AUGUST 28, 2021
Representational image. - Robert Pickett/Getty
On June 13, 1955, German biologist Max Renner reached Paris’s Orly airport to board a flight to New York. Renner was carrying a very peculiar piece of luggage – a wooden box sized seven by two metres that produced a mysterious hum.
The biologist, who was a student of future Nobel laureate Karl...
AUGUST 25, 2021
Do a simple test to find out if your green vegetables are unadulterated. (Source: Getty Images/Thinkstock)
"Detecting malachite green adulteration in green vegetable with liquid paraffin," FSSAI said on twitter
It can be tricky to find out whether the “fresh, green vegetables” you just bought from the market are adulterated or not. But it is extremely essential to find...
AUGUST 23, 2021
Kamala Harris hopes to reinforce US relations with allies in the region, Singapore and Vietnam. - Getty Images
When US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Vietnam on the second part of her South East Asian tour, she can be grateful it is Hanoi she is flying into, not the larger commercial capital in the south, Ho...
AUGUST 22, 2021
Phone fraud has soared during the pandemic. - Getty Images
Many of us now refuse to answer telephone calls from an unknown number, for fear that it could be a scam.
And we dread receiving a text message, purportedly from our bank or a delivery firm, again due to concerns that it might be from fraudsters.
A recent report...
AUGUST 21, 2021
This OES-16 East GeoColor satellite image taken Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, at 11:40 a.m. EDT., and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Henri in the Atlantic Ocean. Henri was expected to intensify into a hurricane by Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Impacts could be felt in New England states by Sunday, including on Cape Cod,...
AUGUST 20, 2021
If you want to know why the U.S. retreat in Afghanistan has been such an abysmal disaster, consider that the occupation has been overseen by people such as former CIA operative and current CNN contributor Philip Mudd.
Mudd, who helped “piece together a new government for Afghanistan” after the Sept. 11 attacks, said this week that if he...
AUGUST 20, 2021
AstraZeneca’s Pascal Soriot. ‘The fact that the company Mr Soriot leads makes vaccines and medicines does not mean that his vast personal wealth is healthy.’ - Photograph: Brenda Goh/Reuters
Taliban is flaunting captured US weapons worth a fortune, but can…
Public anger about the vast salaries extracted from business by the highest-paid people surfaces less often than one...
AUGUST 20, 2021
Pradosh vrat is famous among Hindu vrats marked to worship Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Pradosh vrat is performed on Trayodashi tithi (13th day) of Krishna and Shukla Paksha of each Hindu month. As a result, it appears twice a month in the Hindu calendar. If the Pradosh Vrat falls on a Monday, it is known as...
AUGUST 19, 2021
Windows 11 is going to be Microsoft's most interesting PC operating system for several reasons. One of them will be the ability of Windows 11 to make it hard for users to change the default web browser from Microsoft Edge to, say, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. It will be interesting because Microsoft has never done a...
AUGUST 19, 2021
Websites and apps with a single username and password
Single sign-on (SSO) allows users to access multiple applications with a single set of login credentials.
While convenient, SSO can present security risks, as one set of credentials could grant bad actors a wide swath of access.
Implementing SSO can be a lengthy and expensive process...
