Taiwan’s government on Tuesday tightened rules on public gatherings after reporting six new domestic Covid-19 cases with no clear source of infection, a rare rise on the island which has kept the pandemic well under control.Taiwan largely closed its borders early on in the pandemic and has a robust contact tracing and quarantine system, meaning its low case numbers – 1,210 infections to date including 12 deaths – have allowed life to carry on more or less as normal.Already dealing with an outbreak amongst pilots of Taiwan’s largest carrier China Airlines and at a hotel where some of them stayed,…
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More than 11,000 academics and other university staff opposed to Myanmar’s ruling junta have been suspended after going on strike in protest against military rule, a teachers’ group told Reuters.The suspensions come as the resumption of universities after a year closed due to the coronavirus epidemic prompts a new confrontation between the army and the staff and students who are calling for boycotts over the Feb. 1 coup.”I feel upset to give up a job that I adored so much, but I feel proud to stand against injustice,” said one 37-year-old university lecturer, who gave her name only as Thandar…
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will set out the government’s post-pandemic agenda on Tuesday, outlining a raft of new laws Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes will help him fulfil his promise to tackle inequality and “level up” the country.In a ceremony stripped back because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the queen will list the government’s areas of focus, which media reports say will include legislation on the environment, job creation and health and social care.In the 18 months since Johnson’s Conservatives were re-elected with a big parliamentary majority, his agenda has been eclipsed by the pandemic, which caught his government off guard and…
Hong Kong officials dropped a plan to mandate foreign domestic workers be vaccinated against the coronavirus, after hearing international criticism the move would be discriminatory.Most of Hong Kong’s approximately 370,000 domestic workers come from Indonesia and the Philippines, both severely impacted by the pandemic.Hong Kong officials initially proposed the mandate after a foreign domestic worker tested positive for a coronavirus variant in April, with an unknown source of infection. Another worker arriving from the Philippines had also tested positive for a variant.Those findings prompted the city to order domestic workers to be tested for the virus at the end of…
Your friends will no longer need to waste time skimming and skipping a podcast, as you share it with them. More fancy sharing features are also coming to the app! Spotify announced on its website that it is now allowing users to share podcasts at a timestamp. (Photo : Spencer Platt/Getty Images)NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 11: A Spotify employee walks out of a news conference where Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced that the online streaming music service will expand to 20 new markets around the world and that it has worked out a deal with Led Zeppelin, which had…
At least seven people were killed Tuesday, most of them children, in a shooting at a high school in the central Russian city of Kazan, officials and news agency reports said.Officials said at least one gunman had been involved and detained, though there were unconfirmed reports of two attackers including one who had been killed.A police spokesman said officers were dispatched to School No. 175 in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, after reports of shots being fired.Amateur footage on social media, apparently filmed from a nearby building, showed people escaping from the school by jumping from…
Urian B., Tech Times 11 May 2021, 03:05 am (Photo : Screenshot From Commons.Wikipedia.org) [Look] Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold Can Turn a Phone Into a Tablet PC! While those on the go usually agree that a slim laptop is always the best choice to bring, sometimes, a laptop can be too big, heavy, chunky, or generally hard to bring along sometimes. Working on a phone is really hard since it still gives really limited access to these apps and that apps but what if there were a way to turn your phone into a PC or tablet? Xiaomi vs Samsung…
With Mass Effect Legendary Edition’s launch, it’s going to bring the highly touted space opera trilogy to the next generation. A slew of performance, visual, and gameplay upgrades will allow avid fans of the series to experience Commander Shepard’s original story again, but this time, in gloriously high resolutions and frame rates. (Photo : Steam ) But undertaking the task of bringing Mass Effect Legendary Edition to life is not that easy, even to several of the industry’s most experienced game developers. So, they looked to a group of talented, passionate people who have been avid fans of their games for…
Urian B., Tech Times 11 May 2021, 01:05 am (Photo : Screenshot From Pexels Official Website) 19,000 Terabytes are Exposed Online! Here’s What They Lack While the internet might be offering a lot of things we need to function in this day and age like search results and social media, there’s always been one question that a lot of people ask, is it secure? Findings show a huge chunk of the internet isn’t secure! CyberNews Finds 29,000 Unsecured Databases CyberNews security researchers have reportedly found over 29,000 unsecured databases around the world that expose a whopping 19 petabytes or 19,000…
Apple is investing $45 million to Corning Inc., the supplier of Gorilla Glass and iPhone 12’s Ceramic Screen. It comes amid the reports of a bendable iPhone, likely coming in 2023. The Cupertino company announced that the latest investment from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund is on top of the $450 million that the precision glass manufacturer has received in the last four years. Furthermore, Apple said that its move is meant to “expand Corning’s manufacturing capacity in the US.” It also adds that the expansion anchors on the commitment of Apple and Corning to protecting the environment. (Photo : Ming…