Digital signatures to provide way to tell real photos from deepfakes
Source: nikkei.com
The malware hit facilities on Guam that would be critical to any US response to an invasion of Taiwan.
Source: bbc.com
"Soaring petrol prices could speed up the transition to electric much faster than expected." Could electric motorbikes become a thing in the UK? Not so much in hilly Cornwall perhaps but cities maybe. The smaller size of a motorbike battery lends itself to being swappable.
Source: bbc.com
Piranawan, 15, from Sri Lanka spent eight months of his Covid lockdown making his eco-friendly vehicle.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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A team of researchers from Indonesia and Singapore has found evidence of the continued existence of a bird long thought extinct. In their paper published in the journal BirdingASIA, the team describes the history of the bird, why it was thought to be extinct and how it was found in Borneo.
Source: phys.org
"We don’t know. That part is easy. Also easy is that case numbers really are falling — it’s not just reduced testing — and it’s happening pretty much everywhere. Urban areas and rural. Red states and blue. Places with broad vaccine rollouts and those with hardly any. North and South America,...
Source: jwatch.org
Huge fossil discovery made in China: The fossils found on a river bed in eastern China are estimated to be about 518 million years old.
Source: bbc.com
India on brink of 'worst water crisis': Some 600 million Indians are facing an acute shortage of water, a new government report says.
Source: bbc.co.uk
‘I lost my leg to diabetes’: Every year tens of thousands of Pakistanis are forced to have amputations as a result of diabetes.
Source: bbc.co.uk
The British Museum gleams with stolen riches from its colonial past – but Asian names are too 'confusing' for inclusion: When you have a name that perhaps sounds a little different – unusual, perhaps – some might ask: “How is that pronounced?”, comment: “Oh, that’s lovely”, or even: “What...
Source: independent.co.uk
Cambodian biodigester finds success, attracts investors: A household biodigester that converts livestock manure into cooking gas and fertiliser is attracting investors.
Source: scidev.net
Japan's 'golden coder' making games apps aged 82 - BBC News: Masako Wakamiya took up programming when she retired from her bank clerk job.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Human Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: An Effective, Less-Expensive Option: This Viewpoint suggests that clinicians prescribe human insulin products as a more-affordable option over insulin analogues and explains dosing options. Kasia J. Lipska. Irl B. Hirsch. Matthew C. Riddle. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com
Report: Mobile adblocking has exploded in Asia, but it’s still tiny in North America and Europe: In Indonesia, 58 percent of mobile devices are running adblockers. In the United States: 1 percent.
Source: niemanlab.org
New Delhi is the most polluted city on Earth right now
Source: cnn.com
Toilet Twinning: Help bring clean water and safe sanitation to the world's poorest people by linking your loo with a latrine in Africa or Asia.
Source: toilettwinning.org
Vietnam twins found to have different fathers in rare case - BBC News: A pair of Vietnamese twins have been found to have different fathers, in an extremely rare case.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Dusty Snow in Central Asia : Image of the Day: A swath of dust tops the snow in Central Asia, but the question is: what was the source of the dust, and how did it get there?
Source: nasa.gov
Delhi embraces car restrictions on key working day - BBC News: The first full day of car restrictions in the Indian capital, Delhi, is largely observed - but how it affects pollution remains to be seen, writes Atish Patel.
Source: bbc.co.uk