The 46-year old Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled the tallest peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest.”No matter if you’re disabled or normal, whether you have lost your eyesight or you have no legs or hands, it doesn’t matter as long as you have a strong mind, you can always complete a thing that other people you can’t,” Zhang told Reuters.Zhang completed the 8,849 metre-high Himalayan feat on May 24 along with three high altitude guides, and returned to the base camp…
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Employees of Houston Methodist Hospital said in the lawsuit that their employer’s compulsory immunization requirement violated the Nuremberg Code, a set of standards designed after World War Two to prevent experimentation on human subjects without their consent Reuters | PUBLISHED ON MAY 30, 2021 09:32 AM IST A group of 117 healthcare workers at a Texas hospital filed a lawsuit in state court against their employer’s mandate requiring all staff to get Covid-19 vaccinations, Washington Post reported on Saturday.Employees of Houston Methodist Hospital said in the lawsuit that their employer’s compulsory immunization requirement violated the Nuremberg Code, a set of…
Local reports said the shooting took place inside Chicken Land, a family-run take-out restaurant in a small strip mall Reuters | , Ottawa PUBLISHED ON MAY 30, 2021 09:26 AM IST Police in the Peel region near Toronto said on Saturday one person was killed and four were transported to hospitals in the Toronto area “in various conditions” after a shooting.Police said in a statement on Twitter they had no information on suspects in the shooting, adding that the homicide bureau would take over the investigation. There were no further details.Local reports said the shooting took place inside Chicken Land,…
The Pfizer vaccine is slightly less effective but appears to still protect against the more transmissible Indian strain of the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a study by France’s Pasteur Institute.”Despite slightly diminished efficacy, the Pfizer vaccine probably protects” against the Indian variant, according to laboratory test results, said Olivier Schwartz, the institute’s director and co-author of the study that was published on the BioRxiv website ahead of peer review.The study sampled 28 healthcare workers in the city of Orleans. Sixteen of them had received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, while 12 had received one dose of the…
Mark B., Tech Times 29 May 2021, 11:05 am Meet a new and unusual challenge: turn an old, ruined farm into the dream event destination with “Wedding Designer: Prologue,” the newest game from developer Forestlight Games and publisher Playway SA. The new video game is a simulator that puts you at the helm of an event organizing agency tasked to plan a large event. You will be responsible for transforming unsightly, mostly abandoned locations into glamorous, fun, and definitely memorable event sites. While the game is titled “Wedding Designer: Prologue,” a statement from PlayWay SA says that your agency will…
Our COVID-19 vaccines have passed their first tests with flying colors. They work unbelievably well, and they’re helping to slow the spread of disease in countries where they’re widely available. Now, scientists are turning to the next key question: how long will they work that well? In people who were sick with COVID-19 and then got vaccinated, new research shows that they probably work for years. That group has powerful memory cells in their bone marrow that produce new antibodies when they’re needed. And they work so well that they can even block variants of the virus, studies show. These…
In the past weeks, leaks and reports of the Google Pixel 6 are piling up — the overall visualization of the unreleased flagship smartphones is getting clearer. The major redesign, camera, and display upgrade are some of the features to look forward to. (Photo : by Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 04: Rick Osterloh, SVP Hardware at Google Inc., speaks during an event to introduce the Google Pixel phone and other Google products on October 4, 2016 in San Francisco, California. Google is making the jump into the mobile device market in an attempt to challenge the Apple…
NVIDIA LHR GPUs were among the solutions (along with dedicated CMPs or cryptocurrency mining processors) put forth by Team Green to try and combat the worldwide shortage of graphics cards. But are they really effective at their supposed jobs of stopping miners from snagging the latest GPUs? (Photo : Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Nvidia hq Signage with logo at the Silicon Valley headquarters of computer graphics hardware company Nvidia, Santa Clara, California, August 17, 2017. Well, this was the exact question that the folks on HardwareHeaven asked. They got wind of a Chinese website called ExpReview testing an LHR version of the…
Twitch creators have been warned by the platform. The apps copyright problem won’t go away and may have more issues in the future. Esports consultant Rod Breslau shared an email and stated that the company warned the creators that it recently received a batch of approximately 1,000 individual DMCA takedown notices. (Photo : Pixabay/ExplorerBob)Twitch creators Twitch Creators Hit with Copyright According to Engadget, all of the claims involve archived broadcasts, with most featuring streamers listening to music in the background while playing a game, or talking to their viewers. In the same message, Twitch says it believed publishers used automated…
Pakistan has failed to prove the alleged “involvement” of India in a case related to the November 2018 attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, in which four people were killed.The Anti-terrorism Court (ATC) Pakistan on May 26 expressed displeasure at the failure of the prosecution to present witnesses against suspected members of the ethnic insurgent group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) for facilitating the attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi.According to the charge sheet registered, the attack was carried out by the BLA in connivance with India’s Research and Analysis Wing to harm the relations between Pakistan and China…