China will soon make a significant contribution to the search for extraterrestrial life. State media outlet Science and Technology Daily (via ChinaTechCity) says the country’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will begin looking for alien signals in September. The telescope officially went into service for general science in January, but it’s in the midst of upgrades that could...
Today, a regular meeting of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences has taken place. Director of the Institute, Academician Vagif Farzaliev, said that the Operational Headquarters under the Cabinet of Ministers had lifted the limit on the number of employees in government institutions since May 31, 2020, so attendance...
The Galaxy Watch Active 2 is Samsung’s most feature-packed smartwatch yet. It features activity tracking, ECG, female health tracking, heart rate monitoring, mindfulness, and sleep tracking. Now, the company’s latest smartwatch is receiving one more critical feature—blood pressure monitoring—via a new app.
The South Korean electronics giant has announced that the Samsung Health Monitor app has been cleared by South Korea’s Ministry of Food and...
Microsoft is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report.
The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists.
Artificial intelligence will perform these news production tasks, sources told the Seattle Times.
Microsoft said...
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered that more than half of the confirmed novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases occurred in places with the air temperature between five to 15 degrees Celsius.
The researchers from Lanzhou University hoped to learn about the environmental parameters within which the SARS-CoV-2 can survive in order to understand its global dispersal pattern.
They...
Researchers say they’ve created a proof-of-concept bionic eye that could surpass the sensitivity of a human one.
“In the future, we can use this for better vision prostheses and humanoid robotics,” researcher Zhiyong Fan, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, told Science News.
The eye, as detailed in a paper published in the prestigious journal Nature today, is...
Izaak Miller, from Cheshunt, Herts, can write the English, Greek and Arabic alphabet and is now planning to get started on Russian, thanks to his love of languages.
A four-year-old boy has become a member of Mensa and already knows all 50 American states and the alphabet - in three different languages.
Brainy Izaak Miller has an IQ of 154 -...
Contact tracing applications for infected people in Singapore and Australia were launched earlier, but the result was incomplete. iPhone does not support Bluetooth as a proxy for measuring the risk of infection. Initially, the software will work only in Latvia. The country's population is almost 2 million people.
The Latvian application Apturi Covid (Stop Covid) works on iOS and Android...
Academician Ali Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences worked in several directions during a special quarantine regime in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. According to the director of the institute, academician Vagif Farzaliyev, distance learning for first-year students will continue until June 15, after which they will pass exams in the traditional format...
Windows 10 KB4556799 is yet another update which has become problematic for some users. KB4556799, which is an important security update, is causing audio issues and temporary data loss for consumers.
Users running Windows 10 May 2019 Update and November 2019 Update are reporting that the update is a serious fail with a wide range of issues including a broken...