Interviews

Apple provides an easy solution for those who want to watch something from Tv’s BIG screen without disturbing others in the room. Now you can simply connect AirPods to your Apple TV. If your apple tv is the 4k model and you also have a pair of AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, then you can experience Apple’s newest immersive technology, Spatial Audio. Are you ready for an audio experience better than ever? Let’s see how to connect the AirPods to apple TV. Step 1: Put your AirPods in their case…

Changing IP address in not illegal until and unless you’re not using it to break laws. IP address defines the unique series of numbers that identify your specific device. Changing the IP address consistently is safe & also boost privacy. Here you will find 4 simple ways to change the IP address. 1- Changing the IP address with a VPN Changing IP address with a VPN is simpler than searching something on the internet. Open your VPN app & connect to any city other than the one you are living…

Paytm has launched its first pocket Android PoS device for contactless ordering and making payments, for SMEs. This comes at an introductory price of ₹499 per month on a rental basis and is designed like a phone. “Styled like a mobile phone for accepting orders and payments on the go, this is the first such Android-based device to be introduced in India and is much more powerful than the portable Linux based POS devices presently available in the country,” claims Paytm. The firm says its PoS machine comes bundled with…

Browser notifications can be a great way to get updates but they are get annoying after a point and at a very distracting. Microsoft has devised a fix for this on its Edge browser so that might come as a bit of relief for Windows users. Microsoft is rolling out ‘Quiet notification requests’ for the Chromium-based on the  Edge browser version 84. What in this feature does that it is actually quite helpful. It does not block site notification requests that are made through Notifications or Push APIs, instead, it…

Prime Minster has already established Industrial Revolution 4.0 centres. NITI Ayog is doing so well in term of blockchain and Indiachain. Incubating Al initiatives and we have come out with IoT policies and drone policies all these means a lot of data and data needs firewalls and we don’t want back door and we want air gaps set ups. India has done some work and need a lot more to do. Where India stands in the field of e-Governance in comparison to the developed countries? India has gone through a…

Alpana Saha was involved in an engaging and delightful interaction with Prof Ranjan Bose director of IIIT, New Delhi and the extraction of the interaction is presented below for the reader to relish the insights provided by Dr Ranjan Bose to Alpana Saha. You are Director of Information Technology institute. India has been a dominating country in the Information Technology sector. What is the graph now? We have been taking giant strides in the sector of Information Technology for quite some time now. We are known as one of the…

On 29th of May 2019 Vigyan Prasar published four science books in a book release function at Indian National Science Academy (INSA), in the presence of Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology. The books which were released are:- Voyage to Antarctica by Dr. Felix Bast Story of Consciousness by Dr. Govind Bhattachariya An Autobiography of Moon by Dr. Ramesh Shishu Shambhu Nath De by Dr. M S S Murthy Prof. Ashutosh Sharma stated that popular science books serve an important tool of science communication. He marked the…

With the revolution in scientific education system worldwide, we need to adopt a new method for the teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in the country. In this context, Alpana Saha interacted with Dr TV Venkateswaran. He is one of the popular Scientist cum Science communicator from Vigyan Prasar. He brings Science to you in a very simplified and engaging way.   How can institutions of higher learning and science academics help in the popularization of science or take the science to a larger population? There are many ways this can be…

I (Alpana Saha) am presenting a part of an interactive intellectual discussion with Professor Pawan Kumar Dhar.  Professor Dhar is the Dean, School of Biotechnology in Jawaharlal Nehru University. His team has developed a disruptive novel drug discovery platform from the dark matter of the genome. Currently, he is working on the application of AI in speeding up the drug discovery pipeline.    Why does biotechnology need AI ? In Science reproducibility of results is an absolute must. The time and costs involved in performing experiments and confirming the observations…