Super-fast electric car charging is here with Mida’s touch

Super-fast electric car charging is here with Mida’s touch

Despite the growing popularity of electric vehicles, many consumers still hesitate as it may take longer to power up an electric car than it does to gas up a conventional one. Another concern is that frequent charging or speeding up the charging process can damage the battery and reduce its lifespan. Now, scientists have developed […]

Early COVID-19 pandemic induced cancer survivors to reduce smoking: Study

Early COVID-19 pandemic induced cancer survivors to reduce smoking: Study

Recent study shows that during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of working-aged UAmerican adults without health insurance did not change despite increases in unemployment, and the prevalence of unhealthy behaviors decreased. The findings, published by Wiley online in CANCER, studied individuals with and without a history of cancer. While cancer survivors […]

Kremlin denies Putin cancer rumors, so is CIA director

Kremlin denies Putin cancer rumors, so is CIA director

Refuting the rumors that Russian President Vladimir Putin is fighting cancer, the Kremlin has stoutly denied such reports once again. The Kremlin routinely rejected any speculation about Putin’s health. Last week, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin felt “fine” and in “good health” before describing speculation to the contrary as “nothing but hoaxes”. But the US […]

Chiranjeevi turns 67, promises new hospital in 1 year for cine workers

Chiranjeevi turns 67, promises new hospital in 1 year for cine workers

Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi turned 67 on Monday and Jana Sena Party founder Pawan Kalyan joined scores of fans from across the country in wishing his elder brother a very happy birthday. Taking to Twitter to express his birthday wishes to Chiranjeevi, who celebrates his 67th birthday on Monday, Pawan Kalyan wrote: “My wholehearted birthday wishes […]

Global warming behind the rise of reptiles 250 million years ago: Study

Global warming behind the rise of reptiles 250 million years ago: Study

Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought,said a new study. Just over 250 million years ago, during the end of the Permian period, and start of the Triassic, reptiles’ rates of evolution and diversity started exploding, […]

Kushner narrates Capitol Hill insurrection in new book, distances from Trump

Kushner narrates Capitol Hill insurrection in new book, distances from Trump

Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has distanced himself from the January 6 Capitol Hills insurrection and his father-in-law Donald Trump in his new book titled “Breaking History”, as the Congressional committee’s investigations on Trump’s alleged role began. ‘Breaking History’ is the latest memoir from a Trump administration official, this one from the former […]

UK roads to be decked up to welcome self-driving cars in 2025

UK roads to be decked up to welcome self-driving cars in 2025

As the UK government is gearing up for self-driving cars from next year with a 100 million pound ($118 million) investment, vehicles with self-driving features will become a common sight by 2025. The government is planning a new legislation which will allow for the safe wider roll-out of self-driving vehicles by 2025. “This enables the […]

Covid raises brain complications, epilepsy risks in kids: Report

Covid raises brain complications, epilepsy risks in kids: Report

A latest study has shown that not only adults but children who suffered from Covid-19 are prone to risk of cognitive deficit, insomnia, ischaemic stroke, nerve or psychotic disorders and epilepsy or seizures  months later. The post-Covid risk trajectories differed in children compared with adults, said the team of researchers at the University of Oxford.  […]

Transcription service Otter limits access to archives, free users

Transcription service Otter limits access to archives, free users

Automated transcription provider Otter has reduced the free hours for transcription from 600 to 300 minutes per month for free users, said the company on Thursday. The popular tool to record interviews with real-time transcription is now limited for free access to 25 most recent conversations, with older ones available via paid mode only. The […]

TikTok in-app browser on iOS monitoring keystrokes, taps: Cybersecurity researcher

TikTok in-app browser on iOS monitoring keystrokes, taps: Cybersecurity researcher

Chinese short-form video app TikTok may be monitoring all keyboard inputs and taps via its in-app browser on iOS, said independent cyber-security researcher Felix Krause. Founder of Fastlane that was acquired by Google, Krause said that when the user opens any link on the TikTok iOS app, it’s opened inside their in-app browser leveraging access to […]

50% companies planning job cuts amid economic downturn: PwC

50% companies planning job cuts amid economic downturn: PwC

At least half of the companies worldwide are planning to cut jobs or prune bonuses and rescinding job offers due to the onset of a global economic downturn, said global financial monitoring firm PwC in its latest report. In its “PwC ‘Pulse: Managing business risks in 2022” survey in the US, it said 50 per […]

Google Search cracks whip on ‘low-quality’, non-original content

Google Search cracks whip on ‘low-quality’, non-original content

Search giant Google has woken up to crack whip on repeated or copied content which is of low-quality in its search results with the roll out of a new algorithm. The search ranking update called the “Helpful Content Update” will start rolling out globally to English language users on August 22. “We know people don’t […]

Just ahead of Asia Cup, UAE remove Ahmed Raza as T20 skipper

Just ahead of Asia Cup, UAE remove Ahmed Raza as T20 skipper

Just one week before the opening of a T20 tournament in UAE, the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) has made a huge change by removing Ahmed Raza as skipper of UAE’s T20 side, replacing him with batter CP Rizwan. Raza. however, will continue to remain UAE’s One-day International captain but the surprising decision just three days […]

Streaming platform overtakes cable TV in US first time: Nielsen report

Streaming platform overtakes cable TV in US first time: Nielsen report

Streaming viewership in the United States has exceeded cable usage for the first time in the US as traditional television failed to cope up with the new content demand and reduced sports programming, said the industry monitoring agency Nielson. According to Nielsen, streaming represented a 34.8 per cent share of total TV viewing in the […]

India Covid cases rise again to 15K today

India Covid cases rise again to 15K today

India on Friday reported marginal rise at 15,754 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, against 12,608 infections on Thursday, with 47 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,27,253 so far. The active caseload of the country stands at 1,01,830 cases, accounting for 0.23 per cent of the country’s total positive […]

Interest rates on small savings schemes remain unchanged

Interest rates on small savings schemes remain unchanged

The government-run small savings schemes remained to provide the same interest rates since the past two years though the bank fixed deposit rates have considerably increased the interest rate. The small savings schemes’ interest rates were last revised in the first quarter of 2020-21, though banks have drastically hiked their home loan and term deposit […]

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