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Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation doctors and medical staff take samples of Mumbai police and their families for COVID-19 testing at Mumbai Police Officer Quarters, in Borivali, Mumbai./ File photo

ICMR approves use of diagnostic machine used for drug-resistant TB for COVID-19

As part of its efforts to ramp up the testing capacity, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved the use of diagnostic machines

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The search engine giant also confirmed that Meet is an independent part of G Suite, the portfolio of business services that also includes brands such as Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive

Google Hangouts Meet is now Google Meet

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Nadia, a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo, that the zoo said on April 5, 2020 has tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen in an undated handout photo provided by the Bronx zoo in New York.

Coronavirus pandemic puts focus on tuberculosis among zoo animals

Rahul Karmakar Animal rights activists in India, U.S.A. call for phasing out captive creatures

Learn how to make simple cloth masks from The Bangalore Mask Project

Praveen Sudevan Jana Henning, who’s part of an online expat community, is trying to spread information on making, wearing and cleaning masks

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In pictures: How to make your own mask

Karnataka Health department's advisory asks people to wear homemade masks while venturing outside. Here is a primer to make and use one efficiently.

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Nurses and medical staff stage a protest over the supply of low-quality personal protection equipment (PPE) and other medical facilities for the treatment of coronavirus-affected patients, at Howrah State General Hospital, West Bengal on March 31, 2020.

Coronavirus | No need to panic over availability of PPE: Health Ministry

PTI “Our guidelines state that not only PPE should be made available, but they should be used rationally,” Joint Secretary at the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said

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

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Facebook said it is sharing tips from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on how people can take care of themselves, stay active, relieve stress, and establish new goals and routines while staying home

Facebook Quiet Mode silences push notifications on mobile

IANS If you try to open Facebook while in ‘Quiet Mode’, you’ll be reminded that you set this time aside to limit your time in the app

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The search engine giant also confirmed that Meet is an independent part of G Suite, the portfolio of business services that also includes brands such as Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive

Google Hangouts Meet is now Google Meet

IANS The rebrand will happen on a rolling basis, meaning it will take time for it to disseminate globally, reports Android Police

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Nadia, a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo, that the zoo said on April 5, 2020 has tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen in an undated handout photo provided by the Bronx zoo in New York.

Coronavirus pandemic puts focus on tuberculosis among zoo animals

Rahul Karmakar Animal rights activists in India, U.S.A. call for phasing out captive creatures

Hear me roar: Tiger population can be boosted by ensuring plentiful supply of prey and habitat protection.

Poaching, not coronavirus, is the bigger threat, says tiger expert

Jacob Koshy If we fail to stop the killing of prey animals such as deer during the lockdown, big cat populations will suffer, says Ullas Karanth

The Union Environment Ministry issued an advisory saying it is concerned that there are possibilities of spread of the virus among animals in national parks and sanctuaries. Photo: File

Coronavirus | Curb people’s movement in national parks, Centre tells States and U.T.s after tiger tests positive in U.S.

PTI Chief Wildlife Wardens of all States and U.T.s have been directed to constitute a task force or a Rapid Action Force to manage the situation as quickly as possible and create a ‘round-the-clock’ reporting mechanism with a Nodal Officer for swift management of any detected cases.

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A cauliflower farmer who supplies his produce to Ninjacart, seen in Chikka Tirupathi Road, Bengaluru. Photo: Nahla Nainar/THE HINDU

During the lockdown, this Bengaluru company is using an app to bring farm-fresh produce to seven cities

Nahla Nainar Ninjacart’s app-based sales plan is bringing fresh fruits and vegetables right to your apartment, so you can stay home safe

Farmers are among the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic

Akila Kannadasan and Chitradeepa Anantharam Amid stories of farmers struggling to sell their produce due to the lockdown, there is also a ray of hope in those who sell locally, creating more self-sufficient communities

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Budget 2020 | Spending on space goes up by 8%

Budget 2020 | Health care in focus with ₹69,000 crore outlay

Budget 2020 | Private players allowed to set up data parks

Human-to-human transmission in Wuhan started in mid-December

Govt to launch campaign to eliminate TB by 2025: Sitharaman

How bats harbour several viruses yet not get sick

Extended chain of human-to-human spread seen in Germany

Germany has recorded the first case of fourth-generation transmission of coronavirus

CERN shuns Workplace by Facebook app over data privacy

Announcing that CERN’s presence on Workplace ended on January 31, the organisation said the decision was taken because of a lack of usage by CERN members and concerns about data privacy

Coronavirus enters Web, users hacked with malicious files

To avoid falling victim to malicious programmes, people should try to avoid suspicious links and refer to official sources for trustworthy and legitimate information, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky recommended

Earn $20,000 for Microsoft’s Xbox bug bounty programme

The Xbox Bounty Programme invites gamers, security researchers, and others around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox Live network and services and share them with the Xbox team, the tech giant said

Facebook, Twitter fighting fake news linked to coronavirus

Facebook said it is focusing on limiting the spread of misinformation and harmful content about the virus, while Twitter said it has invested in its proactive abilities to ensure trends, search, and other common areas of the service are protected from malicious behaviour

Coronavirus | Another Air India flight departs from Delhi to evacuate Indians from Wuhan

The first flight, which evacuated 324 passengers from Wuhan comprised 211 students, 110 working professionals and three minors

Amazon now boasts 150 million Prime members globally

For an annual fee of $119 in the US, the shipping and entertainment programme offers a growing assortment of perks, including one-day shipping on millions of products, free grocery delivery, and access to a large online library of movies and TV shows

Coronavirus | Death toll rises to 259, nearly 12,000 confirmed infections in China

The number of infections in China also rose, by 2,102, bringing the nationwide total to 11,791

Number of coronavirus-infected in Wuhan 10 times official tally, says University of Hong Kong study

“We estimate that 75,815 individuals have been infected in Wuhan as of January 25, 2020,” a team led by Gabriel Leung from the University of Hong Kong reported in “The Lancet”.

Meet the Kerala fishermen behind the viral shark rescue video

An endangered whale shark, accidentally caught while trawling, is returned to the sea in a dramatic rescue by nine alert Kozhikode fishermen. Meet the fishermen, scientists and conservationists who are protecting our oceans

Prasad Bhat is rocking the stand-up comedy stage

From being in a metal band to comedy, Prasad Bhat brings his viral jokes to Chennai next Friday

The politics of construction: on violating building bylaws and land use rules

Why are brazen violations of building bylaws and land use rules still allowed, asks Nidhi Adlakha

NASA decommissions Spitzer Space Telescope after 16 years of operation

Spitzer, which was launched in 2003, studied some of the most distant galaxies ever detected with the light from some of the cosmic bodies travelling for billions of years to reach the telescope, NASA said.

A bully, a mimic, an attacker: On the Black Drongo

The Black Drongo protects itself in many ways from the big, bad world around

What is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?

The last time WHO declared a global health emergency was in 2019 for the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo that killed more than 2,000 people.

Thousands of Instagram users personal details exposed

According to a TechCrunch report, social media booting service Social Captain stored passwords of linked Instagram accounts in unencrypted plain text

Apple ordered to pay Caltech $837mn for patent infringement

Caltech filed a lawsuit nearly four years ago in which it accused Apple and Broadcom of infringing on the university’s four Wi-Fi data transmission patents, The Verge reported

Google launches short form video app Tangi

Google is launching Tangi initially on the web and iOS that allows creative types to share how-to videos. Unlike TikTok, Tangi wants people to learn new things.

Coronavirus | India on high alert after WHO declares global emergency

Everyone with travel history to China from January 15 will have to undergo tests, says Health Ministry official

Sarcophagus dedicated to a sky god among latest finds in Egyptian dig site

The mission found 16 tombs containing 20 sarcophagi, some engraved with hieroglyphics, at the Al-Ghoreifa site, about 300 km south of Cairo.

All about COVID-19

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, including some that cause the common cold to some that cause major diseases such as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

Code green at Australian Open

Ball boys and girls at the ongoing tournament are wearing T-shirts from Tirupur, made from recycled PET bottles

Scientists unveil most detailed images of sun's surface showing "boiling" plasma

The set of images show a close-up view of the Sun’s surface, revealing a gold-coloured cell-like pattern.

Scientists unveil most detailed images of sun's surface showing "boiling" plasma

The Sun's surface, imagined to be like a sprouting volcano, is indeed entirely “turbulent ‘boiling’ plasma”. This discovery was announced yesterday by

Shaheen falcon spotted at an apartment in Thiruvananthapuram

It was the first reported sighting of the fastest bird in the world in the capital city

Watch | African penguins under threat from tourists

A video on endangered African penguins under threat due to stress from dealing with tourists

Over 50 crore Indians now use smartphones, 77% on Internet

Over 50 crore Indians are now using smartphones, a 15% increase from 2018 primarily due to brands such as Xiaomi and Realme, which continue to bring

India drives us to roll out WhatsApp Pay globally: Mark Zuckerberg

Data compliance issues and regulations have kept WhatsApp Pay launch in abeyance for quite some time, despite a successful test run of the payments service with one million users in the country in 2018

Facebook to pay $550mn over its facial recognition technology

The lawsuit in the US state of Illinois claimed that Facebook’s ‘Tag Suggestions’ tool, which scans a user’s face in photos and offers suggestions about who that person might be, stored biometric data without user consent, violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, CNET reported on Thursday.

Hackers selling data of 30 million payment cards used at 850 U.S. stores

According to cybersecurity firm Gemini Advisory, information from the Wawa hacking emerged on the Dark Web this week at the Joker’s Stash marketplace, one of the largest and most notorious dark web marketplaces for buying stolen payment card data

Hey Google, is my wife listening to chats via smart speaker?

A survey by University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers in Canada found that people feared potential misuse of the device from people they actually live with and know

Google mulls transcribing translations in real time on Android

It’s still in the prototype stage, but Google gave a demonstration of the technology during a series of artificial intelligence demos at its San Francisco office, The Verge reported

After dismal 2019, Samsung pins modest recovery hopes on chip market pick-up

In a guarded outlook, the world's biggest memory chip and smartphone maker said on Thursday it couldn't rule out the possibility that demand growth may be curbed amid lingering tensions on U.S.-China trade and looming fears of the economic impact of the new coronavirus outbreak in China and beyond

Facebook reaches $550 mn settlement in facial recognition lawsuit

The lawsuit began in 2015, when Illinois users accused Facebook of violating the State’s Biometric Information Privacy Act in collecting biometric data

Simple ‘doubt button’ may help WhatsApp curb fake news

An India-focused study says such a strategy would be compatible with the encrypted nature of WhatsApp, as ‘red flags’ need not be reported or investigated by the platform

Alexa beats Siri on emergency info, first aid advice

The researchers tested four commonly used devices — Alexa, Google Home, Siri and Cortana — using 123 questions about 39 first aid topics from the Canadian Red Cross Comprehensive Guide for First Aid, including heart attacks, poisoning and nosebleeds

Deadliest day for China in fight against coronavirus

38 deaths reported in 24 hours, taking toll to 170.

Novel coronavirus: WHO to reconvene Emergency Committee meeting today

WHO will decide whether the current outbreak constitutes a ‘public health emergency of international concern’

Coronavirus | What's new in the China virus outbreak

About 7,700 cases of a new viral respiratory illness have been confirmed since an outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

China coronavirus: WHO chief calls new emergency talks

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the January 31 meeting was needed because of cases of onward transmission of the virus outside of China.

Government recommends Homoeopathy, Ayurveda to ‘prevent’ coronavirus infection

Panned on social media, the advisory was later modified but with its recommendations left largely untouched

Researcher finds email accounts of top government officials ‘compromised’

Researcher says ISRO, IGCAR, BARC, SEBI among organisations hit

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