Month: September 2021
Polio in Africa
Polio is a viral illness that can cause sudden weakness, permanent paralysis, or death in people who were previously healthy and had no risk factors or comorbidities. It usually affects children. The virus is spread by faecally contaminated food and water or close contact. But the outbreaks of this fearful disease have become a thing
Amazon Fire
The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest and is seen as a vital bulwark against climate change because of the vast amount of carbon dioxide that its plant life absorbs and stores. The elevated level of blazes comes in spite of Bolsonaro’s broad ban on outdoor fires and a military deployment in response to the
Seasonal Distress Migration Impact on Child Education
There is an overlap between the academic session in schools and the seasonal migration cycle .In the case migrant children take up education at the destination, they face learning difficulties based on differences in the academic curriculum, language and a foreign environment and when children are left in the village to continue their education, once
Protesting Discriminative Laws
Maps conceived on the basis of exclusionary ideologies and their fabrications of the past have one sole aim – to erase the coordinates of connection across time and geographies. Connections representing accretions of complementarity are anathema, as are the ideas of diversity and pluralism. These are maps to a world of diminished and corrupted meanings,
limiting the amount of political content on Facebook
Facebook will put “less emphasis” on political content when it comes to pushing news stories to people’s feeds, in a bid to slow the rate of misinformation on the platform. However, the social media site is receiving a backlash for reducing political content, even though it also received criticism for the previous system. The social
Covid-19 Chatbot
A chatbot that is based on an artificial neural network that can carry out natural language processing (NLP) is being developed by researchers in India. The team points out that artificial intelligence (AI) is already playing an important role in fighting the disease but it could also be used to counter misinformation and fill a
money making from Twitter subscriptions
Twitter had been testing the Super Follows feature, and said it officially launched with a small group of creators in North America. The move came as Twitter strives to be a preferred online venue for clickable stars and to boost its own income in ways that don’t clutter the platform up with ads or promotions.
Sign Up Link for Other Apps by Apple
Apple will for the first time allow apps like Netflix and Spotify to link to a website where users can sign up and manage new and existing accounts. Apple said the agreement “will help developers of reader apps make it easier for users to set up and manage their apps and services, while protecting their
Digit- Work Robot
Agility Robotics has shown off its latest bipedal creation. Digit the robot is said to be well-suited to highly repetitive tasks, allowing humans to concentrate more on creative endeavours. “Digit” the robot can balance on one foot, navigate obstacles and fold itself to fit into the back of a car. One other thing — Digit
Autocorrect Applications -Excel
Microsoft Excel’s zeal for autocorrection has long irritated casual users. Lists of numbers preceded by dashes are misread as instructions to subtract. Phone numbers lose their leading zeroes. Credit-card numbers get re-expressed in scientific notation. Geneticists struggle with a particular version of this problem. A gene called Membrane Associated Ring-CH-type finger 1, commonly known as