

The patent seems to be similar to the implementation of the recently unveiled ‘Concept One’ smartphone by OnePlus that was showcased by the company at CES 2020 last month

‘The architecture of waste’ is a thoughtful design concept by a Hyderabad architect

The concept is one of the 21 finalists at the Indian edition of 2019 Asia Young Designer Awards

Snapchat rolls out support for five more Indian languages

These five additional Indian languages are Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner steps down, updates profile

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn said Senior Vice President of Product, Ryan Roslansky, will become the CEO on June 1. He will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Over 100 organisations urge Facebook to halt encryption

Urging Facebook to halt plans to heavily encrypt WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, the open letter said this would allow child predators to operate on the site undetected

Concerned about abuse of platforms for fake news, porn; cos should be accountable: Prasad

On WhatsApp he said there is still a problem in identifying the originator of a rogue message.

The bird that keeps our spirits up

The Oriental Magpie-Robin is one of the best songsters in the city

Prices of chips, display panels to shoot up

China, where the outbreak originated, is home to manufacturing facilities of many of South Korea’s major tech firms, including Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc.

Coming soon: Awesome Neuralink update, says Elon Musk

Musk said the technology could be tested in a human patient with brain or spinal cord injuries as early as this year, CNET

Disney’s weapon against Netflix and Amazon in India: Hotstar

Disney’s control of Hotstar, which it acquired through the $71 billion purchase of Twenty-First Century Fox in 2019, gives Disney+’s entrance into the Indian market in partnership with Hotstar hundreds of millions of potential subscribers it can attract

LG, ZTE withdraw from Mobile World Congress, others may follow

While LG has become the first major South Korean company to give MWC 2020 a miss, others may soon follow suit, considering the threat that the virus poses, according to industry watchers.

Spotify hits 124 million Premium paid subscribers

Premium paid subscribers, which account for nearly 90% of its revenue, were 124 million.

Google says glitch sent people's videos to strangers

A small fraction of a percent of those who used a Google Takeout tool may have encountered the glitch.

WHO busts myths and fake messages on coronavirus

‘No scientific basis to garlic and sesame oil treatments’

Deep diving in and around the Mumbai coastline

In its second edition to be held this weekend, Coastwise will organise workshops, shorewalks walks and discussions, get Mumbaikars to understand the

‘Nowhere close to machines replacing humans’: Tech author David Moschella

In his latest book Seeing Digital, the writer addresses the questions and concerns we have regarding technology in the 2020s

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