China has emerged in the past two decades as one of the world’s largest markets for private education services and home to many of the richest entrepreneurs in the field. Shares in online education firms TAL and New Oriental Education, for instance, have soared during the coronavirus outbreak, fueling anew the fortunes of their billionaire [...]
March 4, 2020
Loknath Das
Education
Personalized cancer vaccines. Lab-grown meat. Toilets that save lives. Wearable electrocardiograms. Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates says these are among the technologies that are going to change the world we live in. Gates curated the 18th edition of the MIT Technology Review’s annual roundup of “recent technology breakthroughs that are poised to deeply impact our lives” released Wednesday, [...]
March 2, 2019
Loknath Das
Technology
Apple wants to “one day” end the need to mine materials from the earth to make its gadgets, the technology giant said in its annual environmental responsibility report out Thursday. “Traditional supply chains are linear,” it said. “Materials are mined, manufactured as products, and often end up in landfills after use. Then the process starts [...]
April 25, 2017
Loknath Das
Technology
ON the Monday after Diwali, the last transaction a realtor oversaw in Mumbai was the re-sale of a two-bedroom home, with a carpet spread of 700 square feet. The apartment, in a 30-year-old high-rise, went for Rs 3.80 crore, roughly the market price in the south-central Mumbai belt. The price of the asset was calculated [...]
November 13, 2016
Saheli
Real Estate
Sounding exuberant, veteran banker and New Development Bank (NDB) President K V Kamath has said everything is going right for India at present and the third largest Asian economy will witness a “sudden uptick” in fortunes soon. “Everything is going right… the government should keep the accelerator fixed firmly to the ground,” Kamath, who is [...]
October 15, 2016
Saheli
Business
Back in 2009, Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley and Say Anything frontman Max Bemis released a collaborative album under the name Two Tongues. According to some recent tweets by Max, a followup is coming this year. Details on that are still TBA, but the band did just announce their first-ever tour. The tour will [...]
July 26, 2016
Saheli
News
one of the maximum critical and welcomed provisions of the every student be successful Act (ESSA) is the elimination of so-called adequate yearly progress (AYP) – the federal mandate that came to symbolize the whole thing that become incorrect with the manner No toddler Left in the back ofdefined and measured accountability. AYP imposed rigid [...]
May 8, 2016
Saheli
Education
With Gear VR, Samsung was one of the first companies to get its foot in the virtual reality door. Now, it looks like the South Korean electronics giant is experimenting with augmented reality. Samsung has received a patent for “smart” contact lenses, which it originally filed in September 2014. The lenses will house a camera, [...]
April 7, 2016
Saheli
Technology