NZ reports 49 new Covid cases
Wellington, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) New Zealand reported 49 new Covid-19 cases in the community on Friday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 13,748. Among the new infections, 22 were recorded in…
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Hours before New Year Eve parties, Mumbai Police clamp tighter curbs
Mumbai, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hours before the New Year Eve festivities, the Mumbai Police clamped further restrictions on people till January 15 to prevent further spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, here on Friday. Effective 1300…
Galaxy Fold, Note 10 series starts receiving stable One UI 4
Seoul, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Samsung has started rolling stable updates to One UI 4 based on Android 12 for the first-gen Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Note 10 series in both its 4G and 5G trims….
1,000 villages in UP mapped by Garuda Aerospace drones
Chennai, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace, a Drones-As-A-Service (DaaS) startup is putting up drone assembly units at Manesar in Haryana’s Gurugram and Tamil Nadu’s Hosur at an outlay of $3 million, said a…
China stares at 1 mn EV shortfall due to chip shortage in 2022
Beijing, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The global chip shortage is set to send China’s EV industry into partial freeze in the first half of 2022, as there will be a shortfall of at least 1 million…
Israel approves 4th booster shot for adults at high risk
Tel Aviv, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Israeli Ministry of Health announced that it has approved the administration of the fourth booster shot against Covid-19 for adults at high risk. Late Thursday night, Nachman Ash, the…
All Ola S1, S1 Pro electric scooters from first batch dispatched: CEO
New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) After facing a long wait owing to production-related delays caused by the global chip shortage, Ola Electric revealed that it has dispatched all units of its S1 and S1 Pro…
Homegrown Just Corseca unveils new lineup of earbuds
New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Domestic consumer electronics brand Just Corseca on Friday announced that it has unveiled a new collection of wireless earbuds starting at Rs 2,699. The new lineup consists of four earbuds…
Honor Magic V to come with 50MP main camera: Report
Beijing, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Honor Magic V foldable phone is expected to debut in January 2022 in China and now a new report has claimed that the smartphone will come with 50MP main camera. The…
Israel receives 1st shipment of Pfizer anti-Covid drug
Tel Aviv, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) First shipment of the Pfizer Covid-19 drug has arrived in Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced. Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Bennett posted photos of the cargo airplane unpacking the…
India’s Omicron tally crosses 1,000-mark, Maha tops with 450 cases
New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) With 309 new cases of highly transmissible Covid variant Omicron detected in the last 24 hours, India’s Omicron tally on Friday rose to 1,270 cases. Of total, 374 have been…
Covid can trigger self-attacking antibodies: Study
New York, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Infection with the virus that causes Covid-19 can trigger an immune response that lasts well beyond the initial infection and recovery — even among people who had mild symptoms or…
Omicron surge forces US NIH to delay elective surgeries
Washington, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The surge in Omicron cases is forcing the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to postpone elective surgeries as a growing number of staff have been asked to isolate or quarantine,…
Samsung to unveil the Exynos 2200 chipset on Jan 11
Seoul, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korean tech giant Samsung is all set to launch its new flagship chipset ‘Exynos 2200’ with AMD graphics on January 11. The new generation of Samsung chipset will power flagship…
World’s 10 richest men add $402 bn to their net worth in 2021
New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s 10 richest people added nearly $402.17 billion (India has a forex reserve of about $635 billion) in 2021. According to the Bloomberg…
Omicron wave may have peaked, says South Africa
Johannesburg/New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) In some comforting news amid Omicron spread globally, South Africa may have passed the peak of Covid-19 infections and the country has lifted overnight curfew rules, the media reported on…
Delhi resident doctors call off strike
New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The agitating resident doctors on Friday called off their 14-day long nationwide agitation over the delay in NEET-PG counselling and alleged manhandling of doctors by the police. The doctors will…
Telegram adds message reactions, in-app translation in latest update
New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Encrypted messaging app Telegram has started rolling out its latest update for its iPhone as well as iPad app with several new features, including message reactions, translation, hidden text and…
Huawei to see ‘serious challenges’ in 2022 amid tech politics
New Delhi/Beijing, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US sanctions have hit Huawei hard and the company has warned that it will see “serious challenges” in 2022 amid “politicisation of technology”, and further “deglobalisation”. The Chinese conglomerate…
Mercedes, BMW, IBM, Panasonic to skip in-person events at CES 2022
San Francisco, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) BMW, IBM, Panasonic, and Mercedes have joined the growing list of tech companies who have decided not to attend the ‘CES 2022’ in-person in Las Vegas, as cases of the…