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How Whole Foods will help Amazon rule the world

May 19: Amazon just sent a clear signal that Whole Foods is ground zero in its plan for world domination. On Wednesday, the online retailer announced that Amazon Prime members would get an additional 10% off sale items when they shop at Whole Foods. The discount will apply to hundreds of products throughout stores. To […]


Astronomers have made the most distant ever detection of oxygen.

May 19: They observed it in a galaxy of stars that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. But what is really fascinating is that this oxygen can only have been produced in an even older group of stars that would have dispersed it when they died and blew themselves apart. That means […]


Facebook’s new rules for Pages are a big deal, but there are major questions

Apr. 06: Facebook announced Friday that it is introducing new rules for Facebook Pages — rules that, had they been in place earlier, could have stopped Russian trolls posing as Americans from wreaking havoc on the platform in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Unlike Facebook profiles, Facebook Pages can essentially be […]


On Instagram, no nipples. But you can sometimes find Fentanyl

Apr. 06: You may not see women’s nipples on Instagram, but you could find Fentanyl. A quick search can turn up plenty of accounts filled with pictures of various pills. They typically list contact details — email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames for chat apps and encrypted messenger services like Kik and Wickr — to […]


Witness the Spectacular and Mysterious Depths of the Cosmos Through Hubble’s Eye

Apr. 06: Witness the most spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos through Hubble’s eye. These unique images are some of the best ever capture by the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, […]


Dozen black holes found at galactic centre

Apr. 06: Dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, researchers have said. A new analysis provides support for a decades-old prediction that “supermassive” black holes at the centres of galaxies are surrounded by many smaller ones. However, previous searches of the Milky Way’s centre, where the nearest supermassive […]


‘Nepal need to develop technology to capitalise on endless opportunities’

Monica Lohani and Sandeep Sen / Kathmandu: “Well, it is a little bit odd for me to be speaking to you, despite all the respect I have for you. But, I was wondering what happens if, like in the transformers movie, you go crazy or rogue? Is there a switch?” asked Nepal Coordinator for United […]


Sophia, the first humanoid robot to speak in Nepal

Kathmandu / Mar 20: Sophia, the first humanoid robot acknowledged as a citizen of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is arriving in Nepal tomorrow as a keynote speaker in a conference. The human robot is part of the United Nations Development Programme’s conference on “Technology for Public Services/Development” on March 21. “As part of our […]


Sagoon strikes $ 5m deal with HT Overseas

Washington D.C./ Mar 13: Sagoon, the social commerce platform enabling its users to Connect, Share, and Earn, has announced that it has entered into an agreement for a $5 million investment from HT Overseas Pvt. Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HT Media Limited, one of India’s oldest and largest media companies. In a press statement […]


A social media tycoon is now China’s richest man

Mar. 01: China’s new richest man has chat apps and video games to thank for his massive wealth. Tencent CEO Ma Huateng is the country’s highest-ranked person on the Global Rich List published Wednesday by Shanghai-based wealth research firm Hurun Report. His estimated fortune more than doubled to $47 billion over the past year. His […]




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