bubmag

Alibaba

‘Next 10-15 days crucial in dealing with coronavirus’

The FICCI President says appropriate health response, collective public discipline, and acknowledgment of the economic crisis with policy measures is the need of the hour. ET Bureau|Last Updated: Mar 24, 2020, 08.46 AM ISTAgenciesReddy feels that the onus is on citizens to contain the virus.As Covid-19 continues to spread, we…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Narendra Modi

India’s poor, hammered by coronavirus lockdown, fear for future

By Alexandra Ulmer and Francis MascarenhasMUMBAI (Reuters) - Shaikh Bahaduresha, 31, lived on Mumbai's streets for two months last year, unable to make ends meet on his meager taxi-driving profits of roughly $5 a day. After he got married in December, his wife put some money towards renting a small…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Global Warming

Could synthetic fish be a better catch of the day?

Image copyright Sterling Caviar Image caption Sturgeon farmed at Sterling Caviar Overfishing has depleted numbers of wild fish, and fish farms meet much of the growing demand. Could we one day be eating "fish" grown from cells in a factory, as a number of start-ups are planning?Business is booming says…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Narendra Modi

Ensure there are no supply hiccups: PM to India Inc

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked Indian companies to ensure that there are no supply disruptions during the coronavirus crisis, which has led to lockdown and curfew in several parts of the country, while promising to act on industry’s suggestions in the coming days. During an interaction…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Antarctica

Antarctic seal photo wins top prize

The winners of a new wildlife photography competition have been announced, with a drone image of seals on an ice floe earning the top prize. Image copyright Nature TTL / Florian Ledoux French photographer Florian Ledoux took the winning photo, entitled Above the Crabeater Seals, in Antarctica."For me, it is…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Chernobyl

Stalker 2 Unveils Its First Screenshot, But It’s Not Much To Go On

Stalker 2, the sequel to Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, was announced in May 2018, but we haven't seen any screenshots from it since--until now. Developer GSC Game World has celebrated the 13th birthday of the original Stalker by releasing this first screenshot from the sequel, and while it doesn't show…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Feudalism

The System Will Not Return to “Normal,” and That’s Good; We Can Do Better

by Charles Hugh-Smith Essential home lockdown reading. The pandemic is revealing to all what many of us have known for a long time: the status quo was designed to fail and so its failure was not just predictable but inevitable. We’ve propped up a dysfunctional, wasteful and unsustainable system by pouring trillions…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Bushfire

Daily briefing: Tiny fossil has the oldest known rear-end

NATURE BRIEFING 24 March 2020 A fossil the size of a grain of rice appears to be the earliest known bilaterian, the group of animals (including humans) with two-sided symmetry, two openings and a through-gut. Plus: the diagnostic tests for coronavirus available now and in the works, and two approaches…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Air Pollution

Taking Cars Off The Road May Slow Coronavirus Spread: Study

Image: AP ImagesSmog is the natural enemy of humanity. The pollution created by transportation, shipping, and industry has been killing us slowly for decades, contributing to numerous respiratory diseases. And according to a new joint study from the universities of Bologna and Bari in Italy, smog may have been a…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Big Data

Google Opinion Rewards survey asks about coronavirus symptoms to create public data set

Big data provides a wellspring of insight, and there are already examples of that amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tech companies have signaled a willingness to aid relief efforts by providing such information to researchers. One such survey effort might be underway with Google Opinion Rewards today asking people if they…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

‘Next 10-15 days crucial in dealing with coronavirus’

India’s poor, hammered by coronavirus lockdown, fear for future

Could synthetic fish be a better catch of the day?

Ensure there are no supply hiccups: PM to India Inc

Antarctic seal photo wins top prize

Stalker 2 Unveils Its First Screenshot, But It’s Not Much To Go On

The System Will Not Return to “Normal,” and That’s Good; We Can Do Better

Daily briefing: Tiny fossil has the oldest known rear-end

Taking Cars Off The Road May Slow Coronavirus Spread: Study

Google Opinion Rewards survey asks about coronavirus symptoms to create public data set

General Information

Ask me anything