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If you want the most polished consumer headphone options on the market in 2020, you owe it to your ears to check these out.             from USATODAY - Tech Top Stories https://ift.tt/2PELPR3

Rocksteady Studios, which worked on video games based on Batman, confirmed its next project: a Suicide Squad video game.             from USATODAY - Tech Top Stories https://ift.tt/3ijD7UR

Nepal Communist Party's executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has asked the party workers to prepare for the "worst" as the ongoing power tussle between him and Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has intensified with no solution in sight. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/30C3Plr

President Donald Trump issued executive orders to ban TikTok and WeChat in 45 days citing national security fears. TikTok threatens a lawsuit.             from USATODAY - Tech Top Stories https://ift.tt/2PKBMu9

The UAE has waived thousands of dirhams in fines of Indian expatriates whose visas had expired before March 1, helping them return home without additional expenses amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a media report. Already, 145 Indians have availed the benefits of the scheme which was proposed by the Indian missions in the UAE, the Gulf News quoted the Indian Consulate in Dubai in a report. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3ig4NKf

The resident cat at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, dubbed “Lord Palmerston the Chief Mouser” in reference to its mouse-catching duties, is to retire from diplomatic service, the FCO said on Friday. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/33ACWQJ

Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have identified a pattern of longer-term symptoms likely to be experienced by people hospitalised with the COVID-19 infection, which include fatigue, breathlessness, psychological distress and a general decline in quality of life. The study, published in the Journal of Medical Virology, found that some patients, particularly those who had been in intensive care, had symptoms associated with cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/33xrA05

Scientists have compared volunteers who had received the BCG vaccine -- originally made against tuberculosis -- with those who did not, and have found that the immunised individuals "did not get sick more often, or become more seriously ill" during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The study, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, evaluated a group of healthy volunteers who received the BCG vaccine in the five years before the ongoing pandemic, and compared their immune system function to that of healthy volunteers who were not administered the shots. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3gCY7pc

BEIJING (AP) — China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei. Ye Jianhui was sentenced Friday by the Foshan Municipal Intermediate Court in the southern province of Guangdong. Ye had been found guilty of manufacturing and transporting illegal drugs, the court said in a brief statement. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/31pZp0s

TikTok says it keeps users data in the United States and Singapore and won't hand it over to the Chinese government.             from USATODAY - Tech Top Stories https://ift.tt/2PtZU3J

The global efforts to manufacture a safe and efficient coronavirus vaccine are now reaching the climax with several vaccine candidates now in the late stages of clinical trials. World Health Organisation has, however, advised patience by saying that late-stage trials do not mean that the vaccine is 'nearly there'. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/31paoY0

The uncertain future facing the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok and its potential sale to a US-based company could alleviate national security concerns about access to American user data, according to a tech expert. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2PvCo6v

US President Donald Trump has signed executive order for banning transactions with TikTok parent company ByteDance after 45 days. This development has come amid technology giant's Microsoft ongoing talks with TikTok to purchase its America operations as chorus grows among lawmakers in the United States for banning the Chinese video making-sharing app over security concerns of users' data and privacy. from IndiaTV World: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3gDTzPh

The specifics are still to come, but all signs suggest that Galaxy Z Fold 2 will be priced close to the nearly $2,000 list price of its predecessor.             from USATODAY - Tech Top Stories https://ift.tt/2PvJHuY

Twitter said in a blog post on Thursday that the labels are meant to give users greater context on a profile's political affiliation.             from USATODAY - Tech Top Stories https://ift.tt/3gBpGz0