by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Technology
Apple Inc. will take at least half a decade to launch an autonomous, electric vehicle because development work is still at an early stage, according to people with knowledge of the efforts. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant has a small team of hardware...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Paris: The popular messaging app WhatsApp asked its some two billion users on Thursday to accept new terms that will allow it to share more information with its parent company Facebook and roll out advertising and e-commerce. The update sparked criticism among...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
New Delhi: The global shipments of used smartphones, both officially refurbished and used, are expected to reach 351.6 million units registering $65 billion in market value in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.2 per cent from 2019 to 2024, an IDC...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Technology
New Delhi: Chip maker Intel has introduced RealSense 3D cameras with an on-device solution for facial recognition, designed to perform facial authentication on consumer devices such as point-of-sale (PoS) systems, ATMs and kiosks. With an easy enrollment process and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
The night is darkest just before dawn, they say. Dark it certainly is right now. The more contagious variants of SARS-CoV-2 coming out of the U.K. and South Africa will make the pandemic worse before mass vaccination can make it better. But take another look at...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Washington: The overall global coronavirus caseload has topped 88.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.91 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
Recent study has suggested that smoking is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms and smokers are more likely to attend hospital than non-smokers. The study by researchers from King's College London was published in Thorax. It investigates the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: No fresh case of the new strain of coronavirus was reported in the last 24 hours in India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Sunday. The total number infected with the new strain of Covid-19 that was detected in the United Kingdom...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Over 1,200 birds were found dead across the country on Saturday, including 900 in a poultry farm in Maharashtra, with the Centre saying that the outbreak of avian influenza has been reported in Uttar Pradesh, taking the total number of affected...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 10, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India generated around 33,000 tonnes of COVID-19 biomedical waste in the last seven months, with Maharashtra contributing the maximum (3,587 tonnes) to it, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. Over 5,500 tonnes of COVID-19 waste...
