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CLOTHING August 3, 2018 Dear clothing manufacturers – fat women want clothes that fit their curves not bigger versions of your original designs
By: Loknath DasPlus-size clothing aren’t always made to fit (Picture: Mmuffin for Metro.co.uk) I love high street clothes shopping. The obsession began from the first rite of passage trip sans-mum with a few fellow 16-year-old friends round the local mall (OK, so it was a tiny Berkshire shopping centre, but Clueless had just come out). Since then, […]
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COMPUTERS July 25, 2018 EU Expected to Fine Philips, Pioneer, and Asus for Restricting Online Sales of Their Products
By: Loknath DasDutch healthcare technology company Philips and three other companies are expected to be fined by EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday for restricting online sales of their products, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The ruling by the European Commission follows a 17-month investigation as part of its crackdown against curbs on online cross-border sales […]
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COMPUTERS July 9, 2018 Seagate Launches New BarraCuda SSD With Up to 2TB Capacity Ahead of Amazon Prime Day
By: Loknath DasHIGHLIGHTS BarraCuda SSD is equipped with the SATA 6Gb/s interface It comes with a 5-year warranty The SSD is listed on Amazon in the US Seagate is a popular brand in the storage market, known primarily of its hard drives. Though the company has been manufacturing solid-state drives (SSD) for some time now, the focus has […]
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NEWS July 4, 2018 Honor Note 10 to Be Launched Soon After 2 Years of Development: George Zhao
By: Loknath DasHIGHLIGHTS The development has been confirmed by Honor President George Zhao Honor Note 9 was skipped last year Pricing and launch details are not available yet Honor is all set to revive its Note series of smartphones after skipping a launch last year. The Huawei-owned brand has now confirmed that the Honor Note 10 is coming soon, after two […]
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ELECTRONICS July 4, 2018 Samsung Expected to See Lacklustre Sales of Premium Galaxy Smartphones
By: Loknath DasSamsung Electronics Co is expected to post its smallest profit growth in more than a year in the second quarter, as lacklustre sales of its premium Galaxy smartphones overshadow its highly profitable chip business. Analysts expect Samsung’s smartphone sales to drop in the April-June quarter, following a more than 2 percent drop in the previous quarter […]
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NEWS June 21, 2018 Chicago Airport Plan Is Just One of Many Elon Musk Dream Projects
By: Loknath DasA newly announced project by billionaire innovator Elon Musk for a tunnel transit system that would carry travellers to and from Chicago O’Hare International Airport at up to 150 mph (241 kmph) is just another project on a growing list of Musk dream projects. A look at some of the SpaceX and Tesla CEO’s most ambitious projects, where they stand now […]
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CLOTHING June 5, 2018 The Sexist History Of No Pockets In Women’s Clothing
By: Loknath DasAn historical reenactment of medieval bags. Photo: DEA / C. BALOSSINI / Getty When shopping for women’s jeans, how many times have you found yourself disappointed with the pockets of the garment? They are either fake or too small to serve the purpose of being a pocket. As women, we all are also familiar with […]
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ELECTRONICS May 25, 2018 India inks MoU for cooperation in the field of Electronics and IT
By: Loknath DasThe Union Cabinet chaired by Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on 23 May, approved of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Angola for mutual support in the field of Electronics and Information Technologies. The MoU aims at achieving closer cooperation between the two countries in the areas of e-Governance, Human Resource […]
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ELECTRONICS May 25, 2018 Mirc Electronics, maker of Onida, looks at 20% revenue from non-captive manufacturing in FY19
By: Loknath DasMirc Electronics, the maker of popular household electronic goods under the Onida brand, is looking to get into strategic alliances and eyeing 20 percent turnover from non-captive manufacturing in FY19. In an interaction with Moneycontrol, Vijay Mansukhani, Managing Director, Mirc Electronics, said that the company has been approached by peers for strategic alliances on manufacturing. […]
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ELECTRONICS May 12, 2018 Android P Might Just Be the Beginning of the End of Android Fragmentation
By: Loknath DasHIGHLIGHTS Android P will finally leverage the effort gone into Project Treble Android beta is available to non-Pixel phones for the first time Go edition for P is coming too It’s been 10 years since Android was first launched and Google has come a long way in tweaking and improving the functionality of the operating system, to a point […]
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ELECTRONICS May 7, 2018 Embroidering electronics into the next generation of “smart” fabrics
By: Loknath DasThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Archaeology reveals that humans started wearing clothes some 170,000 years ago, very close to the second-to-last ice age. Even now, though, most modern humans wear clothes that are only barely different from those earliest garments. But that’s about to change as flexible electronics are increasingly woven into what are being […]
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ELECTRONICS May 7, 2018 Electronics Development, Test, and Verification of Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems for Space Applications
By: Loknath DasElectronics Development, Test, and Verification of Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems for Space Applications Your mission: The Institute of Space Systems in Bremen designs and analyzes future spacecraft and space missions (launchers, orbital and exploration systems, and satellites), and assesses them with regard to their technical performance and cost. It applies state-of-the-art methods of multi-disciplinary […]