Laptops, along with all manner of consumer electronics, have been discounted throughout the month of November, but many of the best Black Friday laptop deals didn’t arrive until the actual Black Friday, Nov. 27. Though the holiday weekend and onto Cyber Monday, you’ll continue to find deep discounts on Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo and others. Unfortunately, many on these deals are also selling out, so if you are in the market for a laptop, you should probably move quickly before the deal you want is gone. Tip: We’re updating this post with all the latest deals as they come in.…
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Microsoft is working on a project named Latte that would allow app developers to bring their Android apps directly to Windows 10 with little to zero changes in the codes. The developers will need to package their Android apps as MSIX format and submit those to the Microsoft Store, reports Windows Central. MSIX is a Windows app package format that provides a modern packaging experience to all Windows apps. Currently, users can run Android apps on their PCs via app streaming using the ‘Your Phone’ app built into Windows 10. This functionality, however, has been limited to a handful of Samsung…
It seems that outgoing US President Donald Trump may not be the only person in the Trump family to make big bucks with a book deal after President Trump vacates White House. Sources told Page Six that Trump’s wife and US First Lady Melania Trump, who is usually very private, has been planning to write a memoir on her time as first lady. Melania is in meetings to write her White House memoir,” an insider told Page Six. “And it would be her money — a chance for her to earn on her own. I’m told her husband is ‘encouraging…
Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam revealed that she has no bank account and is forced to keep “piles of cash” at home after sanctions imposed by the United States. In a television interview broadcast on Friday night, Lam said that the government is paying her salary in cash because she doesn’t have a bank account. Lam is facing sanctions from the US treasury department in response to China’s national security law for Hong Kong. The department had announced sanctions on 11 individuals, including Lam and Hong Kong Police Force commissioner Chris Tang. It held Lam directly responsible for implementing…
The Dubai Airport Free Zone said in a statement that the suspension took effect on November 18 and would run until further notice. The suspension primarily targets new employment and tourist visa. It was not clear if there were any exceptions to the ban. Last week, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the UAE had stopped processing new visas for its citizens, however, added that people already holding valid visas were not affected. Reuters reported that the UAE had strained relations with some of the states listed, such as Turkey.
Having previously blamed Italy, the US and Europe, without much evidence, for the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese scientists have now claimed that the deadly novel coronavirus originated in India in the summer of 2019. A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences claimed that the COVID-19 virus likely originated in India in summer 2019 – jumping from animals to humans via contaminated water – before travelling unnoticed to Wuhan, where it was first detected. In their paper, the Chinese team use phylogenetic analysis to trace the origins of Covid-19. Viruses, like all cells, mutate as they reproduce, meaning…
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Pune-based pharma company Serum Institute of India (SII) on Saturday (November 28), the company’s CEO Adar Poonawalla said that his company will seek permission for emergency use authorization of ‘Covishield’ in the next two weeks. Few days, SII CEO Poonawalla had said that that the company is focused on supplying vaccines to India first. “It is very important we take care of our country first, then go on to Covax after that and then other bilateral deals with countries. So I’ve kept it in that priority,” Poonawalla had told reporters. “I am delighted…
As the farmers’ protests against the Farm Bill rages on the in capital with Sikh farmers battling it out in the forefront, social media has been full of photos and posts about it. However, if you place at Instagram posts, not stories, the narrative seems to be a little different. The message reads – “To make sure only the most relevant posts are shown, we’ve hidden some posts that may be private or low quality”. Now, we don’t know if this was the result of us flagging this issue with Instagram or something else entirely. Like we’ve mentioned, we have…
India’s remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2F in Earth’s orbit, Russia’s Earth Observation Satellite has come very close to Kanopus-V. The space research organizations of both countries are closely monitoring it, but the distance of measurement of both is coming different. On Friday, Russia’s space research agency Rosskosmos said that according to the Russian rocket (TsNIIMash), on November 27, 2020, a 700-kg CARTOSAT-2F satellite came dangerously close to Kanopus-V. According to the calculations of this rocket, the minimum distance between the satellite of Russia and India is 224 meters. Rosskosmos says that both the spacecraft are designed for remote sensing of the Earth.…
The dispute between India and China in eastern Ladakh is not over yet. The forces of the two countries are face to face on the LAC. The expansionist-thinking China is constantly making efforts to carry out its fraudulent manipulation. In such a situation, India aware of its intention is also cautious and is thwarting its every move. Pengong lakes are the area where there is maximum tension. But now China will think a thousand times before taking a step forward in this area. He will find any activity in Pengong lake expensive. Because India has now taken such a step, which will create panic in China. India…