Articles to Read
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What is Design Thinking?
Redefining customer experience: Connecting in the time of COVID-19
Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world
These 10 technologies are most likely to help save planet Earth
THE SEPARATION OF PLATFORMS AND COMMERCE
Concepts & Terms Explained
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What Is a Card-Not-Present (CNP) Transaction
and Why It Costs More.
In today’s digital world, if a customer doesn’t have a form of payment in hand, they can still make purchases. How? Making a purchase without being physically present is called a card-not-present (CNP) transaction.
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third party to provide failover in the event of a natural catastrophe, power outage or another type of business disruption.
Events to Participate
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CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras cordially invite you all to participate in the following joint events and get benefitted.
18th Jul -- Webinar on "Demystifying VR, AR and MR"
20th Jul -- Webinar on "Robotic Process Automation"
25th Jul -- Webinar on "Using ML and Data Science to Combat Covid-19"
As the meeting room capacity is limited & admission is on First Come First Served basis, pl register early to avoid disappointments.
For details & to register pl visit https://infoforuse.
IRAI Quiz To Review Your Knowledge
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1. Which company was the first to reach a market capital of one trillion USD?
2. The 2 pizza rule is a guideline for deciding how many attendees should be invited to a meeting. Who is often credited to have formed this rule?
3. MX Player has launched an app ----------- as an alternative to TikTok in India.
4. AMD / nVidia, recently overtakes Intel, briefly to become most valuable US chipmaker. Select the right answer
5. Ryzen line of processors are from AMD / Intel
6. The videoconferencing facility JioMeet is alleged to have striking resemblance to ----------
7. Airtel / Jio / Vodafone is the largest network operator in india. Select the right answer
8. The minister for communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad had called the government’s decision to ban the Chinese apps as a ---------
9. Who is the author of the book: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
10. Which company’s initial name sounded like “More Noise”, so the founders decided to change it's current name.
(Answers at the end)
Tips to Use
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11 tips for making your IT meetings more productive
28 Super Simple Tricks That'll Make Your Life Easier (Even if You Only Try One)
Books & Periodicals
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eBook: Git guide for IT pros
This Git guide for IT pros ebook from TechRepublic provides a quick way to get up to speed on the Versio Control System (VCS) and better understand why and how Git’s impact on software development.
eBook: Gearing Up for Successful Digital Transformation
Dive into this 25-page guide to uncover a six-dimensional framework designed to help executives assess their company’s digital transformation progress and diagnose potential gaps.
Magazine: EU Research
EU Research magazine is the World leading open access publication for scientific research and dissemination. Each issue covers a different thematic area, presenting cutting edge science in an innovative and entertaining format.
The purpose of EU Research is to help projects achieve their dissemination goals. Academics wanting to present their research to a global audience, translate their results into an understandable document, or generate interest from a specific industry, find EU Research to be a powerful dissemination vehicle.
Books for Summer reading 2020
For those who want to slow down and still keep up. This year, perhaps more than ever, we need to take time away ofrom our laptops and videoconferences and try to clear our minds. Here are s+b’s suggestions for recent ten business reads that can help you slow down and still keep up with the most compelling new ideas and insights.
Points to Ponder
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Filling middle seats nearly doubles airline passenger risk of catching COVID-19, says MIT researcher
Risk of dying from COVID-19 as a result of flying are higher than plane crash risk, according to a statistical model compiled by MIT scholar Arnold Barnett. Airlines could minimize that risk by leaving open the middle seat, but airlines including United and American refuse to do so. Plans for a post-COVID-19 world, moreover, suggest flights may be even more crowded.
Milton Glaser – Ten Things I Have Learned
Milton Glaser, one of the greatest graphic designers of our time, passed away this Friday on his 91st birthday in New York City. In 2001, Milton Glaser put together a list of 10 things he had learned about work and life.
Reference
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Top 49 of the Best Excel Shortcuts You Need to Know
Everyone uses Excel in some form or fashion, so check out our top 40+ list of the best excel shortcuts to speed up your work.
TED’s summer culture list: 114 podcasts, books, TV shows, movies and more to nourish you
Whether you’re staying put or going away, summer is a great time to relax and to try new things. So we asked TED speakers to recommend podcasts, books, TV shows, movies and more that have nourished their minds, spirits and bodies (yes, you’ll find a link to a recipe for olive-cheese loaf below) in recent times.
You can use the links here to jump to your favorite category. Our list is divided into three buckets: “Things to listen to (primarily podcasts)”;“Things to read (basically books)”; and “Things to watch (mainly TV shows and movies)”. Or, you can just scroll through and stop at anything that catches your attention or interest.
Enjoy, and we hope these recommendations are as nourishing for you as they have been to TED’s speakers.
Videos to Watch
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A trip to the museum
A museum can whisk you off to another time, leave you in awe or teach you something new about our natural world. Enjoy these talks about museums. Watch the 7 TED talks · Run time 1 hr 34 min
10 TED talks to sharpen your communication skills
Do you feel like when you talk, no one listens? Or do you struggle to remember what you hear? Improve your speaking and listening skills with these talks
Websites to Visit
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Naavi.org
Naavi.org is a community interested in the emerging field of laws governing the Cyber Society. The goal of Naavi.org is to contribute towards building a Responsible Cyber Society. It is is a mirror site of Naavi.com which was first established in 1998. Since December 1999, it was developed into a portal on Cyber Laws. Today it is the premier Cyber Law information portal in India.
How-To Geek
How-To Geek is an online technology magazine and one of the top 500 websites in the US. Since it was created more than a decade ago, the site’s 10,000+ in-depth articles have been read over 1 billion times. More than 15 million people read our articles every month. It has been recommended as an expert resource by industry groups. How-To Geek with the tagline "We Explain Technology" is where you turn when you want experts to explain technology.
Question & Answer
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How do sea creatures drink sea water and not get sick?
Bats are hosts to a range of viruses but don’t get sick – why?
How coronavirus affects the brain
Innovations worth Knowing
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Facebook is recycling heat from its data centers to warm up these homes
What's going on under the ocean? Alphabet's X has a plan to find out
Alphabet's "moonshot factory" announced a new technology to better map the action going on under the sea.
Talking rubbish: How smart bins are helping one city understand the impact of lockdown
One city council has 30 smart bins spread out around the city, and they are coming in even more handy than previously thought.
Research to Explore
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How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles
1,000 phrases that incorrectly trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant
Health and Well Being
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How Remote Workers Will Probably Look Like In 25 Years
7 Ways Music Helps You Be More Creative, Healthy, and Even Loving
We might not know why people enjoy music, but we do know how it affects us.
Employment
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Top skills companies will look for in the post COVID era
The biggest change that the ienterprise sees, will be the emergence of a Gig economy- resources will have multiple skills and will be working from anywhere in the world, perhaps holding multiple jobs too.
Don't leave your job in a recession — even if you hate it.
Here's how to make work less miserable before you can reasonably quit.
Quotes & Thoughts To Inspire
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Life is a combination of your destiny and free will. Your height is your destiny and your weight is your free will.
Pride and ego comes when we feel that we have done something great. Respect and honour comes when others feel that we have done something great.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. -- Zig Zaglar
Life changes every minute of every day. You lose friends. You gain friends. You realize your friend wasn’t ever really your friend, and that person you used to hate can make a really good friend. You look for love. You find love. You lose love. You realize all along that you’ve been loved. You laugh. You cry. You laugh so hard that you cry. You do this, you do that. You really wish you hadn’t done that. You then learn from that and are glad that you did. You have your ups. You have your downs. You see good movies. You see bad movies. You wonder if your life is just one big movie. You look at others and wish you were them. You then realize who they are and are glad that you’re you. You love life. You hate life. In the end you just find yourself happy to be living life, no matter what’s thrown at you. -- Mandy Hale
In Lighter Sense
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The pandemic has closed down so many businesses, its not funny. But sometimes the only way to deal with it is to look at it in a lighter vein. We mourn the loss of the following businesses:
A local bra shop has gone bust.
A mining company has gone under.
A solvent (extraction) company has become insolvent.
A manufacturer of food blenders has gone into liquidation.
A dog kennel chain has had to call in the retrievers.
An origami book company has folded.
An aerial installation company has called in the receivers.
A key company has gone into lockdown.
A watchsmith has wound down and called time.
An ice cream shop has had its assets frozen.
A shoe factory has been soled and employees given the boot.
The Heinz factory has been canned as they couldn't ketchup with orders.
The tarmac company has reached the end of the road.
The bread company has run out of dough.
The laundrette has been taken to the cleaners.
And finally,
....the dry cleaners and ironing service have run out of steam.
Titbits
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TCS to hire 40,000 freshers like last year. Further, plans to double its US campus hires to nearly 2,000 this fiscal, as part of an effort to reduce dependence on H-1B and L-1 work visas, which are becoming increasingly difficult to get.
The Supreme Court on 10th Jul 2020, agreed in principle that serving notices and summons to people, integral to judicial processes, through instant messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram, in addition to emails, would be legally valid.
Mastercard and Visa may be challenged by a new European payment system referred to as the Pan European Payment System Initiative (PEPSI), which will process card payments in addition to making fund transfers and mobile payments without using Mastercard's or Visa's network to help banks generate more revenue from payments
The first online end-semester examination at Central University of Punjab (CUP), Bhatinda came to a halt after hackers hacked into the question banks on Wednesday, 8th Jul. The university and faculty members received a mail from ‘ProtonMail’, with a link, clicking which gives access to all the questions of the ongoing exams which started on Tuesday, 7th Jul.
Mewat, Bharatpur and Mathura, which form the tri-junction of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, have emerged as cyber fraud's new ‘Jamtara’ — the sleepy district of Jharkhand often known as the country’s phishing capital and home to many scamsters involved in hacking.
According to research firm IDC, the India smart wearables market clocked 80.6% year-over-year (y-o-y) growth to 4.2 million unit shipments in the March 2020 quarter of which, watches accounted a y-o-y growth of 43.3% with about 2,09,400 watches being shipped in the country.
Harvard University and MIT have announced to sue the Department of Homeland Security and the federal immigration agency on new guidelines barring foreign students from remaining in America if their universities switched to online-only classes in the Fall.
Truecaller claims it is an app of Swedish origin and provides service for over 170 million people in India, identifying and blocking hundreds of millions of spam calls and SMS every single day.
Currently, over 95% of POS (Point of Sales) terminals used in India are imported from China. The POS market is dominated by three global manufacturers – US-based Verifone, France-based Ingenico and Hong Kong-based Pax Technologies with all having manufacturing bases in China.
There is surprisingly, no Made in India POS device while 1.5 million new POS terminals were deployed in India last year and sales of new devices is expected to grow 10-15% whose market size is in the range of 1500-1800 crores per annum.
A company aiming to set up a POS manufacturing unit in India will need certifications from EMV card networks, PCI-DSS and ISO certifications, which generally take 10-12 months.
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), in Abu Dhabi, is said to be the world’s first graduate-level, research-based artificial intelligence university.
The Department of Information Technology and Electronics, Govt. of West Bengal takes this opportunity to announce the release of beta version of SelfScan, an android-based mobile scanning app for easy scanning, sharing, storing of documents, anytime, anywhere across the globe. The bilingual website for the SelfScan app can be accessed at https://selfscan.nltr.org
Karnataka allows flexible hiring across industry. Employment under the fixed term workmen (FTW) category allows flexibility to the industry to hire and fire easily, and is seen as more flexible than the contract system.
JioMeet, which was launched on 2nd jul 2020 , supports HD audio and video call quality with up to 100 participants for unlimited duration and offers features like screen sharing, meeting schedule features, and more.
Answers to IRAI Quiz -- 200711
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1. Apple
2. Jeff Bezos
3. TakaTak
4. nVidia
5. AMD
6. Zoom
7. Jio
8. digital strike
9. Peter Thiel
10. Intel
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