How to Check UGC NET July 2018 Results:

UGC NET Results Declared: Check Marks and Subjectwise Cut-Off

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the UGC NET July 2018 exam results. Students can check their results on the official website of CBSE https://cbseresults.nic.in/.

CBSE conducted the UGC NET July examination on 8 July for 84 subjects at 91 selected cities across the country. A total number of 11,48,235 candidates registered for UGC NET July examination out of which 859498 candidates appeared for both papers. 55,872 candidates have qualified for assistant professor and 3,929 for JFR and eligible for assistant professor both.

Here's how to check your score and cut-off for each category:

How to Check UGC NET July 2018 Results:

• Step 1: Go to official website for UGC NET July 2018 exam: www.cbsenet.nic.in
• Step 2: Click on the UGC NET result link available on the home page.
• Step 3: Enter the required details.
• Step 4: Submit and download result for reference.

UGC NET 2018 Answer Key Released on cbsenet.nic.in

UGC NET July 2018: Cut-Off

Here's the subject wise cut off for the UGC NET July 2018 for General (Unreserved Category):

• Economics: 66.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 56.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Political Science: 61.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 52.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Philosophy: 70.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 62.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Psychology: 64.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 56.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Sociology: 68.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 58.00 (Lectureship Only)
• History: 56.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 50.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Anthropology: 70.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 58.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Commerce: 64.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 54.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Education: 60.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 51.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Social Work: 65.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 56.67 (Lectureship Only)

Here's the subject wise cut off for the UGC NET July 2018 for OBC Category:

• Economics: 60.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 49.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Political Science: 57.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 48.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Philosophy: 67.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 54.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Psychology: 60.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 49.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Sociology: 64.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 52.00 (Lectureship Only)
• History: 54.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 46.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Anthropology: 67.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 52.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Commerce: 59.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 49.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Education: 56.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 46.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Social Work: 62.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 52.00 (Lectureship Only)

Here's the subject wise cut off for the UGC NET July 2018 for SC Category:

• Economics: 56.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 45.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Political Science: 54.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 45.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Philosophy: 64.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 52.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Psychology: 56.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 46.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Sociology: 59.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 48.00 (Lectureship Only)
• History: 50.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 43.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Anthropology: 66.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 50.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Commerce: 55.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 46.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Education: 52.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 43.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Social Work: 58.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 48.00 (Lectureship Only)

Here's the subject wise cut off for the UGC NET July 2018 for SC Category:

• Economics: 56.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 45.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Political Science: 54.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 45.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Philosophy: 64.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 52.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Psychology: 56.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 46.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Sociology: 59.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 48.00 (Lectureship Only)
• History: 50.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 43.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Anthropology: 66.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 50.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Commerce: 55.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 46.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Education: 52.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 43.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Social Work: 58.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 48.00 (Lectureship Only)

Here's the subject wise cut off for the UGC NET July 2018 for ST Category:

• Economics: 53.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 44.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Political Science: 53.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 45.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Philosophy: 58.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 46.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Psychology: 58.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 48.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Sociology: 62.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 47.33 (Lectureship Only)
• History: 50.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 43.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Anthropology: 57.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 47.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Commerce: 54.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 45.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Education: 50.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 43.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Social Work: 58.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 48.00 (Lectureship Only)

Here's the subject wise cut off for the UGC NET July 2018 for PWD-VI Category:

• Economics: 52.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 42.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Political Science: 53.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 40.67 (Lectureship Only)
• Philosophy: 63.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 39.33 (Lectureship Only)
• Psychology: 43.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 42.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Sociology: 56.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 42.67 (Lectureship Only)
• History: 49.33 (Jrf & Lectureship), 40.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Anthropology: 52.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 52.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Commerce: 60.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 40.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Education: 46.00 (Jrf & Lectureship), 40.00 (Lectureship Only)
• Social Work: 64.67 (Jrf & Lectureship), 38.67 (Lectureship Only)

WhatsApp rolls out group calling for voice, video

Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday rolled out its group calling feature -- for both voice and video options -- on iOS and Android devices for its 1.5 billion users.

The group calling feature supports up to four people simultaneously.

"You can make a group call with up to four people total -- anytime and anywhere. Just start a one-on-one voice or video call and tap the new "add participant" button in the top right corner to add more contacts to the call," WhatsApp said in a statement.

WhatsApp users currently spend over two billion minutes on calls per day.

Group calls are always end-to-end encrypted, and we've designed calling to work reliably around the world in different network conditions," WhatsApp added.

At Facebook's F8 developer conference in May, WhatsApp had announced to bring group calling support on its platform.

The instant messaging service unveiled video chatting in 2016 and voice calling in 2014.

This is how Facebook plans to make WhatsApp more secure

NEW DELHI: Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out some new features. The new features will include features like dark mode, polls in groups, Touch ID support for iPhone and the group limit of 4,096. The company will be soon rolling out the features for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone.

According to WABetaInfo, a Twitter account that tracks changes in WhatsApp’s beta builds reveals that the new features will come to iOS, Android and Windows Phone users. The Touch ID support will enable iPhone users to keep their messages safe and secure on the instant messaging app. Along with this, iPhone users will also be able to pin a message on top and add a username to their phone number.

Along with this, WhatsApp has also expanded the limit of participants for its group. Earlier, the app allowed a group of maximum 256 people and now the users can add up to 4,096 people in one group.

WhatsApp will also allow users to see the recent status updates in the WhatsApp widget in iPhone's Today View. Moreover, the update also brings improvements to the voice messaging feature, which will continue the play the voice messages even if they switch the app or turn off the screen.

Last week, WhatsApp rolled out a new feature for its Android users. On Android, the company has improved the ‘Change Number’ feature this time to let you choose if want to notify everyone about your new number or select users. The screenshot posted on the website shows the feature description “You can notify your contacts about your new number. You groups will be notified regardless.” This is followed by three options – All contacts, Contacts I have chats with, and Custom. Blocked numbers won’t be notified.

What is ailing your Wi-Fi network and how the new standard can make it more secure

New Delhi Open, or public, Wi-Fi networks are anything but secure. Since the data over an open connection is often unencrypted and unsecured, it leaves you vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle MITM attack. MITM, explains Symantec Corp., allows a cybercriminal to exploit security flaws in the network to intercept your sensitive information such as passwords and financial data.

However, password-protected Wi-Fi connections can also be hacked since they use the Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 WPA2 security standard that is almost a decade old. In October 2017, for instance, security expert Mathy Vanhoef found a vulnerability afflicting the four-way handshake mechanism in WPA2. Called KRACKs key reinstallation attacks, it tricks users to connect to a spoofed twin access point on another Wi-Fi channel by manipulating and replaying handshake messages. The handshake is used by WPA2 to negotiate a fresh sessions key every time a user wants to connect a device to the Wi-Fi access point. It is resent multiple times until the device is verified and the session key is installed.

Experts feel the recently released WPA3 security protocol is better equipped to handle KRACK-like vulnerabilities and dictionary attacks breaking into password-protected computers or servers—in this case Wi-Fi networks—by entering every word in a the dictionary.

Since WPA2 was introduced more than a decade ago, it is ill-equipped to handle many of the modern-day challenges in Wi-Fi connectivity, believe security experts like Manab Mallick, technical head India and SAARC at Netgear, and Ritesh Chopra, director at Norton a Symantec product business in India.

They believe WPA3 is better suited to the task since it doesn’t rely entirely on a four-way handshake to enable encrypted connections.

Instead, it uses a more secure Simultaneous Authentication of Equals, which first negotiates a fresh Pairwise Master Key, and then uses it in a traditional four-way handshake to generate session keys. This ensures that even if attackers manages to intercept the packets, they won’t be able to decrypt the master key.

For users accessing public Wi-Fi networks shared by many, WPA3 offers Opportunistic Wireless Encryption OWE, which encrypts all communication between an individual user and the Wi-Fi access points.

While the risk of getting tricked to connect to a fake Wi-Fi exists even in a WPA3-enabled network, OWE significantly reduces the risk of exposure online compared to WPA2, insists Venkat Krishnapur, vice-president of engineering and managing director at McAfee India. Moreover, WPA3 uses a 192-bit encryption system instead of the 128-bit encryption system used in WPA2, which means it will take longer to guess the correct security key.

While many device manufacturers will take a while to get WPA3-certified, users, too, will have to upgrade to compatible devices and routers. The upside Your Wi-Fi network will be more secure.

Can Magic Be Manufactured Through Marketing? - ReadWrite

Marketers are often expected to work magic on consumers, putting them under a spell and convincing them that the cure for all that ails them is their company's product or service. But the high expectations placed on brands often do little more than set them up for a fall.

An IBM study found that nearly 70 percent of consumers were disappointed in the digital interactions brands offered them.

ClickZ found that 71 percent of buyers have expressed disappointment in content marketing. And according to a survey report by Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford, 43 percent of U.S. respondents felt disappointed or "deceived" by native ads.

That's a weighty amount of disappointment being dropped at marketers' feet. But when the expectation is magic, fantasy and enchantment, how could anything possibly hit the mark? Perhaps we should be pleased rather than dismayed by the responses businesses receive - a 30 percent success rate when the threshold is "magic" isn't too shabby. In fact, it's nearly on par with Babe Ruth's lifetime batting average.

The real question, then, is whether "magic" is a feasible goal. It turns out that with some imagination, reframing and conversation, it's a goal well within the reach of most growing brands.

How we define 'magic'

In recent years, big brands with outsized budgets have defined "magic" for the masses, positing flashy theatrical productions as the pinnacle of brand marketing. The idea is that the allure - the untouchable nature - of the image they're presenting pulls consumers in. Aspirational marketing is the way to make buyers feel they need what's being sold.

But that's backward thinking in an era when transparency is what the vast majority of consumers value. Consumers want inspiration, not aspiration, and that comes from businesses communicating attainable values, missions and needs - something small businesses excel at. So instead of feeling pressured to replicate the multimillion-dollar brand experiences big businesses create, small businesses should be motivated to manufacture magic on a shoestring budget.

Brewing magic on a small scale

To capitalize on their ability to conjure attainable moments of delight and magic, entrepreneurs should keep a few things in mind.

1. Keep it appealing but simple.

The glitz and glamour of marketing campaigns for companies with big budgets can certainly be appealing, but startups and small businesses don't need to aim quite that high to succeed. Take event marketing, for example. While adding technological elements can breathe life into an experience, small businesses don't need to go overboard.

"Avoid the temptation of adding too many bells and whistles. It's easy to start adding technology in endless layers until your event is so complex you need an advanced degree and a staff of 20 to coordinate the logistics," explains Darren Wilson, president of bluemedia, a fabrication, decor and experiential marketing company. "You should have only one or two key technology components at your event, but they should work together and fit with the narrative of the experience and the setting."

2. Play to the company's strengths.

Another quick way to reframe success in terms of creating magic is by purposely focusing a team's marketing plans to play to its strengths. You know that event we were talking about? Eschewing what may be impressive when others execute it in favor of what a small brand does well can help a small business leave a favorable impression on its customers.

Consider the social media facet of event marketing. "If your team isn't well-trained in responding to or engaging customers on social media, you might not want to use technology that allows you to monitor social sentiment," Wilson says. "For something simpler, like a photo booth, all you need is the booth itself and a way to link it to social media so customers can share their pictures. Choose tech elements that fit both your team and your event."

3. Use data to the entire team's advantage.

Disney's theme parks made a pricey $1 billion bet on magic - MagicBands, that is. The beacon-containing bracelets track visitors, helping them do everything from getting on rides more quickly to opening their hotel room doors. But the real secret of the MagicBands is the amount of data they collect that Disney can utilize in developing new attractions, features and functions within its parks and product lines.

Entrepreneurs may not have the same budget as Disney, but they can collect essential data for their own purposes. Surveys are a simple and affordable way to gather insights on what consumers are delighted by, and they can be distributed as full-length questionnaires or one-off pop-ups to website visitors. They can also filter data on customer behavior, from frequency of purchases to reasons for returns. All that information then needs to be shared across departments so they're operating from the same playbook. "When you have groups that hoard data or keep it in siloes . it limits your view of the customer," says Nate Smith, senior product marketing manager for Adobe Analytics.

Magic can be manufactured through a small business's marketing, but some are so busy looking at flashy demonstrations that they miss the real moments of magical substance happening right around them. By keeping things simple, appealing, focused and influenced by data, entrepreneurs can inspire people and cast a unique spell all their own.

Overnight rain lashes Kolkata, heavy showers on the cards

Overnight rain lashes Kolkata, heavy showers on the cards Kolkata July 26 (IANS) Parts of Kolkata went under ankle to knee-deep water on Thursday following blinding overnight showers with the met office issuing heavy rainfall warnings for the next three days. 
Important areas of the city like M.G. Road crossing Amherst Street Salt Lake Sector five were waterlogged inconveniencing daily commuters.

The Airport Police Station near Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport Dum Dum turned into a mini-swimming pool with knee-deep water inside its premises.
"Every year we face the problem of water logging but this year it is too much. We are working in knee-deep water and it is very troublesome " said a police officer.
Till 8.30 a.m. the city recorded 36.8 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours and the relative humidity was 95 per cent.
According to the weathermen the axis of monsoon trough at mean sea level now passes through Kolkata south Uttar Pradesh and neighbourhood and thence east-southeastwards to the Northeast Bay of Bengal.
"The cyclonic circulation over northern parts of Bangladesh now lies over Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal between 1.5 km & 5.8 km above mean sea level. Under its influence a low-pressure area is likely to form over north Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood during next 2-3 days " the bulletin mentioned.
As per the weather bulletin heavy rain is on the cards in one or two places over the districts of Kolkata North & South 24 Parganas Howrah and 11 other districts of Gangetic West Bengal.
Heavy rains on Thursday morning brought down the mercury with the maximum temperature recorded at 31.4 degrees Celsius one notch below the season s average. The minimum temperature hovered around 26.4 degrees Celsius.

Putin's nuclear 'doomsday machine' could trigger 300-foot tsunamis - but the worst effects might come from the fallout

Paramount / "Deep Impact"

• Vladimir Putin recently said Russia is developing a nuclear-powered torpedo that could detonate a "massive" nuclear weapon.
• Such a device might create a 300-foot-tall tsunami if exploded in the right location, and could rain long-lasting radioactive fallout on a coastal target.
• Experts have called the hypothetical weapon a "doomsday" device, since it could spread unprecedented and long-lived radioactive fallout.
• But one researcher said such a weapon "would be completely stupid," since it'd greatly limit its damage compared to an airburst.

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During Vladimir Putin's address to the Russian Federal Assembly on March 1, he described a plethora of nuclear weapons Russia is developing.

One of these proposed weapons - an autonomous submarine - stood out among the depictions of falling warheads and nuclear-powered cruise missiles.

The autonomous drone would quietly travel to "great depths," move faster than a submarine or boat, "have hardly any vulnerabilities for the enemy to exploit," and "carry massive nuclear ordnance," Putin said, according to a Kremlin translation of his remarks (PDF).

"It is really fantastic. [.] There is simply nothing in the world capable of withstanding them," he said, claiming Russia tested a nuclear-powered engine for the drones in December 2017. "Unmanned underwater vehicles can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads, which enables them to engage various targets, including aircraft groups, coastal fortifications and infrastructure."

Minatom/Wikiepdia The mushroom cloud caused by the Soviet Union's "Tsar Bomba" 57-megaton nuclear blast test.

Putin did not refer to the device by name in his speech, but it appears to be the "oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system" - also known as Kanyon or "Putin's doomsday machine."

The Russian government reportedly leaked a diagram of that weapon in 2015, which suggest it'd carry a 50-megaton nuclear bomb about as powerful as Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear device ever detonated.

Nuclear physicists say such a weapon could cause a large local tsunami, though they question its purpose and effectiveness, given the far-more-terrible destruction that nukes can inflict when detonated above-ground.

Why Putin's 'doomsday machine' could be terrifying

A nuclear weapon detonated below the ocean's surface can cause great devastation.

The underwater US nuclear weapons tests of the 1940s and 1950s - including operations "Crossroads Baker" and "Hardtack I Wahoo" - demonstrated why.

These underwater fireballs were roughly as energetic as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki in August 1945. In the tests, they burst through the surface, ejecting pillars of seawater more than a mile high while rippling out powerful shockwaves.

Some warships staged near the explosions were vaporized. Others were tossed like toys in a bathtub and sank, or sustained cracked hulls, crippled engines, and other damage. Notably, the explosions roughly doubled the height of waves to nearby islands, flooding inland areas.

"A well-placed nuclear weapon of yield in the range 20 MT to 50 MT near a seacoast could certainly couple enough energy to equal the 2011 tsunami, and perhaps much more," Rex Richardson, a physicist and nuclear-weapons researcher, told Business Insider. The 2011 event he's referring to is the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people in Japan.

"Taking advantage of the rising-sea-floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters [328 feet] in height are possible," Richardson said.

Richardson and other experts have also pointed out that a near-shore blast from this type of weapon could suck up tons of ocean sediment, irradiate it, and rain it upon nearby areas - generating catastrophic radioactive fallout.

"Los Angeles or San Diego would be particularly vulnerable to fallout due to the prevailing on-shore winds," Richardson wrote, adding that he lives in San Diego.

The problem with blowing up nukes underwater

Greg Spriggs, a nuclear-weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, acknowledges that a 50-megaton weapon "could possibly induce a tsunami" and hit a shoreline with the energy equivalent to a 650-kiloton blast.

But he thinks "it would be a stupid waste of a perfectly good nuclear weapon."

That's because Sprigg believes it's unlikely that even the most powerful nuclear bombs could unleash a significant tsunami after being detonated underwater.

"The energy in a large nuclear weapon is but a drop in the bucket compared to the energy of a [naturally] occurring tsunami," Spriggs previously told Business Insider. "So, any tsunami created by a nuclear weapon couldn't be very large."

For example, the 2011 tsunami in Japan released about 9,320,000 megatons (MT) of TNT energy. That's hundreds of millions of times more than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and roughly 163,000 times greater than the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

Plus, Spriggs added, the energy of a blast wouldn't all be directed toward shore - it'd radiate outward in all directions, so most of it "would be wasted going back out to sea."

A detonation several miles from a coastline would deposit only about 1% of its energy as waves hitting the shore. That scenario may be more likely than an attack closer to the shore, assuming a US weapons-detection systems could detect an incoming Status-6 torpedo.

But even on the doorstep of a coastal city or base, Spriggs questions the purpose.

"This would produce a fraction of the damage the same 50 MT weapon could do if it were detonated above a large city," Spriggs said. "If there is some country out there that is angry enough at the United States to use a nuclear weapon against us, why would they opt to reduce the amount of damage they impose in an attack?"

Is the Doomsday weapon real?

Putin fell short of confirming that Status-6 exists, though he did say the December 2017 tests of its power unit "enabled us to begin developing a new type of strategic weapon" to carry a huge nuclear bomb.

The Trump administration even addressed the weapon's possible existence in its 2018 nuclear posture review.

In a 2015 article in Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Lewis - a nuclear-policy expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies - dubbed the weapon "Putin's doomsday machine."

He wrote that in part because of speculation that the underwater weapon might be "salted," or surrounded with metals like cobalt. That would dramatically extend fatal radiation levels from fallout (possibly for years or even decades), since the burst of neutrons emitted in a nuclear blast could transform those metals into long-lived, highly radioactive chemicals that sprinkle all around.

"What sort of sick bastards dream up this kind of weapon?" Lewis wrote, noting that such "salted" weapons are featured in the Cold War parody and science-fiction movie "Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

In Lewis's eyes, it doesn't necessarily matter if Status-6 is real or a psychological bluff designed to prevent the US from attacking Russia or its allies.

"Simply announcing to the world that you find this to be a reasonable approach to deterrence should be enough to mark you out as a dangerous creep," he said

5 best apps to help you learn a new language

5 best apps to help you learn a new language 

Learning a new language might be a difficult challenge, but it's also one of the most rewarding skills.

Setting out to learn a new language gets your creative juices flowing, makes you smarter, and improves your learning capacity, among other things.

Though it's not easy to start from scratch, here we've short-listed the top 5 mobile apps to help you out.

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The most popular virtual language tutor on planet 

With over 100 million downloads and a high PlayStore rating, it won't be wrong to term Duolingo as world's favorite language learning app.

With a simple-yet-beautiful interface, it's easy to get addicted to Duolingo, even if you weren't serious, to begin with.

There's a range of fun quizzes and activities in there, to help you learn any language you wish to.

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Expand your linguistic versatility with Memrise 

Another popular option for learning new languages, Memrise comes with a user-friendly, and attractive interface.

There's a big kitty of languages from which you can choose the one you want to learn, including the likes of French, Japanese, Italian, German, Swedish, and so on.

On Google PlayStore, the app boasts of as many as 10 million downloads.

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Get accent training, native users' reviews with Busuu 

Bussu offers its users an all-encompassing experience with its interactive language learning activities.

What sets it apart from its rivals is the fact that it offers its users accent training and exercise reviews from the native speakers of the language they're learning.

If you upgrade to premium, you get offline access, grammar tips, and official certificates.

Its PlayStore download count stands at 10 million.

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Become a teacher-cum-student on HelloTalk 

HelloTalk is a platform that connects people from different linguistic backgrounds who are looking to experiment with new languages.

On HelloTalk, you can be a teacher-cum-student, as it lets you learn languages from native speakers, and at the same time, you can teach languages you know to others.

On PlayStore alone, HelloTalk has 5 million+ downloads, and a rating of 4.4/5.

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The mobile app from a leading online language learning platform 

Rosetta Stone is an app from one of the leading online language learning platforms.

It offers 25 learnable languages, and users can review their progress with the given correct answers in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

It's a subscription-based tool, but the first lesson can be tried out for free.

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The winner of Elon Musk's Hyperloop Pod Competition hits 290 mph

• For the third time, engineering students from the Technical University of Munich won SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Hyperloop Pod Competition.
• The event drew engineers from all over the world and focused on achieving top speed.
• WARR Hyperloop won the competition by reaching 290 miles per hour, exceeding Virgin Hyperloops One's speed record of 240 miles per hour set last year. 
  

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A group of German engineering students won the third SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition on Sunday, as their prototype pod shattered speed records and raced through a nearly mile-long tunnel at 290 miles per hour.

WARR Hyperloop, from the Technical University of Munich, won first place for the third time in a row and simultaneously set new speed records, topping out at 290 miles per hour. This year's competition was exclusively focused on developing maximum speed pods, with the only requirements being that all pods be self-propelled as they raced to see who could travel the fastest down a 0.8 mile long test track tunnel from a standstill.

The annual competition drew 20 entrants from all around the world, and was hosted at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attended the event, along with his partner, Grimes, the Canadian pop star. Originally announced in 2015, Musk's annual Hyperloop Competition seeks to cultivate engineering talent while simultaneously developing innovations for a futuristic transportation system. It is the first competition of its kind anywhere in the world.

This year, the event had a convivial feel, as The Verge reports an '80s cover band called the Spazmatics played old songs while nearby university students hung out in the sun, enjoying the music and choice of food trucks. Musk himself made an unscheduled appearance with Grimes and his five young sons, chatting with students and engineers alike.

"This is really the first opportunity to create a new mode of transport," Musk said, according to The Verge. "That's really what this competition is about: things that could radically transform cities and the way people get around."

WARR Hyperloop came into the competition with ambitious goals. Last month, in a press release, they announced intentions of having their pod hit 378 mph (600 kph). Their 2018 pod was designed with a smooth, black aerodynamic shape-one smaller than previous models-and used eight small electric motors that produced 240 kW of energy. By hitting 290 mph, they bested the speed record set last year by Virgin Hyperloop One's pod, which topped out at 240 mph in December.

Aside from WARR Hyperloop, other finalists qualifying for the competition were teams from Delft University from the Netherlands and EPF Loop from Switzerland.

How Technology is Revolutionizing Classroom

Over recent years the use of technology has become more and more important to daily life. These days nearly everyone uses the internet for important tasks each day and having your own smartphone, computer, or tablet can now be considered vital

With the huge increase in tech use, it makes sense that schools have begun to take advantage of using technology as learning tools in classrooms. Use of tablets and other devices in schools can not only help students to better learn traditional subjects, but it can also better prepare them for using vital technology skills throughout their lives.

The Increased Use of Technology for Learning

Classroom tech has come a long way in recent years. From replacing chalkboards with projectors to replacing paper notebooks with tablets, the evolution of technology in the classroom has rapidly advanced. The tools that schools have for students to utilize can include specialized applications for smartphones or tablets, large touch screen whiteboards at the front of the classroom, and graphing calculators at every desk. While there can be some negative opinions that technology is distracting to students, most of the evidence can seem to suggest that using it constructively can help get more engagement and participation from individual pupils.

The Impact That Technology Has on Students

Perhaps the biggest impact that technology has on students is that it gives them the opportunity to teach themselves new concepts. In a traditional classroom setting the teacher can be the primary source of all information received by students, but since the internet can allow access to hundreds of different sources on a topic students can have the opportunity to get a much more well-rounded idea of the subjects they are studying. Teachers can act more as guides than as the primary source, helping students to find the answers on their own rather than trying to tell them everything they need to know.

Being able to use the internet to learn skills can also give students the exciting opportunity to take extra classes outside of school. Through online programs, ambitious middle and high school level students can earn more credits in a single year. This can be a great way for students to get ahead and can even help them to earn college credit while still in high school.

The Future Outlook of Technology Use in the Classroom

It can be reasonable to expect that in the future technology will only continue to be increasingly present in schools. As better and more affordable gadgets are created, schools will likely continue to integrate them into their curriculums.

Overall, technology can be recognized as having a largely positive impact on the way that students are being taught. Using computers, tablets, and smartphones, to learn information independently, students can become more self-sufficient and have the opportunity to go above and beyond the average curriculum. The researching skills they acquire could potentially help them to continue to learn new skills at a rapid rate all throughout their lives. Where they once depended completely on the information teachers gave them, they can now compare hundreds of independent sources. It is an exciting, modern approach to learning that will hopefully prepare them for a better future.

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Do you know these features of the Chrome browser?

Either It is smartphone or computer, for Internet surfing most people use the Chrome browser. There are many features in the Chrome browser, which can be used to make it even more smart.
Direct search
Do you know that while surfing the page on Chrome, Google can be searched. There is no need to open separate tabs for this. You are on a page and touch the word that you want to search for a while. At the same time, that word will come with Google people below. While touching the Google logo, you can search it while on the same page.
Incognito mode
If you use someone else's computer, phone or internet café to use the internet, then it will never want to see anybody else's history of whoever you have searched. In such a situation, you can resort to the Incognito mode. This feature will be found in the Browser's menu.
Data saver
This service is particularly beneficial for mobile. Through it, you can save a lot of data. At the bottom of the Google Chrome browser settings, you will see the option of Data Saver. Turn it on This will also make your browsing even a little faster.

Gmail users at high risk, cyber threat issued, know what you should do

San Francisco, July 22 Gmail users have been alerted about a new Google Mail feature which could be leveraged by online crooks to carry out a wave of scams, media reported.

The company, in April, unveiled its brand new design which introduced a clean new user interface and a swathe of new features including the ability to snooze a message, auto-generate smart replies and self-destruct emails in the brand new "Confidential Mode".

"It's the Confidential Mode which is at the centre of security fears," Express.co.uk reported on Saturday.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly issued an alert on the "potential emerging threat... for nefarious activity" with the Gmail redesign, the report said.

"We have reached out to Google to inform them of intelligence relevant to their services and to partner to improve our mutual interests in cyber security," Lesley Fulop, DHS spokesperson said.

Central to these fears was the new "Confidential Email" feature that can require users to click a link in order to access these messages.

If you're a Gmail user using the official Google Mail website then the "Confidential Email" appears when you click to open it. It shows a date for when the content will expire and informs the users that the email can't be forwarded or downloaded.

However, its different if you're a Gmail user viewing the message as a third-party client or a non-Gmail user who receives a confidential email.

In those cases, instead of the message appearing in their browser, users have to click a button to view the email. And this is where the security fears lie.

With the Gmail redesign, scammers could send out fake versions of confidential email alerts and trick a user into entering sensitive details.

"The tech giant is committed to protecting the security of users' personal information and hence, had created "machine learning" algorithms to detect potential phishing scams that cyber criminals carry out," said Google spokesman Brooks Hocog.

Phishing scams are where cyber criminals try to trick victims into clicking on seemingly trustworthy links in order to steal sensitive personal information.

Huawei’s next flagship might ditch the notch for a hole in the display

Huawei’s next flagship might ditch the notch for a hole in the display: Report

Huawei is apparently working on a smartphone with a notch-like hole in the display. (Image of Huawei P20 Pro for representation)

Huawei is reportedly working on a smartphone with a notch-like hole in the display panel. According to the Korean media outlet, ETNews, the alleged Huawei device will have a 6.39-inch LCD display. The report reveals that the Chinese OEM could likely release this strangely designed smartphone in the fourth quarter of this year.

ETNews has shared ‘illustrative mockup’ to explain the concept. From what one can observe, the display bears a cutout for the camera, but it is smaller and ‘surrounded by screen’ on all sides. However, instead of putting the front-camera sensor on the notch, it is placed in a hole, with the speakers and sensors located above a tiny bezel. While the hole might appear to be a ‘unique way’ to squeeze in more display and increase the device screen-to-body ratio it likely seems to be an odd concept.

ETNews has not shared any other detail regarding the specifications of the purported Huawei device. However, the device’s possible launch in Q4 this year comes in line with Huawei’s roadmap that leaked late last year. The leaked roadmap suggested that the company could release Huawei Mate Pro and Huawei Mate Lite in the fourth quarter this year. Reports cite that if Huawei actually tables out this device with a notch-like hole display, it is likely expected to feature on a ‘premium device.’

The Chinese smartphone brands, Oppo and Vivo took a step ahead in bringing uniquely designed handsets, the Oppo Find X and Vivo Nex. Both the devices feature a motorized camera system that pop-up while launching the camera app. Oppo latest flagship model – the Find X – arrived in India this month for a price of Rs 59,990. While Vivo’s new flagship smartphone, the Vivo Nex made its debut a week later at a price of Rs 44,990.

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