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Lockdown movie strikes eerie note at German virtual film festival

Friederich imagine a world where an oppressive state has locked down all gatherings of people to minimise risk from a nebulous threat



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'Bois Locker Room': A New Nightmare

Delhi Police has filed cases linked to an Instagram Group named ‘Bois Locker Room’. This online group allegedly involved teenage boys, who casually talked about rape, slut- shamming and sexual objectification of underage girls. They degra




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The "Bois Locker Room" Chat Group

What has happened?In the late evening hours of Saturday, purported screenshots of chats between boys and girls in a group called the “Bois Locker Room” started making rounds on social media. By early morning of Sunday, the screenshots had




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Running free across Paris in lockdown

Agile and astute, Simon Nogueira wanders over the rooftops of Paris.




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La Scala opens virtual tour during COVID-19 lockdown

The project includes virtual tours of the theater, backstage and museum, along with 240,000 archival photos and 16,000 documents, more than 40 digital exhibits and close-up views of costumes worn by stars such as Maria Callas. Performances of operas are available on another platform through Italy’s RAI state television




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From medical consultations, dating to workouts: How internet is keeping our worlds running amid lockdowns

From home workouts and remote medical consultations to online classes and even virtual dating, technology today is ensuring that our lives go on, albeit from behind the screen




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Coronavirus lockdown: AI to solve definition problem as Indians consume more data

The start-ups have an ingenious solution to the problem, where the use of artificial intelligence can help companies achieve this.




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Health, fitness apps see more downloads amid lockdown

CureFit claims that as many as two lakh people are attending its live classes every day on the app.




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Remote working during Coronavirus lockdown: Backups are a job worth doing

To help you out, Windows has BitLocker, Macs have FileVault, and Linux has LUKS and cryptsetup, which can be used to create encrypted drives and partitions.




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Covid-19 lockdown: Crowd control via eye in the sky

Police forces in Sangli (Maharashtra) and Guwahati, Assam have deployed drones, provided by homegrown unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) maker ideaForge, for surveillance of public spaces.




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Lockdown essentials: Drinks for a rainy day

Both these elements have been able to ease the pain and despair of social separation by their ubiquitous yet inconspicuous nature.




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Lockdown detox: ‘Skin fasting’ aids healing

It's true that our skin needs regular breaks from makeup and repetitive layers of creams and moisturisers, more so for those with inflamed skin.




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Coronavirus lockdown: Gig economy, or gagged economy?

Thanks to the Coronavirus outbreak and the resultant global economic gloom, many freelancers today are out of work and bereft of opportunities, as companies cut losses and shrink budgets to survive.




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Home office: 7 tips, tricks to work from home like a pro during COVID-19 lockdown

Connecting over a quick video call with a teammate (or two) every day to talk about your respective days can be a big help.




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Games people play: Online games are providing much more than just entertainment in lockdown

Exploring the world, going on an adventure or practising life in quarantine, online games are providing much more than just entertainment in lockdown.




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Lockdown impact: STEPapp gets 3 lakh new users

The gamified learning app for school students to be relaunched in all subjects.




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Uber resumes operations in green, orange zones amid lockdown

In a bid to curb the transmission of novel Coronavirus, India suspended public transport services and enforced a nearly two-month country-wide lockdown that is currently set to end on May 17.




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Maiden round-the-clock renewable energy auction gets tariff of Rs 2.90/unit

Since renewable energy is unpredictable in nature, other sources of energy are required for balancing it, increasing the actual cost of such power, dissuading state-run power distribution companies from buying such electricity.




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Job cuts, zero production activity due to lockdown: What the Centre must do now

A fully Keynesian approach will need to be taken by the government. People are losing jobs and production activity has come to a standstill due to the lockdown.




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Stranded in lockdown? Modi govt brings this change in residential status for tax purposes

The nationwide lockdown suspended the operation of international flights and such people were had to prolong their stay in India. They were concerned that the extra stay due to lockdown may make them a resident of India for tax purposes under section 6 of the Act.




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COVID-19 lockdown: Delayed academic plans and uncertainty-anxiety grips CBSE class 12 students

The COVID-19 lockdown, came with a different set of concerns for class 12 students, whose board exams were postponed midway following the outbreak of coronavirus, putting on hold their future plans as well.




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Lockdown 3.0: More firms across sectors partially resume operations

The government had last week permitted the companies to restore their manufacturing operations in red, green and organ zones with certain riders.




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"Don't Visit Linkin Park": Mumbai Police's Musical Warning Amid Lockdown

Mumbai Police asked residents to respect lockdown rules - and enlisted the help of some popular bands to do so.




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Can You Decode Mumbai Police's Lockdown Mandate? Twitter Is Divided

Mumbai Police drew inspiration from a topic that has been trending all over social media - the name of Elon Musk's newborn baby boy - to devise a brainteaser with an important message.




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PSU banks to be affected due to coal block cancellation

10 Mid-sized PSU banks to be most affected due to coal block cancellation




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Smart lock company LockState closes $5.8M Series A to fast track sales & partnerships

Smart Lock Company LockState raised $5.8M Series A in new investment to fund its aggressive sales and marketing and partner development plan. The company previously raised $740K seed round and $1M in a round led by angel investors. The lead investor in latest round was Iron Gate Capital. Other investors include Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc, Nelnet and Service Provider Capital.

Access Control Dashboard and WiFi Smart Locks

The company’s Wi-Fi-enabled RemoteLock is used by 1000s of Airbnb and other vacation rental hosts. It helps hosts remotely provide access to guests. Locking/unlocking codes can be generated via a host’s computer or smartphone.

RemoteLock’s prices start at $299 which is its algorithmic ResortLock. The most pricey lock by LockState is its ‘RemoteLock 7i Black WiFi Commercial Smart Lock’ which costs $479.

Another core product of LockState is its cloud-based remote access platform for internet-enabled locks. It implies users can remotely manage their (internet-enabled) locks via LockState’s cloud platform.

Unlike smartphones and watches, customers don’t look forward to upgrading their smart locks or buying one when new models are launched. Thus, smart lock companies offset this disadvantage by partnering with property management and short-term rental companies to get new customers.

LockState has partnered with vacation rental brands like Airbnb, HomeAway, and other listing partners to automate guest access.

“We are expanding our footprint and moving into a new warehouse office that is more than twice the size of our current office. We’re also staffing up our sales and marketing teams. We’ve accomplished a lot without investing heavily in marketing so we’ll support that area to keep our momentum going. We intend to expand into new business-to-business and enterprise verticals where we’re seeing the market grow. We are also dedicating budget toward development.” Nolan Mondrow, CEO of LockState in a statement released to news site Venture Beat

Igloohome a Singapore-based smart lock company also raised an investment of $4M in April this year.




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Enjoy the Fresh Air While It Lasts! Lockdown Causes Drop in SA Air Pollution

[GroundUp] This may be little comfort to people facing hunger or crippling job losses because of the lockdown, but air pollution is nevertheless a major global killer




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How to Protect Women From Violence Under Lockdowns? Send Cash

[African Arguments] Domestic abuse has spiked under COVID-19. Cash transfers are no panacea, but they've been shown to reduce violence and can be adapted.




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Russia domestic violence cases more than double under lockdown

Figures from human rights commissioner paint different picture to that provided by police

Reported cases of domestic violence in Russia have more than doubled during the country’s coronavirus lockdown, according to the Russian human rights commissioner, who painted a different picture to that provided by police data.

Complaints and reports made to Russian non-governmental organisations spiked from roughly 6,000 in March to more than 13,000 in April, Tatyana Moskalkova said on Tuesday. “The picture is rather non-optimistic,” the RIA Novosti news agency quoted her as saying.

Related: 'Calamitous': domestic violence set to soar by 20% during global lockdown

Related: How the killing of an abusive father by his daughters fuelled Russia's culture wars

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Quantus Qrc Extraction of a block

I have completed physical design of a block in innovus. I want to extract rc of that block using quantus .  It will be very helpful if you give step by step procedure and command to run quantus to extract rc of that block.




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Post-synthesis Simulation Failing when lp_insert_clock_gating true

When I enable clock gating in my synthesis flow (using Genus 18.15), my simulation (using Xcelium) on the post-synthesis netlist fails. The simulation succeeds pre-synthesis and also if I remove clock-gating in the design. I use set_db  lp_insert_clock_gating true to enable clock gating during synthesis. I printed out some of the signals from the netlist and can see where it fails (it incorrectly writes a register). However, I am not sure how to solve this issue or what I should be looking for. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.




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QPSS with non-50% dutycycle square wave clocks (For sample and hold)

Hello,

Would anyone know how to setup a PSS or QPSS simulation with 25% dutycycle clock sources or if such a thing is possible with QPSS.

Fig1 (below) is a snapshot of the circuit I am trying to characterize. This has 4 clock ports each with 25%duty cycle in the ON state. Fig2 below shows two of these clocks.

Each path in the circuit consists of two switches with a low pass RC sandwiched in between. The Input is a 50Ohm port sine wave and the output is a 1K resistor. The output nets of all paths are connected together.

I am trying to determine the swept frequency response from input to output (voltage) when the input is from 500Mhz to  510MHz. The Period (T=1/Fp) of each of the pulses is such that Fp=500MHz. The first pulse source has a delay=0, second has delay=T/4, third delay=2T/4, etc...

I am currently getting it working and seeing the correct result (bandpass response) with Transient but the problem is doing a dft at 500MHz with 10KHz spacings needs at least 100us and takes up a lot of time and disk space.

Many Thanks,
Chris.



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axlDBTextBlockCompact(nil)

I am trying to understand why axlDBTextBlockCompact(nil) on my test case says it can compact the text blocks down to 38, whereas I find only a total of 26 unique text block references in axlDBGetDesign()->text, axlDBGetDesign()->symbols and axlDBGetDesign()->symdefs. Where else are text blocks used besides these three?




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Accurate delay measurement between two clocks

Hi,

I am currently struggling with measuring the delay between two clocks with a sufficient accuracy. The reference one is a fixed-phase clock, and the other one is a squared clock resulting of a circuit (kind of PLL) synthesis.
As I need to run a large amount of Monte-Carlo simulations in transient noise, I need to improve the simulation speed, while keeping a satisfactory delay measurement accuracy (<0.1ps), more specifically at 0V-crossings of the differential clocks. So I cannot simply set a max timestep <0.1ps as it would be far too long to simulate.
To sum up, I would need a very relaxed timestep on clock up and down levels, and a very short timestep only at rise/fall transitions.

For this purpose, I wrote a Verilog-A script
- using a timmer function to accurately emulate the reference clock 0V-crossing times (and get the related times with $abstime)
- using @(cross to get the 0V-crossing times of the synthesized clock: but this is not accurate enough (I see simulation noise around 3ps in Conservative). Indeed, the "cross" event occures at the simulation time following the effective 0V-crossing time; this could be sometimes >3ps, far not enough accurate for my purpose.
- I have tried to replace the cross with the "above" function, but it hasn't changed anything, whatever the time_tol value I put (<0.1ps for instance), the result is the same as with the "cross" function and the points are larger than >>0.1ps, weirdly.

So I have decided to give up Verilog-A to measure the delay between my two clocks.
I am currently trying to use the "delay" function of the Cadence Calculator as I guess it will "extrapolate" the time between two simulation points and therefore give a more accurate measurement of the 0V-crossing events, but when I try to compute the delay difference between the synthesized clock and the reference clock, it returns "0".

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Could you please give me hints to dramatically improve my 0V-crossing time measurements while relaxing the simulation time?
- either by helping me in writing a more suitable Verilog-A script
- or by helping me in using the "delay" function of the calculator
- or maybe by providing me a "magic" Skill function?
Using AMS+Multithread simulator...

Thanks a lot in advance for your help and best regards.




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Library Characterization Tidbits: Exploring Intuitive Means to Characterize Large Mixed-Signal Blocks

Let’s review a key characteristic feature of Cadence Liberate AMS Mixed-Signal Characterization that offers to you ease of use along with many other benefits like automation of standard Liberty model creation and improvement of up to 20X throughput.(read more)




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Virtuosity: Can You Build Lego Masterpieces with All Blocks of One Size?

The way you need blocks of different sizes and styles to build great Lego masterpieces, a complex WSP-based design requires stitching together routing regions with multiple patterns that follow different WSSPDef periods. Let's see how you can achieve this. (read more)




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#Lockdown: এ কোন কলকাতা. সোশ্যাল মিডিয়ায় ছবি পোস্ট করলেন বিস্মিত ‘দাদা’




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#Lockdown: মারণ রোগকে রুখতে ‘বিরাট’ বার্তা কোহলির, শুনে নিন ভিডিও বার্তা




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India Lockdown: ફસાયેલા લોકોને ટ્રેનથી જવાની કેન્દ્ર સરકારે આપી મંજુરી

India Lockdown: ફસાયેલા લોકોને ટ્રેનથી જવાની કેન્દ્ર સરકારે આપી મંજુરી




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Modi સરકારે ત્રીજી વખત Lockdown માં કર્યો વધારો, જાણો કેટલા દિવસ સુધી રહેશે લોકડાઉન ?

Modi સરકારે ત્રીજી વખત Lockdown માં કર્યો વધારો, જાણો કેટલા દિવસ સુધી રહેશે લોકડાઉન ?




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Lockdown Part 3- રેડ, ગ્રીન અને ઓરેન્જ ઝોનમાં શું ખુલ્લું રહેશે અને શું બંધ

લૉકડાઉનને (Lockdown Part 3)4 મે થી આગામી બે સપ્તાહ સુધી વધારવાની જાહેરાત કરવામાં આવી છે. એટલે કે 17 મે સુધી લૉકડાઉન રહેશે




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આજથી દેશભરમાં Lockdown 3.0 નું પ્રારંભ, શરતોના આધારે અપાશે છૂટછાટ

આજથી દેશભરમાં Lockdown 3.0 નું પ્રારંભ, શરતોના આધારે અપાશે છૂટછાટ




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India Lockdown: Delhi માં દારૂ બાદ વેટમાં વધારો થતાં પેટ્રોલ-ડીઝલ પણ મોંઘું

India Lockdown: Delhi માં દારૂ બાદ વેટમાં વધારો થતાં પેટ્રોલ-ડીઝલ પણ મોંઘું




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Bois Locker Room Case : પોલીસે યુવકની કરી ધરપકડ, 22 અન્યની પણ થઇ ઓળખ




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Lockdownમાં ફસાયેલા ભારતીયોને જોઈ લોકો દૂર ભાગે છે, કોરોના-કોરોના બૂમો પાડી હલ્લો કરે છે

લોકડાઉનના કારણે તેમને ઘણી મુસીબતોનો સામનો કરવો પડી રહ્યો છે. ત્યાંના સ્થાનિક લોકો વિદેશીઓને જોઈ કોરોના-કોરોનાની બુમો પાડી ભાગી જાય છે. એવામાં હવે કોઈની મદદ મળવી પણ મુશ્કેલ થઈ ગઈ છે.




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44 દિવસથી ફસાયેલા છે 9 મહેમાન, યજમાને કહ્યું - Lockdownએ તો મારી નાંખ્યા!

દીકરીને જોવા આવ્યા હતા મહેમાન, લોકડાઉન થતા 44 દિવસ માટે યજમાનના ઘરે અટવાઇ પડ્યો પરિવાર




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Lockdownમાં પ્રેમી યુગલ માલગાડીમાં બેસી ફરાર, આવી રીતે પકડાયા

એક પ્રેમી યુગલ ગુપચુપ રીતે ઉત્તર પ્રદેશના આગ્રાથી એક માલગાડીમાં સંતાઈને નાસિક જવા માટે નિકળી પડ્યું હતું




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મહત્વના સમાચાર : Lockdown બાદ દેશભરની સ્કૂલોમાં આ પ્રકારે બાળકોને ભણાવવામાં આવશે

દેશભરમાં સ્કૂલ-કોલેજને બંધ કરી દેવામાં આવી છે. પરંતુ એ નક્કી થઈ ગયું છે કે, દેશભરમાં જ્યારે લોકડાઉન ખતમ થયા બાદ સ્કૂલ ખૂલશે તો, તેમાં પણ અભ્યાસ કરવાની રીત એવી નહી રહે, જેવી પહેલા હતી.




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Lockdown3 : શ્રમિકોની હચમચાવી નાંખતી તસવીર, પ્લાસ્ટિકની બોટલ પહેરી વતનની વાટ પકડી

દેશમાં હજુ પણ પરપ્રાંતીયોનું સ્થળાંતર ચર્ચામાં છે. સરકારના ટ્રેનમાં લઈ જવાના દાવાઓ વચ્ચે પણ દેશભરમાંથી જે તસવીરો આવી રહી છે તે હચમચાવી નાખતી તસવીર છે.




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Corona Lockdown: ঘরবন্দিতে জমিয়ে বিনোদন, এবার ফ্রিতেই দেখুন পর্নহাব