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The AI-generated image of an explosion at Pentagon that appeared on several verified Twitter accounts has once again put Twitter's paid verification programme in question that allows anyone to pay $8 a month and get the verified Blue tick.   Several media outlets and millions of...

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Caroline Chen (ProPublica) 23 May 2023
This story was originally published by ProPublica.   Dressed head-to-toe in protective gear, Peggy Eby crawled on her hands and knees under a fig tree, searching for bat droppings and fruit with telltale fang marks.   Another horse in Australia had died from the dreaded Hendra...

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A bug in Twitter is apparently restoring deleted tweets and retweets for hundreds of users who have no clue about it and the micro-blogging platform was yet to admit the issue and issue a fix, the media reported on Monday.   Users are reporting that tweets they mass-deleted are...

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When we use illustrations and pictures in our projects / presentations, we normally pick up royalty-free images from the Web. These images can just be re-sized and rotated before use. Blush goes the extra mile. You can easily create and customise stunning illustrations with collections made...

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Satish Gonarkar 15 May 2023
One of my recent patients, a 34-year-old man who works from home and consumes a diet high in sugar, refined carbohydrates and processed foods, is a prime example of how lifestyle choices can impact one's overall health. During his medical examination, I discovered that his metabolic health...

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We have all used Adobe Acrobat Reader which is the industry standard for reading PDF files. Often, it is slow to open and heavy to use.   SumatraPDFReader is extremely quick and opens instantly. It is small, fast, customisable and free. Apart from PDF, it also supports various other...

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Akshay Naik 09 May 2023
Mobile networks worldwide are rolling out the fifth-generation (5G) mobile technology which provides high-speed wireless connections. Concerns have been raised about electromagnetic radiation from 5G base stations which could potentially cause cancer or other health problems; but reliable...

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Very often, viruses enter our system through attachments received in emails. Most of the time, if you have a strong, paid anti-virus tool installed, it will prevent the virus from opening and spreading. However, each anti-virus tool has its own limitations—what is caught by one anti-virus...

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After three long gruelling years of Covid-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday declared that the pandemic is no longer a public health emergency.   Covid-19 was declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in January 2020. About six weeks later, it...

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US Vice President Kamala Harris has told top Big Tech CEOs, including Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT fame), that the private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 May 2023
With the summer vacation season fast approaching, Airbnb has adopted a number of changes under the banner of "Airbnb Rooms," including steps to improve rate transparency, says a report from ConsumerAffairs.com.   As per the report, anyone who has ever shopped for a rental has seen...

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I stepped off the jumbo jet at the JFK airport, clutching my precious bag of passports, papers and my (proverbial) eight dollars, and….   One glass in my spectacles cracked, vertically from top to bottom.   Was it thermal shock? Not really. Probably culture shock!   My...

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Whenever we are in the Windows file manager, we have an option to preview our files in the right pane. This is a very useful feature of Windows, but is extremely slow, at times. More so, if you are previewing multiple file formats in quick succession.   QuickLook is a simple app that...

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside a Gujarat High Court order, holding that Ayurveda practitioners working in government hospitals should be treated at par with doctors holding MBBS degrees and they are entitled to equal pay.   A bench of justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj...

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Advertisements should be banned for unhealthy food products, as it is increasing consumption of ultra processed foods which, in turn, driving a surge in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease, in India, according to an...

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Jan Banerjee  and   Amitabha Banerjee 22 April 2023
Housework   There is hardly any to be done, actually.   We move into a super clean apartment, and we don’t have to sweep/ mop/ vacuum the place—the landlord does that after we leave. The few cups and plates we use are easy to clean. Most places have a dish-washer,...

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This is a simple app made for cooperative housing societies (CHS).   It has the provisions of law for CHS, listed serially. You will find the relevant provisions, circulars and case laws, in some cases. This could provide a quick reference point for looking up various provisions right...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 April 2023
Eating fermented foods may have various long- and short-term positive impacts on brain function, such as reducing stress. These foods naturally provide us with probiotics—good bacteria that mostly live in our digestive system. But which fermented foods are the best? The popular notion is that...

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India recorded 12,591 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which is 20% higher than the previous day.   On Wednesday, 10,542 new cases were recorded.   The active caseload currently is 65,286, said the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.   The recovery rate is at...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 18 April 2023
As the FTC reviews its Green Guides, misleading environmental claims are rampant.   If you want to save the planet, you’re going to need to do more than rely on advertisers’ environmental claims.   Greenwashing – when ads make something sound better for the environment than it...

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