March 04: The promise of a new laptop — that’s what lured Mamadou Diallo into taking his first coding course. That was three years ago — and the new Windows computer and weekend workshop have helped Diallo’s future look very, very bright. Diallo, 17, hosts hackathons for teens, teaches other underprivileged kids how to code […]
March 04: Google is throwing its weight behind efforts to combat the Zika virus, with new tools, grant money, and some help from the Latin American Sesame Street. Since November, Google searches related to the mosquito-borne virus have blown up. There has been a 3,000% increase in Zika related searches around the world. On Thursday, […]
March 4: For the first time, a team of astronomers has detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The new findings indicate that these “fast radio bursts” come from an extremely powerful object which occasionally produces multiple bursts […]
Myagdi / February 27: A campaign to manage funds for internet connectivity in all VDCs in Myagdi district has been started. The District Development Committee (DDC), Myagdi, and Myagdi Overseas Nepali Association (MONA) inked a deal on Friday for the collection of fund needed to launch the campaign. District Development Officer Chiranjibi Poudel and Chairman […]
February 27: Apple’s biggest business rivals will be supporting the company in its court battle against the FBI. Amazon (AMZN, Tech30), Facebook, Google (GOOGL, Tech30), Microsoft and other tech companies will file letters to the court stating that they stand with Apple, according to the companies and sources familiar with their plans. Each has to […]
February 26: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says more work still needs to be done to police hate speech on the social media site in Germany. Answering a question Friday at a town hall event in Berlin, Zuckerberg said “hate speech has no place on Facebook” and that he had being instituting better controls on monitoring […]
February 26: It is a simple but chilling statistic: 75 percent of the world’s food supply relies on bees, birds and other pollinators, and they’re increasingly threatened. That is part of the conclusion of a two-year study conducted and released Friday by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Tens of thousands […]
February 26: A newly published study uses IBEX data and simulations of the interstellar boundary to better describe space in our galactic neighborhood. Immediately after its 2008 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spotted a curiosity in a thin slice of space: More particles streamed in through a long, skinny swath in the sky […]
New York / February 19 : Scientists suspect an outbreak of the Zika virus is behind a surge in a rare birth defect in Brazil. But how are they going to prove it? Authorities in the South American country were quick to make the link last fall. The health minister last week said he was […]
New Delhi / February 19: Indian phone maker Ringing Bells launched a $5 smartphone today, with huge customer demand promptly crashing the little-known company’s website hours after the phone went on sale. The Freedom 251 was unveiled a day ahead of the launch and is being sold for 251 rupees ($5) — a price that […]
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