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Aarogya Setu: Care Taker or Privacy Attacker?

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“Government Of India recommends use of Aarogya Setu app to fight against COVID19.” / कोविड -19 (COVID-19) वाइरस बीमारी से सतर्क और बचे रहने के लिए डाउनलोड करें ‘ आरोग्यसेतु एप (AAROGYASETU app). भारत सरकार द्वारा जनहित में जारी.  Almost everyone has seen versions of this message for the app created by the IT ministry that is being heavily promoted — either through text messages, WhatsApp forwards and news channels. As countries around the world rush to build smartphone apps that can help track the spread of Covid-19. India launches its app created by the IT ministry of India called Aarogya Setu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi boosted it on release by urging every one of the country’s 1.3 billion people to download it, and the result was that within two weeks of launch it became the fastest app ever to reach 50 million downloads and now the app has more than 96 million users of today’s date. “We beat Pokémon Go,” says a smiling Arnab Kumar, who is lea...

Covid-19: How Tech is Helping

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I don’t have to say anything we all know, this is the unpredicted time since the first report of covid-19 in Wuhan, China was reported and as time passed it has spread all over the globe. As China grappled with the crisis, the world watched. It seemed distant to most but then a wave of infections began to appear in our city, state and country. Governments, health officials and public scrambled to make sense of situation and drastic changes like lockdown were made. For many the ceasing of everyday life has become a surreal shock. It’s a difficult time for most as confusion and uncertainty prevails. There certainly has been a chaos but also a hope. In this blog we are going to see how people are coming together in using technology to fight this pandemic with the help of Artificial Intelligence to sterilizing robots to rapid development of new technologies being reappropriated in ways we have never seen before. Governments are developing and modifying policies old and new to pr...

Letter from Wall Street To PM Modi: Politics Can Wait But Economy Cannot

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Hey Guys, We all know the current state of Indian Economy which is absolutely terrible and it also seems like the current government is not at all interested to make it better. In fact, the finance minister of India should know that ditching briefcase for red bag to carry Budget papers won’t help at all. Guys there's a lot to speak about Indian Economy but I will write a separate blog on it soon. Today's blog is about a letter to India's PM. It's about the letter that Mr. Narendra Modi gets from Wall Street. Krishna Memani, formerly the high profile Vice Chairman of investment at Invesco is a Wall Street veteran and a keen India watcher writes a letter.  ©  https://twitter.com/krishnamemani The following letter is, By Krishna Memani Dear Prime Minister Modi, I fully understand that there is a lot going on in India. And all of those issues need to be addressed. However, from my perspective nothing is more important than dealing with the u...

Dark Web: Beneath The True Layer

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Hello everyone! Welcome to another blog. I am sure by now everyone has heard about Dark Web commonly known as the epicenter of illegal online activities. Many say Dark Web as the vast secret cyber underworld which is used to buy anything you can imagine and that’s true but the other argument is that it gives people freedom as it can stop government from overreaching their boundaries. So what is Dark Web all about? Let’s dive deep into this subject and know about it much better. The Basics The Web can be defined into three categories. These are Surface web , Deep web and Dark web . 1.        Surface Web : Basically Surface web is everything that can be found through search engines. The websites in the surface web is indexed by search engines. Google, Yahoo, Bing are good examples of search engines. 2.        Deep Web : Deep web is hidden from conventional search engines and it contains unindexed websites...

Tesla’s million miles battery

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Hey Guys! I am back again with another interesting topic. Hope you enjoy the blog.  Most of you might be driving cars and we know that the average life expectancy of a new petrol car is around 8 years or 150,000 miles before it breaks and makes it worth repairing. Of course, some well-built petrol car can go 15 years and 300,000 miles if properly maintained. But in future, what if a car manufacturer comes with an idea/tech which makes it possible for a car to last for 1million miles? In simple words your car can last an entire lifetime. This sounds dope but also fictional at the same time right? Some critics say that these may not be possible but new studies prove that it might be coming sooner or later. Tesla and a team of battery researchers at Dalhouise University are working on this revolutionary battery technology. In April of 2018, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would soon be able to power its electric cars for more than 1 million miles over the course of their lifesp...

Thorium – The Future of Nuclear Energy?

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As we all know that climate change is getting worse and there could be serious consequences for our planet in next 20 years. The Energy/electricity that we use is mostly created by burning Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas which emit greenhouse gas. Further this Greenhouse gases are contributing to global warming because they trap more of the Sun's energy in the Earth's atmosphere. So what the world needs now is Nuclear energy. I know you might be thinking of 'Non-conventional' sources of energy like  solar,wind and hydro. But let me tell you, we live in a world that has high demands for electricity, which at least at this moment can't be fulfilled by non-conventional sources of energy. And according to me, Nuclear energy is clean but dangerous and with the use of Thorium it could drop the tag of being dangerous and just remain clean. Today’s Nuclear Energy Today's nuclear technology has principally been based on the use of fissi...