Krack is based on true incidents

Slated for release next summer, Krack is being produced by B. Madhu while Tamil actors Samuthirakani and Varalakshmi Sarath Kumar have also been roped in for major roles. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://danmooredesigns.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/413455/Default.aspx

MG Road in Kochi awaits redemption

While Broadway finally got its revival plan, with CSML submitting a DPR and tenders to be floated this month, MG Road stretch continues to be plagued with misery. "Business was slowing down even before the advent of the metro came. After construction, it became almost nil. The situation remains the same now. Lack of parking facilities, increased rent and traffic bottleneck have all played their part," said TGF Paul, general secretary, Ernakulam Merchants Association. Flawed proposal? G Karthikeyan, president, Kerala Merchants Chamber of Commerce, feels enabling parking space will help businesses to a large extent. "The proposal mooted by KMRL comprised pedestrianisation, with no parking facilities; the very reason it was rejected. We had requested authorities to build a multi-level parking facility to benefit customers but the same fell through. Last week, the Assistant Commissioner of Traffic had called a meeting to resolve related issues. Traffic officials suggest measures to ban parking. But, this will do nothing to improve sales. Hopefully,Operation Anantha will bring a solution to clogged drains and the waterlogged road," he said. Pedestrian plaza,the solution "Earlier, KMRL had suggested converting MG Road into a pedestrian plaza, like the one inaugurated in Chennai yesterday. Such a plaza comprises one-way vehicular traffic, pedestrian-friendly facilities, street performances and outdoor dining. It would also contain proper stormwater drainage systems. Most modern cities have adopted this form of development. The pedestrian plaza was supposed to extend from Maharaja's to the Madhava Pharmacy Junction. However, a few business traders opposed the report which became politicised, eventually leading to the project being dropped," said D Dhanuraj, chairman, Centre for Public Policy Research. He added that notion that awareness about the project must be effectively spread among the stakeholders involved. "Business traders had genuine concerns. As per the report, vehicles would be able to traverse one-way. This had them wondering about the state of shops on the other side. Another primary claim is that of parking space. If the feeder services employed at Metro functioned efficiently, parking space would not be a problem. The report also involved a hop-on service. Unfortunately, the larger public was unable to get the thrust of the project. Residents' associations and the Corporation could have been more involved," he said. Meanwhile, KMRL sources said they had held discussions with various stakeholders. "During the initial phase of the discussions, the outcome wasn't fruitful. We are keen to beautify the stretch," said the source. One-way traffic As per the report submitted by the Kochi Metro, vehicles would be able to travel one-way. This had the merchants wondering about the state of shops on the other side. Another primary claim is that of parking space. KMRL version KMRL sources said they had held discussions with various stakeholders. "During the initial level of the discussions, the outcome wasn't fruitful. We are keen to beautify the stretch," said the source. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/neutosgotham

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Research develops new way to remove carbon dioxide from air

The technique, based on passing air through a stack of charged electrochemical plates, is described in a new paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, by MIT postdoc Sahag Voskian, who developed the work during his Ph.D., and T. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering. The device is essentially a large, specialised battery that absorbs carbon dioxide from the air (or another gas stream) passing over its electrodes as it is being charged up, and then releases the gas as it is being discharged. In operation, the device would simply alternate between charging and discharging, with fresh air or feed gas being blown through the system during the charging cycle, and then the pure, concentrated carbon dioxide being blown out during the discharging. As the battery charges, an electrochemical reaction takes place at the surface of each of a stack of electrodes. These are coated with a compound called polyanthraquinone, which is composited with carbon nanotubes. The electrodes have a natural affinity for carbon dioxide and readily react with its molecules in the airstream or feed gas, even when it is present at very low concentrations. The reverse reaction takes place when the battery is discharged -- during which the device can provide part of the power needed for the whole system -- and in the process ejects a stream of pure carbon dioxide. The whole system operates at room temperature and normal air pressure. "The greatest advantage of this technology over most other carbon capture or carbon-absorbing technologies is the binary nature of the adsorbent's affinity to carbon dioxide," explains Voskian. In other words, the electrode material, by its nature, "has either a high affinity or no affinity whatsoever," depending on the battery's state of charging or discharging. Other reactions used for carbon capture require intermediate chemical processing steps or the input of significant energy such as heat, or pressure differences. "This binary affinity allows capture of carbon dioxide from any concentration, including 400 parts per million, and allows its release into any carrier stream, including 100 per cent CO2," Voskian says. That is, as any gas flows through the stack of these flat electrochemical cells, during the release step the captured carbon dioxide will be carried along with it. For example, if the desired end-product is pure carbon dioxide to be used in the carbonation of beverages, then a stream of the pure gas can be blown through the plates. The captured gas is then released from the plates and joins the stream. In some soft-drink bottling plants, fossil fuel is burned to generate the carbon dioxide needed to give the drinks their fizz. Similarly, some farmers burn natural gas to produce carbon dioxide to feed their plants in greenhouses. The new system could eliminate that need for fossil fuels in these applications, and in the process actually be taking the greenhouse gas right out of the air, Voskian says. Alternatively, the pure carbon dioxide stream could be compressed and injected underground for long-term disposal, or even made into fuel through a series of chemical and electrochemical processes. The process this system uses for capturing and releasing carbon dioxide "is revolutionary" he says. "All of this is at ambient conditions -- there's no need for thermal, pressure, or chemical input. It's just these very thin sheets, with both surfaces active, that can be stacked in a box and connected to a source of electricity." "In my laboratories, we have been striving to develop new technologies to tackle a range of environmental issues that avoid the need for thermal energy sources, changes in system pressure, or addition of chemicals to complete the separation and release cycles," Hatton says. "This carbon dioxide capture technology is a clear demonstration of the power of electrochemical approaches that require only small swings in voltage to drive the separations." In a working plant -- for example, in a power plant where exhaust gas is being produced continuously -- two sets of such stacks of the electrochemical cells could be set up side by side to operate in parallel, with flue gas being directed first at one set for carbon capture, then diverted to the second set while the first set goes into its discharge cycle. By alternating back and forth, the system could always be both capturing and discharging the gas. In the lab, the team has proven the system can withstand at least 7,000 charging-discharging cycles, with a 30 per cent loss in efficiency over that time. The researchers estimate that they can readily improve that to 20,000 to 50,000 cycles. The electrodes themselves can be manufactured by standard chemical processing methods. While today this is done in a laboratory setting, it can be adapted so that ultimately they could be made in large quantities through a roll-to-roll manufacturing process similar to a newspaper printing press, Voskian says. "We have developed very cost-effective techniques," he says, estimating that it could be produced for something like tens of dollars per square meter of the electrode. Compared to other existing carbon capture technologies, this system is quite energy-efficient, using about one gigajoule of energy per ton of carbon dioxide captured, consistently. Other existing methods have energy consumption which varies between 1 to 10 gigajoules per ton, depending on the inlet carbon dioxide concentration, Voskian says. The researchers have set up a company called Verdox to commercialize the process, and hope to develop a pilot-scale plant within the next few years, he says. And the system is very easy to scale up, he says: "If you want more capacity, you just need to make more electrodes." ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://www.cruzroja.es/creforumvolint_en/user/profile/60508.page

Have a heart, mind you! our brains are smaller.

This is sure to agitate some nationalists who may believe that the synapses of ancient Indians were firing faster than anyone else's in the world. However, anthropologists and cognitive scientists insist that the size of the human brain has nothing do with the smarts since it has been shrinking for the past 20,000 years. Judging by the performance of news anchors and politicians, the relationship between brains and IQ is crystal clear. Didn't the shouter-in-chief call Sunny Deol, Sunny Leone? A DD News anchor pronounced Chinese President Xi Jinping's name as 'Eleven' Jinping, confusing Xi and the Roman numerical. Rahul Gandhi's scatterbrained approach decimated his party-in India earlier this year and in Haryana last month. Voters' brains proved to be superior: the Congress fared better in places where Rahul and Sonia did not hold election meetings. Other netas with swollen brains did not see vote share and cranial matter contracting symbiotically. How do you explain leaders like Salman Khurshid, whose left temporal cortex and left parietal cortex got him through Oxford, concluding that the last poll results show his party's decline is over when the Congress failed to come to power in both states? Kanhaiya Kumar's left lobes and ideology do not compute well. Donald Trump's words and actions on immigration, the Middle East, NATO and the US economy prove he is totally brainless and has been brainwashed by Putin to betray his country. Imran Khan's brainwave was a common border to Japan and Germany. A CBSE textbook said non-vegetarians are violent liars who commit sex crimes. That a Bollywood brainbox continues to make flop movies and floppier serials shows that all what happens in the cortex is not cognitively cool. Mainstream scientists do not place mind over brain matter. This is why they cannot see beyond the heart's corporeal form. The thing pulsing inside the skull influences our decisions, but the invisible, unexplained and immense entities called the heart, the mind and the soul endure even after civilisations die. Says the Bhagavad Gita about the soul: "Weapons cannot pierce it, fire cannot burn it, water cannot moisten it and wind cannot dry it (2.23)." The brain is just an ambassador of history. Its shrinking does not matter so long the heart is expansive and the mind is free in the vast depths of the human soul. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttp://knowledge.thinkingstorm.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/392701/Default.aspx

The Tibetan Quest!

and now many foodies are keen on But there is certainly more to Tibetan food than Momos. We offer authentic delicacies with rich flavours combined with rice and noodles imported from our native place. Many customers are relish the fluffy steam bun, Yak Butter Tea and Thupka that are considered as popular snacks.' Tenzin, founder of a well-known Tibetan restaurant in Koramangala says, 'Thenthuk (which is hand-pulled noodles with soup) surely has the largest number of fans. With more than 10 restaurants in the city, local food lovers find Tibetan food appealing because of its delicate flavours. quick service and affordable price. We offer the rich and authentic flavours of Tibet in Bengaluru now. It is nice to see youngsters gravitating towards our cuisine and sometimes their knowledge about Tibetan food surprises me.' We understand that every foodie would love to try cooking some of these dishes at home. So we have compiled a few recipes of famous Tibetan dishes! So get your woks ready and follow these simple steps to enjoy the flavoursome Tibetan food. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://itsmyurls.com/neutosgotham

Google wants you to pronounce words correctly with its new practice feature

Users can tap on it and pronounce the word through their microphone. Google will determine if you've pronounced the word correctly. It will also help you by pointing out which syllable is being pronounced wrong and how to correct it. Google will suggest help like - 'Try to say muh instead of'. Google is using speech recognition technology to identify how users are pronouncing words and how to correct them. Google's speech recognition separates words into individual sound bites and machine learning compares the user's pronunciation to the correct one. Google is also adding images to Search results for word meanings. Google will start with showing images for nouns and it will expand it to more categories in the future. Some words which spell the same but have different meanings will be shown with multiple images representing each meaning. Images for Search results will be available in English and all language translations on Search. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://danmooredesigns.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/505549/Default.aspx

HDFC bank shifts hiring focus, to take 5,000 freshers via tie-ups

Over a period of time, all our fresher hiring will be through such tie-ups,' a bank spokesperson said. Hiring freshers involves a significantly high 68 per cent of the bank's gross hiring at present. The bank added almost 10,000 people on a net basis in FY19, taking its overall base to over 98,000. It can be noted that at present, banks depend on internal training after being hired. Typically, after the training, they are placed into operations. The HDFC Bank spokesperson said at present, they have tie-ups wherein candidates undergo shorter courses of two-three months, whereas the new partnership is a PG diploma with intensive training. Before being admitted for the diploma, a candidate will be interviewed by the bank and the diploma is split between six months of classroom training and six months at the bank as an intern, the spokesperson said. It can be noted that the announcement comes amid concerns on 'employability' of students after passing out from the present educational curriculum. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://doodleordie.com/profile/humeedkoon