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Picasso, Miro as well as Banksy for sale at auction 16 Mar 2021 - 09:07 pm

LONDON - Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro as well as Banksy's tribute to Britain's National Health Service are among...

Facebook set to launch newsletter product for writers and journalists 16 Mar 2021 - 08:17 pm

Facebook Inc is rolling out a new publishing platform in the coming months in the United States that lets independent writers and journalists...

Google to cut app store fees on developers' first million in sales by half 16 Mar 2021 - 07:25 pm

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Tuesday it would cut the service fee that app developers pay to its app store by half for...

Tesla names Musk 'Technoking' in cryptic regulatory filing 15 Mar 2021 - 08:06 pm

Tesla Inc added "Technoking of Tesla" to billionaire Chief Executive Elon Musk's list of official titles on Monday in a regulatory filing that...

Gilead, Merck collaborate to develop long-acting HIV treatment 15 Mar 2021 - 02:54 pm

Gilead Sciences Inc has entered into an agreement with Merck & Co Inc to develop a long-acting HIV treatment, the drug makers said...

Scientist develops retinal scan technology to identify early childhood autism 15 Mar 2021 - 12:45 pm

Beijing: A Hong Kong scientist has developed a method to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to scan retinas of children as young...

Facebook to label all posts about COVID-19 vaccines 15 Mar 2021 - 10:21 am

Facebook Inc, which has been criticized by lawmakers and researchers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms, said on Monday it...

AstraZeneca finds no evidence of increased blood clot risk from vaccine 14 Mar 2021 - 10:13 pm

AstraZeneca Plc on Sunday said it had conducted a review of people vaccinated with its COVID-19 vaccine which has shown no evidence of...

Survivors struggle as scientists race to solve Covid mystery 14 Mar 2021 - 04:41 pm

There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Lear’s anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of...

How to make your own kashk, a creamy, tangy staple of Iranian cuisine 14 Mar 2021 - 03:08 pm

When my family settled in Vancouver in the early 1980s, what we lacked in furnishings we more than made up for with a...

Sea slugs lose heads to rid bodies of parasites, Japan researchers show 14 Mar 2021 - 02:13 pm

Tokyo: Japanese researchers have shown that a type of sea slug are able to self-decapitate and regrow their bodies, a discovery that could...

'Peak twins?' - Scientists say IVF means more being born now than ever before 14 Mar 2021 - 09:37 am

London: More twins are being born now than ever before, largely due to rising use of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and other assisted...

NBK Automobiles presents the new Mercedes-Benz V-Class in Qatar 14 Mar 2021 - 09:28 am

Doha: Nasser Bin Khaled (NBK) Automobiles, the authorised general distributor of Mercedes-Benz in Qatar, presents the new Mercedes-Benz V-Class which is now available...

Russia, after Twitter slowdown, accuses U.S. of using IT to engage in unfair competition 13 Mar 2021 - 12:43 pm

MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday accused the United States of using IT opportunities to engage in unfair competition and of social media platforms arbitrarily...

Japan's teamLab melds museum and sauna in fresh digital art experience 13 Mar 2021 - 12:14 pm

Tokyo: A wall of flower petals bursts into a thousand fragments. A huge ball levitates in the air, turning from red to blue...

Ransom-seeking hackers are taking advantage of Microsoft flaw -expert 12 Mar 2021 - 01:33 pm

WASHINGTON - Ransom-seeking hackers have begun taking advantage of a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft's widely used mail server software, a researcher said...