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A Very German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Just About Anything

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Blog: Mergers, minor changes won’t revive economy

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I know how to make comebacks: Murali Vijay

Even as the Indian team is busy playing the second and final Test against West Indies in Jamaica, Murali Vijay is far away from the action. After difficult away tours of England and Australia last year, Vijay finds himself out of reckoning. "I have given four comebacks. So I am not under any pressure. I know how to make comebacks," he said.

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51 People Died in Mass Shootings in August Alone in the U.S.

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ICICI Bank has 'UPI warning' for its customers

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This is Bill Gates’ ‘biggest fear’

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US Open 2019: Naomi Osaka warms hearts by consoling Coco Gauff

Defending US Open champion Naomi Osaka wins hearts all over again when she consoles teenager Coco Gauff after beating her in the third round.

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Race RC Cars From Anywhere On Earth

Woman with house full of hedgehogs says 'no more'

Paula Garner is currently nursing more than 80 poorly hedgehogs back to health.

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Thai palace shares unusually candid images of king’s consort

Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi is shown flying a fighter jet, wearing combat fatigues, and firing a gun.

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US Open: Naomi Osaka beats Coco Gauff to reach fourth round

Defending champion Naomi Osaka overwhelms 15-year-old sensation Coco Gauff to reach the US Open last 16.

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Mat Dan: 'I became an accidental celebrity 6,000 miles from home'

When Daniel Tyler went backpacking, little did he know he'd end up a star in Malaysia.

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Sheryl Crow on her final album, #MeToo and being an outsider in the 1990s

The star talks about singing with her heroes on her 11th and apparently final album Threads.

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What we learned from the Harvey Weinstein documentary Untouchable

Women who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault shed light on their stories in a new film.

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Steep fines for traffic rule violations from today

From Sunday, the traffic police can book you and fine you up to Rs 5,000 if you are caught jumping a traffic light, using a mobile phone while driving, overtaking wrongly and driving against the flow of traffic. You could also end up in jail. Penalties for drunk driving, not wearing a helmet or using the seatbelt have also been increased.

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Joshua Wong and Alex Chow: The People of Hong Kong Will Not Be Cowed by China

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NRC clamour grows louder in Delhi, other states

As the final Assam NRC was released on Saturday, calls for the same exercise to "weed out foreigners" were heard from several states across the country.

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Look Closely for Coco Gauff’s Homage to New York Tennis

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Hong Kong Braces for More Protests After Wave of Arrests

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Quotation of the Day: ‘Iffy’ Forecasts Add to Anxiousness Over Whether to Stay Put or Go

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Corrections: August 31, 2019

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13 best phones under Rs 25,000 you can buy now

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Jharkhand canal collapses 24 hours after opening

A canal that was first conceptualised 42 years ago and whose cost escalated from a mere Rs 12 crore to Rs 2,176 crore in the decades that went by collapsed just 24 hours after it was inaugurated with great fanfare in Hazaribag by Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das on Wednesday.

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Elon Musk on this may be last job left for techies

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Why neither India, nor Pak, can risk a nuclear war

Both India and Pakistan have missiles capable of hitting each other anywhere

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Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammad: Trial date set for 'architect of 9/11'

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other men face the death penalty if found guilty.

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Abducted Pak Sikh girl returns to her parents: Cops

A Sikh girl who was allegedly abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan has returned home to her parents, the police said. Police have arrested eight persons in connection with the incident. The girl's father, identified as Bhagwan Singh, is a 'granthi' (priest) at Gurudwara Tambu Sahib.

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Google celebrates Amrita Pritam's 100th birthday

Google celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of Punjabi author, essayist and poet Amrita Pritam. Hailed as the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, Pritam is best remembered for the poignant poem, 'Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu. Amongst her 28 novels, her work 'Pinjar' (1950) is considered to be the best literature written in the backdrop of Partition.

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In Hong Kong, Playing Tennis With Tear-Gas Grenades

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Roger Federer Heats Up on Court and Off

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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Wandering Iranian Oil Tanker

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Plus Sign?

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Voice Chess Uses Phone, Arduino, And An Electromagnet

[Diyguypt] may be an altruist to provide the means for people who can’t manipulate chess pieces to play the game. Or he may just have his hands too busy with food and drink to play. Either way, his voice command chessboard appears to work, although it has a lot of moving parts both figuratively and literally. You can check out the video below to see how it works.

The speech part is handled by an Android phone and uses Google’s voice services, so if you don’t want Google listening to your latest opening gambit, you’ll want to pass this one up. The phone uses an app that talks to the Arduino via Bluetooth, which means the Arduino needs a Bluetooth module.

The Arduino controls what amounts to an upside-down 3D printer. Instead of a hot end pointing down, the mechanism has an electromagnet pointing up. A small washer in the base of each chess piece makes it susceptible to the magnet’s motion. The electromagnet is required to let go of a piece before a move to a new position. It is possible that a small servo moving a permanent magnet closer to the board for a move and away from the board to reposition could do the same job, though we suspect that could be tricky.

We’ve seen this before, often with a Harry Potter theme. We sort of prefer a more obvious chess robot, but that’s just us.

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DJ Arafat: Thousands pay tribute at Abidjan concert

Fans flock to honour the influential Ivorian musician, who died in a motorcycle accident this month.

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Past sea-level rise? Scientists find evidence several million years old

A group of scientists studying evidence preserved in cave formations have found that sea level was as much as 52 feet higher than the present day more than 3 million years ago.

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La semana en imágenes

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Trade war: US set to hit China with new wave of tariffs

The trade war between the world's two largest economies is set to intensify with new tariffs.

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10 PSU banks merged into 4 large entities

The merged entity comprising Punjab National Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India will become the second largest lender after SBI. The merger of Canara Bank and Syndicate Bank will create the fifth largest lender, with the Union Bank, Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank amalgamation at number six, based on business at the end of March 2019.

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Poland still counts losses from WW2 invasion

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the start of World War Two, Poland has reparations on its mind.

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At 5%, GDP growth hits over 6-yr low in Apr-June

The country's GDP growth slowed to an over six-year low of 5% in the April-June quarter, dragged down by manufacturing sector expansion of just 0.6%, sluggish financial services, farm and construction sectors and a slowdown in consumption. “The slowdown in growth is due to endogenous and exogenous factors,” said chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian.

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James R. Leavelle, Detective at Lee Harvey Oswald’s Side, Dies at 99

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Jin Young Ko Beats Tiger Woods’s Bogey-Free Streak. And Then Some.

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Las principales noticias del viernes

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WC: Abhishek Verma wins gold in 10m Air Pistol

Abhishek Verma won the gold medal and Saurabh Chaudhary the bronze, in a dominant display by Indian shooters in the men's 10m air pistol event of the World Cup. Verma shot 244.2 in the eight-man finals, while Chaudhary's 221.9 was good enough to get him the bronze. India were placed at the top of the medals tally with two gold, one silver and a bronze.

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Pak Sikh’s daughter forcibly married to Muslim

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Why Couldn’t I Make Myself Like Kirsten Gillibrand?

She could have been a contender.

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Joshua Wong arrested: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist

Mr Wong's political party says the leading activist was "forcefully pushed into a minivan" by police.

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Taylor Townsend, With Thrilling Charges, Ousts Simona Halep From the U.S. Open

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This Heads Up Display is All Wet

Athletes have a long history of using whatever they can find to enhance their performance or improve their training. While fitness tracker watches are nothing new, swimmers have used them to track their split times, distance, and other parameters. The problem with fitness trackers though is that you have to look at a watch. FORM has swim goggles that promise to address this, their smart goggles present the swimmer with a heads-up display of metrics. You can see a slick video about them below.

The screen is only on one eye, although you can switch it from left to right. The device has an inertial navigation system and is — of course — waterproof. It supposedly can withstand depths up to 32 feet and lasts 16 hours on a charge. It can use Bluetooth to send your data to your phone in addition to the display.

All this comes at a price, the goggles cost about $200. These aren’t the goggles from the dollar store, but even a nice pair of Speedo goggles might run $30 tops.

The device reportedly tracks split time, interval time, rest time, total time, stroke rate and count, distance per stroke, pacing, distance, length count, and even calories burned.

This reminds us of Google Glass. Most similar displays we’ve seen however have been automotive.

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Them’s the Breaks!

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Man gored to death by bull at Spanish festival

The man had attended the festival in Cuellar as a spectator but was attacked by the bull.

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Review: Opinions Collide in the Explosive Comedy ‘Eureka Day’

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Curtis Flowers’s Conviction Tossed by Mississippi Supreme Court

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Joe Biden Dismisses Report That He Told False War Story

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Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong Is Arrested

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Poor Conditions Persist for Migrant Children Detained at the Border, Democrats Say

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Trump’s Personal Assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, Steps Down

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How Should I Tell People a Shameful Secret About My Dog?

This puppy’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me—but I know the way I got her was wrong.

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Trump’s Border Wall Is an Election Stunt

Presidents really shouldn’t tell people to break the law, even as a joke.

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The Man Trump Wishes He Were

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Trump Authorizes a Space Command. Next, He Wants a Space Force.

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First American settlers may have been in Idaho 16,500 years ago, study says

Scientists claim they've discovered artifacts in Idaho indicating that humans were living there about 16,500 years ago, providing new evidence that early settlers found their way inland by traveling along North America's Pacific Coast.

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Bank fraud amount jumps 74% in 2018-19

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Woman beaten, disrobed in busy Meerut market

A woman who “matched” the description of a child-lifter given on WhatsApp messages became the latest victim of mob’s wrath as she was tailed, thrashed and then stripped to essentials by a group of over 2oo people in a busy market of Meerut. She was saved by a bunch of policemen who took her to a hospital.

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US Open: Champion Novak Djokovic defies injury to reach last 32

Defending champion Novak Djokovic battles through a shoulder injury to beat Juan Ignacio Londero in the US Open second round.

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Champions League draw: Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Spurs await fate

Champions League holders Liverpool and fellow English sides Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham will find out their group-stage opponents when the draw takes place in Monaco on Thursday.

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Live: PM Modi launches 'Fit India Movement'

Stay here for real-time updates on breaking news from India and across the world that you can't miss

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Serena Williams, Pushed by a Teenager, Keeps on Rolling

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30 Years After Reunification, Germany Is Still Two Countries

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'Saaho': 5 reasons to not miss the action-thriller

From Prabhas' comeback on the celluloid to an ensemble star cast, here is a list of reasons why you shouldn't miss out on Prabhas and Shraddha's action-thriller which is being helmed by ace filmmaker Sujeeth. With a budget of nearly Rs 350 crore, the multi-starrer film is sure to nail it at the box-office. The film is also getting released in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu languages.

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How The Power Gets To The Outlet

[Practical Engineering] is ready to explain how power substations get electricity to you in his latest video, which you can see below.  One of the things we always notice when talking to people either in our community or outside it is that most people have no idea how most of the modern world works.

Ask your non-technical friend to explain how a cell phone works or how a hard drive stores data and you aren’t likely to get a very good answer. However, even most of us are only focused on some particular aspect of electronics. There are a lot of people who hack on robots or radios. The AC power grid,though isn’t something a lot of people work with as a hobby. Do you know exactly what goes on in that substation you pass every day on your commute? If you don’t, you’ll learn something in the video.

Sure we know what transformers and breakers are. But do you know what a recloser is? Do you know all the different functions a substation might have? If not, the video is for you.

If you want to learn more about the kinds of wires you see overhead, we’d did that earlier. In fact, we had a whole series on the electric grid, smart and otherwise.

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What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Escape Room’ and ‘Poltergeist’

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Your Thursday Briefing

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A Windswept Plain, a Sea of Oil and a Mountain of Money

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HC: Explain why you kept ‘War and Peace’ at home

The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked Elgar Parishad case accused Vernon Gonsalves to explain why he had kept a copy of Leo Tolstoy’s classic ‘War and Peace’ and other books and CDs at his home.

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Sports Awards: Bajrang, Jadeja to miss ceremony

Bajrang Punia will skip the National Sports Day awards ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Thursday as the star Indian wrestler is training in Russia for the upcoming World championships. Also missing the award ceremony would be cricketer Ravindra Jadeja who is in the West Indies with the Indian team.

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Cameras of ‘most-powerful’ phones compared

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Google is 'cutting' off one of its last links with China

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The best upcoming games to pre-order right now

Pakistan min predicts war with India in Oct-Nov

Pakistan railway minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed predicted on Wednesday that a full-fledged war with India will possibly occur in October or November. Addressing an event in Rawalpindi, his home town, Ahmed said the time for a “final freedom struggle for Kashmir” has arrived and warned that war with India this time will be the “last war”.

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ISSF WC: Elavenil wins 10m Air Rifle gold in Rio

India's shooting sensation Elavenil Valarivan produced a stupendous show to win a gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle event at the ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janiero on Wednesday. Elavenil, who has learnt the art of shooting from legend Gagan Narang, shot 251.7 in the final to claim the top honours.

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Why lakhs won't be 'Indians' from August 31

Ahead of SC's August 31 deadline, TOI takes a look at how the NRC was compiled, the path ahead for those who have been excluded and whether an exercise on similar lines could be undertaken in other states

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Pancholi case: ‘Can’t rule out false implication’

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FM Signal Detection The Pulse-Counting Way

Compared to the simple diode needed to demodulate AM radio signals, the detector circuits used for FM are slightly more complicated. Wrapping your head around phase detectors, ratio detectors, discriminators, and quadrature detectors can be quite an exercise. There’s another demodulation method that’s not so common, but thankfully it’s also pretty easy to understand: the pulse counting detector.

As [Allan (W2AEW)] notes in the video below, pulse counting is a bit of a misnomer. Pulse counting works by generating a narrow, fixed-width square wave pulse at a set point in the received FM signal’s waveform, usually at the zero-crossing point. Since the frequency of the modulated carrier changes, the duty cycle of the resulting pulse train varies. That means there will be a fixed number of pulses, but by taking the average voltage of the pulse train, we can tease out the original audio frequency signal.

Simple in theory is often more complicated in practice, and [W2AEW] goes into some detail about those complications, such as needing to use a down-converter to make the peak-to-peak frequency deviation in the pulse train more easily detectable. As is his style, he walks us through a test circuit to prove that the theory works in practice. A simple two-transistor circuit generates the pulses at the zero-crossing point, a low-pass filter cleans up the signal, and a cheap audio amplifier reproduces the original audio. It’s a crude circuit to be sure, relying on the stray capacitance of the breadboard to work, but it proves the point and serves as a jumping-off point for further experiments – perhaps using an Arduino to count the pulses?

We always enjoy [W2AEW]’s videos and learn a lot from them. Not long ago we featured another of his videos talking about the mysteries of RF modulation; SSB, anyone?

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Self-driving cars must be experts on ridiculously specific road rules

If you're driving in San Francisco one week and then New York City the next, you're probably not paying attention to the small differences in rules when it comes to sharing bikes lanes, passing school buses, and turning right on red. 

If you're in a self-driving car, those state-by-state distinctions aren't just a nuisance (and potential ticket since ignorance isn't a legal defense), but rules the self-driving companies don't want to overlook, no matter how tedious. The software controlling the car needs to have those slight variations in traffic law programmed in, especially since companies don't want negative media attention or a blemished record showing it broke the law. Read more...

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Weak rupee makes studies abroad dearer

A weaker rupee is making educational loans more expensive for parents looking to send their children overseas. Given that the rupee has weakened from Rs 68.5 to the dollar in July 2019 to almost 72 this week, the additional burden would be almost Rs 1.4 lakh for a student paying $40,000 tuition fees.

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What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and the Real Oz

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Statue of Unity in Time's 100 greatest places

The 597-ft tall Statue of Unity in Gujarat and Mumbai's Soho House have been featured by the Time magazine in its second annual list of the 2019 World's greatest places. The Statue of Unity, world's tallest statue, is a tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Soho House is located in an 11-storey building overlooking the Arabian Sea and houses a library, a cinema and a rooftop bar and pool.

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Raj Univ Students' Union election results today

The results for Rajasthan University Students' Union elections will be declared on Wednesday, a day after polling was held at 101 polling booths at the centres of the affiliated colleges.

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Pak is instigating violence in Kashmir: Rahul

"I disagree with this Govt. on many issues. But, let me make this absolutely clear: Kashmir is India's internal issue and there is no room for Pakistan or any other foreign country to interfere in it," Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter.

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Chandrayaan-2 completes another op around Moon

Isro on Wednesday completed another lunar-bound manoeuvre and put Chandrayaan-2 in a new orbit around Moon. "The maneuver for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully beginning at 9.04am as planned, using the on board propulsion system. The duration of the maneuver was 1,190 seconds," Isro said after the successful manoeuvre, adding that all spacecraft parameters are normal.

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Costco forced to shut first China store early due to crowds

The firm's first China store comes as other foreign retailers have struggled to compete in the country.

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Colombia drugs: Police seize 300kg of cannabis in coffin

Police seized the drugs after inspecting the vehicle and coffin at a check-point.

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Why Steve Jobs said Microsoft was like McDonald’s

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Your Wednesday Briefing

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This airline has banned Apple MacBooks check-in

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Gaza violence: Suicide bombers kill three officers

The bombers, who struck two checkpoints, were affiliated with the Islamic State groups, sources say.

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Why burning Amazon can choke the world

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It felt like I was on top of the world: Sindhu

PV Sindhu became India's first badminton world champion when she defeated Japan's Nozomi Okuhara in the women's singles finals of the BWF World Championships in Basel on Sunday. While Sindhu admits that the feeling is "yet to sink in", she is overwhelmed by the adulation she has been receiving for her historic achievement.

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Palestinian conflict: Diaries of childhood in Israeli military detention

Palestinians who were made to go through Israel's military court system as children speak out.

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New Cray Will Reach 1.5 exaFLOPS

It wasn’t that long ago when hard drives that boasted a terabyte of capacity were novel. But impressive though the tera- prefix is, beyond that is peta and even further is exa — as in petabyte and exabyte. A common i7 CPU currently clocks in at about 60 gigaflops (floating point operations per second). Respectable, but today’s supercomputers routinely turn in sustained rates in the petaflop range, with some even faster. The Department of Energy announced they were turning to Cray to provide three exascale computers — that is, computers that can reach an exaflop or more. The latest of these, El Capitan, is slated to reach 1.5 exaFLOPS and will reside at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.

The $600 million price tag for El Capitan seems pretty reasonable for a supercomputer. After all, a Cray I could only do 160 megaflops and cost nearly $8 million in 1977, or about $33 million in today’s money. So about 20 times the cost gets them over 9,000 times the compute power.

The computes use Cray’s Shasta architecture. Of course, at some point, it isn’t the computing but the communications which provides the limiting factor. Cray’s Slingshot connects the pieces of the computer together. The information about it on Cray’s website isn’t very technical, but we were struck with this passage:

Additionally, Shasta supports processors well over 500 watts, eliminating the need to do forklift upgrades of system infrastructure to accommodate higher-power processors.

We know we hate it when we want to upgrade our desktop and have to start up the forklift. Cray, of course, has a long history with supercomputers. You probably have a pretty good supercomputer hiding in your graphics card, by the way.

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KFC's first-ever Beyond Chicken sold out completely in five hours

If you weren't lining up for some kind of fried chicken product this week, were you even living?

First Popeye's sandwiches sold out. Now KFC has proved that whether the chicken is the real thing or not, people will queue for that finger-lickin' deliciousness.

The Colonel went plant-based at one Atlanta restaurant on Tuesday, complete with its signature red trim wrapped in bright green, to test out its Beyond Meat fake Fried "Chicken" on real humans.

And the real humans lined up literally around the block for the popcorn chicken and "wings", until supply ran out less than five hours into the promotion. Read more...

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Trump Did Not Represent the U.S. at the G-7

His comments on Obama and Crimea show he has no national loyalty.

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As teachers watch, robots impart lessons

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'Mushroom foraging saved me from my grief'

When Long Litt Woon lost her husband she was overcome by grief. She rediscovered happiness foraging in the woods.

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Not opposing deity’s plea: Nirmohi Akhara

Nirmohi Akhara on Tuesday dropped its strong opposition to deity Ram Lalla’s suit claiming ownership over the 2.77 acres of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land in Ayodhya to settle for a conciliatory approach where it said it would never seek relief at the cost of the deity’s interests.

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Sudan crisis: Activists achieve 'big win' over generals

The junta has agreed to a civilian government after months of protests against its rule.

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Has Kenya's plastic bag ban worked?

Plastic carrier bags were made illegal, so how has the government enforced the ban?

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Pre-wedding 'bribe' shoot lands cop in trouble

A Rajasthan Police sub-inspector has landed in a tight spot after his pre-wedding video, which depicts him in uniform as his fiancee bribes him, went viral on social media and upset his seniors. Udaipur SP Kailash Bishnoi said, "We will examine the clip. If the SHO indeed enacted such a scene, he will be asked to provide an explanation before disciplinary action is initiated against him."

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Your Tuesday Briefing

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Why this festive season may be best time to buy TV

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ATM scam video that you must watch to stay alert

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Chidambaram has assets across continents: ED

In an affidavit, the agency told the SC that the Congress leader and other accused had bank accounts and properties in Argentina, Austria, British Virgin Islands, France, Greece, Malaysia, Monaco, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain and Sri Lanka and transactions were routed through shell companies set up for this purpose.

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Sumit Nagal wins 1st set against Federer at US Open

Nagal, who had qualified for the main draw last week, stunned the tennis legend by winning two consecutive games at 4-4 to close the first set in his favour in the men's singles first-round match in New York.

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RBI to transfer record Rs 1.76L crore to govt

The RBI board, headed by governor Shaktikanta Das, which met in Mumbai on Monday, approved a transfer of Rs 1,76,051 crore to the government. This includes Rs 1,23,414 crore of surplus or dividend for the year 2018-19 and Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions — a one-time transfer which is also a first for the central bank.

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Nysa's social media life: Beyond angry trolls

Nysa Devgn, daughter of Bollywood’s power couple Ajay Devgn and Kajol, has often made headlines but for all the wrong reasons.

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Taylor Swift called out Trump for ignoring her Equality Act petition at the VMAs

Taylor Swift opened the 2019 VMAs with a performance of her single "You Need To Calm Down" — in which she famously, finally, Said Gay Rights. She picked up the Video For Good award for the clip, peppered with celebrities and icons of queer pop culture, but allowed her co-executive producer and BFF Todrick Hall to give that acceptance speech. 

When she won the fan-voted Video Of The Year, however, she took the mic and proceeded to back up the video's message, surrounded again by Hall as well as other members of the YNTCD cast such as Trinity the Tuck and Jade Jolie.

"In this video, several points were made, so you voting for the video means that you want a world where we're all treated equally under the law, regardless of who we love, regardless of how we identify," she said. Read more...

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