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Buying the hit puzzle game Wordle was apparently a good bit of business for The New York Times. The company announced its quarterly earnings on Wednesday and credited Wordle for a huge jump in new subscribers. “Wordle brought an unprecedented tens of millions of new users to The Times,” Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien said in an earnings release, “many of whom stayed to play other games” and drove the company’s best gaming-related quarter ever. The Times acquired Wordle from creator Josh Wardle back in January, and…

In case you keep the interval between the first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine a little long, then there are chances that your antibody levels might be boosted up to nine-fold, a UK study has revealed. It also suggested that in case you already had Covid, then eight months after primary infection may be an optimum time to receive the first vaccine.  UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) study further asserted, that regardless of the timing between infection and vaccination, all…

Marking a number, the study conducted in Spain said that Covid-19 is three times more fatal than influenza.  The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal this year from 23-26 April.  Experts pointed out that Covid-19 despite being younger and having fewer chronic illnesses is more lethal than influenza. The study also suggests that Covid-19 is associated with both longer stays in hospital and intensive care, and costs nearly…

Researchers have detected a mysterious set of waves coming out of the Sun that, inexplicably, appears to travel three times faster than earlier predicted. The researchers think these waves could help them understand the interiors of the Sun, which is usually not observed even by space-based telescopes. Described as a “true mystery”, these waves were discovered when the researchers studied 25 years of data gathered on the Sun from both space and Earth. These high-frequency retrograde (HFR) waves appear as swirls or…

The transition of digital ecosystem to metaverse, where a person will feel immersed in a virtual world, will push data usage by 20 times across the globe by 2032 and telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are suitably placed to benefit from the surge in India, a Credit Suisse report has said.The report said metaverse has enormous potential to further expand screen time and drive more bandwidth consumption."Internet traffic is already 80 percent video and has been growing at a 30 percent CAGR (compound annual…

Intel is investing in blockchain technology with a new chip that could be used to mine cryptocurrency and the company's key focus, according to Senior Vice President of Intel's Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, Raja Koduri, is on sustainability with plans to "develop the most energy-efficient computing technologies at scale." Koduri claims that Intel's new mining chips will be available later this year with US electric power company GRIID Infrastructure, crypto mining firm Argo Blockchain, and Jack…

Wordle, the online word-guessing game which was recently bought by The New York Times from developer Josh Wardle in a seven-figure buyout, is now live at a new URL. The trending online game has now officially moved over to the New York Times website. After the migration, The New York Times is recommending players to use the same device and browser to open the game. However, as per user reports on Twitter, multiple players are witnessing problems with the migration. Their game streaks are said to get reset back to one.…

Intel Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger earned 1,711 times as much as the average worker at the US chipmaker in just 11 months since he joined in February last year, a regulatory filing showed on Wednesday.Compared to Gelsinger, former CEO Bob Swan had earned 217 times more than the average Intel employee in 2020.Gelsinger earned $178.6 million (roughly Rs. 1,352 crore) in 2021 with stock awards making up nearly 79 percent of his total compensation, which was about 698 percent higher than Swan's 2020 pay.Executive pay…