Lambda variant: What the coronavirus’ latest mutation means for India

Lambda variant: What the coronavirus’ latest mutation means for India

The Lambda variant is yet to be detected in India, with Israel being the only country in Asia to have reported it so far. (Picture courtesy: Indian Express) As the world comes to grips with the Delta variant of the coronavirus wreking havoc and spreading infections at an exponential rate, another variant is starting to give headaches … Read more

LJP’s Pashupati Kumar Paras is now a minister in PM Modi’s cabinet

LJP’s Pashupati Kumar Paras is now a minister in PM Modi’s cabinet

Pashupati Kumar Paras of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) took oath as Union Minister in the expansion and reshuffle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Cabinet on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Paras, the younger brother of LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan, was recognized as the leader of LJP in Lok Sabha in place of Chirag Paswan after … Read more

RMIT University researchers train AI to detect early-stage prostate cancer | ZDNet

RMIT University researchers train AI to detect early-stage prostate cancer | ZDNet

Image: Getty Images Researchers at RMIT University have developed an AI model that can detect early signs of prostate cancer by analysing routine computed tomography (CT) scans. Developed alongside clinicians at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, the AI model has been trained using CT scans of asymptomatic patients, with and without prostate cancer, to spot the … Read more

WeChat deletes dozens of university LGBT accounts in China

WeChat deletes dozens of university LGBT accounts in China

On social media Tuesday, LGBT rights supporters protested the abrupt closure of these accounts by the Tencent-owned company. The deleted accounts were run by students across universities in China, including prestigious institutions such as Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Fudan University in Shanghai. While CNN Business was unable to access these deleted … Read more

Analysis: China is cracking down on data privacy. That’s terrible news for some of its biggest tech companies

Analysis: China is cracking down on data privacy. That’s terrible news for some of its biggest tech companies

Already, the company that elbowed Uber out of China has been kicked off app stores in the country and warned that it violated laws about data collection. The regulatory pressure has upended its first days as a publicly traded company in New York, with shares plummeting nearly 20% on Tuesday and retreating even more on … Read more