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Manchester, Nov 5 (IANS) A record-equalling performance from Jeremy Doku made up for a misfiring Erling Haaland as Manchester City moved top of the Premier League table with a 6-1 victory over Bournemouth. Doku scored one goal and provided four assists in City’s 15th home league victory in a row on Saturday night. He became the eighth player to set up four goals in a single Premier League match.The Belgian opened the scoring after half an hour after a delightful curling strike following a neat one-two with Rodrigo.Three minutes later it was 2-0, with Doku at the heart of it…

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Popular chat platform Discord has announced that it will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to fight malware.Links to those files will begin to refresh every 24 hours by the end of this year to block malware delivery.The company told BleepingComputer that it is evolving its approach to “attachment content delivery network (CDN) URLs in order to create a safer and more secure experience for users”.“In particular, this will help our safety team restrict access to flagged content, and generally reduce the amount of malware distributed using…

New York, Nov 5 (IANS) Men are less eager and likely to share negative information about themselves than women, finds a study that showed little difference when it comes to positive news.Published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the researchers suggest that this may be due to a greater concern among men over how other people will see them, resulting in a tendency to self-promote by sharing positive information about themselves and not revealing their negative experiences to others.”The results from our studies revealed a consistent, and to the best of our knowledge not previously identified, nuanced pattern, wherein…

San Francisco, Nov 5 (IANS) Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace startup OpenSea, valued at $13.3 billion last year, has laid off about half of its workforce as part of “significant organisational and operating changes”.A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50 per cent of employees were impacted across the company. The exact number of affected employees were not revealed.“We are making significant organisational and operating changes as we focus on building a more nimble — and ultimately better — version of OpenSea,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying.“With these changes, we are better positioned to deliver for the community, shipping high-impact…

Former Bangladesh Home Minister and current BNP Vice-Chairman,Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, has been arrested in connection with the cases of sabotage, violence and police killings in Dhaka.The Dhaka court granted a six-day remand to BNP Standing Committee member and former Commerce Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and BNP media cell convener Zahir Uddin Swapan in the murder case of police constable Amirul Islam Parvez.Earlier, between 7:30 and 8 p.m. on Saturday, three buses were set on fire in the Elephant Road, Newmarket and Saidabad areas.It is known that the besiegers set fire to the Mirpur Link bus…

On the 58th birthday of SRK, Kamal took to X, and wished the former with a heartfelt note.The pan-India superstar had written: “Wishing the Badshah of Bollywood and my friend @iamsrk , a very happy birthday! Your Charisma, talent and charm continue to cheer your fans around the world just like your blockbuster movies. May you have a great day filled with love and laughter.”SRK said to Kamal in response to this message: “Thank u so much sir. Been learning from you and trying to do my best. Love to you and happiness.”Meanwhile, on the work front, SRK is gearing…

In an interview to the Globe and Mail newspaper, Sanjay Kumar Verma said neither Canada nor its allies have shown concrete evidence backing PM Justin Trudeau’s allegations that Indian agents were behind Nijjar’s killing outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia province.”There is no specific or relevant information provided in this case for us to assist them in the investigation,” Verma told the Canadian daily.Trudeau’s allegations have led to a diplomatic spat between India and Canada with New Delhi rejecting Ottawa’s claims as “absurd and motivated”, followed by tit-for-tat expulsions of senior diplomats and travel advisories.”Where is the evidence? Where…

The virus diagnosis device has been invented by engineers at the University of Bath, who describe it as the ‘world’s fastest Covid test’.The prototype LoCKAmp device uses innovative ‘lab on a chip’ technology and has been proven to provide rapid and low-cost detection of Covid from nasal swabs.The device works by rapidly releasing and amplifying genetic material from a nasal swab sample by carrying out a chemical reaction to produce a result, which can be viewed on a smartphone app.Unlike lateral flow assay tests, commonplace during the pandemic, the LoCKAmp employs the same ‘gold standard’ genetic-based testing techniques previously reserved…

He said that as long as ‘Reservation’ is the policy, it is logical that caste must be counted.In a post on X, Chidambaram said, “After trashing the promise of a caste census as ‘divide and rule’, the BJP has suddenly concluded that a decision on the issue will be taken after ‘consulting everyone’.”He said that almost every other political party has supported the idea of a caste census.”As long as ‘Reservation’ is the policy, it is logical that caste must be counted,” Chidambaram added.His remarks came after Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the BJP never opposed the…

macOS Sonoma 14.1 update includes a new system daemon called “liquiddetectiond,” which can identify when the computer has been exposed to liquids, reports 9to5Mac.This daemon runs in the background to collect liquid detection analysis from each USB-C port on the Mac, the report mentioned.This feature is described as a “Liquid Detection and Corrosion Mitigation Daemon.”iPhones and iPads have a similar daemon to alert users when liquid is detected in the connector.On the Mac, the code suggests that the daemon is only used for “analytics” and is not associated with end-user features.Apple may finally implement an alert similar to the iOS…