McDonald's has filed for ten new trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This includes one for a restaurant in the meta-universe that will provide home-delivered meals. The company McDonald's filed an application for registration of ten new trademarks with the U.S. Patent and...

Free Holdings has filed a lawsuit against artist Kevin McCoy and auction house Sotheby's over the sale of the "world's first" NFT painting called Quantum. Free Holdings has filed a lawsuit in the Southern District Court of New York against artist Kevin McCoy and auction house Sotheby's over the...

India has announced that it will launch its digital currency from 1 April. The digital rupee will be treated like banknotes. The authorities hope that its proliferation will give a big boost to the digital economy. India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India's central bank will launch a...

After nearly disappearing last winter, influenza has arguably made a comeback in Europe at a pace that is faster-than-expected , generating fears of a lengthy "twindemic" with Covid-19, as well as some reservations about the efficacy of flu vaccines.   During the Covid-19 epidemic,...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) wants to be able to develop the technology to carry hydrogen by ship by 2025, said an executive of the company. This is a part of the aim of the company to achieve a breakthrough in supplying a fuel that advocates tout as a major source of...

Doubts about the usefulness of a fourth booster dose of covid-19 vaccine were expressed by the drug regulator of the European Union and said that there is no evidence currently available to support a fourth booster dose while the regulator continued to seek more data on the fast spreading Omicron...

Although there has been an increase in Covid-19 cases in the megacities in India - Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata, without a commensurate increase in hospitalizations, fears are mounting that the virus will move to rural areas in the coming days.   On Thursday, India reported 90,928 new...

According to a Danish study published last week, the Omicron coronavirus variant is stronger at evading vaccinated people's immunity compared to the Delta variant, which may be the explanation of why the Omicron variant is spreading faster.   Scientists have been...

A new study has shown that a double dosage of Sinovac’s Cvodi-19 vaccine followed by a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is able to generate a lower immune response against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus compared to the efficacy generated against other variants of the virus....