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 […]
March 04: A Canadian family’s travel plans were complicated for a second time this year as they discovered their 6-year-old son remained on the country’s no-fly list. Sulemaan Ahmed confirmed the incident after his wife tweeted that his son was flagged during online check in while the family attempted to book a flight from Toronto […]
March 04: A man testing out his GoPro camera at a New Zealand beach captured the moment a shark swam between him and his daughter. The video, posted to YouTube by Michael Homer, shows the man testing out his new GoPro camera with his daughter while swimming in the Bay of Plenty at Papamoa Beach. […]
March 04: A pair of Denver Zoo lion cubs are finding enrichment and strength training from an object they probably wouldn’t find in the wild — a giant steel ball. The Denver Zoo, which posted video of the cubs playing on YouTube, said the large steel ball suspended from the ceiling of Kalu and Kamara’s […]
March 05: Tyo Hawa is a music video made by the acoustic duo April Rush. The song and accompanying video was produced by KJC Productions, a production house associated with the Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory in Jhamshikel. The artists behind April Rush are guitarist Rajat Rai and his wife Yankey Ongmu Lepcha. Rajat, who plays guitar […]
March 04: A Maryland police department said an injured eagle rescued by an animal services officer was dubbed “Trust” by its rescuer. The Montgomery County Police Department said Animals Services Division Officer Jennifer Gill responded to a report of an injured eagle walking into a wooded area about 8:45 a.m. Thursday. “Officer Gill located the […]
March 05: Phakir, a novel by the young journalist and emerging author Bachu BK, is a tale of pain, death, poverty, gender bias, and deprivation. It is a melancholic story written in first person by Goras, our protagonist, and depicts the lives of the people of the Far Western Region who are compelled to migrate […]
March 05: Rupert Murdoch wed former supermodel Jerry Hall in a low-key ceremony in central London on Friday, the fourth marriage for the media mogul. The 84-year-old executive chairman of News Corp and owner of 21st Century Fox Inc, and Hall, 59, smiled happily for photographers after the ceremony at Spencer House, an 18th-century mansion […]
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