India is struggling to secure hospital beds and medical oxygen as it battles a surge in coronavirus cases. Reuters | , Tokyo PUBLISHED ON APR 30, 2021 08:48 AM IST Japan is prepared to provide 300 respirators and 300 oxygen concentrators to India once talks are finalized, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato said on Friday.Kato did not specify when the respirators and concentrators would be delivered, saying that he hoped they would be provided “swiftly” once discussions with India were finalised.India is struggling to secure hospital beds and medical oxygen as it battles a surge in coronavirus cases. The…
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In his first public address since the end of the Trump administration, former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday put down a marker for a potential return to elected office, telling an audience in early-voting South Carolina that he will use the coming months “pushing back on the liberal agenda” he says is wrong for the country.“We’ve got to guard our values … by offering a positive agenda to the American people, grounded in our highest ideals,” Pence told an audience of several hundred at a Columbia dinner sponsored by a conservative Christian nonprofit that lobbies for what it considers…
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 29 April 2021, 11:04 pm Cryptocurrency miners are now looking to mine a new one: Chia, which can be acquired if you use SSDs and other storage devices. But computer component manufacturer GALAX just gave them a stern warning. TweakTown reports that the company is going to deny warranty claims for anyone who uses their SSDs to mine Chia. The company claims that high-intensity workloads like cryptocurrency mining are too demanding for their SSDs, and could shorten the lifespan of the component significantly. Reads and writes on the drives will slow down, and they’ll suffer permanent…
Google gives your streaming experience a boost as Chromecast with Google TV gets an update before April ends. It improves Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and more HDR controls to complement the new HDR10+ certification. The surprising update is large, totaling 166MB, with tons of improvements, according to The Verge. (Photo : cottonbro from Pexel)Google is giving your streaming experience a boost The Verge reported that after updating your Chromecast, you’ll be delighted with a new menu settings that lets you tweak the HDR and color options. Not just that, there are several resolutions and refresh rate to choose from too: …
The Biden administration appears to be picking up where former President Donald Trump left off as the federal agency that oversees U.S. nuclear research and bomb-making has approved the conceptual design and cost range for infrastructure investments for a multibillion-dollar project to manufacture key components for the nation’s nuclear arsenal.The National Nuclear Security Administration in a decision announced Wednesday stated that planning and construction could cost upwards of $4 billion initially.The agency did not articulate what exactly that money would be spent on nor does it include the cost of other preparations that would be needed for Los Alamos National…
India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu held an interaction with members of the business community on the current Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country.The virtual meeting was hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.During the talks, Sandhu appraised the business community of the items that India is trying to identify and source, including oxygen concentrators, cylinders, ventilators and oxygen generation plants and Covid-19-related drugs like remdesivir and tocilizumab.”Appreciated the Chamber for coordinating the swift response and resource mobilization by the US business community in support of India to meet the Covid challenge,” Sandhu said in a…
Urian B., Tech Times 29 April 2021, 09:04 pm (Photo : Screenshot From Pexels Official Website) Disaster Girl Meme NFT Sells for Around $500K Falling Short of $105K In Comparison to the Nyan Cat Meme NFT NFTs are taking over the art scene but they aren’t just limited to art! NFTs stretch throughout the realm of digital content and as of recent, more and more unusual NFTs are being sold. Or are they really unusual? Disaster Girl NFT While NFTs are oftentimes closely partnered with art, NFT itself or non-fungible tokens are basically pieces of digital content that exist on…
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 29 April 2021, 09:04 pm In the recent PlayStation State of Play presentation, Insomniac Games released a new gameplay showcase featuring Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, and it’s got fans raving. According to The Verge, Sony PlayStation revealed 16 minutes of new gameplay footage featuring all of the next-gen goodness that players can expect from the next Ratchet and Clank title. Title character Ratchet was shown traversing a new area, Nefarious City, which was packed with insane levels of detail-without a doubt made possible by the powerful hardware of the PlayStation 5. (Photo : PlayStation.com) Among…
Britain is using its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to highlight the need to prepare for future pandemics in light of the devastating consequences of the coronavirus crisis. Reuters | | Posted by Srivatsan K C, London PUBLISHED ON APR 30, 2021 06:31 AM IST Britain said on Friday it would host a summit in 2022 to raise money for vaccine research and development to support an international coalition seeking to speed up the production of shots for future diseases.Britain is using its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to highlight the need…
A United States court in Atlanta has sentenced an Indian-American couple for laundering over USD500,000 on behalf of India-based phone scammers.Chaitali Dave (36) was on Thursday sentenced to 20 months, to be followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $320,550 in restitution.Mehulkumar Manubhai Patel (36) was sentenced to 30 months, followed by two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $259,217 in restitution.As part of their Social Security scam, India-based callers posed as federal agents in order to mislead victims into believing their Social Security numbers were involved in crimes, federal prosecutors alleged.The callers threatened…