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Make in India, for India, for world: PM to defence manufacturers at DefExpo

Inaugurating the 11th Defence Exposition (DefExpo 2020) in Lucknow on Wednesday, Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi called on international defence manufacturers to “Make in India, for India and for the world”. In his 35-minute inaugural speech, Modi listed o…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Black Swan

BTS Now Claims All 5 Of The Highest-Charting K-Pop Songs In The History Of The Sales Chart

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 26: (Top) Lil Nas X (C) performs with Jin, V, SUGA, Jimin, RM, ... J-Hope and Jungkook of BTS onstage during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork… Read More

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Star Wars

Don’t Underestimate BB-8 In Battlefront II

Screenshot: TheFulcrum1 (Fandom)The spherical droid BB-8 and its First Order variant BB-9E were added to Star Wars: Battlefront II on Monday and they have been utterly deadly in some multiplayer scenarios, whether facing down standard Storm Troopers or even Darth Vader.Part of that is due to the droids’ speed. They…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Self-driving Vehicles

GM And Ford Lose Billions As Automakers Across The Board Hemorrhage Massive Profits In Q4

Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP (Getty)The Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn't your time more important?Everyone is losing money, America introduces its first official self-driving transit, and GM wants you to take its EV prospects seriously. All this and more for The Morning Shift on Wednesday, February…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Giphy

Alphabet’s Jigsaw introduces a tool that can verify ‘fake’ images — but it’s probably not for you

Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw has unveiled a free image verification tool called Assembler, designed to help fact-checkers and journalists identify manipulated media. The early stage experimental platform blends multiple image detection models into a single too…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Putin

Coronavirus: Hong Kong to quarantine visitors from mainland China

Image copyright EPA Image caption Medical staff are on strike demanding a full closure of the border with the mainland Hong Kong is to impose a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all visitors from mainland China as it battles to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak.The policy comes into effect…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Pandemic

Here’s How We’ll Know If the Wuhan Coronavirus Has Become a Pandemic

In recent days, some public health experts and scientists have begun uttering the P-word in reference to a surging outbreak of the new coronavirus thats already infected at least 24,000 people and killed over 400: pandemic. But when will we know if the Wuhan …

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Flygskam

People hate flight shame—but not enough to quit flying

Despite flying being the single fastest way to grow our individual carbon footprint, people still want to fly. Passenger numbers even grew by 3.3% globally last year alone. The hype around "Flygskam"a global movement championed by climate activist Greta Thunb…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Bees

Africa should ban neonicotinoid insecticides, too

A bee on a flowering plant. Credit: Shutterstock First marketed in the late 1990s, neonicotinoid insecticides have become the world's most widely used group of insecticides. They offer lower toxicity to mammals than the insecticides they replaced. But their systemic nature means that all parts of the plant become toxic…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

NSA

Windows 10 users hit by Search bar fault

Image copyright @Stingintv Image caption Instead of showing search results the tool brings up a large blank box Microsoft has fixed a glitch in Windows 10 that meant one of the operating system's core features stopped working.Dozens posted on social media that Windows Search had stopped working for them on…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Make in India, for India, for world: PM to defence manufacturers at DefExpo

BTS Now Claims All 5 Of The Highest-Charting K-Pop Songs In The History Of The Sales Chart

Don’t Underestimate BB-8 In Battlefront II

GM And Ford Lose Billions As Automakers Across The Board Hemorrhage Massive Profits In Q4

Alphabet’s Jigsaw introduces a tool that can verify ‘fake’ images — but it’s probably not for you

Coronavirus: Hong Kong to quarantine visitors from mainland China

Here’s How We’ll Know If the Wuhan Coronavirus Has Become a Pandemic

People hate flight shame—but not enough to quit flying

Africa should ban neonicotinoid insecticides, too

Windows 10 users hit by Search bar fault

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