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Amazon injects new life in Alexa with 50 new features : The Tribune India

San Francisco, July 22 Amazon has introduced more than 50 new features to make its home assistant Alexa smarter, allowing developers to create Widgets for their skills which customers can add to their Alexa devices with a screen later this year. The company also announced ‘Paid Skills’, a new form of monetisation for the developers.

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iPhone 13 to iPad mini 6: Here’s what to expect from Apple in the second half of 2021

Apple has had a busy few months, as the company recently debuted a number of new devices in the market, including a colourful new iMac and an updated iPad Pro with 5G and the M1 chip. But the world’s most valuable tech company isn’t done launching new products yet. In fact, what’s about to come

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Instagram can now automatically translate text in stories : The Tribune India

San Francisco, July 22 Facebook-owned Instagram has announced that it is now adding a new option to automatically translate text in story posts. Now, when the service detects a foreign language in a post, it will display a “See Translation” option on the top left of the screen, which users can tap to see a

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Off California sea otters feast and play a part in climate change battle

MOSS LANDING: Sea otters are helping to keep marine forests healthy by feasting on the seaweed-loving urchins whose numbers have exploded off California’s coast, researchers have found. Urchins have bred profusely after a disease wiped out their main predator, the sunflower sea star, and are overgrazing on nutrient-rich kelp forests that grow along California’s cold

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Over 200 rare marine animals died due to chemical leak from sunk ship, hears Lankan court

COLOMBO: Over 200 rare marine animals have died due to the fire aboard a Singapore-flagged container ship that was carrying tonnes of hazardous chemicals and sank off Sri Lanka’s coast earlier this month, a court has heard, days after the carcasses of the sea creatures started to wash ashore. Briefing on the damage to aquatic

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Finland rallies to save one of world’s most endangered seals

PUUMALA: The serene, icy waters of Finland’s Lake Saimaa are a boon to fishermen and tourists, but their presence also threatens one of the world’s rarest and most endangered seals. Despite seeing numbers recover in recent decades, the Saimaa ringed seal still faces extinction amid climate change and die-hard fishing habits. Out on Saimaa, a

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Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change

PORTLAND: The deadly heat wave that roasted the Pacific northwest and western Canada was virtually impossible without human-caused climate change that added a few extra degrees to the record-smashing temperatures, a new quick scientific analysis found. An international team of 27 scientists calculated that climate change increased chances of the extreme heat occurring by at

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NGT forms fresh committee seeks report on pollution caused by slaughter houses

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has formed a fresh committee and directed it to submit a report on pollution caused in the operation of slaughter houses and tanneries in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel noted various deficiencies in operation of the units, including illegal extraction

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EU Climate Change Plan: Europe’s central bank intensifies focus on climate change | World News

FRANKFORT: The European Central Bank has adopted a new approach to managing the economy that would allow the bank to tolerate transitory periods of inflation moderately above its 2% goal and to take greater account of climate change in its forecasting and stimulus programs. The new strategy announced Thursday for the 19 countries that use

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WMO warns of extreme weather events natural disasters

GENEVA: Petteri Taalas, chief of the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO), said extreme weather events and natural disasters will continue to increase, adding that climate change was the root cause of the torrential rainstorms and deadly floods ravaging Europe this summer. Speaking exclusively to Xinhua news agency on Monday, Taalas said: “We have always had

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