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- How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark?
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 12:14 PMHow do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark? Groundbreaking research by an Australian medic-surfer has uncovered a simple way to stop bleeding and save lives.Find the middle point between the hip and the genitals, make a fist and push as hard as you can.Shark attacks are rare but on the increase Down Under, due in large part to more people being in the water.So surfer and Australian National University medical school dean Nicholas Taylor set out to discover how to reduce fatalities in the event of an attack.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Twitter will allow people to tip their favorite content creators with bitcoin
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 08:14 AMTwitter will now allow people to tip their favorite content creators with bitcoin and will also launch a fund to pay some users who host audio chat rooms on its Spaces feature, the company said on Thursday.The company also said it will test new ways to help users have a safer experience on Twitter, such as warning when people are entering a “heated” conversation, or letting them leave tweet threads they no longer want to be part of.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cyberpunk 2077 team hiring developer for upcoming project
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 12:14 PMThe development team of Cyberpunk 2077 are hiring a developer to work on their upcoming untitled Computer Role Playing Game (CRPG).CD PROJEKT RED had posted the advertisement for the position of Open World Designer was posted on Game Jobs website.“CD PROJEKT RED is looking for an Open World Designer (Junior/Specialist) to join our Cracow team,” the advertisement read.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In setback for Apple, EU plans one mobile charging port for all
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 09:14 AMThe EU aims to have a common charging port for mobile phones, tablets and headphones under a European Commission proposal presented on Thursday in a world first, with the move impacting iPhone maker Apple more than its rivals.The move has been more than 10 years in the making, with the European Union executive touting environmental benefits and 250 million euros ($293 million) in annual savings for users.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This WhatsApp feature lets users quickly access important messages
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 04:14 AMThe popular instant messaging app WhatsApp offers a feature that allows users to save important messages so they can access them later without any hassle.The feature called “Starred messages” lets users to bookmark messages they want to quickly refer back to later.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Daily Crunch: European regulators share more privacy concerns over Facebook “smart” glasses
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VC Mark Suster: “The bet we’re making now is on founder skills,” not customers or products
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sorare raises $680 million for its fantasy sports NFT game
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Your WhatsApp to soon lose shortcut to Messenger Rooms
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 05:19 AMIt has been revealed that the Facebook-owned messaging app, WhatsApp, is removing a feature that it designed into the chats about a year ago using which you could conduct a chat room.According to a WABetaInfo report, WhatsApp has removed the Messenger Rooms shortcut from the chat share sheet for both WhatsApp iOS and Android versions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US sanctions cryptocurrency exchange over ties to ‘ransomware attacks’
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 01:14 PMThe United States imposed sanctions Tuesday on cryptocurrency exchange SUEX for its ties to ransomware attackers, as Washington seeks to crack down on digital crime.The move comes after hacks and data breaches that have targeted a major US oil pipeline, a meatpacking company and the Microsoft Exchange email system, as well as ransomware attacks hitting various sectors.
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- Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine highly effective against serious illness: study
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 07:14 AMSinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective against serious illness, although rival shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca showed better protection rates, a large real world study from Malaysia showed.The latest data is a boost to the Chinese firm, whose COVID-19 vaccine has been under growing scrutiny over its effectiveness following reports of infections among healthcare workers fully immunized with the Sinovac shot in Indonesia and Thailand.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is putting an emoji as WhatsApp group icon possible now?
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 03:14 AMWhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that will make it possible for people to create new, custom icons to help label group chats.WABetaInfo, a platform that keeps an eye on all WhatsApp updates, says the new feature should allow people to create custom icons for use with group chats.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US judge orders Facebook to release anti-Rohingya content for genocide case
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 02:14 PMA US judge has ordered Facebook to release records of accounts linked to government-backed violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar that it had shut down, the Wall Street Journal reported.In his ruling on Wednesday, Washington DC district court Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui criticized the social media giant for refusing to provide the records to countries pursuing a case against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice, the Journal said.Facebook had resisted releasing the information on the grounds of US privacy law.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ProGrade Versus Sony CFexpress Type A Cards: Is There a Difference?
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Study finds half of Americans get news on social media, but percentage has dropped
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 05:14 PMA new report from Pew Research finds that around a third of U.S. adults continue to get their news regularly from Facebook, though the exact percentage has slipped from 36% in 2020 to 31% in 2021.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - TrueLayer nabs $130M at a $1B+ valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Paralympians bring home gold medals, but we’re failing them on web accessibility
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - French company announces first implant of its artificial heart in a woman
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 08:14 AMFrench artificial heartmaker Carmat announced on Tuesday that it had carried out the first implant of its Aeson artificial heart in a woman.The company said the procedure had been performed at the UofL Health – Jewish Hospital by University of Louisville physicians in the United States.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here are beta version details of Call of Duty: Vanguard
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 03:15 PMThe much-anticipated World War II game, Call of Duty: Vanguard, is slated to be released on November 5. The details of its beta version have been announced.According to reports, the version was supposed to be brought down on September 20, but the date was extended by two days.The available maps in the beta version are Hotel Royal, Gavutu, Red Star and Eagle’s Nest.
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- CanSinoBIO COVID-19 vaccine, tested at lower dosage, safe for children: study
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 06:14 AMCanSinoBIO’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, given at a lower dosage than that for adults, is safe and triggers an immune response in children aged 6-17, results from a small trial showed.Researchers decided to lower the dosage after a few participants developed fever and headaches graded at level 2 severity – the second-lowest of four levels.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Formula E car: Pakistani students grabs second position in int’l competition
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 05:14 PMPakistani students designed a Formula Electric car which took second place in a competition held in Russia’s capital city Moscow.According to the rules, the contestants were required to come up with a vehicle in which a driver could sit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Man accused of harassing girl in US arrested in Peshawar
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 01:14 PMPESHAWAR: A man accused of harassing a girl in the United States (US) through social media was arrested in Peshawar by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime Cell on Thursday, ARY News reported.The FIA Cyber Crime Cell carried out an action against the suspected man following the complaint of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Battlefield 2042 beta version codes get leaked
Thursday - 09/23/2021 - 11:14 AMThe beta version of Battlefield 2042 is slated to be released next month and players reported receiving code right after pre-ordering it.According to a report, multiple Reddit users had claimed that they got the codes after they registered for the beta on Amazon.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Australian growth marketing agency Ammo helps startups calibrate their efforts
Monday - 09/20/2021 - 05:14 PMWhen you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. Botch it and you risk looking unprofessional.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Evil Geniuses CEO Nicole LaPointe Jameson is coming to Disrupt
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cartona gets $4.5M pre-Series A to connect retailers with suppliers in Egypt
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robinhood testing crypto wallet, cryptocurrency transfer features
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 08:14 AMRobinhood Markets is testing new crypto wallet and cryptocurrency transfer features for its app which would allow customers to send and receive digital currencies such as bitcoin, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.A beta version of its iPhone app showed the company’s work on such features, the report said.There was also a hidden image showing a waitlist page for users signing up for a crypto wallet feature, the report added.A spokesperson for Robinhood declined to comment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FIA cyber crime cell restores ‘hacked’ Facebook page of Sindh minister
Tuesday - 09/21/2021 - 05:14 PMKARACHI: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime Cell has restored the ‘hacked’ Facebook page of the Sindh Minister for Prisons Aijaz Jakhrani, ARY News reported on Tuesday.Following the complaint of the Sindh Prisons Minister Aijaz Jakhrani, the FIA cyber crime cell regained access to the social page having around 60,000 followers.
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