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Online social distancing game racks up 10,000 plays in its first two days    An online game aimed at helping children understand the importance of social distancing amid the novel coronavirus outbreak has racked up over 10,000 plays during the first two days after the launch. The online game, ‘Can You Save the World?’, helps players of all ages become better at social distancing in the real world. The players have to stay away from people in busy streets, collect masks and avoid sneezes while the final score shows how many lives have been saved. It is a vertically scrolling video game, co-developed by a UK-based professor of psychology, where players are tasked with walking through a virtual city while social distancing. https://arynews.tv/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1024x576_MP4_8411688661809675351.mp4 Co-designer Professor Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire said he was inspired by the tricky task of keeping his distance while outside, Mail Online reported ‘...

Coronavirus: why does it kill some people but give others not even a mild headache? LONDON: British researchers will study the genes of thousands of ill COVID-19 patients to try to crack one of the most puzzling riddles of the novel coronavirus: why does it kill some people but give others not even a mild headache? Researchers from across the United Kingdom will sequence the genetic code of people who fell critically ill with COVID-19 and compare their genomes with those who were mildly ill or not ill at all. The hunt for the specific genes that could cause a predisposition to getting ill with COVID-19 will involve up to 20,000 people currently or previously in hospital intensive care with COVID-19 and about 15,000 people with mild symptoms. Scientists caution that their knowledge of the novel coronavirus, which emerged in China last year, is still modest though they say it is striking how it can be so deadly for some but so mild for others. It is, as yet, unclear why. “We think that t...

Chinese coronavirus vaccine could be tested, manufactured in Canada TORONTO: China’s CanSino Biologics, the company behind one of the few coronavirus vaccine candidates already in clinical trials, is collaborating with Canada’s National Research Council to “pave the way” for future trials in Canada, the research council said on Tuesday. The NRC said it would scale up a production process for CanSino’s vaccine candidate at a government facility in Montreal, and that CanSino was preparing a clinical trial application for Health Canada, the country’s drug regulator. The CanSino vaccine is in early trials, and there is no way to know whether it will work. But if it does, the collaboration could help ensure that Canadians have access to it. Local trial data could reassure Health Canada that the vaccine is safe, and local manufacturing could ensure some doses are at hand. A vaccine that protects people from the coronavirus could eventually end the pandemic, but finding one that works and man...

Twitter to label ‘misleading’ virus content Twitter said Monday it began tagging “misleading” and “disputed” claims about the coronavirus pandemic in a stepped-up effort to label potentially harmful content. The move by Twitter comes with social networks struggling to deal with a wave of misinformation and unverified claims about the disease outbreak. “Serving the public conversation remains our overarching mission, and we’ll keep working to build tools and offer context so that people can find credible and authentic information on Twitter,” said a blog post by Twitter’s site integrity chief Yoel Roth and public policy director Nick Pickles. The initiative comes following previous actions by Twitter to remove content posing a specific threat to health or safety. Twitter said under the new effort, “warning labels” would be added for misleading statements or assertions that have been confirmed to be false or inaccurate by public health authorities, as well as other claims about which...

WhatsApp looks like it’s chasing after Zoom with its web app moving to support video calls with up to 50 people, effectively offering an alternative to Zoom, Google Meet, and Skype.  The new option was spotted in a beta version of WhatsApp Web by eagle-eyed researchers at WABetaInfo. Shortcuts in the WhatsApp’s menus will direct you to the newly released Facebook Messenger Rooms, where you can create a room and invite people to join, or create a room directly from WhatsApp. WhatsApp recently gained a major update with support for eight-way video calls on mobile devices, but these new shortcuts will give you another option if you need to invite more people to the conversation. The feature will also be available on iOS and Android, but it’s the desktop support that makes it a viable replacement for established video conferencing tools. Join the conversation When Messenger Rooms launched in April, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated that it would be supported across WhatsApp, Insta...

Google Duo has added a lot of features including Family Mode and increasing the number of participants in a group chat to get some of the market share captured by Zoom video calling and conferencing app. Google made an announcement in a blog post that Duo will get a Family Mode where users will be enabled to masks and filters to attract kids. In the family mode, the mute and hang-up buttons will hide automatically which it seemed to be introduced for stopping the youngsters to accidentally hit them. According to Google, the same video filters and others effects will also be available to one-to-one Duo calls on Andriod and iOS.  The video calling and conferencing solutions are now becoming a necessity amid coronavirus pandemic where everyone is seeking to be connected with work, family and friends. The new features have arrived in a huge upgrade of Google Duo a few weeks ago which has also introduced snapshots and improved call quality with its new video codec technology. Users of Goog...

A Russian rocket used to launch a scientific satellite into space has broken apart after nine years in orbit – leaving a dozens of pieces of debris around the Earth. The Fregat-SB is a type of space tug and its upper stage was left floating after it helped deliver the Spektr-R satellite in 2011, according to Roscosmos. Spektr-R was a radio telescope launched by the Russian space agency but it stopped responding to ground control last year and was declared dead in May 2019. Roscosmos confirmed the breakdown of the rocket happened on May 8 between 06:00 and 07:00 BST somewhere above the Indian ocean. The Russian space agency is studying data to find out how many parts it broke up into and where they are currently orbiting the planet. The US18 Space Control Squadron that tracks all objects in Earth’s orbit say there are at least 65 pieces from the rocket in orbit. Read More: Largest ozone hole above Arctic suddenly closed    US18 wrote on Twitter: ‘Confirmed that the breakup of F...

               I hope you are fine and happy. So I will move towards the interesting topic that is about the thing which are provides tastes of daily life. How the flavours of fruits are added in toffees and juices? Toffees We taste many types of flavours of daily life like mango,orange and apple toffees in which we feels the real taste of fruits like same as we are eating fruits. Here Question is rise that... "How the taste of fruits is adjusted in toffees?" "Is it real taste used in juices,toffees and different flavours?" Then answer will be No... Here you are thinking that these flavours are came from where....? So finally I am discussing the main reason of this. "These are Esters which are perform their key role to copy the taste of fruits."yes, it's okay. What are Easters?   "Easters are corbonyl compound. Their functional group is RCOOR. R is alkyl halide. Easters might have different tastes.Every Easter has its special taste.It me...

Today we will discuss the very important topic on which the whole organic chemistry is based. So lets start... Functional groups are collections of particles that join the carbon skeleton of a natural atom and give explicit properties.  Each kind of organic atom has its own particular sort of functional group.   Functional groups in biological atoms assume a significant job in the arrangement of particles like DNA, proteins, sugars, and lipids.  Functioal groups include: hydroxyl, methyl, carbonyl, carboxyl, amino, phosphate, and sulfhydryl.  Friends this is about functional groups. The all given groups in organic chemistry. e.g:- alcohols are based upon -OH groups that makes a long list of molecules. "The function group is characterized as an atoms or group of atoms participated in a particular way, which gives the chemical properties of organic compound.Having similiar functional group have experienced similiar Reactions."   Some important function groups...