Kathmandu / Dec 17: Eminent playwright Govinda Malla Gothale’s distinguished one-act play Bhoko Ghar is slated to be staged at the Theatre Mall in the Capital starting this Friday. The play will be directed by Kedar Shrestha. Written in the ‘70s, the play revolves around crises the Nepali middle-class families go through. The play narrates […]
Jonathan Amos / Dec. 17: The researchers behind an app that turns a smartphone into an earthquake detector say they have been thrilled by the take-up and performance of their citizen science network. MyShake was launched for Android devices in February and has now been downloaded over 200,000 times. Enabled phones have recorded hundreds of […]
Dec. 17: Vine lovers can still get their six-second looping video fix. The Twitter-owned video app that launched viral stars and a new form of visual comedy isn’t totally shutting down. Vine is turning its app into Vine Camera, which will let users take six-second videos. The videos won’t be shared to Vine’s platform, which […]
Dec. 17: As Facebook introduces “fake news” warning labels, the social network faces a fundamental problem: Some of its users don’t trust the fact-checkers. There was an immediate uproar, led by right-wing web sites, when Facebook announced the labeling plan on Thursday. Some of Facebook’s partners were denounced as partisan, partly by writers and commentators […]
Dec. 16: A newly published statistical analysis of mini-spiral galaxies shows an unexpected interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter. The research shows that where the relationship is obvious and cannot be explained in a trivial way within the context of the Standard Model, these objects may serve as “portals” to a completely new form […]
Dec. 17: A Los Angeles news anchor participating in a segment about holiday gifts decided to test drive an electric scooter — to disastrous results. Lisa Breckenridge, an anchor on KTTV’s Good Day LA, was sitting on an electric scooter during the show’s holiday gift segment and decided to take it for a spin around […]
Dec. 17: A Texas YouTuber testing out a homemade guillotine on a can of spray paint recorded the moment the test went almost according to plan. The video, uploaded to YouTube by user Destruction Channel, featured a member of the channel’s team testing out the guillotine they built for their video experiments. The man makes […]
Dec. 17: A driver on a road in Pattaya, Thailand, recorded video of a bizarre modified car he compared to the post-apocalyptic vehicles from Mad Max. The video, recorded Monday, shows the ornate convertible with its top down on a road in Pattaya. The car is covered in strange decorations, and the driver eventually turns […]
Dec. 17: An Indiana woman paid tribute to late musician Prince and the coming Christmas holiday with a “Princemas tree” that took the Internet by storm. Lish Laynette posted photos to Facebook showing her Christmas tree, which she decided to turn into a “Princemas tree” in tribute to His Royal Badness, who was one of […]
Kathmandu / Dec 17: The Rani Pokhari, located in the heart of the capital city, will undergo a cleanup with the completion of the relocation of the fishes found in the pond. On Tuesday, the work of relocating the fishes of the Rani Pokhari to Kamal Pokhari had started and now the pond will be […]
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