Britain surely is separating itself from Europe, but it has initiated to connect with Norway through a widening web of undersea cables which will tap the nation’s important power source to the continent fulfilling its aspirations of clean energy. Recently, the longest and the strongest of all the cables has been laid down across the North Sea. The cable stretches 450 miles from a Hydroelectric plant based in the Rugged mountains of Norway to an industrial port in Northeast England called Blyth. There are twin cables, each about 5 inches in diameter. Its massiveness can carry enough power
Last Sunday, Germany gave a nod to the plan of the European Union where they are going to label some of their natural gas energy projects as “green investments.” However, it is stuck on the fact that it would not support the same kind of projects concerning nuclear power in the country. On Friday, Germany shut down three of its six nuclear power stations as it proceeds to completely withdraw from nuclear energy because of its increased risk, especially after the accident caused by the meltdown of the reactor in Japan in 2011. Although nuclear power plants emit the lowest amount of CO2
After becoming the first country in the world to shift to a 4.5-day working week, UAE is back in the news with another unique and impressive decision. Dubai has become the world's first government to turn completely paperless, which will reportedly save 1.3 billion Dirham (USD 350 million) and 14-million-man hours. All transactions in the Government of Dubai are now digital. Sheikh Hamdan said that the achievement of this target marks the beginning of a new stage in Dubai's journey to digitise life in all its aspects - a journey rooted in innovation, creativity, and a focus on the future.
Google has moved to shut down a network of one million hijacked electronic devices used worldwide to commit online crimes, and also sued Russia-based hackers responsible for the same. Shane Huntley and Luca Nagy from Google's threat analysis group explained that the operators of Glupteba are likely to attempt to regain control of the botnet using a backup command and control mechanism. The Glupteba botnet, which the tech giant has been tracking since 2020, had been growing at a rate of thousands of new devices each day. The device is hijacked by tricking users into downlo
Australia’s health authorities said on Wednesday that they have found an Omicron lineage in a person who arrived in Queensland from South Africa. The new lineage found in the traveller has about half the gene variations of the original Omicron variant and cannot be detected with regular screening. The traveller arrived in the country last Saturday and tested positive for Covid 19. Queensland’s acting chief health officer Peter Aitken told reporters that the new lineage has enough characteristics for the authorities to be able to classify it as Omicron, but nothing about its severi
Finland has reported text messages of unknown origin that are spreading malware. These messages have malicious links, and Telia Co AB, the country’s second-biggest telecommunications operator, has intercepted hundreds of thousands of these messages. Teemu Makela, chief information security officer at Elisa Oyj, the largest telecoms operator, said that the malware attack is exceptional and very worrying, and quite a big amount of text messages are flying around. Most of the messages claim that the recipient has received a voicemail, asking them to open a link. Upon opening the link, An
Singapore is all set to build its third national supercomputer to expand research in Covid-19 and other healthcare areas. The new supercomputer will train artificial intelligence to predict a patient's future disease condition within hours. The past data of patients with specific diseases can be fed into the supercomputer to train the artificial intelligence. This will help in finding out drug combinations for treating Covid-19, while also predicting Covid in a patient. The National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC) and National University Health System (NUHS) finalised an agreement o
Researchers at the Department of Microbiology at The University of Hong Kong have succeeded in isolating Covid’s new Omicron variant from clinical specimens. This will help in developing vaccines against Omicron, which is swiftly spreading in some countries. Studies are still trying to find out if the vaccines already available in the market can protect against the new variant. Cases of the variant have been reported from Australia, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Britain, Israel, Netherlands and Hong Kong among other countries, and strict restrictions are being imposed again. So far, three cas
India, known for producing some of the world’s most well-known Chief Executive Officers, is celebrating the appointment of Parag Agarwal as Twitter’s new CEO. He succeeded Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who stepped down from the position on Monday. The 37-year-old joined Twitter in 2011, and was promoted to the post of Chief Technology Officer after a few years in 2017. A graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai-born Agrawal has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University. Shortly after the announcement, Agrawal tweeted a note, saying he is excit
On Wednesday, the United States Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID-19 vaccine for booster doses of the Moderna Inc and Johnson & Johnson. They also said that Americans can choose a shot of their own choice for their original inoculation as a booster. FDA CommissionerJanet Woodcock said in a statement, “The availability of these authorized boosters is important for continued protection against COVID-19 disease”. According to her, the data suggests the effectiveness of the vaccine may wane over time among some fully vaccinated people. This gives all three vaccines the