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COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain. Significant Drops in IQ Scores Are NotedResearch shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain agingBy Ziyad Al-Aly & The Conversation US Credit: Eva Almqvist/Alamy Stock Vector The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19.Brain fog is a…

Apple had launched the iPhone 15 series at its Wonderlust event last year and since then, the Cupertino-based tech giant has offered a series of price cuts, at least on the vanilla variant, to lure…

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Xiaomi has significantly reduced the price of its Redmi Note 12 4G series, which now starts at ₹10,499 in India. The smartphone, which was launched in March last year, is the second such price cut in less than 3 months and is likely to be a…

Thwaites Glacier, western Antarctica, 2019. Credit: Robert Larter Among the vast expanse of Antarctica lies the Thwaites Glacier, the world's widest glacier measuring about 80 miles on the western edge of the continent. Despite its size, the massive landform is losing about 50 billion tons of ice more than it is receiving in snowfall, which places it in a precarious position in respect to its stability.…

If you’re still playing DayZ (and why wouldn’t you be?) the latest patch has started rolling out, which comes with new guns and some quality-of-life changes. Perhaps more importantly, developer Bohemia Interactive says we may be seeing something a little different later on this year. In the most recent post on Steam, as well as detailing version 1.24 of DayZ (with a gnarly video to go with it), we’re also being told that 2024 will represent “a significant departure from our typical update delivery model.” However, this…

Some decentralized finance (DeFi) coins are witnessing increasing volatility. Various exchange platforms have recorded liquidations of over $130 million in short positions following the rise of  Bitcoin’s (BTC) DeFi coin price to over $51,000. For a while, there has been unstable investor sentiment toward BTC, but this surge in its value rewarded those who anticipated a price uptick. The altcoin market benefits significantly from this price movement as a potential Decentraland (MANA) and Akash (AKT) competitor…

OnePlus has significantly slashed the price of its budget Nord CE 3 Lite 5G smartphone, making both the 128GB and…

Take-Two has recently announced that it is working on a "significant cost reduction" but has assured the public that it won't be laying off its employees for now.The news comes from a Take-Two earnings report where the company had stated:"We are currently working on a significant cost reduction program across our entire business to maximize our margins while still investing for growth. These measures are incremental to, and more robust than, our prior cost reduction program, and we aim to achieve greater…

King’s College London researchers have identified distinct patterns in the brain connectivity of infants, revealing how these patterns differ between those born at term and those born pre-term. Credit: SciTechDaily.comResearchers at King’s College London have identified significant differences in brain connectivity between term and pre-term infants, revealing that these early patterns are predictive of later developmental milestones.A new King’s College London scanning study of 390 babies has shown distinct patterns…