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AmeriTrust Selects Xponent Underwriting Workstation from Intellect SEEC
Intellect SEEC is an early proponent for the deployment of a dedicated workstation for driving underwriting outcomes. Intellect Xponent leverages big data and machine learning, and wraps around an existing PAS, extending the system's capabilities as well as the life of legacy assets.
Facebook joins GAME to train entrepreneurs in India
Facebook and the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) -- a consortium of public and private organisations -- on Tuesday announced a partnership to train entrepreneurs and create jobs across India.
Digital spend by pol parties may double this election season
Online advertising expenditure by political parties is likely to double to Rs 400-500 crore this Lok Sabha election compared to 2014, riding on the growing smartphone penetration and cheaper Internet packs, experts said. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leads the pack in advertising spend in the digital space, they said. "The total advertising expenditure on election campaigns could be between Rs 2,500-3,000 crore in the 2019 general elections," said Ashish Bhasin, CEO- Greater South, Dentsu Aegis Network. Of this, ad spends on the social media and other digital platforms could be around Rs 500 crore, Bhasin, who is also the company's chairman and CEO-India, told PTI. Bhasin said the overall expenditure also includes the manpower cost for campaigning, but not the spends on advertising government schemes and programmes. Another advertising professional said the budget of political parties for online promotion is growing exponentially with a surge in smartphone sales in ...
Novel device creates electricity from snowfall
Scientists have designed a first-of-its-kind 3D-printed device that can produce electricity from falling snow. The device designed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. "The device can work in remote areas because it provides its own power and does not need batteries," said UCLA's Richard Kaner, senior author of the research published in the journal Nano Energy. "It's a very clever device -- a weather station that can tell you how much snow is falling, the direction the snow is falling, and the direction and speed of the wind," Kaner said in a statement. The device called snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator, or snow TENG, generates charge through static electricity, produces energy from the exchange of electrons. "Static electricity occurs from the interaction of one material that captures electrons and another that gives up electrons," said Kaner. "You separate the charges and
Meteoroid strikes eject precious water from Moon: NASA
Meteoroids showers cause the Moon to lose precious water from under the lunar surface, hampering a potential resource for sustaining long term human exploration of deep space, according to NASA. Models had predicted that meteoroid impacts could release water from the Moon as a vapour, but scientists had not yet observed the phenomenon. Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the US found dozens of these events in data collected by NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE). LADEE was a robotic mission that orbited the Moon to gather detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere, and determine whether dust is lofted into the lunar sky. "We traced most of these events to known meteoroid streams, but the really surprising part is that we also found evidence of four meteoroid streams that were previously undiscovered," said Mehdi Benna of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the US, ...
Meteor showers depriving Moon of precious water: NASA
As billions of people on Earth stare at an imminent water shortage, precious, ancient water is being released into the lunar atmosphere by meteor showers from the Moon that can hamper future long-term exploration on the lunar surface.
Facebook testing to merge News Feed, Stories
Facebook is working on to merge the News Feed and Stories features into a single interface, like Snapchat and Instagram, on its platform.
Huawei P30 Pro receives TWAN certification for smartphone astrophotography
Disrupting the smartphone photography space once and for all, Huawei's latest flagship device, the Huawei P30 Pro has achieved yet another milestone by receiving certification by TWAN (The World At Night) for unparalleled astrophotography capabilities.TWAN, a global photography project, backed by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) exhibits and highlights the astonishing efforts of astrophotographers, globally.TWAN certified Huawei P30 Pro for its unmatched low light photography & videography dexterity, low range photography and landscape photography to achieve distinguished astrophotography. The device features a 40MP primary camera with HUAWEI SuperSpectrum Sensor, a 20MP ultra-wide angle camera, an 8MP telephoto camera fitted with SuperZoom Lens (supports high fidelity magnification of 5 times optical zoom, 10 times hybrid zoom and 50 times digital zoom) and HUAWEI TOF Camera and a 32MP ..
NASA study finds meteor showers eject water on Moon
Providing a potential resource for future explorations, NASA on Monday revealed that water is released on the Moon during meteor showers.The data leading up to this landmark finding was collected through the space agency's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) - a robotic mission which orbited the Moon from October 2013 to April 2014, to gather information about the Moon's exosphere."The Moon doesn't have significant amounts of H2O or OH in its atmosphere most of the time," Richard Elphic, the LADEE project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley said."But when the Moon passed through one of these meteoroid streams, enough vapour was ejected for us to detect it. And then, when the event was over, the H2O or OH went away," a NASA press release quoted him as saying.The findings of the study, spearheaded by Mehdi Benna of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center here, are published in Nature Geosciences.According to NASA, the revelations give ...
Internet Explorer bug allows hackers to steal data even if browser is not in use
A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer which allows hackers to potentially steal user data even if they don't use the browser.Security researcher John Page explained that the browser is vulnerable to XML External Entity attack if a user opens something malicious. MHT file locally, allowing hackers to remotely access the computer and exfiltrate local files.The file format is used by Internet Explorer for its web archives and a user only needs to open the malicious attachment received either by email, messenger, or any other file transfer service, Mashable reports.Once a user opens the malicious file, it launches the browser. Afterwards, even if the commands such as 'Ctrl+K' for tab duplication, 'Print Preview', or 'Print' are used on the webpage, it may trigger the XXE vulnerability.Typically, Internet Explorer alerts users with a security bar if one tries to access objects like 'Microsoft.XMLHTTP'. However, with the specially crafted. MHT
Google reports surge in police requests on mobile location data
As technology becomes indispensable and more data is put out on the web, law enforcement agencies have also started to first see smartphones and web activity to gather evidence.Companies including Google are often at the crossroads choosing between user privacy and law when it comes to revealing data on users for legal purposes. Investigators have been using Google to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, and now the numbers have surged, Engadget reports.Law enforcement requests for information from Google's mobile Location History database, known as Sensorvault, have increased sharply in the last six months, with as many as 180 requests coming in a single week.Many of these requests come from the 'geofence' warrants which require Google to hand over location info for every device that passed through a given area over a specific time period.At first, the data is anonymised. However, if the information matches the behaviour of a suspect or witness, Google has to provide related ...
Vehicles in MP ferrying EVMs, poll staff to have GPS systems
The Madhya Pradesh election office will install GPS systems on more than 20,000 vehicles to be deployed for transporting Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and polling staff, an official said Monday. This is being done on directives of the Election Commission. "As per directives of the Election Commission, GPS systems will be installed on vehicles to be deployed for transporting EVMs and polling staff to keep a watch on them," state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V L Kantha Rao told reporters here. More than 20,000 vehicles are likely to be deployed for poll duty in the state, which will have four-phase polling for its 29 Lok Sabha seats. A workshop was organised Monday to apprise poll officials about the installation of GPS systems and their working on vehicles to be used for election duty, he said. Meanwhile, preparations are on for holding the first phase of polling on April 29, an official said. The first phase will cover six Lok Sabha seats and also the assembly ...
Foxconn set for mass production of iPhones in India
In a clear signal that India is Apple's next growth market, Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer Foxconn's Chairman Terry Gou said, here on Monday, the company would begin mass production of iPhones in India this year.
Cyient unveils solutions for 5G service providers
: City-based IT firm Cyient Limited Monday said it has introduced services and solutions to facilitate communication service providers (CSPs) expedite 5G network rollouts globally. The service would define the migration roadmap towards the 5G NSA (non-standalone) standard and help plan smarter and faster rollouts, including site verification and benchmarking in post-deployment operations, a press release said here. For the 5G planning phase, Cyients LiDAR-enabled surveying service and drone-based mobile 3D survey capabilities can identify areas for 5G rollout, the release said. This is further combined with geographic information system (GIS)-based coverage analysis to provide more inputs for optimal site planning, it said. Also, Cyient offers solutions in a portable and cloud-native form along with propagation modelling, single cell function test, multi-cell function test and passive inter-module testing services for verification of availability and performance of the
24/7 news, social media reducing our attention span: Study
The 'fear of missing out', keeping up to date on social media, and 24/7 cycle of breaking news is narrowing our collective attention span, a study has warned. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, showed this effect occurs not only on social media but also across diverse domains including books, web searches, movie popularity, and internet trends. The negative effects of social media and a hectic news cycle on our attention span has been an on-going discussion in recent years -- but there has been a lack of empirical data supporting claims of a 'social acceleration'. Sociologists and psychologists have warned of an emerging crisis stemming from FOMO -- or the 'fear of missing out' -- keeping up to date on social media, and breaking news coming at us 24/7. Researchers including those from Technische Universitat Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany found empirical evidence regarding one dimension of social acceleration, namely the ...
24/7 news, social media affecting attention span
People are losing their collective attention span rapidly owing to the 'fear of missing out' (FOMO), staying up-to-date on social media and breaking news coming at them 24/7 via various platforms, a team of European scientists has warned.
SC refuses to interfere with Madras HC ban on TikTok
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere, for now, with the Madras High Court's order banning Chinese video app TikTok, and directed further hearing in the matter on April 22.
HPL Electric & Power launches new ad campaign - 'Karo Powerplay On'
The advertisement features declarative statements about LED light bulbs that are designed for optimum light output and savings in power, just like the powerful performance of Delhi Capitals Team. The statements are accompanied by the text 'Karo Powerplay On' that symbolises powerful, youthful, fantastic performance of cricketers as well as HPL's products. As the advertisement unfolds, their perspectives converge in agreement, reinforcing the 'Karo Powerplay On' message.
Cyient launches solutions for 5G deployment
For the 5G planning phase, Cyient's LiDAR-enabled surveying services and drone-based mobile 3D survey capabilities help in efficient identification of areas for 5G rollout. This is further combined with GIS based coverage analysis to provide more inputs for optimal site planning.
AI can accurately track neurons faster than humans
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based automated process that can trace the shapes of active neurons as accurately as human researchers, that too in a fraction of the time.