Omicron spawn XBB.1.5, also known as “Kraken,” now dominates the US COVID variant scene, comprising an estimated 61% of cases, according to federal health data released Friday. But there’s now a new player being tracked by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that could give Kraken a run for its money. CH.1.1, or …
(Photo courtesy Jerry Travers, Lark Habour, via FB.) A Lark Harbor family is assessing the damage after winds knocked over their cabin, upending it like a toy. The winds howled on Thursday night, just as high as 150 km/h in some areas, and Lark Harbor, which is prone to high winds, was not spared. Jerry …
India’s median mobile speeds improved and rose in December 2022 to the 79th position in the global rankings, amid the slow, but steady adoption of 5G, according to networking intelligence and testing company Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index report. India witnessed a significant leap in positions (26) from 105th position in November. Median mobile download speeds …
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Perth (Australia), January 28 There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are fairly common. Some of these close encounters end up with the asteroid impacting Earth, occasionally with severe consequences. A recently discovered asteroid, …
Get ready. Residents of Newfoundland and Labrador will soon have to dial all 10 digits, starting with 709, in the spring. The announcement that all residents of Newfoundland and Labrador would have to dial all 10 digits starting on April 1 was made last summer. The decision was made by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications …
China’s health authorities have said the Covid wave is past its peak, with rapid decline in both severe cases and deaths in hospitals, but experts remain wary of the government’s official data. According to China’s Center for Disease Control (CDC), the number of critically ill patients in hospital peaked in the first week of January, …
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Talk about a comeback. As China abandons policies that stifled economic growth for three years, its stocks have staged an extraordinary rally—up more than 50% since October. This could be just the beginning. Money managers say a broad range of stocks could keep climbing throughout this year. The catalyst is clear: Policy makers in the …
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Madeleine MarrMiami Herald MIAMI — Think back long ago, to a time when you couldn’t order literally any thingamajig that pops into your head at 4 am from your phone. The year was 1994 and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was a 9-to-5 working stiff with a forward thinker’s dream — an insanely lofty one that …
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An artist’s impression of a magnetar eruption. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On Oct. 5, 2020, the rapidly rotating corpse of a long-dead star about 30,000 light years from Earth changed speeds. In a cosmic instant, its spinning slowed. And a few days later, it abruptly started emitting radio waves. Thanks to timely measurements …
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A Kitchener company and its CEO have been fined $100,000 for machine guarding violations. THS Industries Ltd., on Manitou Drive, is a steel nail manufacturing company. The Ministry of Labor, Immigration, Training and Skills Development said the company and its CEO Xiaoye He “failed to take all reasonable care to ensure equipment, materials and protective …
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