FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled the ‘Statue of Equality’ to commemorate the 11th-century Bhakti saint Sri Ramanujacharya in Hyderabad and said the statue will encourage youth and will be a symbol of knowledge, detachment, and ideals. PM Modi landed in the city earlier this afternoon where he also attended the 50th-anniversary celebrations of ICRISAT.
“Statue...
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
NEW DELHI: Education sector cannot remain isolated from the rest of the developments and for the new chairperson of the University Grants Commission, M Jagadesh Kumar, online education and use of technology in the physical setup is going to be a focus area. Kumar spoke to the TOI on a range of issues including the common university...
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a sponsor of the bill, addressed some of Apple’s concerns at the hearing. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post/Pool)
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! I, for one, am very pleased that the “Betty Whiteout” snowplow will soon be clearing roads in southern Minnesota. Here are details from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Below: The U.S. government accused Russia...
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with private sector CEOs in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Employers added a record 6.6 million jobs during Joe Biden's first 12 months in office, by far the strongest record of any president's first year...
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
If you misplaced your vaccine card, your vaccination site may have proof that you got the shot. Stefan Cristian Cioata/Getty Images
While you may not be required to show proof of vaccination to go to work now that the Biden administration has withdrawn its vaccine mandate, businesses, states and cities can still require people to show their vaccine card...
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Former US Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi preside over a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College votes of the 2020 presidential election in the House Chamber in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. - Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday went further than he has...
JANUARY 30, 2022
A new model of “Federated Digital Identities” has been proposed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. With this model citizens can interlink, store and access multiple digital IDs via one unique ID. From PAN card to driving license, every important document can be kept under the unique ID.
This umbrella digital identity will “empower” citizens by...
JANUARY 30, 2022
An Amazon drone flies in front of the company logo. Peter Endig/picture alliance via Getty Images
Patrick McGah worked as a drone engineer for Amazon from late 2019 to April 2021.
In an op-ed for Insider, McGah said he was told he was a low performer at work.
McGah says a manager told him to "get more...
JANUARY 30, 2022
Rocks, cliff faces, quarries gouged in earth. Not much for most of us to look at, but for paleontologist Andrew Knoll, they are radiant with meaning, telling a story he says is far grander and stuffed with more plot twists than any Hollywood blockbuster.
That tale is Earth's history -- how the planet went from a rock covered...
JANUARY 30, 2022
A Yellow-Rumped Warbler in flight. - Hal Beral/Getty Images
Thanks to a combination of sensing the Earth's magnetic field through vision and an in-built compass that allows them to orient themselves according to magnetic intensity, migratory birds don't have much trouble finding their way.
Those biological gadgets, known as magnetoreception, allow birds to not only know which direction to head in on...
