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Ujala Chowdhry

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New Delhi
Covers:  Technology, in every broad sense of the word. Topics such as AI, VR, AR, climate commitments of tech startups and companies, global tech solutions, encryption, cybersecurity, women in tech, FemTech...
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Framework Creates Modular Laptops to Reduce E-Waste - TechAcute

Framework Creates Modular Laptops to Reduce E-Waste - TechAcute

TechAcute — The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report recently released by researchers across UNU, UNITAR, ITU, and ISWA says that we have gone from generating 44.4 million metric tons per year of electronic waste (e-waste) in 2014 to 53.6 million metric tons per year in 2019.

Skycatch Provides Drone-Mapping and Geo Data Analytics - TechAcute

Skycatch Provides Drone-Mapping and Geo Data Analytics - TechAcute

TechAcute — San Francisco-based startup Skycatch develops and sells proprietary 3D reconstructions of construction sites as well as aerial site data analysis. It is the first company to ship an end-to-end RTK enabled drone-based site survey system in the form of a kit.

TypingDNA Enables Typing Patterns as Authentication - TechAcute

TypingDNA Enables Typing Patterns as Authentication - TechAcute

TechAcute — TypingDNA based in New York has recently launched their typing pattern recognition services to the market. At least, someone is standing up...

TypingDNA Enables Typing Patterns as Authentication - TechAcute

TypingDNA Enables Typing Patterns as Authentication - TechAcute

TechAcute — TypingDNA based in New York has recently launched their typing pattern recognition services to the market. At least, someone is standing up...

CO2 Revolution Utilizes Drones to Plant with Smart Seeds - TechAcute

CO2 Revolution Utilizes Drones to Plant with Smart Seeds - TechAcute

TechAcute — The Spanish startup CO2 Revolution plans to plant over a million trees this year in Spain by using tech and drones. It's called iSeed and...

Intel and AI Developer Create Backpack for Visually Impaired - TechAcute

Intel and AI Developer Create Backpack for Visually Impaired - TechAcute

TechAcute — What differentiates an animal from a machine are its mirror neurons, a set of neurons in an organism's brain that is fired to perform a task based on the performance of self or others. Discovered in 1991, the research on mirror neurons is still going on, and the Giacomo Rizzolatti research group believes that these neurons are the biological basis of compassion and empathy.

MacBook Pro Unboxing

MacBook Pro Unboxing

youtu.be — The Apple MacBook Pro is a tiny power machine to sort out your creative processes on the fast lane. The device is currently shipped with macOS Catalina and r...

OnePlus 8 Pro Review - The Chinese Flagship Phone Checked Out

OnePlus 8 Pro Review - The Chinese Flagship Phone Checked Out

youtu.be — What really draws me towards the OnePlus smartphones is the screenshot gesture, battery life, and fast charging. When you enable the Three-Finger Screenshot ...

Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus Test + Review

Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus Test + Review

youtu.be — In February 2019, Samsung Electronics came out with a new line-up of wearables for "balanced and connected living." One product, out of the lineup, the Samsu...

Watch Delhi students' freedom march against Mahasabha's valenitine diktat

Watch Delhi students' freedom march against Mahasabha's valenitine diktat

youtu.be — As a reaction to Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha's declaration to marry off couples found roaming on Valentine's Day, students from various colleges in Delhi ...

Match and Garbo Add User Checks for More Dating Security - TechAcute

Match and Garbo Add User Checks for More Dating Security - TechAcute

TechAcute — Match Group, the parent company of Tinder and many other dating apps, on March 15, 2021, announced its collaboration with Garbo, a non-profit people background check platform. This partnership aims to make online dating apps more secure by integrating the platform in their dating apps, such as OkCupid, Hinge, Paris, and other titles, to allow access to its users to the background information of the person they match with.

Zynga Teams up with Girls Who Code to Support Women in Tech - TechAcute

Zynga Teams up with Girls Who Code to Support Women in Tech - TechAcute

TechAcute — One of the best things that happened today for me, on International Women's Day, was the announcement of an initiative that aims at bridging the gender gap in the field of technology. Zynga, an interactive entertainment provider, joined hands with an international non-profit organization called the Girls Who Code (GWC) to raise awareness and support for women in tech.

6 Devices to Help Alleviate Menstrual Cramps - TechAcute

6 Devices to Help Alleviate Menstrual Cramps - TechAcute

TechAcute — Dysmenorrhea or period pain is a monthly occurring phenomenon in a female's reproductive life. Most, if not all, females experience cramps every time they go through their menstrual cycle, and as such, different cultures have developed ways of dealing with such pain. For example, in Unani (Greco-Arabic) medicine, is pain associated with menstruation.

Qissa review: An unrealistic story told realistically

Qissa review: An unrealistic story told realistically

India Today — Director: Anup SinghWriters: Madhuja Mukherjee, Anup SinghCast: Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tilotama Shome, Rasika DugalLanguage: Punjabi A still from Qissa All of us have grown up with various kinds of stories that were told to us. Some of them will be forgotten and some of them will die with us.

Bullet for my valentine: How to gather courage to break up on V-Day

Bullet for my valentine: How to gather courage to break up on V-Day

India Today — All the doubles who are badly trying to be singles again can use 14th February to break-free. Ideally, it should take a cluster to cause claustrophobia but, sometimes one person's love is enough to choke you. If you are already feeling like this, the valentine madness is going to become a difficult ship to sail.

Four Delhi restaurants among Asia's best 50

Four Delhi restaurants among Asia's best 50

The Indian Express — Asia's 50 Best Restaurants awards, organised by William Reed Media, has six of India's high-end restaurants, four of them from New Delhi alone. ITC Maurya's famed Bukhara features at number 27, topping the restaurants from India. Australian-born chef David Thompson's Bangkok restaurant "Nahm" was crowned the best Asian restaurant.

When camp is flooded, votes last thing on riot victims' mind

When camp is flooded, votes last thing on riot victims' mind

The Indian Express — In the seven months since the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar, survivors have fled their villages, moved to makeshift camps and braved a severe winter with scant essentials. Their latest struggle: battling rain and disease. Intermittent showers through Wednesday resulted in puddles across camps, breeding mosquitoes and flies.

Latest campaign material: China-made projector pens

Latest campaign material: China-made projector pens

google.com — By :Kundan Jha & Ujala Chowdhry Political parties and workers are not the only ones working round the clock in election season. The poll buzz can be heard loud and clear in Old Delhi's Sadar Bazar, home to the makers of election-related paraphernalia.

Indian Express

Chaos, controversy over nursery admission test patience of parents

Chaos, controversy over nursery admission test patience of parents

The Indian Express — What set the nursery admission season this year apart from past years was the unprecedented participation of parents in the litigation process. As the admission season drags on, dissatisfaction over the new guidelines remains. While schools blame the 'government's tyrannical approach' for the confusion, the latter blames 'vested interests for creating hurdles in the way of implementation of a common, fair policy'.