Give Samsung credit: the Galaxy Book 2 boldly breaks from the first-generation Galaxy Book on both the inside and outside. The company’s new 2-in-1 not only ditches its flimsy folding keyboard in favor of a more traditional tablet kickstand, but also joins the small ranks of PCs that have adopted a battery-sipping Qualcomm Snapdragon microprocessor. Performance suffers [...]
April 19, 2022
Loknath Das
Technology
In a recent addition of Fast Company magazine, there is a great article on the future of office life and offices in general. They, like many, assume that work, as we used to experience it, will not return. However, there will still be offices and we will use them, but perhaps not all of us, [...]
February 10, 2022
Loknath Das
News
After 50 years in fashion, legendary designer Jean-Paul Gaultier has retired. The designer announced his retirement via Instagram on January 17, in which he said that his couture show during Paris Fashion Week would be his last. “I have opened all my drawers, taken back all my old collections,” he said in his goodbye note. “I have used [...]
February 2, 2020
Loknath Das
News
The Modi government for the last few years has been doing its best to give a boost to the sagging realty market. Real estate is in limbo. Not only now, but for a long time. Probably from the time the economic downturn began in 2008. Anyway when the global financial crisis gripped almost the entire [...]
September 27, 2019
Loknath Das
Real Estate
The Apollo program was gigantic. The U.S. government spent roughly $26 billion (about $260 billion in today’s dollars, according to one estimate) between 1960 and 1972 to hire contractors and subcontractors who employed hundreds of thousands of people to create and improve on technology that led us to the moon and back. While some of that [...]
July 22, 2019
Loknath Das
Technology
Lucas Jackson | Reuters Blue Apron CEO Matthew B. Salzberg, center, celebrates with co-founders Ilia Papas, second from right, and Matt Wadiak during the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in New York, June 29, 2017. Blue Apron bounced back to over a dollar per share Friday as the stock skyrocketed for a [...]
December 30, 2018
Loknath Das
Business
‘New Fox’ leading contender to buy regional sports networks it sold to Disney 4:11 PM ET Fri, 26 Oct 2018 | 02:50 The front-runner to buy 22 regional sports TV networks from Disney is the same company that sold them in the first place. “New Fox,” the company that will remain after Rupert Murdoch sells [...]
October 28, 2018
Loknath Das
Education
Active older adults with back pain may experience less energy efficient walking and poorer endurance, a new study suggests. “Older adults are living longer and healthier active lives, so paying attention to conditions that may threaten independent function is increasingly important,” said lead author of the study Eleanor Simonsick, from the National Institute on Aging [...]
February 13, 2018
Loknath Das
Health
Tata Motors on Monday said its President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Timothy Leverton has resigned, after nearly seven years of association with the automaker. Leverton has decided to disengage from his services in the organisation as he wishes to relocate back to the UK for personal reasons, Tata Motors said in a statement. He [...]
September 8, 2017
Loknath Das
Business
After the excellent feedback received last year, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH (GTV) is back at Maison et Objet, an important international showcase for professionals in interior decoration, design and furnishings, presenting an overview of the latest in products. These are offerings arising through co-operation with designers who make research one of the hallmarks of their creativity [...]
February 14, 2017
Saheli
Home Deco
Later today, Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliver his first ever first Autumn Statement. It’s not an enviable task, as over the last few months he’ll have been lobbied hard – and pulled in different directions – by his colleagues across Whitehall. “Infrastructure investment” looks set to be a major theme, and [...]
November 23, 2016
Saheli
Education
German government bond yields dropped back towards six-week lows on Friday, giving up Thursday’s oil-induced rise as concerns over the health of the country’s biggest lender resurfaced. Deutsche Bank admitted it had an image problem with investors after reports on Thursday that a number of hedge funds had withdrawn cash from the bank, sending its [...]
September 30, 2016
Saheli
News