Author: Aishi Roy

I'm a curious creature with multifarious special interests. I enjoy fiddling with words and consider fast and intensive reading the best of my superpowers. I occasionally indulge in photography and also tend to get lost in whichever parallel universe I accidentally conjure in my hyperactive brain. Beware and welcome.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, provided an interesting insight towards solving the Global Warming and other environmental issues, which are silently strangling our existence on Earth. He summed up the figures to crack the power problem. The issue came up in an interview in the short film, Before the Flood. Musk seems really confident while he tells Leonardo Dicaprio – “We actually did the calculations to figure out what it would take to transition the whole world to sustainable energy… and you’d need 100 Gigafactories.” Also Read: TESLA’S GIGAFACTORY WILL CHANGE HOW THE WORLD CONSUMES ENERGY The Giga Power…

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Did the unwanted phone call disrupt too many of your important business on your primary smartphone? You might now want to start thinking about a some solution to rid spammers and their calls. A caller ID app should do the trick But which one should you get? The top choices – Truecaller, Holaa and Hiya are the ones to pick from. So an informed decision should obviously help. History Truecaller is a dialler replacement app for Android launched in 2009. It was developed by True Software Scandinavia AB, a company based on Sweden, Stockholm, founded by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam.…

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Empathy is a building block of one’s emotional intelligence, and is unique to humans, much like morals. Unlike its most close contender word sympathy, it does not stop with ‘feeling for’ someone. More accurately, it refers to ‘feeling with’ someone- their needs, concerns, and also the attitude towards the present situation. What is Empathy? Scientists categorise empathy as a feeling concerned with the ability of a person to recognise the emotions of other people. This is the very foundation of true sense sympathy and compassion; without this feeling, any seemingly sympathetic word or simple compassionate deed towards someone could come out…

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It’s hard to describe anxiety in a very general sort of way. Is it the uneasiness? A baseline negative emotion accompanying something in the near future? Scientifically speaking, anxiety is defined as a physiological phenomenon as the body’s reaction to anything stressful, dangerous and unfamiliar. The unease accompanying the anticipation of potentially troubling situation is one that is in-built in our mechanism; it often works as an alarming note to prepare our body and mind ready for whatever is coming up. There exists a very healthy and normal level of anxiety, which actually helps people to respond better to different…

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Let’s get it straight – ‘concept’ is the most used word in describing academic success (or failure). This has been the Achilles heel in your test preparation, even worse if you’re trapped in viva-voce, because you thought you got it, but in the moment of need you forget it. As Richard Feynman once said, “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” Fret not, here’s a quick fix for grasping the concept and trapping it unforgettably in your brain. This is not a tedious way; depending on the topic, you can do it in as…

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Considering setting up your own digital media library? You’re going to need to look up the best options – Kodi and Plex. Choosing between the two is going to be troublesome if you don’t go through comparative features. Read on and discover which one is the best for you. Round 1: Availability in Different Platforms Both Kodi and Plex are available on platforms like Android, Android TV (including NVIDIA shield), Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, but Plex is ahead of Kodi in the platforms like Apple Tv, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Chromecast et cetera.…

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Taking the plunge and moving to group collaboration tools? There are 3 primary players you’ll want to look at – Slack, HipChat and the more recent Microsoft Teams. All of them deliver on core features and functionalities. But sometimes offering an array of services isn’t enough – you’ve to choose one tailored to your preferences. Let’s analyse all the players in some more detail for you. History Slack is arguably the most popular collaboration tool on the market right now. Launched in 2013, it had signed up 8000 users within 24 hours of its launch. By 2016, Slack had grown to 4 million…

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