Social

New Delhi: AICRA and IASC-SSC, an autonomous body of Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship, Government of India agreed to work in collaboration with each other to conduct livelihood program by skilling the unemployed youths and up- skilling the un- organised sector technicians in Industries. The thrust of the agreement is to promote and conduct up-skilling projects for MSME sector on Industry 4.0 outcome-based training Assessment and Certification on Qualification packs (QP) as per approved National Occupational Standards (NOS). Initially 17 QPs will be rolled out under various skill development projects…

Bengaluru: PhD students in India are often ridiculed for their choices, sometimes by their own families and at others by trolls who think of them as ‘parasites’. While the former manifest as casual remarks or snide comments at social gatherings, the latter resort to name-calling on social media. Although research scholars in humanities have been the favourite targets of trolls, those in the sciences have not been exempt. These scholars, however, constitute a majority of the workforce running research and development in the fight against COVID-19. Collectively, their work covers…

Fugaku, a Japan-based supercomputer, developed by Fujitsu and Japan’s Riken Research Institute, has been named as the world’s fastest computer in an independent survey. This marks the return of a Japanese supercomputer at the top spot after nine years, beating out its US and Chinese counterparts. It is also the first time that a supercomputer based on ARM processors has topped the benchmarking list. Fugaku has further secured the number one position in other major rankings that test supercomputers on different parameters. Supercomputers are used to perform highly complicated tasks…

We’re just a few hours away from Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC 2020. This year, the company is holding the event online in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. Just like every year, Apple will unveil a new iteration of its mobile operating system. The latest iteration for iPhone users is going to be IOS14 or iPhone OS. For iPad users, it will be iPadOS 14. It may be recalled Apple has split OS for the two platforms since last year. The two, however, share some common features and functionalities.’Ahead of…

On Friday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for an immediate end to “the world’s longest government-enforced internet shutdown”. The internet shutdown in Myanmar’s conflict-ridden northwest, described by rights groups as the world’s longest, has entered second year, Al Jazeera reported. The Myanmar military has been embroiled in a civil war since January 2019 against the Arakan Army, a rebel group fighting for more autonomy for ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. The government shut down mobile data in several townships across Rakhine state and neighbouring Chin state on June 21 last year, causing panic…