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CHINA OUTSPENDS REST OF THE WORLD ON 5G INFRASTRUCTURE BY 2 IS TO 1 RATIO

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CHINA OUTSPENDS REST OF THE WORLD ON 5G INFRASTRUCTURE BY 2 IS TO 1 RATIO

When Beijing sets its mind to building new infrastructure, there’s very little that can stop it. That’s the message coming from a top telecom official who was talking up China’s fast-growing 5G network at a major industry event taking place this week in Shanghai. The nation now has more than 718,000 base stations for the cutting-edge communications technology, covering all of its major cities, said Liu Liehong, a vice minister at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The nation’s huge base station buildup means China is now home…

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WHATSAPP,FACEBOOK,TWITTER,INSTAGRAM SIGNAL & TELEGRAM FACE PROBLEMS AS INDIA ANNOUNCES NEW SOCIAL MEDIA RULES.

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WHATSAPP,FACEBOOK,TWITTER,INSTAGRAM SIGNAL & TELEGRAM FACE PROBLEMS AS INDIA ANNOUNCES NEW SOCIAL MEDIA RULES.

India’s new social media regulations want social media apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram to identify the ‘first originator’. In cases where social media apps are being used to spread ‘mischief’, the government wants the ability to track down the instigators. Tracking the origin of messages may require apps offering privacy to break end-to-end encryption. To prevent the misuse of social media, the Union government on Thursday announced new rules that make it mandatory for platforms such as WhatsApp to aid the government in identifying the “originator” of certain messages containing unlawful…

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ONLINE ART PROJECT TAKES AIM AT MILITARIZATION OF ROBOTICS OFFERING PEOPLE TO TAKE CONTROL OF A FUTURISTIC SORT OF WEAPON

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ONLINE ART PROJECT TAKES AIM AT MILITARIZATION OF ROBOTICS OFFERING PEOPLE TO TAKE CONTROL OF A FUTURISTIC SORT OF WEAPON

An internet-enabled art installation that launched Wednesday offers a strange proposition: the chance to pilot a $75,000 four-legged robot named Spot that is armed with a paintball gun.  The robot may be familiar to people who have seen various viral videos of similar robots from Boston Dynamics that have offered a sometimes startling glimpse at leaps in robotics technology.  But they haven’t seen it like this.  “Obviously they’ve worked really hard in terms of their marketing team to kind of bridge this association of Spot the dog with cute internet…

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Russia approves its third COVID-19 vaccine, CoviVac

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Russia approves its third COVID-19 vaccine, CoviVac

Russia has already approved two COVID-19 vaccines, including the Sputnik V shot, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, following a similar approach of granting approval before seeing any late-stage trial results. The preemptive approvals had raised concerns among some scientists in the West, but inoculations with those first two shots began on a mass scale in Russia only after trials were concluded and showed success. Sputnik V was approved in August and late-stage trials began in September. Mass vaccination was launched in December, after preliminary trial results showed the vaccine to…

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UK asks Japan for Huawei alternatives in 5G networks: Sources

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UK asks Japan for Huawei alternatives in 5G networks: Sources

The British government asked Japan to help build its 5G wireless networks without Huawei Technologies, citing NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd as potential alternative suppliers, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. British officials met with their counterparts in Tokyo on Thursday, two days after Britain ordered Huawei equipment purged from its 5G networks by the end of 2027, the Nikkei said, without citing sources. The move reflects Britain’s effort to bring in new equipment suppliers to foster competition and help reduce costs for the country’s wireless carriers, it said….

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Has UK reached herd immunity threshold to prevent second wave of Coronavirus?

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Has UK reached herd immunity threshold to prevent second wave of Coronavirus?

A paper by Oxford University researchers suggests that the UK population may already have developed sufficient levels of herd immunity required to prevent a second wave of covid-19 in the country. The paper, titled ‘The impact of host resistance on cumulative mortality and the threshold of herd immunity for SARS-CoV-2’, is pending peer review and is currently online on a preprint server. Epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta and three other Oxford University colleagues base their conclusion on the suggestion that the herd immunity threshold (HIT) required to prevent a resurgence is lower than it…

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RUSSIA FIRST NATION TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE HUMAN TRIALS OF CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 VACCINE

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RUSSIA FIRST NATION TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE HUMAN TRIALS OF CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 VACCINE

Moscow: As the world reels under the rising COVID-19 cases, Russia’s Sechenov University has successfully completed the world’s first clinical trials of coronavirus vaccine on humans, media reports said on Sunday (July 12, 2020). The director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Biotechnology Vadim Tarasov confirmed the development to Sputnik news.  “Sechenov University has successfully completed tests on volunteers of the world`s first vaccine against coronavirus,” Tarasov said. He said the university had began clinical trials of the vaccine on June 18. The first group of volunteers would be…

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UK authorises anti-viral drug remdesivir for Coronavirus treatment.

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UK authorises anti-viral drug remdesivir for Coronavirus treatment.

A drug treatment called remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began. Remdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola. UK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients. For the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit. The US…

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CORONAVIRUS CURE VACCINE MAY NEVER BE FOUND FOREVER: REPORTS

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CORONAVIRUS CURE VACCINE MAY NEVER BE FOUND FOREVER: REPORTS

We May Never Have a COVID-19 Vaccine and Have to Live With The Disease Forever As per reports, 37 per cent of vaccines fail in the first phase of testing itself. Whereas 69 per cent fail in the second stage. And 42 per cent go futile in the third phase. Only 10 per cent of total vaccines manage to reach the last stage and get approval. Scientists around the world are in continuous fear that we may never be able to produce an effective vaccine against COVID-19 and have to live with…

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How to have a safe sex life during Coronavirus times

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How to have a safe sex life during Coronavirus times

The whole isolation aspect of COVID-19 has definitely been changing the sex and dating landscape. While meeting people IRL has taken a back seat, FaceTime sex, long chats, and coronavirus-themed porn are all having a moment. Even if you’ve been thriving thanks to the aforementioned hobbies, you might still be wondering exactly what’s off the table right now. Luckily the city of New York set out to educate us all with a Sex and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) guide. The guidance is based on what’s known about COVID-19 transmission so far. At this point, it seems…

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