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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Extreme floods unleashed by massive storms on the scale of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 are expected to rise sharply in the coming decades in the New York City area, researchers said Monday. Using computer models to combine sea level rise and storm surge — flooding brought on by a cyclone — researchers found that such events will become far more common in the years to come. “The worst-case scenario […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Social network giant Facebook on Monday launched new global product Workplace, a platform that it hopes will replace intranet, mailbox and other internal communication tools used by businesses worldwide. The platform allows employees to collaborate in real-time and is intended to compete with similar office communication products including Microsoft’s Yammer, Salesforce’s Chatter and Slack. The Silicon Valley company developed the concept, hitherto called “Facebook at Work”, two years ago in […]
by Alvaro VILLALOBOS MADRID, Spain (AFP) — They may be cute, colourful and chatty, but South American quaker parrots have taken up residence in Madrid and other Spanish cities, irritating residents with their shrill squawks and destabilising the ecosystem. The small, bright green and grey-breasted birds — also known as monk parakeets — first arrived in Spain in cages as entertaining pets, but some either escaped or were let loose, getting their first taste of […]
(Eagle News) — Mas malaki umano ang posibilidad na magkasakit sa puso ang mga babaeng nakararanas ng depresyon. Ayon sa mga eksperto, kinukumpirma ng isang pag-aaral ang matagal ng koneksyon sa pagitan ng sakit sa puso at depresyon. Napag-alaman ng mga mananaliksik mula US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, tanging depresyon ang mayroon sa higit isang libong babaeng kanilang pinag-aralan sa loob ng sampung taon. Batay sa nasabing pag-aaral, nagkaroon ng sakit sa puso […]
by Marc BURLEIGH PORT-SALUT, Haiti (AFP) — A week after being devastated by a hurricane, Haiti faces a growing cholera outbreak that threatens to turn its disaster even more deadly. In Port Salut, a smashed-up town on Haiti’s southern peninsula that was among those that bore the brunt of Hurricane Matthew — the Caribbean’s most powerful storm in a nearly decade — fears are rising. The town’s sole hospital on Sunday recorded its first death […]
SEOUL/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Two U.S. mobile carriers said they will stop issuing Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones due to safety concerns, a further setback for the world’s top smartphone maker trying to manage a growing recall crisis. AT&T Inc said on Sunday it will stop exchanging new Note 7 smartphones due to reports of fires from replacement devices that Samsung has said used safe batteries. T-Mobile said in a separate statement […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN SAN JOSE, United States (AFP) — Facebook on Thursday worked to ramp up enthusiasm for its virtual reality line, unveiling new gear including a lower-end wireless headset prototype. The company’s Oculus virtual reality division is set to release in coming months a new “Touch” controller and a more affordable computer for powering virtual experiences using Rift headsets. “We are here to make virtual reality the next major computing platform,” Facebook cofounder and […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising in 2015 to 69 years for men and nearly 75 for women, according to a comprehensive overview of global health released Thursday. These extra years came in large measure thanks to a sharp drop in deaths from communicable diseases, especially over the last decade, said the Global Burden of Disease report, published in The Lancet. Despite population […]
by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil just found its biggest ever dinosaur — in a storage cupboard. In its prime, more than 66 million years ago, this long necked herbivore was 25 meters (82 feet) long — longer than an articulated bus — and could chomp through trees at a terrifying rate. By the time the creature was found by renowned Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1953, only a few […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty — that most recognizable symbol of American freedom — will be greeted by a modern multimedia museum in future, New York officials said Thursday. The celebrated statue, designed by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel — donated by France on the 1876 centenary of US independence and inaugurated on Liberty Island in 1886 — has not had […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A shiny new cohort joined the workforce in Taiwan Thursday — a troop of mini robots all going by the name “Pepper”, enlisted to entertain customers and give them the hard sell. Chinese-speaking Pepper was introduced into two banks and an insurance company in the capital Taipei, dancing to music, playing with children in lobbies and leading staff aerobics sessions. The pint-size white automatons are designed to flatter queueing customers, declaring: […]
Google makes a new hardware push and attempts to take on apple with their pixel phone, complete with a 12.3 mega pixel rear-facing camera. https://youtu.be/AwYy7N9roow
