- Remove China Apps: India is the biggest driver of installations of ByteDance's TikTok. A border dispute fuels a backlash against Chinese products leading to the app's popularity.
- Virus losing potency: The new c-virus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said. “The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago”.
Read this comment somewhere: Engineered viruses lose their engineered traits over time as it reverts to its natural form. Nature doesn't accept unnatural mutations. The virus was far more deadly in Dec/Jan than it is today. - C-virus is a hybrid: Pieces of several genomes recombined to produce the pandemic-causing pathogen. There appears to be a large number of coronaviruses that are regularly exchanging genetic information.
- W.H.O. was afraid: China stalled information to WHO for weeks, according to recordings of multiple internal meetings. From the time the virus was first decoded on January 2 to when the WHO declared a global emergency on Jan 30, the outbreak grew by a factor of 100 to 200 times. But the agency did try to portray China in the best light, most likely to coax the country into providing more outbreak details.
- ICU-grade ventilator prototype completed by IISc: Supporting both invasive and non-invasive ventilation, it uses only components made in India or easily available in domestic supply chains and was developed by its PRAANA team
- India's $6.6 billion electronics manufacturing push: Financial incentives and plug-and-play facilities to attract investments. Govt will initially target five global suppliers and extend a financial incentive of as much as 6% on incremental sales of goods made in the country for a period of five years. An incentive of 25% on capital expenditure will be provided for production of electronic components, semiconductors and other parts.
- Free Piston Linear Generator: A unique engine is bringing power to a remote Philippine island. Traditional generators require maintenance and oil changes every 200-400 hours. Aquarius engines need maintenance once every 1,000 hours and need no oil.
- Nations try to wean themselves off of American chips: Russia comes up with its custom 8-core VLIW design for servers, Elbrus.
- U.S. probing digital tax plans from India and others: The OECD is trying to find agreement among almost 140 countries on a global tax overhaul to address how multinationals -- particularly tech giants -- are taxed in the countries where they have users or consumers.
After Sonam Wangchuk called for Indians to boycott Chinese goods, to teach the Communist govt of China a lesson, a Jaipur origin "Remove China" app has seen 1 million downloads! It has 4.8 rating on Google Playstore.— Kiran Kumar S (@KiranKS) June 1, 2020
It is also at the top spot of Google Play's top free apps list.
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