Friday, April 30, 2021

'Make School a Safe Place': Malaysian Teenager Slams Rape Jokes by Teacher in Viral Video

The hashtag began trending as Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam from Malaysia explored the backlash she received from some students and teachers, who accused her of drawing negative attention to her school.

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WATCH: Hundreds of Migratory Birds Found Trapped Inside California Home's Chimney

The Montecito Fire Department not only confirmed the incident but also shared a video clip on Instagram on Tuesday.

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Russia Produces First Batch of Covid-19 Vaccine For Animals as Fur Farms Queue Up to Buy

Russia registered Carnivac-Cov in March after tests showed it generated antibodies against COVID-19 in dogs, cats, foxes and mink.

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Amazon May Be Turning From Friend to Foe and Climate Change is to Blame

From 2010 through 2019, Brazil's Amazon basin gave off 16.6 billion tonnes of CO2, while drawing down only 13.9 billion tonnes.

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Nicholas Pooran Brutally Trolled As Punjab Kings Batsman Records Fourth Duck of IPL 2021

Nicholas Pooran on Friday registered yet another duck, taking his duck count to 4 in the six innings (0,0,9,0,19,0) that he has come out to bat for Punjab Kings in IPL 2021.

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Afghans Stand in Solidarity With India as Country's Covid-19 Wave Rages on

In a video, many from Afghanistan including activists to students to doctors to common people from the country are seen displaying placards with messages of support for India.

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Indian Doctor's Sweat-Drenched Photo Shows What Frontline Workers are Enduring in Pandemic

Dr Sohil’s tweet showing him during and after tending to Covid-19 patients has resonated with thousands of netizens, garnering over 81.6k likes and 10.5k retweets.

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Microsoft is Removing 'Calibri' as Default and Wants Your Help to Choose Next Text Font

Calibri, which has dominated the default font for Microsoft for almost 15 years, is finally retiring now and it's the replacement: five new sans-serif fonts.

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Prithvi Shaw Smashing Six Fours in IPL Over is a Meme Virender Sehwag Will Truly Appreciate

Prithvi Shaw's heroics (82 off 41) for Delhi Capitals earned him the Player of the Match award and a sea of memes on the Internet. Many IPL fans likened his batting to veteran Virender Sehwag's destructive batting for Team India.

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 Launches 60 More Starlink Satellites Into Orbit for High-Speed Internet

After the recent launch, SpaceX now surpasses its initial internet constellation of 1,440 broadband satellites.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Packing it in: This New York Company is Creating Scented Candles to Remind People of Office Smells

Katie Facade and Thibault Gerard boiled down the wax and threw in as many noxious scents as possible – booze, coffee beans, potato chips from the vending machine, shreds of paper.

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CSK Team Member Accidentally Picks up Oxygen Concentrator That Man Brought on Flight to Save Father

The carton carrying oxygen concentrator had landed from Bengaluru to Delhi airport. But instead of being picked up by Anwar, it was mistakenly picked up by a member of CSK.

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Justin Bieber Gets Called Out For Sporting Dreadlocks, Accused of 'Cultural Appropriation'

Although Justin Beiber’s new locks have been termed edgy and ‘swags crazy’ by celebs like Jaden Smith, it has not gone down well by the people of colour.

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Urine Analysis of Covid-19 Patients Could Help Predict Disease's Severity: Study

Researchers said they undertook this study in hopes of determining whether biomarkers of Covid-19 could predict which individuals will develop 'overly exuberant immune responses,' also called a cytokine storm.

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'How to Control Your Woman' Was Googled 165 Million Times in 2020 Amid Covid-19 Pandemic

'How to control your woman' and 'how to hit a woman so no one knows' were each googled 165 million times.

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Gorillas Among 200 Threatened Species Endangered by Conflicts, Say Conservationists

The report found that armed conflicts were particularly prevalent in some of the world's more bio-diverse regions.

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Fancy Rs 7500? This US State Will Pay You to Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced the decision in a briefing that the move was aimed to push the young population into getting vaccinated.

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Watch: Video of Man Zipping Through Streets on 'Back to the Future'-style Hoverboard Goes Viral

In the footage, a man wearing a helmet can be seen riding a hoverboard as he flies above cars on a busy traffic road.

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Chadwick Boseman NFT Artist Faces Backlash for 'Profiting Off' Late Actor after Oscar Loss

NFT artist Andre O'Shea said that he will redesign the NFT artwork after the late actor Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor Oscar to Anthony Hopkins.

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Assam Earthquake: Photos, Videos Show Scale of Destruction after 6.4 Magnitude Tremor Jolts State

Photos and videos posted on social media show the damages to human property so far after the Assam Earthquake.

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'No Voice, No Evidence Now': Child Brides in India Left Out of Domestic Violence Data

India accounts for more than 20% of the world's adolescent population and the highest number of child marriages in South Asia, according to the UN children's agency (UNICEF).

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Gujarat Village Sets up Ayurvedic Community Steam Chamber to Fight COVID-19

In Untva village of Gujarat's Mehsana district, about 100-120 persons take their daily dose of steam to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

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IIT Madras Develops AI to Restore Old, Damaged Photos and Videos Using Neural Networks

This new digital technology by IIT Madras uses a network of artificial neural groups to restore odamaged photos and videos.

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Indian-American NGO Raises Rs 35 Crores for Covid Relief, to Ship 2,184 Oxygen Concentrators

Sewa International USA volunteers are working on building a digital helpdesk to provide critical information such as ambulance service, hospital bed availability and blood and medicinal supplies to people.

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A Website Designer Has Bought Google's Argentina's Domain For Just Rs 216

The sale was made by a 30-year-old web designer, Nicolas Kurona. Kurona shared a screenshot of the domain on Twitter, which he explained he bought through a normal, legal process.

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Monday, April 26, 2021

Italian Town With Over 900 Abandoned Houses is Selling Houses for 1 Euro

Castiglione di Sicilia’s mayor Antonino Camarda launched this project in March this year as the population has shrunk from 14,000 in the early 1900s to the present 3,000.

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Pakistani Embassy Employees Caught Stealing Chocolates Treats, Hats in South Korea

Officers closed the case without booking the Pakistani suspect because of the offenders holding diplomatic immunity.

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Rollercoaster Riders in UK Forced to Walk Down 200 Feet After Ride Breaks Down Mid-air

All the riders were escorted down the lift hill by the park staff by walking down all the way when the rollercoaster stopped at the top.

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Desi Man's Request to 'Reset Gmail Password' on Sundar Pichai's Covid Relief Tweet Goes Viral

Sundar Pichai on Monday said that Google and its teams were providing Rs 135 crores to UNICEF and GiveIndia in a bid to extend support to India's ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

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Insta Influencer Paints Mask on Face to Escape Covid-19 Rules in Bali, Faces Deportation

Josh Paler Lin and Leia Se's video sparked off outrage on social media and people lashed out at the duo for their irresponsible act. The duo's passports have been seized too.

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Kanye West's Nike Yeezy's From 2008 Grammy Performance Sell For Record-Breaking $1.8 Million

The sale marks the highest publicly recorded price for a sneaker sale and the first pair of sneakers to top $1 million. Sotheby’s brokered the private sale.

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Ghostly Moans: Underwater Whale Chorus Reveals How Climate Change May be Shifting Migration

Recordings gathered during the 2018-2019 winter in the freezing Arctic waters off of Canada proved that a population of bowhead whales had skipped their usual migration south.

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WATCH: US Man Planking While Hula Hooping for Over 3 Minutes is a New Guinness World Record

The clip was uploaded on the official page of Guinness World Records on April 23, featuring a man lying on two tables in a plank position while hula hooping with his abdomen.

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Toddler 'Nailing' the Pronunciation of Complex English Words Will Make Shashi Tharoor Proud

The now-viral video on Twitter shows a woman holding the little girl while making her learn the correct pronunciation of complex English words.

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Riyan Parag's Selfie Celebration With Rahul Tewatia in IPL Captures Hilarious Reactions on Twitter

After catching Rahul Tripathi in the deep in the 16th over, Riyan Parag unleashed his new celebration-- he took out an imaginary phone from his pocket, got close to Rahul Tewatia, and took an imaginary selfie.

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Friday, April 23, 2021

Basque Confectioners Recreate Picasso's 'Guernica' in Chocolate to Display Skill, Cultural Pride

A group of about 40 chocolatiers from a local association in Basque county have been collaborating to produce an interpretation of Picasso's 'Guernica' made out of chocolate of different colours.

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UK, Irish Supermarkets are Helping to Fight Rising 'Period Poverty' With Free Tampons and Pads

Period poverty - a lack of access to period products, washing facilities and education - can lead to girls and women missing school or work, and increases the risk of infection and toxic shock syndrome.

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BMC Used Salman Khan's 'Radhe' Trailer to Salute 'Swachh Warriors' and Everybody Liked That

Saluting BMC warriors, BMC used a still from the Radhe trailer featuring Salman Khan saying, 'I will clean the city.'

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Rajasthan Royals at Bottom of Points Table After Humiliating Loss to RCB is a Meme You Can't Miss

If Thursday's loss against RCB wasn't humiliating enough, fans were quick to remind everyone of RR's performance in IPL 2020 where Rajasthan Royals had ended their tournament at the final spot of the points table.

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Closest Known Black Hole to the Earth, 'The Unicorn' Might Be Our Galaxy's Smallest

The black hole is located about 1,500 light years - the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km) from Earth.

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Rajasthan Family Spends Rs 4.5 Lakh on Helicopter Ride to Bring Home First Girl Child Born in 35 Years

The girl's father spent Rs 4.5 lakh to hire the helicopter and make the celebration grand.

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Salman Khan's 'Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai' Trailer Has Everyone Questioning Science With Memes

Salman Khan and Disha Patani’s cute chemistry seems like another highlight of 'Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai.'

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?

Ask HN: Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?
35 by vaughan | 23 comments on Hacker News.
I know [RethinkDB][1] used to do this with their SQL-like ReQL language, but I looked around a bit and can't find much else about it - and I would have thought it would be more common. I'm more interesting in queries with joins and doing it efficiently, instead of just tracking updates to tables that are modified, and re-rerunning the entire query. If we think about modern frontends using SQL-based backends, essentially every time we render, its ultimately the result of a tree of SQL queries (queries depend on results of other queries) running in the backend. Our frontend app state is just a tree of materialized views of our database which depend on each other. We've got a bunch of state management libraries that deal with trees but they don't fit so well with relational/graph-like data. I came across a Postgres proposal for [Incremental View Maintenance][2] which generates a diff against an existing query with the purpose of updating a materialized view. Oracle also has [`FAST REFRESH`][3] for materialized views. I guess it's relatively easy to do until you start needing joins or traversing graphs/hierarchies - which is why its maybe avoided. EDIT: [Materialize][1] looks interesting in this space: "Execute streaming SQL Joins" but more focused on the event streams rather than general-purpose DML/OLTP. [1]: https://ift.tt/32z6nkG [2]: https://ift.tt/305Xtvu [3]: https://ift.tt/3dFUX51 [4]: https://ift.tt/3g2klkX

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

In a First, NASA's Perseverance Rover Converts Carbon dioxide Into Oxygen On Mars

Engineers of MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment will now run more tests and try to step up its output. It is designed to be able to generate up to 10 grams of oxygen per hour.

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?

Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?
34 by jc_811 | 17 comments on Hacker News.
I recently signed up for Comcast Xfinity internet (only one available in my area), and ever since I signed up I receive marketing emails almost daily that do not have an unsubscribe link because they are marked as "service related emails". I've unsubscribed from every single email preference in my account, and even went so far to confirm with their support agents that I did it correctly. However, almost daily I receive emails about "See what your wifi can do" or "Don't forget about these new features" etc, that are clearly marketing and not service related. Browsing forums online it seems there are countless others who have the same complaints as me. So, my main question is, how can a company get away with this when it is blatantly in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act? Is it truly just too difficult for any individual to hire a lawyer and go up against Goliath? Does the CAN-SPAM act have any loopholes I'm not aware of that would allow this? I'm genuinely curious to this, and do not want to come off as just an angry customer ranting.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Does Lying Face-Down in 'Prone Position' Improve Oxygen Levels? Expert Explains Science Behind it

Dr Rajesh Pande, the Senior Director of BLKC Center for Critical Care in Delhi, explains the 'prone-method' and the proven science behind it.

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Scientists are Studying Risk of Surging Rockfalls as Climate Change Thaws Mountain Tops

Over three years, the team from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research has hurled their faux boulders down different mountains hundreds of times.

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Call of Duty: Pregnant Chhattisgarh Cop’s Photo Urging People to Follow Covid-19 Rules Goes Viral

Standing under the hot sun, DSP Shilpa Sahu is seen with a lathi and wearing a face mask and she and the team of cops are seen checking and asking people to adhere to Covid-19 rules.

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BigB, is That You? Varun Dhawan's 'Be Safe' Tweet amid Covid-19 Surge Gets a Collective 'Hain?'

Varun Dhawan found himself in a social media storm after the Bollywood actor tweeted a poster of himself ahead of his birthday while urging netizens to stay safe amid the Covid-19 spike in the country.

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Dogecoin Lovers Rallied to Take Cryptocurrency to a New High on 'Dogeday.' Did it Work?

In the early hours of April 4, Dogecoin was trading just a few cents off its all-time high of $0.43 - but did the high last?

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Can You Catch It? Viral Optical Illusion Wants You to Spot a Hidden Pokemon Here

The 20-second video is mind-boggling, showing what appears to be a shade in monochrome and asking people to find the Pokemon not apparently hidden there.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore's 3 Out of 3 Wins in IPL 2021 Have Opened the Floodgates of Memes

Royal Challengers Bangalore have won three consecutive matches in their three outings in IPL 2021, making them table toppers with 6 points after a comprehensive win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday.

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