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Everything was announced at the Surface event
Microsoft has unveiled its Surface Laptop 7th edition that features a 15.6-inch display, 16GB of RAM and a battery life of 20 hours. The Surface Laptop will be priced at $999.99 for the 8GB version, which has a battery life of 12 hours. The 13inches MacBook Air has a 13inches display with a resolution of…
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The first laptop with a chip is the Vivobook S 15
Asus has announced the launch of a new 15.6-inch Vivobook S 15 with a 12-core Snapdragon X Elite or 10-core X Plus chip. Priced at 69,999, the Vivobook S 15 will be available in silver and gold colour options. It will come with a 120Hz display, 12MP rear camera, USB-C, 4GB of RAM and the…
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The short story author, Alice Munro, has died at 92
Canadian writer Alice Munro said that she doesn’t want people to find inspiration from her books. “I want…books to be enjoyed by people because I want them to think of them in ways related to…their own lives,” she added. Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989, further said that she doesn’t want…
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There is a plan to destroy the Baltimore bridge collapse site
The crew of the ship which was stuck in the Francis Scott Key Bridge in US’ Maryland remained on board the ship during a controlled explosion on Monday. The crew remained on board the ship during the explosion and no injuries or problems were reported, an Army Corps of Engineers official said. The port’s 50-foot…
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The upcoming storm will affect critical infrastructure
The US government has declared a G4 (Severe) geomagnetic storm, which is the second highest rating on the planet’s storm scale. This is the first time since 2005 that a “Severe” storm has been declared. The storm is expected to produce large flares and the ejection of large amounts of charged particles. The most powerful…
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Protests over Gaza are in some way related to university graduations
Former Kent State University student Roseann Canfora, who survived a shooting by the National Guard in 1970, has said that armed action is a danger on a college campus. She added that students on college campuses can exercise their freedom of speech without fear of being silenced or harmed. On Saturday, students protested the war…
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The battle for the replacement of Baltimore’s Key Bridge has started
The owner of a cargo ship that crashed into the Tampa Bay bridge in US’ Florida, killing six people in March, is trying to limit how much it pays under a law known as Limitation of Liability Act of 1851. The law has been used many times before by the owner of the Titanic. In…
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The bill aimed to combat antisemitism was passed by the House
US House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday to address reports of rising antisemitism on college campuses. The bill seeks to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism for enforcement of federal anti-discrimination laws regarding education programmes. “Right now, without…clear definition of antisemitism, Department of Education and college administrators are having trouble…
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reply by Bassetto et al
A statistical analysis of magnetic field effects reported by Gegear et al for migratory monarch butterflies was performed. Our conclusion was that there is no evidence in Gegear et al. 4 to support such a contention. The data for the naive and trained groups of flies in the synthetic dataset are highly significant different by…
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I support researchers who have moved toLithuania
A Lithuania-based scientist, who’s working at a biotechnology company in the country, said it’s common for science students to work during their studies. She added she loved laboratory work before the COVID-19 pandemic when she was an undergrad at Vilnius University. “This gave me a chance to see what life sciences are like…and learn more…
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University leaders are weighing police involvement as pro-Palestinian protests spread
Columbia University has issued a list of deadlines to reach a solution with protesters, who’ve been protesting outside the school’s gates for over a week. The school said it will not allow the protest to continue until students and faculty can be allowed to continue with their classes. It has set several deadlines, including May…
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More university leaders want police involved in pro-Palestinian protests
California’s Cal Poly University has closed its campus for the first time in almost a year after students protested against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. The protesters had occupied two academic and administrative buildings on Saturday. Cal Poly students had set up an encampment in support of Palestinians last month, demanding an end to Israel’s…
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Student protesters are in danger of being banned from campus if they get arrested
Twelve protesters were arrested at the University of Mary Washington after refusing to vacate an encampment on its campus in Washington DC, reports said. At Yale University, nearly 300 faculty members signed a letter condemning what they said was “the criminalization of Yale students engaged in recent acts of peaceful protest”. They wanted the university…
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Protesters at Columbia University are occupying a building
Hundreds of students and faculty at Yale University have signed a letter condemning the criminalization of students forEngaging in Peaceful Protest. This comes after the University of Florida said that protesters could face suspension if they violate specific protest rules and that a three-year ban on campus was possible if they did. Barnard College said…
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There is a tough summer to come with a heat wave in Gaza
Israel has announced that it will purchase 40,000 tents to house the displaced Palestinians in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. With a capacity of 12 people in each, the tents could house 480,000 Palestinians, about a third of the number of people believed to be sheltering in Rafah. Earlier, US Special Envoy…
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There is a doxxing problem at Columbia University
Students who protested against Columbia University over the construction of a gym in New York City’s Harlem agreed to remove a significant number of tents and comply with fire department requirements, officials said on Thursday. The protesters had agreed to remove a significant number of tents and comply with fire department requirements, they added.
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Net neutrality is back in the U.S
US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said the new Net Neutrality rules are now “essential services”. He added that consumers benefitted from faster speeds and lower prices since the repeal of the net neutrality rules. He further said broadband is now an “essential” service, however, there are some basic oversights.
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The origin of bioluminescence in animals can be dated back over half a billion years
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that states are obliged to protect their citizens from the threats and harms of climate change. They argued that they’re at higher risk of heat-related illness or death than most people. Switzerland was doing too few to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions and contribute to meeting the 2015…
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NPR suspends a veteran editor for his public criticism
NPR Editor in Chief, Roger Berliner, has been reprimanded for writing an essay titled ‘NPR’s Race Problem’. Berliner claimed NPR is “not so much a news organisation as it is an institution” and that it has a tendency to focus on diversity without a clear commitment to diversity of viewpoint. NPR said that Berliner had…
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The European court has rules regarding forcing countries to meet climate goals
Europe’s highest human rights court ruled that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change but threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese youngsters aimed at forcing countries to reduce COVID-19 emissions. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of the Swiss…
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The survival of the nice may be the opposite of evolution
The complexity of self-replication in the natural world is the best talk about the complex of cooperative behaviour in the natural world. It uses examples from nature to emphasise that cooperation is very common in nature. This allows each cell to adjust its gene expression in a way that benefits the individuals in the group,…
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My Story was told in Hotel Rwanda, here is what I want to know now
Rwanda on Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in which over one lakh Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the country. The killings were started when a plane carrying the President was shot down and the Tutsis were blamed for shooting it. US President Bill Clinton, during his time in office,…
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The X1 Carbon Gen 12 review is too expensive
Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 12 reviewer said, “The X1 Carbon Gen 12 is the best laptop on the market. It remains the same size as the original, has a 16:10 aspect ratio, now at 2,880 x 1,800 pixels and weighs 2.2 pounds.” Further, he added, “Weighing 2.2 lbs. with a 19.5 mm thickness and a…
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Today’s huge ships are not ready for the bridges
US Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg has said that modern bridges are designed with different features to mitigate impacts and protect their piers. “There is uncertainty about their effectiveness,” he added. However, Buttigieg further said the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) should take a “very hard look” at regulations in place to see if there are…
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Climate change could affect the way we keep time
The number of leap seconds has increased Earth’s rotation period by 6 millionths of a second per year, according to an analysis by the International Telecommunication Union. This error describes a discrepancy in the timing of eclipses: events recorded by ancient astronomers seem to have occurred at times that differ from those predicted by assuming…