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Head of National Environmental Guard announces regulation on location of air quality sensors

Romania is a green oasis on the world's air pollution map and is doing very well compared to other countries in the region, chief commissioner of the National Environmental Guard, Octavian Berceanu, said on Friday. Berceanu announced that a Regulation will be developed in the next period on the location of air quality sensors for greater data accuracy.

Simona Halep says isolation gave her insight about having lived in lockdown in past 6 years

World No. 2 Simona Halep said in an interview that she has learned a lot from the two-month home isolation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and that she realized that she has actually lived in an all-out lockdown in the past six years, a time during which she has focused exclusively on her career. I learned a lot from the two-month isolation.

Hijacking computers to mine cryptocurrency is all the rage

Have you visited Showtime’s website recently? If so, you may be a cryptocurrency miner. An observant Twitter user was the first to sound an alarm last month that the source code for the Showtime Anytime website contained a tool that was secretly hijacking visitors’ computers to mine Monero, a Bitcoin–like digital currency focused on anonymity.

Stephen Hawking: time on earth is running out

 

Things are looking somewhat bleak for humanity.  At least in terms of survival.  According to the world’s foremost theoretical scientist and astronomer Stephen Hawking, we’re doomed unless we can ditch Mother Earth in the next 1,000 or so years and find another planet to colonize.  As would be expected, pollution, climate change and nukes are the main culprits.

First festival of Argentine tango for kids

The first international festival of Argentine tango for kids and youth - Tangira me! (It matters to me) will take place in Belgrade on October 16-18.

The first international festival of Argentine tango for kids and youth - Tangira me! (It matters to me) will take place at Student Cultural Center and Teatar 78 in Belgrade on October 16-18, Institute Tango Natural announced.

The quality of Turkish democracy matters to us, says US official

The United States gives importance to the ?quality of Turkish democracy? not just in political and economic terms, but also as a security issue, said Victoria Nuland, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, following high level contacts in Turkey on April 16, ahead of a NATO meeting in May and Turkish elections in June.