Year: 2020

New York state’s schools, colleges to remain shut for the academic year

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We must protect our children and We must protect our students; we have to protect our educators.Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor has announced that schools and colleges across the state, the worst-hit in the United States, will remain closed for the rest of the academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a decision that will impact nearly 4.2 million students. New York, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, is gradually beginning to see decline in the number of daily hospitalisations, intensive care unit admissions and fatalities. The…

Collection of PM-CARES fund can be shared to public: PMO

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India has had a Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) since 1948. The primary focus of the mobilisation of public donations in the wake of natural disasters like floods and earthquakes. On March 24, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a national lockdown, the Union home ministry issued a notification declaring the COVID-19 epidemic in India to be a ‘natural disaster’ and invoking the provisions of the National Disaster Management Act to give the government coercive powers. On March 28 evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to announce the creation…

There could be sharp rise projected in HIV, TB, Malaria deaths due to overwhelmed systems

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The pressure on healthcare systems due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic may raise fatalities from other ailments, predicted the Imperial College, London.   Deaths over five years may increase up to 10 per cent related to human immunodeficiency viruses, 20 per cent to tuberculosis and 36 per cent to malaria.   The HIV patients would be affected as the Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) services would be affected due to non-availability of drugs. The more severe the COVID-19 pandemic, the more difficult it would become to reach ART centres…

What all one can expect from the Facebook and Reliance business deal

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Facebook’s investment of $5.7 billion (Rs. 43,000 crore) for a very small minor share raises many questions in the technology circle . The deal with Reliance also gives Facebook access to the latter’s bouquet of digital apps. These include in-house apps such as Jio Money, Jio TV, etc in addition to the young startups acquired by Reliance or its subsidiaries across categories such as logistics, e-commerce and artificial intelligence.   It is quiet evident that, Jio Platforms will help Facebook to build similar products for the other key markets around the…

HONOR announces its 30 series in China

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HONOR has announced the new HONOR 30 series, which includes the HONOR 30, HONOR 30 Pro, and HONOR 30 Pro+. Available soon for the Chinese mainland market, the HONOR 30 series starts at RMB 2,999, RMB 3,999, and RMB 4,999, for the three models, respectively.   HONOR 30 series brings industry-leading imaging capabilities Through a combination of large sensor size, high resolution, light-sensitivity and zoom capabilities, the HONOR 30 series lets avid mobile photographers unleash their creativity, anytime, anywhere.   The HONOR 30 Pro+ features a 50-megapixel ultra-sensitive tri-lens system, including a…

Lack of patient awareness is biggest challenge to telemedicine during COVID-19

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A survey conducted by GlobalData between 6 April and 20 April about the use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 crisis saw an overwhelming majority of respondents claim they expect telemedicine to play a very important role in the fight against the virus, as indicated by 67% of 853 respondents. In addition, telemedicine was rated by 28% of 935 respondents as the emerging technology that will have the greatest impact on managing the outbreak.   Kathryn Whitney, MSc, Director of Thematic Analysis, GlobalData, comments: “Telemedicine has been touted as a critical…

Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use

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Xiaomi phone as a backdoor equipped with a phone’s function, he was actually half-joking. It seems like he does have proof and insights that shared with Forbes which identified Xiaomi phones as potential privacy invaders. Reported by Forbes.   Xiaomi phones had a glaring security flaw that hackers could pounce on. It has published last year also and the Check Point security researcher Slava Makkaveev disclosed a vulnerability with Xiaomi phones, stemming from its preinstalled Guard Provider app.   The app is intended to be a security feature, with three antivirus programs packed inside to detect malware.…

Yogi Adityanath invites to FedEx, Cisco, Adobe to setup facilities to UP from China

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UP government held a video conference with nearly 100 investors and companies from the US. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s government has proposed to provide several facilities to giant corporations of the US, including FedEx, UPS, Cisco, Adobe, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Boston Scientific, and others if they shift factories and bases from China to the state of Uttar Pradesh. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s asked to the states to use the current situation to woo global companies that want to exit China in the wake of the spread of the coronavirus…

Mandatory for Aarogya Setu app for private sector employees also

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The Ministry of Home Affairs has made it mandatory for government and private sector employees to use the COVID-19 contact tracing app Aarogya Setu as it extended the lockdown for two more weeks post May 3 but with certain exemptions.   The Aarogya Setu App mandatory for people living in the coronavirus Containment Zones inside the 130 districts identified as the Red Zones. The government considers the App to be a handy coronavirus containment tool which can be used to assess the level of risk an individual is exposed to…

Tesla tumbles after Musk tweets stock too high

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Shares of Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) tumbled 9% on Friday after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted that the electric carmaker’s high-flying stock was overly expensive.   “Tesla stock price is too high,” Musk said on Twitter in one of several unusual messages, including ones quoting parts of the U.S. national anthem and that he would sell almost all his physical possessions.   The subsequent share drop erased around $13 billion from Tesla’s market value and nearly $3 billion from the value of Musk’s stake. Still, shares remain up almost 50%…