Microsoft has revealed in its official blog that the Internet Explorer 11 web browser would be retired on June 15, 2022, for some versions of Windows 10. “We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,” the company stated on its official blog site on May 19, 2021. […]
The first lunar eclipse of 2021 will occur on May 26. What will make this even more special is that it will coincide with a supermoon and a red blood moon all at once! According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US, the total lunar eclipse would start at 4:47:39 am […]
Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the Covid-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed US intelligence report. The report came on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected […]
An iceberg the size of the Spanish island of Majorca has broken off the coast of Antarctica, with measurements taken from satellites and planes confirming it’s now the world’s largest. The finger-shaped iceberg, which is about 4320 square kilometres in size, isn’t thought to have been caused by anthropogenic climate change. By comparison New York […]
A year after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle left their royal duties to move to Los Angeles, Madame Tussauds has now decided to move the waxwork models of the two to the attraction’s Hollywood zone. In 2020, the pair’s statues were moved away from Queen Elizabeth and the rest […]
Covid-19 is not only an airborne disease but also has the ability to infect or transmit when one is more than six feet away from an infected person, said the latest advisory from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States. The principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
Chinese scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the Covid-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons, according to media reports referring to documents obtained by the US State Department. According to ‘The Sun’ newspaper in the UK, quoting reports first released by ‘The Australian’, the “bombshell” documents […]
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced that the United State will support temporary waiver of intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines, accepting a key element of a joint proposal by India and South Africa at the WTO, and said it will “actively participate” in negotiations to “make that happen”. Though Biden administration’s call to lift […]
World’s largest jewellery producer Pandora will no longer use mined diamonds and switch to lab-grown stones. Copenhagen-based Pandora, best known for its charm bracelets, on Tuesday launched Pandora Brilliance, which it described as its “first lab-created diamond collection”. The range, which includes earrings, necklaces and rings, features lab-grown stones made in the UK, with prices […]
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple.” “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair tweeted. “We have raised three […]