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On similar tracks, the common symptom of common cold - sore throat- can also determine of you have contracted the coronavirus or not.  In a recent media briefing World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke of a new sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid-19 that has now been detected in India. Omicron sub-variants BA.4, BA.5 may fuel into a new Covid infection surge, a top health official in India…

Use context managers to make your code more robust and more PythonicImage by BUMIPUTRA in PixabayWe have been using the with keyword with the open function to create a context that will close the file after we have finished reading/writing. However, context managers in Python are not limited to managing external resources like file descriptors, database connections, threading locks, etc, they can be used to provide all kinds of contexts which require some setup and teardown actions before and after the main code block is…

Destiny 2's Season of the Haunted is working through a compelling, character-driven story, one that dives into the personal traumas of some of the game's major characters as they try to deal with the new threat presented by Calus and the Derelict Leviathan. Like the best of Destiny 2's recent stories, it relies heavily on player knowledge from past seasons and expansions.Generally, this is great, because with Bungie building on events of the recent past, Destiny 2 feels like a world that is changing as a…

ShutterstockA speech recognition startup just landed $62 million in Series B funding. How will the money be used? In a quest to enable a computer to understand every voice in the world.If that doesn't strike you as hugely ambitious you haven't spent enough time trying to get Siri to compose a text message. Speech recognition has been a huge challenge for developers, and it's a puzzle that's being closely watched in a variety of industries. The technology has implications for human-machine interfaces in fields like…

In May, electric-vehicle maker Tesla was removed from the S&P 500's ESG Index. In response, CEO Elon Musk tweeted that ESG was "a scam" that had been "been weaponized by phony social justice warriors."Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesTesla chief Elon Musk may have misunderstood the meaning behind ESG (environmental, social, and governance), according to the CEO of Clarity AI, a tech firm specializing in the provision of software to assess sustainability.In an interview last month with CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe," Rebeca…

Children learn on tablets in a new classroom in Tamantay, a village in Kassala State, Sudan, on their first day of e-learning through the Can’t Wait to Learn program. Credit: UNICEF/UNI366077/Bos As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70% of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written…

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) this week issued a notice to all non-bank prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers in the country to restrict them from loading instruments including prepaid cards using credit lines. The move is believed to have impacted a number of fintech firms including Uni, Slice, and KreditBee that issue cards along with credit lines to substitute traditional credit cards. Some of the potentially affected companies even halted transactions on their platforms on a temporary basis.Here are the 10…

by Sally Thompson, Anneliese Sytsma, Dana Ariel Lapides and Mary H. Nichols, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Protecting people from floods requires many technical professionals to make good predictions and decisions.…

Guns are central to how Americans talk about the "Wild West." Credit: Greg Dickinson The United States has struggled with a spate of horrific mass shootings. As is often the case, people try to make sense of the violence by talking about what happened. …

Scientists have identified the traits that may make a person more likely to claim they hear the voices of the dead.According to research published in 2021, a predisposition to high levels of absorption in tasks, unusual auditory experiences in childhood, and a high susceptibility to auditory hallucinations all occur more strongly in self-described clairaudient mediums than the general population.  The finding could help us to better understand the upsetting auditory hallucinations that accompany mental illnesses such as…