Wednesday, December 09, 2020

9 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

 

  WIRED

  • The fallout from the attack may not be as dire as it first sounds.

  • The platform has gotten better about stamping out extremist content. But researchers say its policies and algorithms are still too opaque.

    • Cyberpunk as a genre, and Cyberpunk 2077 the game, are both rooted in a type of other-ization that can’t be ignored—but it can be examined.

  • The Oxford-AstraZeneca effort held great promise to help arrest the pandemic. But a series of miscues caused it to fall behind in the U.S.

  • A 90-year-old former jewelry shop assistant was the first to get a shot, followed, appropriately enough, by a man named William Shakespeare.

    • The Food and Drug Administration’s first analysis of the clinical trial data also found that the coronavirus vaccine worked well regardless of a volunteer’s race, weight or...

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  • Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday wrote a letter to PM Modi stating that he will join the latter with a sense of pride on the occasion of laying of the foundation...

  • Three unidentified militants were killed and a civilian injured in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. Security...

    • The Indian Air Force (IAF) moved a plea in the Delhi high court on Wednesday challenging a Central Information Commission (CIC) direction to provide information regarding Special...

  • Mr Johnson will meet Ursula von der Leyen for talks over dinner, as time runs out to reach a trade deal.

  • To give teachers "a break" from identifying potential Covid-19 cases, schools can have an inset day.

    • Students' mental health has declined amid the isolation of the Covid pandemic, a survey suggests.

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