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Fake news cannot be unseen

As it brings more people online, a phrase that is heard most often since the onset of 2018 is ‘Fake news’.

American stereotypes of masculinity demand boys and men to be strong, aggressive, unemotional and anti-female. In spite of marches and campus violence protests, campuses are dangerous places for cis and trans women.

Survey trashes India, US on women

India has been branded the most dangerous country for women and the USA third.

09 Jul 2018 1:53 AM

Mr Blum and his organisation’s incomplete and misleading data analysis paint a dangerously inaccurate picture of Harvard College’s whole-person admissions process by omitting critical data and information factors.

What Harvard says

As they know, this work was explicitly understood to be preliminary and incomplete, and it was done with limited admissions data.

04 Jul 2018 2:30 AM

Many states in India follow the reservations policy as part of affirmative action and social engineering. So for us to argue against racial balancing in the U.S. is far-fetched.

Race neutrality helps students grow

It is in a nation’s best interests to properly develop the minds of its brightest and best so they may be able to tackle the problems of the future.

04 Jul 2018 2:27 AM

The superior Ivy League colleges have committed discrimination against AsAm students.

Attempt to limit Asian Americans in universities

Today, the average percentage of Jewish students is 25 per cent on Ivy League campuses, with a 6-million population.

04 Jul 2018 2:14 AM

Trump has been a target himself: On the cover of its April 2 issue, New York magazine depicted the President as a pig.

Speech that wreaks havoc

History is replete with instances of the havoc played by dehumanising language.

27 Jun 2018 2:38 AM

Due to Modi floods, all cats, dogs, snakes and mongoose are getting together to contest polls: Amit Shah on Opposition

Time for rhetoric of justice

The language became threatening as a witch-hunt.

27 Jun 2018 2:35 AM

Experts believe the system will be able to handle posts containing hate speech, racism and sexism.

AI learns to ditch swear words

The new sentence was then translated back to see how closely it resembled the original.

27 Jun 2018 2:33 AM

The new voting equipment was largely touch screen computers that are still very inferior to the EVMs India uses.

Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: EVMs too need a physical record

Many people are quite surprised when it turns out that computer scientists and security experts are among those most critical of EVMs.

18 Jun 2018 1:57 AM

EVMs make the election process transparent. Counting is more efficient and the results can be declared in 3-4 hours instead of the traditional 30-40 hours taken to count votes manually.

Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: Glitches apart, EVMs are necessary

The issue of ‘tamperability’ of EVMs has been doing the rounds ever since they were introduced.

18 Jun 2018 1:53 AM

Dams across river valleys and canyons also form part of rainwater harvesting by human intervention.

Europe can demolish at will

Dams, natural or manmade, across drainage systems, vary depending upon the order of stream in a hydrologic sense.

11 Jun 2018 6:01 AM

Dams serve multiple purposes in managing the regimes of rivers and also water security for large parts of the basin.

No swadeshi takers for the clamour

This write-up presents a view from a tropical developing country point of view.

11 Jun 2018 5:54 AM

Data predict that it will take more than 200 years before there are equal numbers of men and women working in senior roles in physics, given current trends.

STEM the gender gap

Despite recent progress, the gender gap appears likely to persist for generations, particularly in computer science, physics, and maths.

06 Jun 2018 1:21 AM

The eco-labelling programme there has been pushed by government procurement. In India, too, the Government is the largest consumer of goods and services so if Government decides to buy only eco-labelled products it would be an impetus to eco-labelling in India.

Eco logos yet to take root

Recently we did a report on the fast-food industry and looked at their policy on antibiotics in developed countries and India.

27 May 2018 2:58 AM

Eco-labelling is a step towards sustainability, critics though question the purity of logos. There have been lapses by certifying agencies and overlapping of certifier-industry interests. But the onus is on consumers not to splurge on green labelled-products and undermine sustainability.

A corporate Greenwash: Don’t let bad guys hijack green labels

Do not splurge on supposedly green products and discourage sustainability.

27 May 2018 2:54 AM

There are three main kinds of AIs at present: algorithm-based, neural-network- based machine learning, and deep learning.

How artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world

Is AIs safe? Can they be trusted with real-world responsibilities?.

23 May 2018 2:20 AM

Machines learn the same biases of their creators because it is only as good as the data it learns from

AI has the power to learn, grow

You feel the world is following you because Facebook gives you content which it thinks you like.

23 May 2018 2:17 AM

20 satellites make up the Global Positioning System, or GPS, enabling precise positions to be measured at any time.

In biz models, no free lunch even in space

The US is in the forefront in this kind of multiple constellations that are looking at different parts of the world.

17 May 2018 2:14 AM

Data from more than half of unclassified Earth-observing satellites is restricted.

Deciding who can access satellite data

In fact, data from more than half of all unclassified government Earth observing satellites launched between 1957 and 2016 is restricted in some way.

17 May 2018 2:10 AM

‘Grooming’ is a process of engaging the child/adolescent in sexual acts by developing trust.

CSA is about power and domination

While one method of CSA is coercive, violent abuse of children, the other processes by which abuses happen are far more insidious.

07 May 2018 4:00 AM

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