Articles
to Read
Reopening: The Tech-Enabled
Office In A Post-Covid World
Covid-19 will have a lasting
impact on company operations and office spaces. From autonomous cleaning
devices to tighter cybersecurity measures, here are the technologies
influencing how the office could look during the reopening process and beyond.
Here Is Why Linux Is a Good
Choice of OS for Software Developers
Culprits behind the Twitter hack
that ground the site to a halt may include a 21-year-old British man, new
evidence shows
The 50 Most-Read Authors Share
The Most Popular eLearning Industry Articles
Antitrust and Big Tech
This report examines the
companies currently facing heightened scrutiny, the cases laid out against
them, and their responses to claims that they're reducing competition. We walk
through three possible scenarios of the investigations ranging from
conservative to extreme, the outcomes that would follow, and what those
outcomes could mean for brands and consumers
Download the report from https://bit.ly/33oV8Nt
Concepts
and Terms Explained
Industrial Espionage Is Nothing
New: Explore What It Is and Its History
What Acid Rain Is and Ways to
Restore the Damage It Causes
Events
to Participate
CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE
CS Madras cordially invite you to the following webinars scheduled in Aug
2020.
All webinars start at 6 pm IST.
Pl register using the respective google form links.
8th Aug -- Scope of 3D Printing:
Use Cases around Healthcare Sector in handling COVID. https://bit.ly/3hKLU1N
11th Aug -- Demystifying Hadoop
& Map Reduce. https://bit.ly/3fUwRlt
15th Aug -- Game Based Education
and Training. https://bit.ly/3hrfcCh
18th Aug -- Data Analytics Using
R. https://bit.ly/2Eb4LEC
For all the events scheduled in
Aug 2020 & Sep 2020.
Schedule of Aug events at
Schedule of Sep events at
IRAI
Quiz to Review Your Knowledge
1. Which company eclipses Saudi
Aramco to become the world's most valuable public listed company
2. BAT companies of China
include: Baidu, Alibaba and -----------
3. MindNotes: ByteDance = Keep:
----------
4. SpaceX: Starlink = Amazon:
------------
5. In 2017, Shibuya Mirai
became the first ---------to be granted residency in Tokyo by the Japanese
government.
6. The app --------
was developed by the French government to replace employee use of Telegram or
WhatsApp, and prevent attacks or surveillance from foreign intelligence
agencies.
7. Nokia is a Swedish /
Finnish multinational company. Select the right answer.
8. Recently, Twitter was a
victim of -----------
9. What is common to these:
Bolo Indya, Mitron, Chingari, Roposo, Moj
10. What is the TLD -- Top
Level Domain of DARPA
Tips
to Use
10 processes for setting the goal
to a compelling future!
How to Recognise a Scam
Books
& Periodicals
What is Distance Learning? The
Complete Guide (2020)
20 books to help companies
improve workplace diversity and inclusion
The 10
Best YouTube Channels for Book Lovers: A whole section of YouTube is dedicated
to reading and discussing books. Say hello to BookTube!
Points
to Ponder
Are We Addicted To Technology?
Native American Indian
Traditional Code of Ethics
Reference
IndustryWeek produces free
webinars on numerous manufacturing-related topics. Also available: online
training courses for professional development. View the online training
directory
19 Data Science and Machine
Learning Tools for people who Don’t Know Programming
Research
Rosalind Franklin: The Unsung
Hero Behind the Discovery of DNA's Structure
Websites
to Visit
The Wayback Machine: Check out
how your favourite websites looked before they got all ~sleek~. Type in a URL,
choose a date, and the Wayback Machine will show you a screenshot of the site
from that particular day in history. https://archive.org/web/
Internet Live Stats: "Everyone's
on the internet" is a common expression, but this site will tell you — in
real time — exactly how many people are actually on the internet. Spoiler
alert: It's everyone. https://www.internetlivestats.com/
Videos
to Watch
Corona kill people who WFH (Work
From Home)
How your brain constructs reality:
Do we experience the world as it really is? Find out with these talks that
explain why we see the world the way we do. Watch the 8 talks · Total run time
1:58:09
Employment
TCS, Wipro and other IT firms
launch their own upskilling courses for jobseekers
TCS iON Launches Youth
Employability and Entrepreneurship Programme
Action
Agenda
Call For Papers: Deadline:
Sunday, 20th Sep 2020 (23:59 AOE)
ISEC-2021: 14th Innovations
in Software Engineering Conference, ISEC (Formerly known as India Software
Engineering Conference)
Organized by: Kalinga Institute
of Industrial Technology (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha,
India
25th -27th February 2021
Innovations
to Know
13 Medical Inventions That
Changed the World: Inventions like functional magnetic resonance imaging, the
artificial heart, and disposable catheter changed medicine forever.
New Blood Test Detects Cancer 4
Years Ahead of Symptoms
Education
Ten pointers on choosing the right
engineering college
It's college admission time.
While there are several choices for today's kids, engineering has always been a
leading option. Indian students choose the course and college based on the
guidance of family members, teachers, and friends. Some do based on what's
trending now. The number of colleges offering 'engineering' has grown
exponentially such that every aspirant can be accommodated. Let's look at the
TEN pointers you must take care of before choosing your engineering college.
Researchers propose using AI to
predict which college students might fail physics classes
In a paper published on the
preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers affiliated with West Virginia University
and California State Polytechnic University investigate the use of machine
learning algorithms to identify at-risk students in introductory physics
classes. They claim it could be a powerful tool for educators and struggling
college students alike, but critics argue technologies like it could harm those
students with biased or misleading predictions.
Health
and Well Being
6 wellbeing and mindfulness tips
for COVID-19: It’s easy to get caught up in all the fear and anxiety
surrounding us during times of crisis. But keeping employee wellbeing a
priority, whether your employees are remote or on the front lines, is important
to helping employees stay healthy, productive, and well during challenging
times. Here are some tips for employees and leaders alike:
Vitamin D: A Low-Hanging Fruit in
COVID-19?
Entertainment
Try These Ten Horror Movies If
You Dare
15 Sci-Fi Shows That You Should
Watch. Most of these shows inspired some
of the world's most prominent inventions.
Quotes,
Thoughts, Stories to Inspire
Comparison is the thief of joy --
Theodore Roosevelt
A bird sitting on the tree is
never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but
on its own wings -- Denzel Washington.
Happiness is a CHOICE - not a
RESULT. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person
will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come
TO you. It can only come FROM you --Ralph Mariston
People who defend your name when
you are not around are the most loyal friends you could ever get.
Story: Beware of
Devil's Tools
A man had a very interesting
dream. It was an exhibition held in hell under the supervision of
Lucifer.
The man was fascinated by the
tools used by the devils in their nefarious activities of tempting human beings
to commit a variety of sins.
The tools were labelled: Anger,
Irritation, Malice, Hatred, Jealousy, Deceit, Sensuality, etc.
In a special glasscase, on rich
red velvet, rested a worn-out looking tool that seemed harmless.
The man asked the demonstrator
what it was.
“That tool is Discouragement”
whispered the demonstrator
“But why has it been displayed as
the show-piece of this exhibition?” he asked. “It looks so harmless and
inefficient compared with the others.”
A fiendish grin spread over the
devil’s face as he explained:
1. What was the devil’s
explanation?
2. What is the implication of the
story?
Check with our answers only after
you have tried to come up with your own.
1. “That tool is the secret of
our success. It looks so harmless and innocent, but properly used it can take
even a saint off his guard.”
2. One word of discouragement is
sufficient for some to give up the effort to achieve something great in
life.
When you hear something
discouraging about you, think of this story and visualize how the devils use
this tool of discouragement to achieve their objectives. Consider the person
using this tool as a devil.
In
Lighter Sense
In Mumbai, one family's door lock
got damaged. They had to urgently attend some function in Calcutta.... Locking
the door was not possible.
The family cleverly put a
sticker notice on the door "Covid-19 positive do not enter ",
and went away.
After return, they found a new
sticker notice in old sticker's place, "Sanitisation done, the house
is emptied and Everything is clean now Stay safe"
Titbits
Rural India with 227m Internet
users over takes Urban india having 205m Internet users
The FCC has unanimously approved
Amazon’s Project Kuiper, giving the tech giant the go-ahead to deploy and
operate a constellation of 3,236 satellites. The company plans to invest over
$10 billion on the project
India still has 300 million
mobile subscribers trapped in the 2G era, their feature phones keep them
excluded even from the basic usage of the internet at a time when both India
and the rest of the world are standing at the doorsteps of 5G telephony.
The decks have been cleared for
the formation of three capital cities for Andhra Pradesh – the executive
capital at Visakhapatnam, the legislative capital at Amaravati and the judicial
capital at Kurnool.
China recently has announced its
fully operational home-made Beidou navigation satellite system is ready to
provide global services, joining an elite group providing space-based systems
comprising the US’s GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo.
Over 300,000 scientists, engineers and technicians from more than 400 domestic
institutes, universities and enterprises have been involved in Beidou’s
development since the 1990s
IRNSS is an independent regional
navigation satellite system being developed by India. It is designed to provide
accurate position information service to users in India as well as the region
extending up to 1500 km from its boundary, which is its primary service area
The quantum of COVID-19
biomedical waste generated in the national capital has increased from 25 tonnes
per day in May to 349 tonnes per day in July, the Environment and Pollution
(Prevention and Control) Authority has said in a report submitted to the
Supreme Courtt
In June 2020, France and Germany
kicked off the GAIA-X cloud project, a non-profit foundation designed to
re-establish European control over US and Chinese cloud giants.
MLPerf, the consortium of over 70
companies and academic institutions behind the MLPerf suite for AI performance
benchmarking consists of object detection, image classification, natural
language processing, machine translation, recommendation &
reinforcement learning benchmarks.
Just as in Industry 4.0 as the
fourth industrial revolution, Society 5.0 is also depicted as an evolution in
five societal stages in the position paper of Keidanren: 1) the hunting
society, 2) the agrarian society, 3) the industrial society, 4) the information
society, and, 5) the super-smart society a.k.a. Society 5.0.
Visitor Location Register (VLR),
a key metric reflecting the number of active subscribers on a mobile network,
indicated that 95.26% of the users were active for Airtel, 88.85% for VIL and
78.75% for Jio.
Hackers have compromised student
and alumni data at least eight universities in the UK and Canada including
University of York, University College, Oxford, University of Leeds and
University of London via a massive attack on a US-based Blackbaud, software
provider for education administration, fundraising, and financial management.
The Andean condor can fly 100
miles without flapping its wings, according to recent research published in
PNAS. The bird's 10-foot wingspan appears to help it catch bursts of rising
air, allowing it to only flap its wings for about 1% of flight time.
According to GeekWire, Microsoft
is reportedly trimming its workforce in the news business (MSN) further amid
shift to artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms and automation to
perform their editorial duties.
According to Nasscom, the
adoption of big data, analytics, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things
is expected to push the cloud market in India to $7.1 billion by 2022, growing
at an annual rate of 30%.
According to Velchamy
Sankarlingam, President of Products and Engineering, Zoom, at the end of
Dec 2019, Zoom had 10 million daily meeting participants. By the end of
April, it had reached 300 million daily meeting participants. The use
cases for the platform took off.. in diff ways.. from workplace collaboration
to yoga classes, weddings, graduations on Zoom.. Further, between Jan and
April, Zoom recorded the growth of 67 times the number of free users and 4
times the number of paid users in India.
In a change of guard at HCL
Technologies, co-founder Shiv Nadar has stepped down from the position of the
Chairman of the Board of directors. Roshni Nadar Malhotra, currently a
non-executive director has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Board of
Directors with effect from July 17, 2020. Shiv Nadar would continue to be the
Managing Director of the company with the designation as the Chief Strategy
Officer of the company.
The Punjab Police cyber crime
cell has warned people against downloading any ‘.apk’ files that mimic the
services of TikTok or any other popular apps banned by the Indian government as
these can be sources of malware.
Microsoft issued a fix for a bug
which had been in its code for 17 years. The vulnerability, which the company
says is not known to have been exploited, could reportedly have allowed
attackers to take over a victim’s entire IT infrastructure — making it possible
to steal sensitive information and manipulate network traffic like emails.
According to the survey to
identify today’s most pressing data management challenges and solutions to them
by Seagate and IDC, 68% of data available in
enterprises goes unused while over the next two years, enterprise data
globally will grow at a 42.2% annual rate.
In 2019, Cognizant settled the
charges (of authorising a contractor to pay a $2 million bribe to a senior
government official to issue a planning permit for its new campus in Chennai,
india) with the SEC without admitting or denying the allegations. It agreed to
pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest of approximately $19 million and a
penalty of $6 million.
Answers
to IRAI Quiz - 200801
1. Apple
1. Apple
2. Tencent
3. Google
4. Kuiper
5. Chatbot
6. Tchap
7. Finnish
8. Spear-phishing
8. Brain Computer Interfaces
9. Indian apps similar to
TikToc
10. .mil
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