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Google calls for govt help to secure critical open-source software
Washington : Google has called for a public-private partnership to identify a list of critical open source projects and find new ways of identifying software that might pose a systemic risk, as the world grapples with the recent log4j open…
Joe Biden reaffirms support for changing Senate filibuster to pass voting rights bills
Washington : US President Joe Biden said he supports changing the Senate filibuster rule so as to make it easier for the chamber to pass legislation upholding Americans' right to vote.The filibuster is a rule in the US Senate that requires…
US reports nearly 8.5mn child Covid-19 cases, increasing “exponentially”
Washington : Nearly 8.5 million children in the US have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, and Covid-19 cases among American children are "increasing exponentially," according to the latest report of the American…
NASA’s Webb Telescope unfolds primary mirror, set for big action
Washington : NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team has successfully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations in deeper space.A joint…
Joe Biden says Americans must ensure Capitol attack ‘never happens again’
Washington : US President Joe Biden has said that Americans must ensure such an attack like that on the US Capitol a year ago "never happens again" as the country seems more divided than ever."One year ago today in this sacred place,…
Multiple studies show Omicron less severe than Delta: Fauci
Washington : Data from several countries on the Omicron severity show that even though the variant is highly transmissible, it causes less disease than the previously Delta strain which was much more lethal, according to the US' top…
US reports 1 mn daily Covid cases, breaks previous records
Washington : Amid the rapid spread of the new highly-transmissible Omicron variant, the US has reported more than one million Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, breaking previous records for single-day infection spike, according to health…
US FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech boosters for kids aged 12-15
Washington : The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine boosters to children aged 12 to 15.On Monday, the FDA also shortened the time for booster shots…
Twitter permanently suspends US Congresswoman’s account for Covid misinformation
Washington : Twitter has permanently suspended an account of US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Representative from Georgia, for "repeated violations" of the micro-blogging site's Covid-19 misinformation policies."We…
COVAX delivers record 309 mn doses in December
Washington : COVAX, the international vaccine sharing scheme, delivered a record of more than 309 million Covid-19 doses in December, the media reported.According to provisional tracking by Unicef, about 910 million doses were delivered…
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