A facial recognition system that has the capability to identify people even if they are wearing masks has been launched by Japan’s NEC Corp. this new technological innovation is a sign that technology too is being adapted to cater to the new normal in which face coverings and masks have become a...

A health worker in California tested positive for COVID-19 following a week of vaccination. Just after a week of taking COVID-19 vaccine for Pfizer, a Californian nurse tested positive for the same. The vaccine that was given was developed by Pfizer Inc. however, a medical expert defended the...

The EU has a population of nearly 450 million, therefore mass vaccination across the continent would be a “crucial step” in the battle to end the pandemic. Hungary won the march in launching COVID-19 vaccine in comparison to its “fellow EU nations”. The country started vaccinating people one day in...

The archaeologists even found traces of food that are “nearly 2,000-year-old” within some “terra cotta jars”. Archaeologists dug out a city in Pompeii which was buried beneath a volcanic eruption which took place in “79 AD”. The interest and “extraordinary” discovery from this site is of a...

Ten people in the United Kingdom have been administered antibodies in the form of emergency protection after they were exposed to the novel coronavirus, in a first of its kind protection treatment against Cvoid-19 infections.   This unique experimental jab is being offered to people who have...

According to the annual "Year in Search" list of Google, more people in 2020 used the query “why” in 2020 more than they did in the year before globally as people sought to make sense of things that they were seeing in the news. Terms such as "why is the NBA postponed?" and "why is toilet paper...

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday that scientists in the country has found yet another strain of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 that has links to South Africa.   A recent surge in the infection in the South Africa could be linked to the new genetic mutation...

Launching of a "sensitive topics" review by Alphabet Inc's Google earlier this year was an attempt of the company to tighten control over its scientists' papers. The company has asked authors of such paper to not cast its technology in a negative light in at least three cases, said reports based on...

With the beginning of the distribution of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine across the United States, the second vaccine against the pandemic to be approved in the country, an advisory panel has recommended that the vaccines should be given to frontline essential workers and people 75 years and older in...