Tesla’s shares jumped by over 10% following the news that the electric car company will be added to the US leading S&P 500 stock index. The inclusion follows a snub in September. Tesla Inc’s shares were...
Animals always get left out and victimized by humans, and that is why I no longer yield to the altar of humanity, nor lend my voice in fighting for the human-created hypocrisy that is human...
India has signed a series of Free and Preferential Trade Agreement with the aim of opening-up India’s economy, catalyzing the trade instrument for economic growth and employment generation. All trade agreements except few have resulted...
There I stand in a large courtyard of a large house built in traditional style, all littered well by sunlight. The yellow walls are now more bright in the sunlight, the slate stone flooring giving...
Researchers at MIT have taught artificial intelligence to recognize a coronavirus infection by the sound of coughing. Will we be able to test ourselves every morning by coughing into our smartphones? The fact that smartphones...
“Storyluxe” spices up your Insta-Stories with creative frames and effects. The free iOS app offers templates in which photos from the gallery can be integrated, either individually or as collages. The templates are arranged in themes: “love”, “tape” or “flora” for example. Useful we find the templates “spooky”, “holiday” or “new year”, which pay tribute to the big celebrations of the year. We like the somewhat kitschy, but cute templates from the “neon” category, which decorate photos with neon hearts or neon writing. What we don’t like so much is that once the photos are placed in the template, they can’t be moved anymore. This may mean that the great photo is not really shown to advantage or that we have to choose another template. The layout of the app is minimalistic and the functions are available in no time. Classic photo editing tools are not available. If you have decided on a frame, you can usually also change the background. There is an huge number of possibilities for this: Marble structures, fireworks, clouds or ice crystals. However, especially beautiful backgrounds, as...
A vaccine jointly developed by German company BioNTech and US firm Pfizer has proven to be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19 infections, according to phase 3 trials. German company BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer...
“If [animals] were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.” In the five seconds that it takes you to settle down, read the title and maybe even this sentence,...
Initially, the markets built on Tuesday’s price action, but as soon as a few counties in Florida indicated that it was not going to be the “blue wave,” risk came off, and it was most...
Independent booksellers in the US face a crisis long in the making, but the pandemic is accelerating the process. An iconic New York City store is seeking to buck the trend. Early signs suggest it’s...
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been shown to play an important role in promoting economic growth, raising a country’s technological level, and creating new employment in developing countries (Chaudhary, 2016). In the current scenario, when many countries are...
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter released their earnings for the latest quarter on Thursday. Apple’s performance was the most disappointing in the group as earnings dipped on weakness in iPhone sales. Five big technology...
