Thousands of the tiny rodents are swarming in the rural communities of New South Wales in Australia, leading to the worst outbreak of plague in decades. Several videos posted on social media showed carpets of mice scurrying across barn floors, crowded around machinery, and entering thick grain silos made of steel as farmers struggled to control the rodents.The mice have also entered homes, inside containers and finding their way into water tanks, footage posted by local media channels showed. According to the local reports, they also bit farmers and patients in the hospital while they were asleep. Farmers’ nightmareThe crisis…
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Venmo privacy controls have been updated. The company has added new privacy controls for friend lists following a shocking incident where the Venmo account of President Joe Biden was tracked down because of the app’s poor privacy controls. Jane Manchun Wong, an app researcher, discovered on May 28 that Venmo was working on new controls. (Photo : Pixabay/HutchRock)Venmo online shopping Venmo Privacy Controls Update According to The Verge, Venmo’s spokesperson said that they are consistently evolving and strengthening the Venmo platform of all of their customers. As part of their ongoing efforts, they are enhancing their in-app controls, providing customers an…
Intel has been pretty quiet on the desktop CPU market lately, but they’ve been working quite a bit behind the scenes. And it’s evident with this relatively stealthy release. (Photo : Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Signage with logo at the Silicon Valley headquarters of computer hardware manufacturer Intel, Santa Clara, California, August 17, 2017. WCCFTech reported that Team Blue released a handful of Tiger Lake B-Series CPUs in a rather low-key fashion, launching it for the 11th gen platform. There were a total of four different CPUs launched, namely the i9-11900KB, i7-11700B , i5-11500B, and the i3-11100B. These four chips are…
Elon Musk recently made a huge noise after claiming that his new Tesla Model S Plaid is the fastest EV production model to be released. However, the popular tech CEO said that it is still currently incomplete. (Photo : Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Musk answered a range of questions relating to SpaceX projects during his appearance at the conference. Because of this, Musk decided to delay the launch date of the popular Tesla electric car. Tesla’s CEO added…
Organisers of an annual vigil to commemorate the Chinese Communist government’s bloody crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 said on Saturday they had lost an appeal to hold this year’s rally.The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China planned to hold a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park next Friday.This marks the second year that Hong Kong police have banned the vigil, citing coronavirus restrictions.“We have to apologise to the public. Hong Kong Alliance can no longer organise the candlelight vigil this year in a lawful manner. We will stop promoting the…
Ubisoft confirmed that its Connect will receive a new chat app that will fully encrypt your conversations. Aside from this, the giant game publisher also announced that the popular Ubisoft Connect will also have new advanced features that will further enhance your online experience. (Photo : Screenshot from Twitter post of @UbisoftConnect’)Ubisoft Connect’s New Chat App Will Fully Encrypt Your Convos: Here are Other Details We’re happy to announce that a new chat service will be available in the desktop app and PC overlay in the coming weeks. The first part of the deployment will take place on Monday 31st…
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary became the first climbers to reach the peak of Mt Everest more than six decades ago for the first time on May 29, 1953, creating history. May 29 thus became known as Mt Everest Day in Nepal to mark their achievement, a day celebrated with pomp and much celebration.Norgay and Hilary both were part of British army officer John Hunt’s expedition and reached the summit, the highest point on Earth, at 11:30am on May 29. They spent only 15 minutes atop Everest and Hilary clicked the most famous photo of Norgay, one where he is…
It seems that the heart-shaped like button of Twitter will no longer be alone for a long time. The social media giant is working on a Facebook-like emoji reaction, an app researcher leaks. However, there seems to be a missing emoji in comparison to Facebook. (Photo : by Leon Neal/Getty Images)LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 09: In this photo illustration, the logo for the Twitter social media network is projected onto a man on August 09, 2017 in London, England. With around 328 million users worldwide, Twitter has gone from a small start-up in for the public 2006 to a broadcast…
Intel has been secretly hard at work developing their upcoming discrete graphics card, the rumored Xe HPG DG2. And it looks like it’s going to be a beast. (Photo : Moore’s Law is Dead ) WCCFTech reports that the PCB for the much-anticipated discrete GPU from Intel has been leaked, and it’s teasing some pretty powerful specs. The image comes from the user who was also the first to reveal alleged images of the card: Moore’s Law is Dead. Going from the image alone, perhaps the most striking feature is the color: it’s green. A green PCB in the computer hardware space…
SpaceX is still working to finish its complete Starlink satellite constellation. Once the giant independent space agency is done with it, it is expected that the artificial constellation will consist of thousands of Starlink satellites. (Photo : Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on June 3, 2017 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Dragon is carrying almost 6,000 pounds of science research, crew supplies and hardware to the International Space Station…