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Back in the day, e-learning used to be a plan B for students who couldn’t attend classes in the traditional way. Today, online learning has evolved into an effective and highly sought after method of studying and obtaining certifications. Innovations in cloud technologies have been brining great opportunities to online education. First of all, the [...]

Google could have avoided this huge embarrassment if they had only googled to find out what lay ahead. (Illustration by C Sasikumar) Consider this: An external advisory council, the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) — essentially an ethics council to guide new technologies — set up by Google in the last week of March, being disbanded [...]

Hiring a personal trainer can be an expensive proposition. The majority of trainers are simply armchair experts who get their information by reading magazines and articles on popular bodybuilding sites. Essentially whatever they tell you can be found on the internet for free if you look in the right places. Akash Sehrawat, Founder & Creator at [...]

The freelance economy rapidly is growing in the United States. More than 15 million people are self-employed, and numerous experts predict we’ll soon see a steep increase in the number of individuals who leave corporate America to work for themselves. One study put the number at 60 million people by 2020 — nearly 40 percent of the workforce. Why [...]

Apple’s ambitions in the health sector continue to expand, with its digital health team making its first known acquisition—personal health data startup Gliimpse,Fast Company has learned. Silicon Valley-based Gliimpse has built a personal health data platform that enables any American to collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health data. The company was started [...]

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) linked to lifestyles have surpassed communicable diseases as the leading cause of lost productivity and premature deaths. According to a report in the Lancet journal, NCDs contribute to 52 per cent of all disease burden and more than 60 per cent of deaths in the country. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, tuberculosis and other [...]

Locals seemed to be happy to see tourists. They smiled and greeted us. Some even stopped by for a small conversation. They wanted to know why we travelled to Pattani, one of the deep-south provinces that have been in the red-alert zone for more than a decade. “Aren’t you afraid of the unrest situation?” asked [...]

New Delhi: Terming education as a fundamental precondition of a democracy, Vice President Hamid Ansari on Friday said apart from providing knowledge education is instrumental for any individual’s personal and political development. “The quality of education depends on elementary education. While equality of status and opportunity contribute to nation building and a humanitarian society, education [...]

North Carolina’s corridors of power, no vicinity holds extra political urgency in recent times than the toilet. And no time may be greater urgent than the following day every day address what the U.S.authorities considers a rely of intercourse discrimination. Monday is the deadline the Justice branch set for North Carolina day-to-day “treatment” its residencemeasure, [...]