बिहार के समस्तीपुर जिले में शुक्रवार को कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण के छह नये मामले सामने आने के बाद प्रदेश में कोविड-19 से संक्रमित लोगों की संख्या बढ़कर 556 हो गई है।

बिहार मिलिट्री पुलिस (बीएमपी) के पांच कर्मी कोरोना वायरस से संक्रमित पाए गए हैं जिसके बाद राज्य में संक्रमितों की कुल संख्या बढ़कर 579 हो गई है।

A soundtrack to Nile Koetting’s 2016 installation of the same name at Maison Hermès, Tokyo. Following recommendations from the Amazon algorithm, artist Nile Koetting purchased a selection of devices, including a wireless LAN system, a Dyson humidifier, an air purifier, an aroma diffuser, a 5.1ch home theater speaker, a line array speaker system, and a […]

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Pigeons feathers are remarkably complex and understanding how they work has led to the first robot that flies like a pigeon, dubbed PigeonBot

Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest novel The Doors of Eden rewrites Earth's evolutionary history, with highlights including fish that upload their minds to supercomputers and cats that rule over primates

Julia Ebner infiltrated the hidden forums that extremists use. Her experiences lay bare how they hijack social media and video games to spread hate – and how to beat them

A self-powered device that generates electricity from the wind can also absorb and break down harmful nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide from the air

TikTok's rise has been meteoric. With more than 3 million people a day now downloading the app, its success is down to more than just luck

An AI can detect the presence of smells and even distinguish between scents like ammonia or carbon monoxide, which could be useful for detecting hazardous odours

Flexible displays for wearable devices can now be made using fish scales instead of plastic – and the new displays biodegrade within a month of being discarded

On bank holiday... Friday. For NHS charities.

McDonald's is opening (some of) its doors next week, but if you want a bank holiday Big Mac fix, here's how.

Big Tech is coming for your transaction data.

This film gives us insight into a community that’s already endured plenty even before the zombies arrived.

It’s quite the spectacle, but the light show is leading people to be less than cautious about social distancing.

Last week, former Vice President Joe Biden told the world that he “unequivocally” denied accusations by Tara Reade, a former staffer in his Senate office, that he sexually assaulted her in the early ’90s.

On Friday evening, Reade responded: Prove it.

“Joe Biden should take the polygraph,” Reade told former television anchor Megyn Kelly, in an interview that aired on Kelly’s YouTube channel. “I will take one if Joe Biden takes one, but I’m not a criminal.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Adele posted a message to her social media channels this week thanking those on the front lines fighting COVID-19. In the process, the celebrated singer unveiled a thinner frame—and the internet had a lot of thoughts about it, almost all trash.

Enter Bill Maher, noted #MeToo skeptic, with perhaps the most garbage take of them all.

On Friday night, during the interview portion of his HBO show Real Time, the comedian began by placing the bulk of the blame for the high amount of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. compared to other countries on America’s obesity problem—not, say, the fact that the Trump administration didn’t do a single thing during the month of February to contain the spread of the virus.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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By Rachana Pradhan and Fred Schulte | Kaiser Health News

The Trump administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-related bailouts to health care providers with checkered histories, including a Florida-based cancer center that agreed to pay a $100 million criminal penalty as part of a federal antitrust investigation.

At least half of the top 10 recipients, part of a group that received $20 billion in emergency funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, have paid millions in recent years either in criminal penalties or to settle allegations related to improper billing and other practices, a Kaiser Health News review of government records shows.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

CORONAVIRUS has forced people to re-evaluate their finances as income takes a hit and budgets are stretched. One of the first port of calls for change has been direct debits and new research reveals that some people may find themselves with more cash available once this all ends.

Big Oil Companies Face Tough Comparisons as Earnings Near American and European oil giants spend a lot of time talking about their differentiated strategies and approaches to hot-button issues such as climate change. But their bottom lines are still primarily driven by the same common factor: commodity prices. That shared reality doesn’t bode well for […]

SEBI Recruitment 2020 – भारतीय प्रतिभूति और विनिमय बोर्ड (SEBI) ने आर्थिक एवं नीति विश्लेषण विभाग में इंटर्नशिप प्रोग्राम के लिए आवेदन मांगे हैं।

Whether it was driverless cars, lab-grown meat or faster-than-light neutrinos, some things just didn't live up to the hype in the 2010s

The TESS space telescope has found its first Earth-sized planet with conditions that might be right for life, orbiting a small star 100 light years away

China has connected the world’s first portable ground station for quantum communication to the Mozi satellite, and has plans to launch another quantum satellite soon

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, set to launch on 7 February, will give us our first clear views of the sun’s poles and help unravel the mystery of the solar wind

The best picture of the sun is more than five times more detailed than the previous highest-resolution images, revealing weird structures on our star’s surface

A huge black hole in a distant galaxy caused the largest explosion we have ever seen, with the energy of 10 billion suns – and it isn't clear why it was so big

The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft bombed the asteroid Ryugu in April. Analysing the crater it left behind suggests Ryugu is a relative youngster at 9 million years old

A star that swoops close to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a strange, looping orbit that proves Einstein was right about the gravity of black holes

Michigan can and will recover from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic - but not if Joe Biden wins the presidential election this November. The former vice president's radical policy platform is destined to sabotage America's second economic comeback, dooming the Great Lakes State to a bleak future of perpetual economic stagnation.

If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign.

The country faces the same problem today it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.

In light of the newly declassified documents, it is clear that understanding what happened in that January 5 Oval Office meeting is essential to understanding the corrupt operation against the Trump administration.

Supporting long-range communications inside of a mine is extremely difficult, so DARPA SubT teams are trying out some creative approaches

Startup Cerebras has built a wafer-size chip for AI, but it isn’t the only one possible

Cerebras aims to speed deep learning at supercomputing centers

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देश के सबसे बड़े सरकारी बैंक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (एसबीआई) ने मार्जिनल कॉस्ट ऑफ फंड बेस्ड ब्याज दर (एमसीएलआर) में कटौती की है। एमसीएलआर के अतिरिक्त आज एसबीआई ने फिक्स्ड डिपॉजिट (FD) पर मिलने वाले ब्याज में भी कमी कर दी है।

देश के सबसे बड़े सरकारी बैंक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (एसबीआई) ने आज वरिष्ठ नागरिकों के लिए 'एसबीआई वीकेयर डिपॉजिट' स्कीम की शुरुआत की है।

देश के सबसे बड़े सरकारी बैंक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (SBI) ने फिक्स्ड डिपॉजिट (FD) पर मिलने वाले ब्याज में भी कमी कर दी है। दो करोड़ रुपये से कम की फिक्स्ड डिपॉजिट पर एसबीआई की नई दरें 12 मई 2020 से लागू होंगी।

देश के सबसे बड़े सरकारी बैंक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (एसबीआई) द्वारा मार्जिनल कॉस्ट ऑफ फंड बेस्ड ब्याज दर (एमसीएलआर) में कटौती की घोषणा के बाद यूनियन बैंक ऑफ इंडिया और पीएनबी हाउसिंग फाइनेंस ने भी ग्राहकों को राहत दी है।

राम देव इंटरनेशनल के तीन प्रवर्तक भारतीय स्टेट बैंक (एसबीआई) की अगुवाई वाले छह बैंकों के गठजोड़ के साथ 411 करोड़ रुपये की धोखाधड़ी के बाद देश से फरार हो चुके हैं। सीबीआई ने हाल में इनके खिलाफ मामला दर्ज किया है।

भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक (RBI) के पूर्व गवर्नर रघुराम राजन ने मौजूदा 'असाधारण परिस्थितियों' में आर्थिक सेहत को बचाने के लिए सरकार को एक सीमा तक मुद्रीकरण (मोनेटाइजेशन) का सुझाव दिया है।