MUMBAI: The state government will move a proposal before the next cabinet to amend the BMC Act making it mandatory for the corporation to create, maintain and beautify open spaces. Currently this is an obligatory duty. On Friday, BJP MLA from Bandra moved a private member’s Bill seeking an amendment ... Read More »
Jonathan Greenberg, director of the fast analytics program for the University of Michigan Health System, describes his small team’s approach to data crunching like this: “Break-it-down, have a quick success, have another quick success, build some momentum, and then start pulling things together in a larger way.” If the academic ... Read More »
KALYAN: A 30- year old woman was arrested for killing a 25-year old woman whom her husband had married a year ago in Dombivli. The accused Rohima Islam was angry with the deceased Aysha Khan because her husband Kareem Khan married her against her wish and started neglecting her and ... Read More »
Today, US digital news publisher Quartz launches its much awaited news app – and it’s like no news app you’ve ever seen before. Rather than rejigging the normal site, the Quartz team has built an iPhone app that resembles a messaging interface, engaging readers in a chatty, scripted exchange about ... Read More »
There’s a big problem thwarting cybersecurity today and it has to do with people – those at the top specifically, according to Mansur Hasib, a cybersecurity professor at the University System of Maryland. “Many executives have taken the view that cybersecurity is control of people, limiting people’s use, essentially telling ... Read More »
Slack, the fast-growing office messaging tool has finally completed a new round of funding, including new investor Thrive Capital, it said Friday. The funding has been expected for a while and has been much reported. There are other new investors, such as Comcast Ventures and GGV, but current ones also participated. And ... Read More »
That news story you just read on your iPhone: did Apple pay the editor responsible? Actually, from this autumn, it’s possible that the company did. Apple is hiring a team of editors to work on the Apple News app unveiled during the company’s recent WWDC event, before the app’s launch ... Read More »
BHOPAL: The roar of white tigers will once again reverberate in Madhya Pradesh’s Vindhya region, where the feline was first found in 1951, with the world’s first ‘White Tiger Safari’ to open for public at Mukundpur in Rewa division on April 3. Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest ... Read More »
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Researchers have discovered a new tadpole that burrows through sand and lives in complete darkness in streambeds in the Western Ghats. The tadpole, belonging to the Indian Dancing Frog family Micrixalidae, was documented in a joint expedition by a group of scientists from University of Delhi, University of Peradeniya, ... Read More »
Apple revamped its news service on Monday, making a play to take on Facebook as the two tech giants court readers and publishers to be the top platform for news. Media organisations including the Guardian, ESPN, the New York Times, Conde Nast, the Daily Mail and Hearst will produce content ... Read More »
