As Apple battles the US government over encryption to unlock an iPhone used by an attacker in a mass shooting in San Bernadino last year, top US companies Google, Facebook and Snapchat are expanding encryption of user data in their services, media reported. According to The Guardian, while WhatsApp is set to roll out encryption for its voice calls in ... Read More »
Pope Francis will make his Instagram debut on Saturday, joining the likes of Justin Bieber and Cristiano Ronaldo on the image-sharing forum under the handle Franciscus, the Vatican confirmed Wednesday. The date for the pontiff’s debut on the celebrity-dominated social medium was chosen by the 79-year-old himself as it marks the third anniversary of his inauguration as the leader of ... Read More »
There’s good news for the Twitter faithful Friday: the network’s signature 140-character limit isn’t going anywhere. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told the Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the limit is too much a part of Twitter’s identity to let go. “It’s staying, it’s a good constraint for us,” he said. “It allows for of-the-moment brevity.” Twitter’s chief executive was ... Read More »
With 320 million users including celebrities such as Harry Styles, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber on its platform, the micro-blogging site Twitter on Monday wrote a 140-character thank you note to its users as it celebrated its 10th anniversary. Twitter users are creating 500 million tweets per day and 200 billion tweets every year. “On March 21, ten years ago, ... Read More »
Water is an important resource that always must be searched for and dredged up in order to provide for the public. Companies that search for water beneath the dry ground are vital to the well-being and longevity of the state and cities that they serve. When your own business specializes in dredging underground sources of water, you may be on ... Read More »
PLAINFIELD, Ind. (April 7, 2016) — Governor Mike Pence and top state officials are now looking to the next generation of students to fill Indiana’s classrooms. Thursday, the governor signed the New Generation Hoosier Educators Scholarship bill into law in the Plainfield High School Auditorium. He was joined on stage by more than a dozen Plainfield seniors planning to major in ... Read More »
A House of Lords report says the education system is allowing school leavers to ‘drift’ The majority of young people who do not follow the traditional academic route into work are being let down by the education system, a Lords report has found. The 53% of school leavers who opt not to got to university or do A-levels are often ... Read More »
The twelfth edition of The Hindu Education Plus Career Fair is being held at the Convention Centre, Chennai Trade Centre, from 9.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. on April 9 and 10. It will introduce students and parents to a range of courses and career options. Students can take a free psychometric test, which will be conducted by Bodhi Organisational and ... Read More »
India’s power reforms are likely to put pressure on state governments’ budgets, potentially forcing them to cut spending needed to support economic growth, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a report on Thursday (07 April). States could find themselves deviating from the path of fiscal consolidation as they take on an additional interest burden from debt tied to ... Read More »
Amid a furore over leaked Panama Papers showing Indians with alleged offshore tax haven holdings, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Thursday (07 April) warned against a “dangerous” trend of questions being raised about legitimacy of even the entrepreneurial wealth of self-made people. Stating that the debate on illegitimacy of wealth has varied from crony capitalism and the illegal acts of bankers ... Read More »
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