Gayle Smith, the coordinator for the global Covid-19 response at the US state department, said the efforts of the US administration are focused on covering gaps in three areas – dose-sharing, increasing the supply of vaccines, and financing for the Covax facility. By Rezaul H Laskar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi PUBLISHED ON MAY 20, 2021 07:59 AM IST A substantial part of the 80 million Covid-19 vaccines to be donated by the US will be rolled out through the WHO-backed Covax facility, though country-specific allocations are yet to be made, President Joe Biden’s pointperson for the global pandemic response said…
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Tech giant Google announced a slew of new features at its I/O 2021 event to help users navigate the internet in an easy way. Among them is About this Result in Search feature which can help in tackling fake news.When a user searches for something on Google, the result cards that appear will also have About this Result which will present information about a given website, what other sites have to say about it and a Wikipedia page with information about it. Google said this will help users make a more informed choice.The feature will begin rolling out to devices…
Urian B., Tech Times 19 May 2021, 09:05 pm (Photo : Screenshot From Commons.Wikipedia.org) Upcoming PS5 Restock Announced | PS Direct, Target, Walmart, and More! It’s been extremely difficult for gamers to get their hands on any available PS5 restock ever since its launch back in November of 2020. Sony noted that the shortage will last well until 2021. Will PS5 be Restocked? According to certain Twitter users, Sony Direct has sent email invites to certain people to buy the PlayStation 5. The invitation or opening could be open to more people some time later. One prominent PS5 restock tracker, Wario64, noted…
(Photo : Tether via Twitter) (Photo : Cardano Community via Twitter) Dogecoin drops to the sixth spot as newcomers Tether and Cardano land the top five categories. The meme cryptocurrency remains at a standstill with its market cap and selling price. Meanwhile, Tether was originally part of the top ten blockchains in the charts, while Cardano is a rising star that has taken advantage of Bitcoin’s recent drop. This was what experts meant regarding the unpredictable changes in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, especially with the recent drop of Bitcoin ($BTC), and the unexpected rise of newbies. It was…
Solar panels against an alien landscape, ramps and rods pointing at the Martian horizon — China’s first probe on the Red Planet has beamed back its first “selfies” after its history-making landing last week.The Zhurong rover was carried into the Martian atmosphere in a lander on Saturday, in the first ever successful probe landing by any country on its first Mars mission.Zhurong, named after a mythical Chinese fire god, arrived a few months behind the United States’ latest probe to Mars — Perseverance — and has been celebrated in China as a milestone in its ascent to space superpower status.Also…
The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems.Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the May 7 ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything in its power to restart it quickly and safely, and made the decision then to pay the ransom.“This decision was not made lightly,” but it was one that had to be made, a company spokesman said. “Tens of millions of Americans rely on Colonial – hospitals, emergency medical services, law enforcement…
SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna revealed that the malware attack on the company last 2020 was a massive hack in the making, with threat actors having made an elaborate scheme dating back to 2019. It was recently denied by the Russian spy chief that his country is behind the attack, and the perpetrator remains at large for its extensive damage to the company. The attack affected not only SolarWinds but also its clients and customers who have seemingly lost faith in the digital security of the company after the massive attack. Computer safety and security is something one expects to guard…
Twitter Inc’s image-cropping algorithm has a problematic bias toward excluding Black people and men, the company said in new research on Wednesday, adding that “how to crop an image is a decision best made by people.”The study by three of its machine learning researchers was conducted after user criticism last year about image previews in posts excluding Black people’s faces.It found an 8% difference from demographic parity in favor of women, and a 4% favor toward white individuals.The paper cited several possible reasons, including issues with image backgrounds and eye color, but said none were an excuse.”Machine learning based cropping…
Facebook Inc set up a 24-7 “special operations center” last week to respond to content posted on its platform about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and address any moderation mistakes amid violence in the region, the company said on Wednesday.Misinformation, hate speech and calls for violence about the conflict have circulated on social media platforms amid the deadly fighting.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue fighting against Gaza militants after US President Joe Biden urged him to seek a “de-escalation” on Wednesday in the 10-day conflict on the path to a ceasefire.”This operations center allows us to closely monitor the situation…
Top diplomats from the Biden administration and Russia in their first in-person meeting on Wednesday stressed that the former Cold War foes have serious differences in how they view world affairs but struck an optimistic tone for the talks, saying the two sides can still find ways to work together.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his first meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a veteran diplomat, said it was “no secret that we have our differences” and that Washington would respond to aggressive acts by Russia, but that the world would be safer if the two countries’ leaders…