Matt McFarland / Oct 06: My socks arrived at my home in Washington, DC, as so many things do these days, in a brown box sealed with Amazon Prime tape. I ripped it open and pulled out the cotton athletic socks I’d ordered just two days before for $19.65. Big deal, you may think. You […]
Sept 12: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that if the world doesn’t change course by 2020, we run the risk of runaway climate change. Mr Guterres said he was alarmed by the paralysis of world leaders on what he called the “defining issue” of our time. He wants heads of government to come […]
Sept. 12: The great bull run for the FAANG stocks and the rest of the tech sector is showing signs that it might be coming to an end. Since Amazon (AMZN) briefly topped the trillion dollar market valuation level a week ago, shares have fallen nearly 3%. Shares of Facebook (FB) are also down about […]
The iPhone X’s fancy features may soon be headed to the rest of Apple’s smartphone line. Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to announce a new set of iPhone Xs on Wednesday at the company’s underground Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. The company unveils the latest version to its iPhone every fall ahead of […]
Sept. 12: They’re all around us, in the soil, our bodies, and the air, but are often too small to be seen with the naked eye. They provide medicines and food, but also wreak havoc by causing plant and animal diseases. According to the first big assessment of the state of the world’s fungi, the […]
Kathmandu / Sept 5: Dr. Mahabir Pun has put his medals for online auction to raise funds for National Innovation Center (NIC)’s operation in a sustainable manner. Pun aims to raise US$ 5,000,000 by selling his medals, the Ramon Magsaysay (Asia’s Nobel Prize), Rastra Deep, Dr. Harka Gurung Mountaineering Award, International Hall of Fame and […]
Kathmandu, Aug 4: A team of three students of the Pulchowk Engineering Campus; Abhish Khanal, Subhash Timalsina, and Sushan Paudel will be heading for Vietnam to participate in a robotics competition, which will see participation of students from over 22 countries. As part of a pre-event, they demonstrated their robots on the campus on Friday. […]
Kathmandu / July 24:The government, in a bid to implement e-information system, digitalization and e-governance, is preparing to make sure all the government offices in the country compulsorily operate their own twitter handle. According to Pradhumna Prasad Upadhyay, Chief at the ‘Hello Sarkar Desk’, operating twitter accounts in public offices would make information dissemination easier […]
Jackie Wattles / May 19: Cybersecurity experts say a recently discovered website flaw could have allowed virtually anyone to access real-time location data for millions of Americans’ cell phones. The vulnerability was found in a website run by LocationSmart, a company that aggregates cellular location data so it can be used by third parties — […]
May 19: USC researchers have pinpointed a remedy to thwart a protein that helps the metastatic spread of breast cancer, a leading cause of death for women. The findings appear today in Nature Communications. The study comes from the lab of USC stem cell researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and offers […]
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