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562: Podcast Apps, Zaraz, Future CSS Thoughts, and Arc

What if Taylor Swift lyrics hold the answers to web dev questions? Podcast app thoughts, using Cloudflare Zaraz, what we're excited about with CSS, Arc browser updates, and are we even developers or are we specialized systems whisperers?




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569: Apple’s Web Apps, Meta Quest and Vision Pro, and Missing Sticky Headers

How do you point out things in a UI? Are Arc Boosts the end of the web? What do you think of VR and AR / Vision Pro and Meta Quest? And what do you do when the sticky header goes missing?




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584: Community, Partnerships, Images, and Astro with Fred K. Schott

Fred K. Schott stops by to talk about building community, open source and sponsorship, building on partnerships in the dev community, WordPress + Astro, view transitions, using Discord for support, and leaking secret Astro Studio details.




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594: Wiping Your Laptop, UX of Password Codes, and :Has Tips and Tricks

In this episode we're discussing making tech videos, website tinkering, :has tricks, SVG path commands, and the complexities of CSS & JavaScript logic.




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609: Blake Watson on Home Cooked Apps

What is a home cooked app? Blake Watson is on this episode to talk all about the kinds of apps that make a good home cooked app, tips and advice he has for making them, resisting the urge to monetize or growth hack them, and a few CodePen v2 thoughts sprinkled in at the end.




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Startups join the party with craft mixers

How non-alcoholic mixers, handcrafted by small players, are edging out sugary soft drinks, sodas in cocktail glasses




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Cargo companies upsize for new business

Booming demand for ecommerce delivery spurs freight handlers to open more centres, digitise for efficiency




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How to report faulty glucose monitors, insulin pumps

UK regulator has a reporting scheme to identify safety concerns in diabetes-care devices




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Bengaluru startup develops new tech for battery recycling, begins production

Li-ion battery recycler Metastable Materials launches commercial ops




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Chairman of Waqf Bill committee taking unilateral decisions, Opposition MPs tell Speaker

Will continue to attend JPC meetings, says Opposition after submitting memorandum to Birla




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ARRL November Sweepstakes CW is Nov 2-3




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Code is a new form of government: Clive Thompson

The tech journalist and author of Coders explains how programmers have such a huge impact in our everyday lives




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Coming to grips with mega disasters

Rooted in research, the book reveals the existential threats we face and charts the roadmap ahead




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IISR-Kozhikode develops new high-yielding pepper variety

The variety named ‘IISR Chandra’ is expected to be a game changer in the black pepper industry




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Centre to provide 15,000 women self help groups with drones that can be rented out for agricultural purposes

The scheme will help in infusing advanced technology in agriculture for improved efficiency, enhance crop yield and reduced cost of operation for the benefit of farmers




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SC notice to Centre on plea alleging overuse of pesticides on crops and food items




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Paddy MSP up 5.35% to ₹2,300 per quintal as Cabinet clears MSP hikes for 14 kharif crops

MSPs for bajra, arhar dal, maize offer highest margins above production costs; Cabinet nod for Varanasi airport expansion, new Maharashtra port, wind energy projects in Gujarat and T.N., forensic infrastructure development




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Farmers rush to plant summer crops as monsoon revives

The monsoon brings nearly 70% of the rain India needs to water farms and refill reservoirs and aquifers; nearly half of the farmland depends on the annual rains




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Business confidence dips to 5-month low in May




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BPCL net drops 11% to Rs. 2,549 crore




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S. Korea woos startups in India with ‘grand challenge’

Wants them to look at Korea as a testing bed for their ventures




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Simplilearn to expand tie-ups with cos; plans guaranteed interviews




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Helpshift raises $23 m in Series B funding




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Sensex jumps 310 points in early trade on firm global trends

Market participants will closely watch Q2 earnings season, starting with Tata Consultancy Services which is set to report its results later in the day, traders said.




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Rupee drops to lowest value ever against U.S. dollar due to equity outflows, oil prices

The currency's decline past the 84 handle is significant as the RBI had been defending that level.




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Sensex jumps 430 points in early trade on positive global trends

The NSE Nifty climbed 138.80 points.




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Rupee slips 1 paisa to 84.07 against U.S. dollar in early trade

On Thursday, the rupee weakened by 4 paise to close at 84.06 against the U.S. dollar.




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Stock markets rebound on value buying in banking, steel shares; Sensex jumps 694 points

Bouncing back from Monday's (November 4) sharp fall, the BSE Sensex jumped 694.39 points or 0.88% to settle at 79,476.63




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Forest Department free coaching helps tribal youth in Jawadhu Hills to get government jobs




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‘Restore stops for mofussil buses on Samayapuram service road’




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Vasan urges T.N. govt. to take steps to end illegal sale of narcotic drugs

He expressed concerns over the future of a section of students and youth who were allegedly involved in using and selling such banned substances




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Dynamics of phase-separated microdroplets near the contact line of evaporating all-aqueous drops

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8260-8266
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01056F, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Rahul Rai, Maheshwar Gopu, Senthan Pugalneelam Parameswaran, Tapan Chandra Adhyapak, Dileep Mampallil
Evaporation of multicomponent drops can induce liquid–liquid phase separation and spatial reconfiguration of phases through complex dynamics near the contact line.
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Co-encapsulation of organic polymers and inorganic superparamagnetic iron oxide colloidal crystals requires matched diffusion time scales

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8312-8325
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00935E, Paper
Open Access
Brian K. Wilson, Robert K. Prud’homme
Composite nanoparticles co-encapsulate organic materials with inorganic primary colloids. Producing “stoichiometric NPs”, where all NPs contain organic and inorganic species at similar ratios, requires matched diffusion-aggregation time scale.
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The impact of cross-linker distribution on magnetic nanogels: encapsulation, transport and controlled release of the tracer

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00797B, Paper
Open Access
Ivan S. Novikau, Ekaterina V. Novak, Sofia S. Kantorovich
Differences in crosslinker concentration between the core and periphery of a magnetic nanogel slow down the release of a non-magnetic cargo.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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Bubbles and drops between circular frames: shape, force and stability analysis

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8420-8435
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00919C, Paper
Open Access
Friedrich Walzel, Jonathan Dijoux, Leandro Jacomine, Élodie Harle, Pierre Muller, Thierry Charitat, Wiebke Drenckhan
Combining experiments, simulations and theory, we provide a complete shape analysis of two bubbles held by circular frames in the parameter space of different frame radii, distances between frames and contact angle between bubbles (0°, 60° and 90°).
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Interfacial viscoelasticity in oscillating drops of cyclodextrin-surfactant aqueous solution: experiments and theory

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01007H, Paper
José Roberto Romero-Arias, Alberto S. Luviano, Miguel Costas, Aurora Hernandez-Machado, Rafael A Barrio
We present experiments involving oscillating droplets in aqueous cyclodextrin-surfactant solutions. In these experiments, α-cyclodextrin (αCD) and anionic surfactants exhibit remarkable viscoelasticity at the liquid/air interface, with dilatational modulus varying across...
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5 tips to help you reduce cholesterol

While the causes for high cholesterol are many, there are simple ways to reduce it, says rediffGURU Dr Karthiyayani Mahadevan.




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Crop tops with cream cones




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Jumpstart: Sweating it out with Yoga

Yoga is often dissed by the younger generation as light, easy, slow exercise. BHUMIKA K. begs to differ after going through a ‘happy yoga’ class




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Jumpstart: Drumming up a fitness boost

Who would have thought that drumming would be a fun fitness workout? ALLAN MOSES RODRICKS drops the beat on the rhythmic regimen




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The first steps to healthy living

Being healthy is not easy. It includes a little hard work on the choices you make about how you eat and live




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Steps to fitness

A talk on the goodness of almonds followed by a workout session to drive home the message on good health




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Editorial. Skilling sops useful, but education is key

There can be no getting away from the fact that the skills crisis in India’s young (15-29 years) reflects a failure of the education system — and the best skilling efforts cannot make up for this lack




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Editorial. Buying into stock dips risky in current global milieu

The Indian economy is less reliant on US exports than Asian peers and local IT services companies are not AI-driven. But ‘decoupling’ theories can fall by the wayside pretty quickly when global risk aversion takes over




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Suryoday Small Finance Bank’s net profit dips 10% in Q2FY25 to ₹45 cr

Net interest margin rose to 9.7 per cent in Q2FY25 against 9.4 per cent in Q2FY24



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Cholamandalam MS General Insurance H1 Results: PBT jumps 60% to ₹350 crore

Chola MS reports an 11.6% Y-o-Y rise in GWP to ₹4,136 crore in H1 FY25; MD V Suryanarayanan says focus on profitable growth continues to drive performance



  • Money & Banking

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Turnaround : A Story of Recovery / directed by: Moira Simpson ; produced by: Jennifer Torrance, Moira Simpson, John Taylor, Kathleen Shannon ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2017




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Pieces of a Dream : A Story of Gambling / directed by: Michelle Wong ; produced by: Bonnie Thompson, Jerry Krepakevich, Graydon McCrea ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2019




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APSLSA Executive Chairman distributes hearing aids to needy children in Amaravati




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Vignan’s University launches new courses, scholarships and industry partnerships