LG launches new midrange 5G smartphone in South Korea

Seoul (IANS) LG Electronics on Sunday introduced a new mid-range 5G smartphone as the South Korean tech firm sought to overcome a long slump in its mobile business with price-competitive devices.

LG said the Q92 will go on sale in South Korea…

Covishield will be commercialised once trials are successful: SII

New Delhi (IANS) Serum Institute of India, has clarified that the current claims surrounding Covishield's availability in the media are completely false and conjectural.

"Presently, the government has granted us permission to only manufacture…

2nd Russian Covid-19 vaccine shows promise: Report

Moscow (IANS) A Covid-19 vaccine developed by Russia's Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology appears to be safe in early tests in humans, the media has reported.

This vaccine -- different from the one dubbed "Sputnik…

Space rock holds clues to evolution of life's building blocks

Washington (IANS) A space rock the size of a golf ball contains microscopic clues that could offer a peek into the evolution of life's building blocks on Earth, NASA scientists have said.

The rock, now known as meteorite Asuka 12236, was…

WHO starts discussions on Russia Covid-19 vaccine

London (IANS) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has started talks with Russia with the aim of garnering more information on a Covid-19 vaccine that the country last week approved even before starting the crucial phase-3 trial, the media reported.

Pfizer-BioNTech 2nd Covid vaccine shows less side effects

New York (IANS) US-based Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech announced positive results for the Phase 1 trial of their second Covid-19 vaccine candidate, revealing that the latest vaccine candidate has fewer side effects than their first.

Google services suffer outage in India, Gmail worst affected

New Delhi (IANS) Google services like Gmail and Drive suffered a major outage across the world including in India on Thursday morning as people took to social media to report problems connecting to several G Suite services, especially Gmail.

The…

Study finds why some Covid patients may not develop lasting immunity

New York (IANS) A US study led by an Indian-origin researcher has found that high levels of some cytokines seen in Covid-19 patients, as part of a cytokine storm, may prevent the development of long-term immunity to coronavirus.

"By using our…

Google adds new multi-room audio controls on Nest devices

San Francisco (IANS) Google has announced to roll out an update that will bring multi-room control on its Nest smart home devices.

One can manually create speaker groups in the Google Home app, but a new feature is meant to let users quickly…

New tool can improve fairness in online search rankings

New York (IANS) Researchers, including those of Indian origin, have introduced a new tool to improve the fairness of online search rankings without sacrificing their usefulness or relevance.

Since most people choose from the tops of online…