What A Person Do Whenever Your Computer Runs Slow?

Although a challenging drive is not the most essential section of computer, may ought pertaining to being the essential part you. All your data are stored on the hard drive-- important files, precious pictures and videos, collected songs, crucial data, complete programs

BlackBerry DTEK60 Android Smartphone Spotted on Company Site With Specifications

In the tech industry, it is becoming almost impossible to keep any device a secret till its official launch. The latest to join the list is BlackBerry's DTEK60. However, the company is itself to blame for the leak as according to reports, the smartphone's listing was accidentally made public by company's own website.

India successfully test-fires Barak-8 missile

India on Tuesday successfully test-fired the Barak-8 long-range surface-to-air nuclear-capable ballistic missile, jointly developed with Israel, from a defence test facility off the Odisha coast. The missile was successfully launched at around 10.15 a.m. from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) launch pad at Chandipur in Balasore district, said a defence official. President Pranab Mukherjee congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful launch. "Congratulations DRDO on the successful test-firing of Indo-Israeli surface-to-air missile Barak-8 from Odisha today (Tuesday)," a tweet on his official Twitter handle said.

'Say no depression with Yoga' campaign launched in 100 Chinese universities

A Yoga campaign has been launched to introduce the ancient Indian practice in 100 universities in China to fight the growing problem of depression and stress among students.
The campaign '100 days in 100 universities' to fight depression was launched by Yogi Yoga, China's popular yoga institute run by former Chinese fashion journalist and her Indian husband and yoga teacher in association with Peking University.
'Say no depression with Yoga' was launched on Monday at the university campus in which large number of students took part.

Oppo partners with Reliance Jio for Welcome Offer

Chinese handset maker Oppo has partnered with Reliance Jio for the latter's 'Welcome Offer' that will give free data services to users till the end of the year. The offer would be available on F1, F1 Plus, F1s, A37 and Neo 7. As part of its test launch, Jio has already partnered with over 20 brands to provide free 90-day unlimited calls and high-speed mobile broadband trials to 4G smartphone users.

Government notifies Council for Goods and Service Tax

Government has formally notified the GST Council, which will decide on the tax rate, exempted goods and the threshold under the new taxation regime. The council will be chaired by Union Finance Minister and have Minister in charge of Finance or Taxation or any other Minister nominated by each State Government as its member. Also Minister of State in charge of Revenue or Finance at the Centre would be a member. "In exercise of the powers conferred by article 279A of the ..

Rapid climate change 56 million years ago explained

A large proportion of the Earth's methane is stored beneath the oceans in the form of an ice-like material called hydrate. This hydrate can melt if the ocean above warms, and melting of hydrate provides a widely accepted mechanism for the methane outburst. However, the research from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre casts doubt on this mechanism. Using computer models of the warming process, the researchers simulated the effects of PETM ocean warming on sediments that may have contained methane hydrate and tracked how methane transport mechanisms would have affected its release into seawater. “Our results show that hydrate melting can indeed be triggered by ocean temperature change, but the result is not necessarily a rapid outburst of methane,” said lead author of the study, Tim Minshull, Professor at Southampton. “This is because the methane gas formed by hydrate melting below the sea floor takes time to travel up to the seabed, and on the way it can refreeze or dissolve and then be consumed by microbes that live below the seabed,” Minshull said. “Only a fraction of the methane may escape into the ocean and the part that does escape may take thousands of years to do so,” he said. “To explain the geological observations by melting of hydrate, much more hydrate must have been present globally than is perhaps reasonable for such a warm late Palaeocene Ocean,” said Professor Paul Wilson from Southampton.

Beyond the predictive text

A critique of rote learning is an educational cliché. Much has been written about it and almost every educator will passionately argue against it. However, the textbook still continues to be the holy grail of learning. You can participate in activities, test yourself, memorise information and learn. But don't forget, the textbook has the answers. This obsession with textbook answers seem to cut across both government as well as private schools in India. To learn something is to seek out answers. But a textbook supplies readymade answers to questions that are not necessarily asked. And most times, students don't know what to do with these answers except to write them down during tests. In What is Worth Teaching, Krishna Kumar, former Director of NCERT, says, “The textbook symbolises the authority the teacher must accept in order to work. It also symbolises the teacher's subservient status in the educational culture.” In other words, even teachers don't have the autonomy to decide what needs to be taught, forget the autonomy of students to question what they learn.

A debt-free college for students who struggle most

” I was wondering, 'When is it going to be my last day?'” Sonia told CNN. “I wasn't living. I was surviving.” The ruthless gangs in her native Guatemala had her in the crosshairs during her early teenage years, she said, following her and threatening her in the street. Sonia, who asked CNN to change her name because she fears for her safety, said they threatened her mother, as well. “They told her, 'We are going to rape your daughters,' ” Sonia said. As menacing messages followed, her parents fled north to the United States. Sonia and her two younger sisters were put up for adoption at an orphanage. At 16, she made her own desperate decision to journey from Guatemala to the United States. At 16, she made her own desperate decision to journey from Guatemala to the United States. “My father, he almost died in the desert and my mother got kidnapped in Mexico, and I still decided to take the risk,” Sonia said. Surviving the six-month voyage, some of it by foot, from Guatemala City to Chicago only strengthened her determination to achieve her American dream. She wanted to become the first in her family to earn a college degree, she said. But as she prepared to graduate from high school with a 4.1 GPA, Sonia's heart sank at the realization that as an undocumented immigrant she would qualify for little to no college financial aid.