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New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS): The All India Institute of Medical Sciences continued to work on a manual mode seven days after the server was hacked and on Tuesday witnessed a heavy rush of patients. The number of incoming patients visiting the hospital increased significantly leading to a rush like situation...

Geneva, Nov 29: To avoid racist stereotypes and stigmatisation, the WHO has recommended that the monkeypox virus be renamed “mpox”. Both names — mpox and monkeypox — will be used simultaneously for one year while the latter is phased out, the WHO said in a statement on Monday. The change comes...

San Francisco: Google and Microsoft have both announced new agreements to lower their IT operations’ carbon footprint by using renewable energy sources in their data centres. According to ‘The Register’, Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Engie, a French utility company, for 100 MW of energy generated by...

San Francisco: Twitter boss Elon Musk has said that the microblogging platform may exceed one billion monthly users in the next 12 to 18 months. “I think I see a path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months,” Musk tweeted. Earlier this month, Twitter had told...

San Francisco: Watching just 17 minutes of YouTubers talking about their struggles with mental health can drive down prejudice, a research has suggested. According to the University of Essex, prejudice toward mental health declined by 8 per cent and intergroup anxiety declined by 11 per cent among viewers. In a...

New Delhi: India now has the second largest gamer base in the world with 396.4 million gamers, a new report has showed. India now makes up 50.2 per cent of all gamers in the top 10 Asian countries’ list, according to the data provided by market research firm Niko Partners. “India...

San Francisco: WhatsApp phone numbers of 487 million users have been stolen and put on sale on a “well-known” hacking community forum, the media reported. According to Cybernews, the dataset allegedly contains WhatsApp user data from 84 countries and phone numbers of over 32 million users from the US, 11 million...

Washington: Carrying a Moon microscope and solar arrays, SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA was on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), With more than 7,700 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies and other cargo, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft lifted off on the Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s...

New York: Earth is currently in the middle of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year and new research suggests environmental changes caused the first such event in history, which occurred millions of years earlier than scientists previously thought. Most dinosaurs famously disappeared 66 million years ago at the...

New Delhi: Elon Musk on Sunday revealed his Twitter 2.0 — The Everything App, saying that the new user signups are at an all-time high and the company is now actively recruiting. Musk, who sacked more than half of Twitter’s workforce, said that “world-class software aces are joining Twitter”. Sharing some...