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Big Upsets! Real Madrid, Bayern Munich lose

A first-half penalty earned Lille a shock 1-0 home victory over holders Real Madrid in the Champions League group phase on Wednesday.




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EPL: Salah's late strike helps Liverpool hold Arsenal

Mohamed Salah's late equaliser earned Liverpool a 2-2 draw with rivals Arsenal in an entertaining Premier League encounter.




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PIX: Inter-Juve in thrilling draw; Bayern, PSG win

Piotr Zielinski converted two penalties for Inter Milan as they played out a thrilling 4-4 draw with Juventus.




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PIX: Vinicius 'tricks' in Real win; PSG maintain lead

Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr scored a hat-trick to help the LaLiga champions snap a two-game winless run in all competitions.




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EPL PIX: United thrash Leicester; Ipswich stun Spurs

IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday.




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13/13:01 EDT Severe Thunderstorm Warning for parts of East Gippsland Forecast District.




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Amazon Web Services India vision: Investing in cloud and local partnerships for economic growth

Our planned investment will contribute $23.3 billion to India’s GDP by 2030, and support approximately 1,31,700 full-time jobs annually at local businesses, says Chris Casey of AWS




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Airtel Q2 FY25 net profit jumps 168% YoY to ₹3,593 crore

Mobile ARPU increased to ₹233 in Q2 FY25 vs ₹203 in Q2 FY24




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Apple ships $6 billion of iPhones from India in big China shift

Apple is expanding its manufacturing network in India at a rapid clip




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Cognizant’s Synapse skilling initiative impacts 275,000 individuals in its first year

The rapid progress of Synapse comes at a time when there is a growing desire from organisations to train and redevelop talent




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Xiaomi India President Muralikrishnan B steps down

He will continue to support Xiaomi India as an independent strategic advisor




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DENSO, T-Hub tie up to promote automotive start-ups

DENSO would support T-Hub in conducting hackathons and innovation challenges targeting automotive technologies




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Google Cloud expands support for early-stage AI Startups with new initiatives, partnerships




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Diastereoselective synthesis of functionalized spiroindolines via intramolecular ipso-iodocyclization/nucleophile addition cascade reactions of indole-tethered ynones

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00112E, Paper
Debojyoti Bag, Sanghapal D. Sawant
Herein, we describe a highly diastereoselective approach for synthesizing polyfunctionalized spiroindolines from indolyl-ynones involving an ipso-iodocyclization/nucleophile addition cascade.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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As India builds its newest airports, it needs robust, fail-proof SOPs

A near air mishap on Bengaluru skies that put the lives of 430 people in danger shows safety risk norms require constant refresh




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Google Maps adds AI features to help users explore and navigate the world around them

Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence




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Rapid assessment of pulse polio campaign shows high vaccine coverage, highlights gaps in Chennai

Chennai accounted for nearly 21% of the non-vaccinated children, highlighting the gaps in an urban area and the need for targeted community outreach




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'Rohit Shetty's Copverse has made Cops Heroes'

'Indian Police Force encapsulates the same spirit, the essence of scale, the essence of action and that riveted rhythm that Rohit Shetty brings about, but is complete with absolute realism.'




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'Life is all about ups and downs'

'When one is low, all you can do is buckle up and get up and prepare for the next challenge.'




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'Playing tipsy is difficult to enact'

'Bahut mazaa aaya tha doing Agneepath. When you are working with good actors, it enriches your acting.''Amitabhji and I had done Shahenshah before, but that was a fun film.'




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'Love Keeps Evolving But...'

'Love in today's time is very fast-paced, whereas I seek calmness in love.'




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Rekha: 'I Welcome Pain. It Helps Me Grow'

'I don't know of any happy moment in my life which has helped me to grow, whereas pain has always been a means to evolve.'




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60fps scrolling using pointer-events: none

Paul Lewis did an interesting article a while back about avoiding unnecessary paints through disabling hover effects as the user scrolls, which is a great approach. The down side being managing all your hover states through a parent class. UPDATE: I’ve done a follow up article which demonstrates a more robust technique. .hover .element:hover { … Continue reading "60fps scrolling using pointer-events: none"




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A follow up to obtaining 60fps scrolling performance

60fps scrolling article got quite a few people excited but also a few smart people to point out some flaws in the approach. I was planning to just update the original article but I’ve compiled so much info about this topic that I thought it would be better to do a follow up article and … Continue reading "A follow up to obtaining 60fps scrolling performance"




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Shaping the Future of Web Apps: Full Stack Developer's Expertise in API Design and Cloud Deployment

Naga Lalitha has become visible as someone who is changing the face of technology for industry verticals like supply chain and manufacturing.




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Apprenticeships can make India’s youth matter

With a target of skilling 500 million people by 2022, apprenticeship will be the key to increasing the employability of youth




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Life skill coaching, moving from experiential avoidance to psychological flexibility




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Startups must have mentors to succeed, says experts




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From soaps to lip balms: How demand for donkey milk has kicked off a farming revolution in Tiruchi district

Once a ubiquitous beast of burden, the donkey is slowly making its way out of oblivion in Tiruchi as the global beauty industry discovers the benefits of its milk




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Centre raises minimum support prices for Rabi crops, farmers unhappy

Farmers’ organisations say the MSP did not match the increase in input costs




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Wheat, rapeseed crops ravaged by rain days before harvesting

A poor harvest could force the Centre to import wheat, palm oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil




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Govt. should announce legally backed minimum procurement price for food crops, says Prakash Kammaradi

Karnataka Agriculture Price Commission headed by Prakash Kammaradi submitted a report on the legally backed MSP to the government in 2018




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RBI annual report 2023-2024: MSPs for kharif and rabi crops ensured minimum return of 50% over cost of production

Reserve Bank of India’s annual report highlights MSPs, foodgrain stocks, and challenges faced by agriculture in 2023-24




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Centre increases MSP for wheat, five other rabi crops

The new MSP for a quintal of wheat is ₹2,425 in comparison to ₹2,275 per quintal, which was in place for the previous rabi season




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Environmental groups are taking Norway to court over oil drilling in the Arctic

It’s against the Constitution, and means Norway will not respect the Paris Agreement, argues Tina Andersen Vågenes.




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The Death of Lorem Ipsum

For years, designers have used Lorem Ipsum text as a placeholder in interface design layouts. But unless you're designing a pseudo-Latin text reader, using actual content provides a much more realistic picture of what a UI design needs to support. Today Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide designers with highly relevant content instantly so Lorem Ipsum can finally die.

It's long been argued (well at least by me in 2019) that using Lorem Ipsum text to mock up application interfaces fails to represent real content, often leading to usability issues and unrealistic designs that don't account for actual text lengths, line breaks, or content hierarchy in a final product. But Lorem Ipsum persisted as a design tool of choice because getting real content was hard.

To get very realistic content, designers would need access to where real content existed or pester engineers or domain experts to collect realistic content for them. It's not hard to see why some of these requests took a while or never got prioritized. And while some teams took the time to build tooling that enabled more realistic content in the design process, Lorem Ipsum was a much easier path for most.

Today, Large Language Models (LLMs) can not only generate sample content but also create highly specific and relevant content for just about any application you're designing. And given these tools are fast, widely available and free, there's no excuse to not use very realistic content in application designs. For example, if designing a food delivery app. A few prompts will give you real content, real quick.

So there's no excuses for Lorem Ipsum no more.




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The malfunction of US education policy : elite misinformation, disinformation, and selfishness / Richard P. Phelps.

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]




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Embracing relational teaching [electronic resource] : how strong relationships promote student self-regulation and efficacy / Anthony R. Reibel.

Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2023]




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The metacognitive preschooler [electronic resource] : how to teach academic, social, and emotional intelligence to your youngest students / Richard K. Cohen, Michele A. Herold, Emily R. Peluso, Katie Upshaw, Kelsee G. Young ; foreword by Martin Blank.

Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2024]




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HP starts making desktops, workstations at Flex’s unit near Chennai

With the inauguration of this new facility, we aim to strengthen our commitment to India and support the growth of the local manufacturing ecosystem, says Ketan Patel, MD, HP India



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Dell XPS 17 laptop on sale in India from today

The laptop’s price begins from ₹2,09,500 including GST



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Lenovo launches three new gaming laptops in India

Here are the key features of Lenovo’s Legion laptops



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Acer launches two new gaming laptops in India

The Predator Helios 300 is priced at ₹84,999 and The Predator Triton 300 at ₹89,999



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Google relaunches offline support for Google Calendar on desktops

The offline feature for Google Calendar was rolled back in 2018



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Dirty dozen Mac OS Power tips and tricks

Love it or hate it, Mac OS X has been part of many lives for a long time now



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Vaio SE14 and Vaio SX14 laptops launched in India

Both the devices will be available for sale via Amazon



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Acer updates its gaming portfolio with new notebooks, monitors and desktops

It has launched new Predator Triton and Helios Series gaming notebooks




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Acer launches six new Windows 11 laptops in India

The new range also comes with Office 2021 pre-loaded on it



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Apple rolls out new AirPods, Mac chips, MacBook pros

Apple introduced two chips -the M1 Pro and the M1 Max in the new MacBook Pro 14 and 16-inch models



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Dixon to make laptops for Acer at Noida plant

Dixon factory at Noida has capacity to produce upto 5,00,000 Acer laptops annually