Author: Nimmy Mathew

As Community Moderators, users will create and enforce standards for their respective communities.  Twitter conversations have always been diverse, but we haven’t done enough to connect people with the same interests. Things are shifting. Today, we’re experimenting with Communities, a method to effortlessly identify and interact with other individuals who share your interests.  In a similar fashion to Facebook Groups, Twitter started a global test of a product called Communities on Wednesday.  Post a Tweet about it in your community  Twitter revealed in a blog post that select people will be able to create Communities and that more will be…

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter paves the way for future lunar exploration and eventually the larger global scientific community.   India’s ambitious Chandrayaan-2 moon mission launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) in July 2019 may have made a hard landing on the lunar surface. However, its orbiter accompanying it remains functional and provides helpful information to scientists back on Earth. And one of the significant findings of India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission was to detect water molecules on the Moon’s surface.    The orbiter’s imaging infrared spectrometer (IIRS) made this discovery. The scientists said that more data would be made available in the future, giving…

The primary software developer’s new plan to combat piracy relies on the transparency of blockchain technology.   Software piracy or quite any form of piracy is troublesome and has been around for years now. Windows operating system and Office productivity suite have been top accomplishers on any software piracy platforms. So, it’s no wonder that Microsoft, the programmer of both products, works hard to establish antipiracy measures. Microsoft now has a plan to converse the threats of software piracy. According to a report by TechRadar, Microsoft researchers need to use blockchain to struggle with piracy.   Microsoft desires to create a system…

Tribals protest in CM’s constituency; BJP office-bearer facing rape charges expelled. Vicious crimes, including assaults on the most vulnerable citizens, have plagued Madhya Pradesh in recent weeks, prompting the state’s chief minister to convene a high-level conference of home department officials and ask them to take immediate corrective measures. Law and order issues have angered the CM, according to sources. Multiple incidences were captured on video and circulated widely on social media.CM has given the officials one week to correct the situation, failing which he would have to take to the field himself. Meanwhile, a big group of tribals marched…

Hurricane Ida has rapidly gained strength right before it hit Louisiana this weekend. Abnormally hot water in the Gulf of Mexico acted as fuel. Ida was a fierce Category 4 hurricane when it came ashore Sunday in Louisiana. With sustained winds of about 150 mph, the storm ripped roofs off buildings and snapped power poles. It pushed a wall of water powerful enough to sweep homes off foundations and tear boats and barges from their moorings. Climate change helped Ida rapidly gain strength right before it made landfall. In about 24 hours, it jumped from a Category 1 to a…

The U.S. has once again sacrificed constructivism for its Hawkish neorealism in the region, clearly demonstrated by Kamala Harris’s statements. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s statements on the so-called “China practising intimidation in Southeast Asia” further demonstrate that the U.S. has sacrificed constructivism for its hawkish neorealism once again in the region. By making such inflammatory statements in countries like Singapore that have historically and in contemporary times hinged on a policy of neutrality and share close ties with Beijing, and highlighted the decision to polarize at the expense of pursuing apolitical multilateral proposals aimed at engineering economic growth once more. There will always be little appetite for such adventurism with mounting domestic and international criticism over Washington’s foreign policy pivots. How does constructivism work? Constructivism…

Children with the disorder feel highly uncomfortable in social settings, and in some cases, it can hinder their ability to perform everyday tasks. The pandemic has been unprecedently upsetting for the kids, who are not only facing heightened risks of illness but have had to adapt to newer means of living- from online schooling, virtual playdates to what not. For many kids and youngsters (and their parents!), one of the most demanding aspects of the pandemic was not seeing friends in person. While the restrictions are slowly unlocking and people are beginning to get out slowly, the transition time can be daunting for children. Not only will they face worries about their safety when they step outside, being…

To support evaluating a third or booster dose of the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162b2) for future licensure Pfizer and BioNTech submitted Phase 1 data to the U.S. FDA. Pfizer and BioNTech submitted Phase 1 data part of their Phase 1/2/3 clinical trial program – evaluating the safety, tolerability, and immunity of a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in U.S. adult participants from Phase 1 trial of the two-dose series. Participants received a 30-µg booster dose of BNT162b2 8 to 9 months after acquiring the second dose. Results from this participant group show that the third dose evoked significantly higher…

A relatable, light-hearted family tale that drives people by Indran’s effortless performance. Changing with the times is not something that comes naturally to everyone. Oliver Twist (Indrans), the protagonist of ‘Home’, is someone who has gone through that struggle more than once in his life. The movie is needlessly long, but it makes up for it with great performances from the lead cast. Present-day, Oliver finds an almost unbridgeable gap between him and his sons, who are lost in their smartphones and drowned in social media, a world alien to him, as it is for many of his generations. Yet,…

When its fighters closed access to the once heavily fortified neighbourhood, the Embassy asked the Taliban to shepherd Indians.  As the first C-17 heavy-lift transport aircraft of the IAF evacuated around 40 staffers on August 16, the second one brought back around 150 people, including the ambassador, other diplomats, security officials and several journalists and stranded Indians.   On August 17, India completed the evacuation of all its diplomats and other staff members from the Afghan capital under a “difficult and complicated” exercise, effectively closing its mission for the second time since 1996 when the militant group captured power. The mission…