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Russia's defence minister on Tuesday accused USbombers of rehearsing a nuclear strike on Russia from two different directions earlier this month and complained that the planes had come within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the Russian border. Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday their COVID-19 vaccine remained 100 percent effective in children 12 to 15 years old, four months after the second dose. The OPEC+ group of oil producers would have to defer at least two months' worth of planned output increases to offset strategic stockpile releases led by the U.S. NASA has launched a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid -- a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. Uae Crown Prince To Visit Turkey BJP MP Pragya Thakur - an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case who is out on bail - made a brief appearance at a special NIA court in Mumbai today, before rushing off to get admitted to the city's Kokilaben Hospital. A ...

Technology

Some of the most poignant criticisms of technology are found in what are now considered to be dystopian literary classics such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Goethe's Faust, Faust selling his soul to the devil in return for power over the physical world is also often interpreted as a metaphor for the adoption of industrial technology. In physics, the discovery of nuclear fission has led to both nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Computers were invented and later miniaturized using transistors and integrated circuits. Information technology subsequently led to the birth in the 1980s of the Internet, which ushered in the current Information Age. Humans started to explore space with satellites and in crewed missions going all the way to the moon. Present Your Data Like A Pro In medicine, this era brought innovations such as open-heart surgery and later stem-cell therapy along with n...

What Is Software?

Software may also be written in a low-level assembly language, which has a strong correspondence to the computer's machine language instructions and is translated into machine language using an assembler. Freedom 1 includes the freedom to use your changed version in place of the original. These binaries are not free software even if the source code they are compiled from is free. An important distinction is custom software development as opposed to commercial software development. Custom software development is the process of designing, creating, deploying and maintaining software for a specific set of users, functions or organizations. In contrast, commercial off-the-shelf software is designed for a broad set of requirements, allowing it to be packaged and commercially marketed and distributed. Products For instance, a Microsoft Windows desktop application might call API functions in the .NET Windows Forms library like Form1.Close() and Form1.Show() to close or open the applic...