With Google already having Motorola in its pocket and soon to unleash its repertoire of phones soon, now, both Microsoft and Amazon is now getting into the act as well. They are soon – Summer of 2013 – going to come out with their smartphones, which will initially be introduced only in the US. DigiTimes claims that Foxconn, the company that has become infamous for building Apple’s iPhone and its subsequent quality control issues, has won the contract to produce... Read more
Another Indian couple has been arrested and put through hardship in Norway for disciplining their kid. There is something about Europe – specially Scandinavian countries – that doesn’t sound right! So, the kid urinated in the school bus, which was brought to the attention of the parents and they scolded him and also said that they would take him back to India. He told the school authorities and soon they came to know that they were in the wrong. And... Read more
The new movie – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – is all set to come and promises to be a great movie! Here is the first trailer. Check it out! “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” starring Farhan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor. Directed by the talented Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Read more
“When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his... Read more
A very insightful perspective of how the siege on 20th Novermber 1979, may have contributed to the birth of Al Qaeda as we know it now. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the event that nurtured the Wahabism that was born out of this siege, where the Grand Mosque of Mecca was taken over by Islamic radicals Read more
There are lot of phrases which exaggerate accomplishments of people. When someone does something big – they say he has “moved the mountain”. Well here is a story of a person who CUT through the mountain with just a HAMMER, CHISEL and his NAILS in 22 years! If one looks at what he achieved it looks nothing short of herculean! Read Quote of Subhrajyoti Ghatak’s answer to What are the most gripping stories in human history? on Quora Read more
Sadhguru cuts through this question with a razor sharp knife of intellect, which Spiritually insightful! Read more
For the last few years, US consulates across India have excessively scrutinized visa applicants in the H-1B and L categories. These refer to highly skilled professional workers and inter-company transfers, respectively, who can work on temporary visas subject to renewal for a maximum of five to seven years. But last week, the US Embassy in India announced that interviews for H-1B and L visa renewals can be waived. This will not affect first time H and L visa applicants. This appears to be... Read more
Here is an interesting discussion on the OnPoint Program on the new advances in Artifical Intelligence. Some concepts discussed are Deep Learning, Big Data, and Neural Networks. From the time when the AI scientists wanted to feed the “intelligence” to a time when the Big Data from Internet etc is available, to have the computers look at that large amount of data and make sense of it. So the learning will be more “hierarchical” and semantic in process. Very informative.... Read more
We Indians keep lamenting about the politicians and their corruption. Because they are the easy target. The truth is that even the businesses are as bad. It now comes to light that outside of Africa, India has the highest Corporate frauds in the world! Fraud risks in India remain above the global average and, outside Africa (77 per cent), the country has seen the highest number of companies affected by frauds at 68 per cent, followed by China and Indonesia... Read more
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