Author Archives: Loknath Das

Man uses Apple AirTags, PowerPoint presentation to recover his lost luggage

A man who lost his luggage during a wedding trip used AirTags and a PowerPoint presentation to ask the airline for his bags. Elliot Sharod and his wife Helen, were flying to UK from South Africa, where they got married on April 17. The couple bought tickets with stopovers in Abu Dhabi and Frankfurt, but then they had to reschedule the flight with ... Read More »

OnlyFans temporarily halts services for Russian creators

OnlyFans has temporarily paused accounts and payments for its Russian creators, reported Motherboard. The UK-based platform — up until now — was one of the few Western tech companies to keep its door open to Russian users. Although OnlyFans momentarily blocked access to Russian creators in February, it soon restored the accounts, saying that full functionalities would be available “as long as we have the ... Read More »

Flipping the gaze back on the myth of bad behaviour

Raunak was six years old when he was punished by his teacher for “bad behaviour”. He was made to sit in his class during break time for a week. And what was the “bad behaviour”? Raunak had not been regular with his homework, and in the class, rather than sitting and working, he would be found staring out of the ... Read More »

How to Use Free Templates PowerPoint Design

How to Use Free Templates PowerPoint Design – PowerPoint design templates are great tools for building slides that look professional, save time, and increase the impact of your presentations. Unfortunately, many people who use PowerPoint don’t know how to create their own templates and end up with boring or plain-looking slides. This article will show you how to build custom PowerPoint templates without the need ... Read More »

10 Social Media Marketing Tips for Musicians

If you’ve been on social media these days, you know that social media marketing is one of the most effective ways to boost content online. Musicians and those in music marketing can greatly benefit from using social media as a marketing tool, as you know how hard it can be to get the word out about what you do and ... Read More »

Tesla, Block and Blockstream to mine bitcoin off solar power in Texas

Electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc, payments firm Block Inc and blockchain company Blockstream Corp will collaborate to mine bitcoin using solar power in Texas, CNBC reported on Friday. The bitcoin mine would use solar and storage technology from Tesla and be entirely run on renewable energy, the report said. Blockstream and Square had said in June that they were collaborating to build an ... Read More »

Noissue acquires London QR code firm Tapkit for ‘$2.3m’

Auckland-based sustainable packaging maker Noissue has acquired London-based dynamic QR code and microsite platform Tapkit. Tapkit’s employees will move to Noissue’s global product, design and engineering team to work on implementing its QR technology into Noissue’s packaging. Tapkit additionally creates microsites – websites that are focused towards mobile devices. Noissue makes sustainable packaging that is compostable, recycled and reusable. According ... Read More »

Microsoft brings Cloud PCs and local desktops together in Windows 365

Microsoft has revealed plans to make cloudy Windows 11 PCs easily available from, and integrated with, its flagship OS on physical PCs, and hinted at much more integration between Redmond’s desktop operating system and its clouds. The software giant’s plan hinges on Cloud PC, the streamed-from-Azure Windows desktops launched in 2021 as a way to consume virtual PCs without having to learn ... Read More »

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Amazon and AWS join Blue Origin on Orbital Reef space station team

Amazon and its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, say they’re joining forces with another company founded by Jeff Bezos to support the development of a commercial space station known as Orbital Reef. Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is one of the leaders of the Orbital Reef project, along with Colorado-based Sierra Space. Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering and Arizona State University are ... Read More »

Making Sense of VMAF, SSIM, & PSNR

As video traffic on the Internet increases each year, and with the continual rise in viewer experience and quality expectations, the need for streaming services and video platforms to deliver higher resolutions at ever-increasing quality has never been greater. This leads to the requirement for more efficient video codec standards and better methods to assess the resulting video quality. Although ... Read More »