A memory drug developed by the National Institutes of Health and Tetra Discovery Partners that may help treat or prevent cognitive disorders has been moved into a small clinical trial, the agency announced in a press release. The drug, BPN14770, is aimed at improving a biochemical pathway responsible for memory ... Read More »
The country’s wait for the first-ever driverless metro ride is soon going to end. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will roll out its swanky new metro trains as soon as October this year. The DMRC on Wednesday unveiled its new age metro trains which have been shipped to the ... Read More »
A law student and online activist was stabbed to death in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of such attacks. Machete-wielding assailants attacked Nazimuddin Samad, 26, a law student at Jagannath University, as he was returning home from classes on Wednesday night, police officer ... Read More »
Devireddy, head cashier in the State Bank of Mysore branch in Sirguppa, is reported to be missing after allegedly taking away Rs. 1.5 crore in cash from the bank’s currency chest. Based on a complaint from the Chief Manager of the bank, Ravi Hegde, on Tuesday, Sirguppa police swung into ... Read More »
Dennis Fong knows firsthand that having the inside track on how to play a game makes the difference between winning and losing. Fong, 39, started playing video games when he was a teenager and got so good he was named the world’s first official professional gamer by the Guinness Book ... Read More »
Cord cutters are getting more choices these days. Twitter and Yahoo want to become your online sports bar by offering live sports games for free. Watch CNET Update below to learn about Twitter’s deal with the NFL and Yahoo’s deal with MLB. Seems Roku has good timing with the arrival ... Read More »
Facebook wants to get us to start oversharing on video, too. The social-network’s Live video feature, which lets folks broadcast live from their smartphones, got a handful of new tools, including more “reaction” buttons, such as Love and Wow, as well as filters like sepia tone. Facebook needs to keep ... Read More »
A contagious cancer, spread by biting, has decimated the population of Tasmanian devils since 1996. Researchers have now identified a second contagious cancer in eight devils, making them question how rare contagious cancer is, according to a new study. In addition to attempting to breed devils identified as immune to ... Read More »
This is a bitter pill for those dependent on ration shops for their monthly supply of sugar. Sugar will not be sold through the public distribution system (PDS) in April throughout Karnataka, with the government unable to procure sugar owing to high prices and none willing to participate in the ... Read More »
Giving a shot in the arm to the Oommen Chandy government, the Election Commission (EC) has lifted the ban it had imposed on the launch of the free ration scheme announced in the 2016-17 budget. The commission has permitted the government to go ahead with the scheme subject to the ... Read More »
Tensions between Kashmiri and outstation students kept the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar on the boil as outstation students — protesting the “celebrations” by some local students of India’s T-20 cricket loss to West Indies on March 31 — refused to cooperate with a team of the Ministry of ... Read More »
A Washington Post Magazine story about children accidentally left in cars has haunted me for years. The story, called “Fatal Distraction” and published in 2009, centered on the horrifying mistake that can lead to a child’s death. What’s more confounding is that this is a relatively new problem. It goes ... Read More »
