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The most current nation-wide estimation of the tiger population in India was released by PM Narendra Modi on International Tiger Day (29 July) this year. The Status of Tigers in India Report, 2018 reveals that there are an estimated 2,967 tigers in the wild in India — 33 percent higher than the number of tigers counted in 2014, and double that of the 2006 population. While that's undoubtedly good news, there are many important things the numbers belie, and nuances that tell a story that's complex and far less rosy. The tiger census required 44,000 field staff, 6,00,000 human-days, 5,23,000 kilometres in walking rotas, 3,18,000 habitat surveys, 26,800 camera trap locations spanning across 3,81,000 km of forest in India. The result? Only 35 million photographs of wildlife, of which 76,523 captured tigers in the wild. India is home to 75 percent of the 3,500 tigers scattered across 13 tiger-range countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar,

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This is the start of the shopping season in India, and also the start of the mega online sales. The Amazon Great Indian Festival and Flipkart Big Billion Days sale have been wooing customers with insane offers. Understandably, a lot of TV manufacturers and some new entrants into this space have announced their new models in the past couple of weeks. While some brands like OnePlus went overboard with their promotions, others quietly released their new Smart TV lineups.  With hundreds of Smart TV models out in the market, it is difficult to choose the right one. Worry not, that’s where we come in and clear the confusion. Let’s look at the best options available for you across various TV sizes and budgets in the ongoing online sales. Best deals on 32-inch Smart TVs on Amazon and Flipkart A 32-inch TV is ideally suited for one with a budget under Rs 15,000 and a viewing distance (distance between the viewer and the TV) of 7 to 8 feet. You get a bunch of official Android TVs in this bu

Facebook will have seasoned journalists curate breaking and top news stories for its upcoming 'News Tab' feature, separate from its trademark News Feed. from Top Tech News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2mzI3Og

Twitter has not responded to Senator Kamala Harris yet, although its policy doesn't favour blocking a world leader or removing their controversial tweets. from Top Tech News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2oRpaHl

This is the start of the shopping season in India, and also the start of the mega online sales. The Amazon Great Indian Festival and Flipkart Big Billion Days sale have been wooing customers with insane offers. Understandably, a lot of TV manufacturers and some new entrants into this space have announced their new models in the past couple of weeks. While some brands like OnePlus went overboard with their promotions, others quietly released their new Smart TV lineups.  With hundreds of Smart TV models out in the market, it is difficult to choose the right one. Worry not, that’s where we come in and clear the confusion. Let’s look at the best options available for you across various TV sizes and budgets in the ongoing online sales. Best deals on 32-inch Smart TVs on Amazon and Flipkart A 32-inch TV is ideally suited for one with a budget under Rs 15,000 and a viewing distance (distance between the viewer and the TV) of 7 to 8 feet. You get a bunch of official Android TVs in this bu

A study has revealed that WhatsApp was extensively abused to spread unfounded rumours and misinformation during recent elections in India and Brazil. The research found that WhatsApp particularly failed in blocking the propagation of misinformation campaigns through public groups. Representational Image. This study was conducted by researchers at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. The researchers wanted to find out how effective are the measures taken by WhatsApp to curb the spread of misinformation, like limiting forward messages . This study was conducted around the election day, 60 days before and 15 days after, in three countries: India, Brazil, and Indonesia. (Also read:  WhatsApp's forward limiting update slowed down spread of misinformation: Report ) "Our results suggest that the current efforts deployed by WhatsApp can offer significant delays on the information spread, but they are ineffec

Twitter on Monday said it is rolling out a filter that will hide away unwanted direct messages, providing a new tool to stymie abuse. Twitter users who receive direct messages from people they don't follow on the platform will be able to have such missives automatically routed to a secondary folder. "Unwanted messages aren't fun," Twitter tweeted in August when it began testing the filter that let users keep them "out of sight, out of mind." FILE PHOTO: People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture. Image: Reuters. The filter is intended to also catch messages with spam or offensive content, tagging them accordingly so users can decide whether they want to open them. "We tested, and turns out filters help you cut through the noise to find gems," Twitter said Monday in a tweet. "Who knew. So we're rolling out this filter to everyone on iOS, Android, and W

The Great Indian Festival Sale on Amazon will go on till 4 October. There are a many deals that are being offered on smartphones and Amazon has said that it will be offering the 'lowest prices for smartphones' during the sale. Customers are said to avail up to 40 percent on some smartphones apart from getting cashback, deals and more. Here are the major deals you should know about. Apple iPhone XR. Image: tech2/Omkar Patne OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro With the launch of the OnePlus 7T , Amazon is offering a Rs 3,000 discount on the OnePlus 7 (Review) giving it a starting price of Rs 29,999. The phone comes with Snapdragon 855 SoC along with a dual-camera setup having a 48 MP primary sensor. The higher 8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage variant's price remains unchanged from what we can see on the Amazon website, although that could change. The OnePlus 7 Pro (Review) , with a 9 Hz refresh rate screen and QHD+ display is also being offered at a discounted price starting at Rs 44,999. T

After releasing the official build of the iOS 13 last month, Apple has been rolling out a few smaller updates, that primarily look at bug fixes and minor improvements in the operating system. Last week, iOS 13.1.1 was released which fixed issues like third party keyboard support, and now, the iOS 13.1.2 and the iPadOS 13.1.2 is rolling out for all users. As per Apple's changelog, the iOS 13.1.2 update introduces bug fixes for several issues, including problems with the camera, iCloud backup, flashlight, and more. It also adds a shortcut to run the HomePod. iOS 13. Below are the detailed changelog as per Apple's website: - Fixes a bug where the progress bar for iCloud Backup could continue to show after a successful backup - Fixes an issue where Camera may not work - Addresses an issue where the flashlight may not activate - Fixes a bug that could result in a loss of display calibration data - Fixes an issue where shortcuts could not be run from HomePod - Addresses a

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Besides co-founding the National Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Dr Kleber and his then-wife Dr Marian W Fischman established the Division on Substance Abuse at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. from Top Tech News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2oGF3A7

In a heart-warming doodle on 1 September, Google has tipped its cap to the incredible work of a pioneering addiction psychologist Dr Herbert David Kleber on what would have been the 23rd anniversary of his election to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr Kleber, who passed away in 2018, was born in Pennsylvania on 19 June 1934. With persuasion from his father, who aspired to be a doctor himself, Dr Kleber attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States. He studied pre-med on his road to medicine, but discovered a passion he had for psychology instead. It was only after completing his psychiatric residency at Yale University, when Kebler was assigned to the Public Health Service Prison Hospital in Kentucky, that his life's mission really came to the fore. Google Doodle celebrating Dr Herbert Kleber. Image: Google Dr Kleber had a vastly different view of addiction that many doctors of his time. He saw addiction not as a moral failure, but as a condition that could on

Samsung's first foldable smartphone — Galaxy Fold— will be launched in India today. The company has confirmed the news in a tweet. The launch of the smartphone was delayed due to various hardware issues that were pointed out by some reviewers   soon after the phone's announcement at  Mobile World Congress 2019 . These issues included screen damage as it was reported to be damaged and was unusable in just two days. Now, finally, after taking some much needed time to fix the issues, we can now purchase the phone. The screen on my Galaxy Fold review unit is completely broken and unusable just two days in. Hard to know if this is widespread or not. pic.twitter.com/G0OHj3DQHw — Mark Gurman (@markgurman) April 17, 2019 The smartphone first landed in the Korean markets , followed by a launch in  the US market last week. Samsung Galaxy Fold is priced at $1,980 in the US. We changed the shape of the phone, and the shape of tomorrow. Future unfolds on October 1, 2019. #Gal

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Apart from merging Uber Eats and Uber Rides, the company will also upgrade its verification and emergency alert features. from Top Tech News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2nJSIGk

Private group chats on Whatsapp are harder to monitor than Facebook or Twitter discussions, making it more difficult to control the spread of misinformation. from Top Tech News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2nIIru2

The OnePlus 7 is selling for Rs 29,999 on Amazon India while the Pixel 3a is selling at the same price on Flipkart. from Top Tech News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2nJT1Rm

Astronomers have discovered a 13-billion-year-old galaxy cluster that is the earliest ever observed, according to a paper released Friday, a finding that may hold clues about how the universe developed. Such an early-stage cluster — called a protocluster — is "not easy to find", Yuichi Harikane, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan who led the international team, said in a press release. "A protocluster is a rare and special system with an extremely high density," Harikane said, adding that the researchers used the wide viewing field of the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to "map a large area of the sky" in their search. The calculated extent of the protocluster. See the bottom of the article for image details. image credit: NAOJ/HARIKANE ET AL. The discovery of the protocluster, a collection of 12 galaxies, suggests that large cosmic structures were present in the very early stages of the universe, which scientists believe was b

There's been a surge in measles cases across Europe, putting people’s lives at risk according to new findings from the World Health Organization . The official figures show that approximately 90,000 cases have been reported for the first half of 2019. This is already more than the number of cases recorded for the whole of 2018 (84,462). This has in part been put down to misinformation about the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine on social media putting parents off vaccinating their children. Vaccination that is injected. image credit: Billion Photos/ Shutterstock Recent outbreaks of measles, which is much more infectious than mumps and rubella, have been widely reported . But what is less well known is that there have been a few babies born with congenital rubella syndrome in the UK in the past few years . This is an illness resulting from an infection of the rubella virus during pregnancy. Rubella babies People under the age of 50 are unlikely to have heard about “Ru

There’s been a surge in measles cases across Europe, putting people’s lives at risk according to new findings from the World Health Organization . The official figures show that approximately 90,000 cases have been reported for the first half of 2019. This is already more than the number of cases recorded for the whole of 2018 (84,462). This has in part been put down to misinformation about the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine on social media putting parents off vaccinating their children. Vaccination that is injected. image credit: Billion Photos/ Shutterstock Recent outbreaks of measles, which is much more infectious than mumps and rubella, have been widely reported . But what is less well known is that there have been a few babies born with congenital rubella syndrome in the UK in the past few years . This is an illness resulting from an infection of the rubella virus during pregnancy. Rubella babies People under the age of 50 are unlikely to have heard about “Rubel