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NEW DELHI: Mobile internet speeds rose 6Mbps year-on-year in India in April. According to data published by Ookla, the company that runs public internet speed testing website, SpeedTest, median internet speeds on mobile phones in India have been rising steadily since June last year, and increased by nearly 6 Mbps last month when compared with April 2021. That said, the data showed that mobile internet speeds in India improved only slightly month-on-month in April. At the same time,…

With an increasing number of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) reported over the past 20 years, US Congress held its first meeting in half a century to demystify the unexplained sightings in the sky. US Congressional hearing on UFOs. 5 points 1. US Defense officials said they have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft or objects in military-controlled training areas and training ranges and other designated airspace since the early 2000s.…

U.S. stock futures moved modestly higher on Tuesday evening as investors looked to build on a solid rally.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 43 points, or about 0.1%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures ticked up about 0.1% each.The move in futures came as the stock market's recent sell-off appeared to have paused. On Tuesday, the Dow rose 431 points, or 1.3%, while the S&P 500 gained 2% and the Nasdaq Composite climbed nearly 2.8%.The Dow has declined for seven straight weeks, but stocks have…

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Intel Core i7-12700K and Intel Core i9-12900K is a surprisingly close battle for gaming dominance, but AMD has leveraged a completely new cutting-edge 3D SRAM packaging technology, called 3D V-cache, to fuse an additional slab of L3 cache atop the chips' die, thus bringing capacity up to an unheard-of 96MB of L3.We’ll throw in the early spoiler: AMD’s $449 Ryzen 7 5800X3D is faster in gaming than the $409 Core i7-12700K and the $589 Core i9-12900K, but the chip…

Honda Motor said operating profit for the financial year ended 31 March 2022 was JPY871.2 billion yen, a year on year increase of JPY211.0 billion, “due primarily to success in reducing costs and controlling incentives, and favourable currency effects”. This was all “despite certain unfavorable factors such as the resurgence of COVID-19, a decrease in automobile unit sales due to the semiconductor supply shortage and an increase in the cost…

Elon Musk-run Tesla has once again halted production at its Gigafactory in Shanghai as the company is now facing logistics problems amid a fresh surge in Covid infections, the media reported.According to South China Morning Post, supply-chain breakdown paused production at Tesla’s Shanghai assembly plant.The plant had resumed production only recently amid Covid-19 lockdowns in the city.Tesla said in a statement that logistics problems caused a delay in the delivery of car components to its Gigafactory 3.“The factory…

A gas station is seen as the average price of gasoline reach all-time high at $4.37 per gallon (about 3.8 liters) in Virginia, USA on May 10, 2022. It's claimed that gasoline prices vary by region.Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesRetail diesel and gasoline prices climbed to another record high Thursday, as rampant inflation sends costs across the economy surging.The national average for a regular gallon of gasoline hit $4.418 on Thursday, according to AAA. The price is not adjusted for inflation.Prices had…

The number of Indians suffering from cancer is projected to increase to 29.8 million in 2025 from 26.7 million in 2021. The highest incidence last year was in the North (2,408 patients per 100,000) and the Northeast (2,177 per 100,000). It was higher among men. According to a report by the Indian Council for Medical Research on the ‘Burden of cancers in India’, seven cancers accounted for more than 40% of the total disease burden: lung (10.6%), breast (10.5%), oesophagus (5.8%),…

A new research study finds that extreme weather events could actually help protect beaches from the impact of sea level rise – by bringing in new sand from deeper waters or from nearby beaches.Images in the wake of violent coastal storms usually focus purely on the extensive damage caused to beaches, dunes, property, and surrounding infrastructure.However, a new international research study has shown that extreme weather events could help protect beaches from the impact of sea level rise – by bringing in new sand from…

More U.S. public companies are going private as deal makers look to use the capital they have built up to buy targets made more attractive amid recent stock-market declines.A handful of deals announced or completed so far in 2022—including for social-media company Twitter Inc. and software firm Citrix Systems Inc. —appear to be setting the stage for another busy year in which public companies are acquired by either private-equity firms or a controlling…