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Facebook launches climate science info center amid fake news criticism

BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Tuesday launched a climate science information center to elevate credible sources on climate change, as critics question its role in the...

BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Tuesday launched a climate science information center to elevate...

Mobile & Apps 15 Sep, 2020

An undated NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACSJ 1206. Photo: NASA/ESA/G. Caminha (University of Groningen), M. Meneghetti (Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science of Bologna), P. Natarajan (Yale University)/The CLASH team and M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble/Handout via Reuters

Scientists confounded by new findings on universe's mysterious dark matter

WASHINGTON: Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new...

WASHINGTON: Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including...

Mobile & Apps 14 Sep, 2020

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks about the upcoming year's budget during an address to the workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. March 11, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/File

NASA sets out to buy moon resources mined by private companies

WASHINGTON: NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as...

WASHINGTON: NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon,...

Mobile & Apps 11 Sep, 2020

Facebook, Google, Twitter urged by EU to do more against fake news

BRUSSELS: Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook (FB.O), Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and...

BRUSSELS: Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation,...

Mobile & Apps 10 Sep, 2020

File - An electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and InfectiousnDiseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient. Photo: AP

Doctors studying why obesity may be tied to serious COVID-19

NEW YORK: In the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed something about the people severely ill from COVID-19: Many were obese. The link became more apparent as...

NEW YORK: In the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed something about the people severely ill from...

Mobile & Apps 09 Sep, 2020

Facebook blocks ailing man's planned end-of-life broadcasts

LE PECQ: Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a chronically ill bed-ridden man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for a medically-assisted death...

LE PECQ: Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a chronically ill bed-ridden man who appealed...

Mobile & Apps 06 Sep, 2020

Russia's�COVID-19�vaccine�showed antibody response in initial trials

Russia has licensed potential coronavirus vaccine The Lancet has published results of early-stage trials Russian wealth fund chief says results answer...

Russia has licensed potential coronavirus vaccine The Lancet has published results of early-stage...

Mobile & Apps 05 Sep, 2020

This illustration provided by LIGO/Caltech in September 2020 depicts two black holes of about 66 and 85 solar masses spiralling into each other to form the GW190521 black hole. Photo: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) via AP

Cosmic Legos: Black holes merge into never before seen size

Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They've now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a...

Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They've now detected the signal from a long ago...

Mobile & Apps 04 Sep, 2020

Steroids cut death rates among critically ill COVID-19 patients, major study finds

Finding comes from analysis of 7 international trials Spurs WHO to update advice on COVID-19 treatment Steroid dexamethasone already in widespread ICU use...

Finding comes from analysis of 7 international trials Spurs WHO to update advice on COVID-19...

Mobile & Apps 03 Sep, 2020

Pakistan blocks five dating apps including Tinder and Grindr

KARACHI: Pakistan said on Tuesday it has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed...

KARACHI: Pakistan said on Tuesday it has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not...

Mobile & Apps 02 Sep, 2020

Facebook lifts block on pro-Biden ad, citing 'enforcement error'

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday it had erred in blocking a pro-Biden ad submitted by Democratic political action committee Priorities USA, after initially...

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday it had erred in blocking a pro-Biden ad submitted by...

Mobile & Apps 01 Sep, 2020

AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate begins late-stage US study

AstraZeneca Plc said on Monday it has begun enrolling adults for a US-funded, 30,000-subject late-stage study of its high profile COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Trial...

AstraZeneca Plc said on Monday it has begun enrolling adults for a US-funded, 30,000-subject...

Mobile & Apps 01 Sep, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing regarding the companyu2019s use and protection of user data, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo

Zuckerberg says Facebook's failure to remove militia page an 'operational mistake'

Facebook Inc (FB.O) made an “operational mistake” in not acting sooner to remove a page for a militia group that posted a call to arms in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the...

Facebook Inc (FB.O) made an “operational mistake” in not acting sooner to remove a page for a...

Mobile & Apps 29 Aug, 2020

TikTok says it has not received a bid from Centricus and Triller

NEW YORK: Investment firm Centricus Asset Management Ltd and social media app Triller Inc have not submitted an offer for the TikTok assets that China’s ByteDance is...

NEW YORK: Investment firm Centricus Asset Management Ltd and social media app Triller Inc have not...

Mobile & Apps 29 Aug, 2020

Sinovac's coronavirus vaccine candidate approved for emergency use in China: source

BEIJING: Sinovac Biotech Ltd's coronavirus vaccine candidate CoronaVac was approved in July for emergency use as part of a programme in China to vaccinate high-risk...

BEIJING: Sinovac Biotech Ltd's coronavirus vaccine candidate CoronaVac was approved in July for...

Mobile & Apps 28 Aug, 2020

A sign is seen at an AstraZeneca site in Macclesfield, central England April 28, 2014. Photo: Reuters

AstraZeneca starts trial of COVID-19 antibody treatment

AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had begun testing an antibody-based treatment for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, with the first participants dosed, adding to...

AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had begun testing an antibody-based treatment for the prevention and...

Mobile & Apps 25 Aug, 2020

Zoom glitches, briefly grinding US schools to a halt

NEW YORK: Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom — the video-conferencing service that powers everything from...

NEW YORK: Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when...

Mobile & Apps 25 Aug, 2020

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, Monday, June 3, 2019. Phone: AP

Apple CEO Tim Cook is fulfilling another Steve Jobs vision

BERKELEY: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was a tough act to follow. But Tim Cook seems to be doing so well at it that his eventual successor may also have...

BERKELEY: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was a tough act to follow. But Tim Cook seems to...

Mobile & Apps 25 Aug, 2020

TikTok to challenge Trump's executive order

TikTok said on Saturday it plans to file a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app...

TikTok said on Saturday it plans to file a lawsuit on Monday against President Donald Trump’s executive...

Mobile & Apps 23 Aug, 2020

A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus linked to the Wuhan outbreak, shared with Reuters on February 18, 2020. Photo: NEXU Science Communication/via Reuters

Singapore scientists find coronavirus variant with milder infections

SINGAPORE: Researchers in Singapore have discovered a new variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus that causes milder infections, according to a study published in The...

SINGAPORE: Researchers in Singapore have discovered a new variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus that...

Mobile & Apps 21 Aug, 2020

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