We have all been there: you are about to close your laptop, or leave the office, when your handset vibrates. One more email! You can stop and dig it out, disrupting your flow for the millionth time that day. Or, using Outlook for iOS, you can now query to Cortana to read out loud everything…
Author: Lucille Gendreau
Deep sleep may ‘rinse’ day’s toxins from the brain
Researchers have found out that during deep sleep our brain releases all the daily toxins produced during the course of the day. During deep sleep, there is a reduced activity in our brain and the cerebral spinal fluid moves in and out of the brain flushing out all the waste products. Among the waste products…
Goldman Sachs facing heat over sexism allegations
The bank which is behind the Apple card has been facing scrutiny legally over inequality accusations. The department of financial services of New York has launched their investigations into the practices of Goldman Sachs after David Heinemeier Hannon, the founder of Basecamp had accused Apple and in turn Goldman of sexism when they had been…
Thomas Cook used its auditors to justify 5 million pound bonus
Thomas Cook Britain’s largest travel group ceased all its operations on 23rd September this year and effectively went into liquidation. It has also been revealed that former boss Manny Fontenla-Novoa had been paid a bonus of 5 million GBP by its audit firm known as EY. It had been heavily criticized for its merger with…
Mega Asia Pacific pact to be signed in 2020 says Thailand
According to Thailand, Southeast Nations are committed to signing a new trade pact by 2020. Under this pact, one third of the global GDP will be covered and big trade bloc in the world would emerge. A lot of people were in hope that a conclusive decision will be made on the long time negotiations…
A New Smallest Ever Black Hole Is Discovered, Astronauts Say
Milky Way, our galaxy, is a Wonderland of this huge and mysterious space. The researchers have spent hundreds of years on researching the outer space. There’s still more to discover about the space. The researchers keep observing the brightest stars and darkest black holes all the time. Recently, while updating the census of black holes,…
462. Type 3 polio virus eradicated, says World Health Organization
Another milestone in polio eradication has been achieved with the eradication of the second type of polio virus. There are three types of polio virus. Although they are different scientifically, the symptoms of these are the same which includes paralysis or sometimes even death. Type2 virus was eradicated before four years and now the WHO…
461. Youngster using flavored tobacco likely to switch to tobacco later
A new study has found that youngsters using flavored tobacco are more at risk of switching to tobacco in the latter stages of life. The study has been published in the journal JAMA Network Open. About 12,000 youngsters and nearly 26,000 adults in US were analyzed for the study. The data was collected over the…
NASA says, 1 person to visit Mars likely to be a woman
Jim Bridenstine, Administrator at NASA said the space agency would soon start sending astronauts to the moon. For the first time, in past fifty years, it would be one lucky astronaut to get the opportunity who would most possibly be a woman. Following that, it would not be long before the first woman lands on…
Rocket startup Firefly joins hands with Aerojet Rocketdyne
Startup rocket firm Firefly announced on October 18, 2019 of entering into a partnership with Aerojet Rocketdyne. The official announcement mentioned the two are about to begin with their first joint project which is 3D printing in the Reaper engines of Firefly. Director at Firefly’s commercial business development, Eric Salwan enthusiastically said that the collaboration…