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Economy likely slowed but still posted solid growth in Q4

Washington: The U.S. economy likely rolled out of 2022 with momentum, registering decent growth in the face of painful inflation, high interest rates and rising concern that a recession may be months away. Economists have estimated that the gross domestic product — the broadest measure...

FDA’s advisers back plan to simplify COVID vaccinations

Washington: The U.S. is poised to make COVID vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions about how to best protect against a still rapidly mutating virus. The Food and Drug Administration asked its scientific...

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Global aviation organisation ICAO rejects Spicejet’s audit story

New Delhi: Days after the budget airline SpiceJet claimed that its safety processes were found to be strong during an exhaustive audit by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the UN’s civil aviation agency clarified that visits to operators are not audits. “ICAO’s Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) team performed an ICAO Coordinated Validation Mission (ICVM) to India from 9 to 16 November 2022....

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Mayor Adams questions if migrants camped outside NYC hotel are actually migrants: ‘I’m not even sure they are’

Mayor Adams suggested Wednesday that dozens of mostly Latin American men sleeping outside a Manhattan hotel may not actually be migrants, drawing ire from a representative of...

Biden and McCarthy hold first White House meeting of divided Congress amid debt ceiling standoff

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were set Wednesday to hold a high-stakes face-to-face meeting at the White House as the two parties sparred...

Trump outlines plan to attack trans rights if re-elected, vows to ‘protect children from left-wing gender insanity’

Former President Donald Trump vowed to end gender-affirming care for minors if re-elected in 2024 in an outright attack on the rights of transgender individuals. In...

Technology

5 Cutting-edge programming languages that you should not ignore

There have been a plethora of languages developed during the course of computer programming history for a variety of goals. Programming languages are used to...

Google plans privacy changes but promises to not be disruptive

By Daisuke Wakabayashi Google has said that it was working on privacy measures meant to limit the sharing of data on smartphones running its Android software....

MIT develops New Programming Language for High-Performance Computers

By Steve Nadis High-performance computing is needed for an ever-growing number of tasks — such as image processing or various deep learning applications on neural nets...

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Suryakumar retains No 1 position in ICC T20 rankings

New Delhi: India’s middle order batter Suryakumar Yadav retained his No 1 position with career-high rating points in the latest ICC T2O rankings. Suryakumar has a rating of 910 points after he stroked quickfire innings of 47 during the first match of India’s ongoing series against New Zealand in Ranchi as the exciting right-hander maintained his healthy lead at the top of the T20I rankings for...

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