Mark B., Tech Times 17 May 2021, 10:05 am World leader in gaming peripherals and accessories SteelSeries has officially launched its new Rival 5 gaming mouse, a one-stop-shop solution for gamers of all genres. Purposely built to deliver a single solution specifically for gamers who play different games from different genres, the Rival 5 gaming mouse is engineered for optimal performance and designed for class and style. A press release from SteelSeries explains that the Rival 5 gaming mouse is inspired by the color-adapting chameleon, obtaining the same ability to change color and adapt to the needs of its environment. (Photo…
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The Irish health service expects to spend tens of millions of euros rebuilding its IT systems from a cyber attack which is set to cause significant disruption to diagnostic services into next week.Ireland’s health service operator shut down all its IT systems on Friday to protect them from a significant ransomware attack the government said was carried out by an international cyber crime gang.While the Covid-19 vaccination programme was not directly affected and the Health Service Executive (HSE) restored its test and tracing system within hours, hospital appointments have been cancelled across all outpatient services.”What we have to do here…
Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Asian American to hold the No. 2 position in the White House, will headline a virtual summit hosted this week by the leading Asian American Democratic political action committee, organizers told Reuters.Harris’ attendance at the AAPI Victory Fund’s first-ever “Unity Summit,” which will be announced on Monday, bolsters the group’s effort to harness an unprecedented surge of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters in the 2020 presidential election.In addition to the vice president, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will speak at Wednesday’s event, which is co-hosted by the…
China on Monday said it supports appeals made by developing countries for waiving intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines as questions are raised on the equitable distribution of the shots globally.Foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian said as the largest developing country, China supports the appeal to waive intellectual property rights as long as it is conducive to the inoculation needs of developing countries.China fully understands and supports the request of developing countries to exempt the intellectual property rights of Covid-19 vaccines, Zhao said at the foreign ministry conference on Monday.India and South Africa are among the countries to have called…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has not seen any Israeli evidence of Hamas operating in the Gaza office building hit by airstrike over the weekend. Blinken says he has asked Israel for justification for the strike.Blinken spoke at a news conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, as pressure is increasing on the Biden administration to ask for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Israel destroyed a building housing The Associated Press and other media, and claimed that Hamas used the building for a military intelligence office.“Shortly after the strike we did request additional details regarding the justification for it,” Blinken…
The latest guidelines from US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on face masks drew mixed reactions as critics found it inconsistent with what the agency had recently recommended. The CDC on Thursday announced that fully vaccinated individuals don’t need to wear masks indoors or outdoors, “except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.” The announcement came days after CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky told a Senate hearing that Americans should continue wearing masks.While some states have decided to keep the mask mandates, for now, in place,…
Israel killed a senior Palestinian militant commander in Gaza on Monday in air strikes which it said also targeted underground tunnels used by Hamas, and Islamist groups renewed rocket attacks on Israeli cities.The violence entered a second week with no sign of an end to the fiercest hostilities in the region in years, despite growing international concern and mounting calls for a ceasefire.The death of Hussam Abu Harbeed, Islamic Jihad’s armed commander for north Gaza, was likely to draw a fierce response from the militant group that is fighting alongside Hamas, the Islamist movement that governs the coastal enclave.The Israeli…
Israeli police in riot gear pushed a Palestinian protester to the ground in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, a moment captured on the smartphones of people looking on.”See what they’re doing! They’re beating up women!” Aya Khalaf, a Palestinian social media influencer, screamed in the background as she caught the May 9 incident on a live stream to her 187,000 Instagram followers.The scene is one of several shared on social media from the near-nightly confrontations between Israeli police and protesters against the expulsion of eight Palestinian families from the neighbourhood, which is claimed by Jewish settlers.The hashtag “#SaveSheikhJarrah” has gained…
Saudi Arabia plans to soon reopen to foreign tourists, a senior tourism official said on Monday after the kingdom announced the lifting of quarantine restrictions for certain foreign arrivals.The kingdom announced late on Sunday that non-citizens arriving from certain countries and who were fully vaccinated against or recently recovered from Covid-19 would no longer be required to quarantine in designated government hotels.Those new measures, however, only apply to residents, government and business travellers or those visiting friends and family but not foreign tourists, according to the Saudi Tourism Authority (STA).STA Chief Executive Fahd Hamidaddin told Reuters the kingdom would reopen…
The Mass Effect series is no stranger to tough decisions, which can drastically alter your individual playthrough and separate it from the others, but if you’re a newcomer to the trilogy via the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, then you are in for a variety of tough decisions that will likely keep you up at night. Case in point, there’s the choice involving the Quarians and the Geth in Mass Effect 3, who are two of the most prominent races in this universe. (Photo : Steam) Before we go into detail, however, we are issuing a SPOILER WARNING to those who…