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Hyderabadis’ love affair with apricot continues to delight with many modern variations

Google is committed to investing in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to ensure user data privacy, improving products like Google Home and Google Search.

With more than 15 chapters in India, Urban Sketchers are documenting many aspects of everyday life and architecture

Many of the features require minors and their parents to opt in, raising questions about how effective the measures are

It further revealed that 73 per cent of urban Indian parents surveyed want the data protection law to ensure mandatory parental consent is sought for children under 18

Late start for sugar mills in west; lower exports following resumption this month

Kerala Union of Working Journalists demands apology from Suresh Gopi, urges BJP to address Union Minister’s repeated confrontations with journalists

A small group of city parents are opting to home-school their children, rejecting the school system

Cambridge, MA. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023

Japan's Arctic Policy: Current Status and Challenges Japan's Arctic Policy: Current Status and Challenges

Most developers spoil themselves with fun command line utilities to make their work easier and more efficient. One such command line helper allows developers to always show the git branch in the command line. How can you get the current branch? With this handy snippet: git branch --show-current It’s great to keep this snippet around […]

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Vittal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Airtel, said there is room for further hikes as the average revenue per user levels in India were still much lower than in smaller countries in the region

A dance festival dedicated to former President Kalam, hosted by Aatmalaya Academy, invited dancers to experiment with an unconventional theme

Refreshing interpretations of ‘Krishna Bharatam’ marked the Natyarangam festival.

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

At some point in their career, every designer has heard the request to make an element "pop more". The premise is simple: to draw attention to a particular element in a layout, make it stand out. However, in practice, the opposite effect often occurs.

Consider the overlaid promotions, tips, or call-outs typically found in an interface. To get these elements noticed, designers will apply contrasting colors, shapes, fonts, and more. All in an attempt to make things pop. But if a pop-up or any element of a user interface for that matter looks too different from the rest of the design, people will often perceive it as something that doesn't belong (like an ad) and dismiss it.

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We see overlay avoidance consistently in the research we conduct with mobile users. Especially when people are task focussed. Then when they do come to use a new function they can't find the help and don't recall seeing the help previously."
-Lisa Duddington 
Co-founder, Keep It Usable

As Lisa points out, when people are task-focused, they ignore and quickly dismiss overlays assuming they aren’t there to support their core flow but instead to distract from it. Some of these dismissals may even be accidental. That is, people just get rid of dialog-like things by instinct and without thinking.

"We saw this all the time at Facebook. People very often, instinctively, dismiss tooltips. On occasion even accidentally. By the time they realize the message may have been helpful, it's already gone and there's no way to recover it."
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Tanner Christensen 
Product Designer, Facebook

In cases where the overall actually had useful information, when its gone so is the useful information. And there's usually no way to get it back. Probably not the intended effect of making an overlay more noticeable through design.

On the other hand, if the pop-up looks like an integrated part of the app or website, it's much more likely to be considered and perceived as relevant. In Red Laser’s case, making the primary action button huge and red led to users completely ignoring it. In subsequent redesigns, they toned down the shape and added a label, making it feel more like part of the core navigation. They even dropped the different color.

"We made our ‘scan’ button huge and a different color from the rest of the nav menu and users entirely ignored it."
-Miles Skorpen, Head of Business Development, Red Laser

As these examples illustrate, instead of making elements visually distinct to be noticed, designers should focus on integrating important elements seamlessly into the user interface. This ensures that crucial actions and information are perceived as part of the overall user experience, rather than distractions to be dismissed.

New device could boost telecommunications and be adapted for photonics

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Produced by WIRED Brand Lab with AWS | Chatboxes serve an important role in customer service, and some require knowledge of many languages to run globally, which can be costly and time-consuming. Autodesk uses AWS Inferentia to help its chatbox, AVA, route questions through multiple ML models at once and generate responses in milliseconds - serving 5x the amount of customers at half the cost.

Produced by WIRED Brand Lab with Expedia Group | Over the past 10 years, how we travel has been completely transformed by social media, technology, and the gig economy. With the proliferation of short-term rentals, we’ve seen a shift in the way housing in communities operates. Your neighbor could change every weekend, and your little corner bodega is now a travel hot spot. Short-term rentals open up local tourism in a new way. But with new regulations severely limiting short-term rentals in one of the largest cities in the world, what does the future of the industry look like?

“This was disclosed in a meeting of AP Minister for Education, IT and Electronics Nara Lokesh with representatives of the Vedanta Group subsidiary at the company’s office in Mumbai on Thursday” 

Kerala Hotel & Restaurant Association leaders warn the tax will severely impact small and medium establishments lacking input tax benefits

In conversation with Ajoy Chawla, CEO, Tanishq, the jewellery division of Titan Co Ltd 

Online www.digitsecrets.net/fix-quot-windows-modules-installer-worker-quot-tutorial data room technology is used to share secret files during important organization events like due diligence, M&As, IPOs and private equity agreements. Companies, law firms and even gov departments use this answer to streamline cooperation with other partners and stakeholders. Moreover, various non-profit establishments are using this way to save their limited means […]

Several studies have suggested that the risk of the Atlantic current changing has been greatly underestimated, the scientists said.

Current pledges can cut emissions by 2.6%, far from the 43% scientists say is necessary to ward off catastrophic warming

EOS-8 turns 100th satellite that incorporated Ananth Tech components

Derivatives traders can either go short on futures contract or buy a put option, depending on the risk appetite

The study showed that decreased care and increased control from the mother, high autonomy from father and increased rejection from both parents as risk factors associated with adolescent internet excessive use

Temple visits and short wedding trips aren’t enough — people are now solo travelling with an ageing parent to reconnect and create memories. It is an elite trend that needs more takers, across the board