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Opportunities for women to enter employment in the country are limited by a range of factors. These include a dominant tradition of female domestic responsibility and prevailing social patriarchy. Deeply entrenched cultural expectations mean that women are more likely to stay at home. And when they do work, it is mainly on an informal basis, without the luxury of secured wages and contracts. Against this backdrop, the idea of female entrepreneurship in India faces major challenges....

The device features a Kirin 980 chip, 8GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and 5G connectivity, powered by a 4,500 mAh battery. The folding display covers an 8-inch diagonal, or a 6.6-inch one when folded. Unlike the Galaxy Fold, the bendy panel is exposed when the device is folded. Replacing a broken screen will cost ¥2,699 (about $380). Not awful, but not exactly cheap either. For comparison, Samsung’s Galaxy fold costs $1,980 includes free screen repairs within the first year of using the device, and one $150 repair thereafter....

To use the temperature sensor, you open up the app and apply the phone directly to your forehead, as shown in this Weibo video. The infrared sensor supports temperatures from -20°C (-4°F) to 100°C (212°F) (let’s hope your temperatures are not on either end of that scale). Considering the prevalence of IR sensors in cameras already (FaceID or the OnePlus 8 Pro’s IR camera come to mind), it’s perhaps not much of a surprise to see Huawei repurposing one for taking temperatures....

Empathy, we argue, is the force behind our capacity to understand works of art. Think of what happens when you are confronted with an artwork. We maintain that, to understand the piece, you use your own conscious experience to ask what could possibly motivate you to make such an artwork yourself – and then you use that first-person perspective to try to come to a plausible explanation that allows you to relate to the artwork....

A few weeks ago, Hyundai’s electric spinoff brand Ioniq unveiled its first model, simply called the 5. Everyone seemed to agree that it is a good looking car, but something didn’t add up. Ioniq insists the 5 is a crossover, but in the pictures it looked a lot more like a hatchback. Crossovers are supposed to be big, and chunky, but in the company’s press images it just didn’t look to be....

The last time I shed tears on the job was a few years ago. I was going through something very tough in my personal life and I broke down on a communal sofa in a packed WeWork in East London. Nobody said anything to set me off, it just happened — and let me tell you, they weren’t pretty tears. I looked like something out of a horror film and I’d definitely forgotten to wear waterproof mascara that day....

Scandinavian countries dominate the World Happiness Report — Norway being the third most productive country in the world and Helsinki winning the title of the best city for work-life balance. And their standard working week is less than 40 hours long. They work a whopping 359 hours less than Americans every year. How I began working 5-hour workdays (by accident) When I quit my job in the great resignation of 2020 to become a freelance writer, I was determined to continue working eight-hour days....

You’ve probably seen a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of a Pixar movie and wondered about the hours and hours of work that go into producing premium animation. And yes, crafting a Toy Story or a Cars movie does require an incredible amount of time and attention. However, digital animation has evolved over the past few decades, democratized the artform so even a first-time animator can get their hands on professional-grade tools to produce some amazing work....

According to a new report by Top10VPN — a site that tracks VPN and privacy tools –India lost nearly $2.7 billion due to internet shutdowns in 2020 — more than the combined total of the next 10 countries in the chart. India was also stayed offline for longer than any other country, at 8,927 hours last year (the report adds hours of simultaneous shutdowns at different places). As per internetshutdowns....

“The Committee notes with serious concern mushrooming of cryptocurrencies almost invariably issued abroad and numerous people in India investing in these cryptocurrencies. All these cryptocurrencies have been created by non-sovereigns and are in this sense entirely private enterprises,” their report reads. The panel said anyone dealing with digital currencies of any kind could face 10 years behind bars and be handed hefty fines. As part of its recommendation, the panel laid out the reasons why cryptocurrencies should be banned....

ING says in its report that general sentiments towards cryptocurrencies and their usefulness “have not changed drastically” since the bank conducted a similar survey a year ago. The survey interviewed a total of 14,824 people from 15 countries including Europe, Australia and the US. Knowledge about cryptocurrency still low The overwhelming outcome was that, of those surveyed, most still don’t know much about cryptocurrency. Of the 12,813 people asked if cryptocurrencies have a central controlling body, 21 percent said that they do, and 52 percent said they didn’t know....

“If something can go wrong, it will usually be at the worst time.” It looked like Apollo 13 had been hit by Murphy´s law. Suddenly, NASA´s third attempt to land on the moon became the biggest and the most difficult rescue mission ever seen. Fortunately, the extraordinary ability of the crew and mission control team saved their lives. Things remained quite monotonous at first until on April 13, when everything changed....

Thankfully, there might be some respite. Reverse engineer extraordinaire, Jane Manchun Wong, tweeted about a feature currently being tested, that will allow you to see the latest posts you missed out on. This sounds like the chronological feed people are asking for. Similar, but not the same ? pic.twitter.com/AUMwlZGtUr — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 14, 2020 As Wong noted, this will be a separate section and not an option to switch timelines....

According to Bloomberg Law, a senior agency official said last week that criminal investigators at the IRS were “very” focused on the potential tax implications raised by cryptocurrency kiosks and ATMs. “We’re looking at those, and the ones that may or may not be connected to bank accounts,” IRS criminal investigation chief John Fort told Bloomberg Law. “In other words, if you can walk in, put cash in and get Bitcoin out, obviously we’re interested potentially in the person using the kiosk and what the source of the funds is, but also in the operators of the kiosks....

Speaking of the latter, as a woman and the founder of a healthtech company, I couldn’t help but notice that what wellness apps are offering today does not correspond with the actual needs of women. Most of the founders and top product people at healthtech companies can’t really “eat their own dog food,” that is, they are limited in their ability to use their own apps and uncover issues in user experience....

— jack (@jack) April 7, 2020 Of the $1 billion worth of Square equity, so far only $200M worth of it has been donated. This can be seen in the Google spreadsheet that tracks the fund’s dispersals. But that $200M isn’t 20% of the total fund’s value. In fact, it’s just 7% of it. As stocks are only sold to cover a particular dispersal once it has been confirmed, this means the fund’s total undispersed value fluctuates per day, depending on changes in Square’s stock price....

In a recent meeting held in Sydney, the group released a call for evidence to explore AI-based methods to find a new image compression codec. The program, aptly named JPEG AI, was launched last year; with a special group to study neural-network-based image codecs. [Read — Study: AI expert Gary Marcus explains how to take AI to ‘the next level’] Under the program, it aims to find possible solutions towards finding a new standard....

The world was first alerted to this news by another musician, Grimes: — Grimes (@Grimezsz) July 22, 2021 Now, I’m not going into depth about the veracity of this statement. Grimes is well-known for making some outlandish claims. Remember when she said she had experimental eye surgery that removed “the top film of [her] eyeball and [replaced] it with an orange ultra-flex polymer?” That her and her friend made? To eliminate blue light from her vision?...

But tech giants do have their own voices, carefully crafted by editors, designers, and product developers. Karen Wickre is one such editor, and she’s helped define the voices of some of the most important tech companies on the planet. Back in 1994, Wickre was publishing some of the earliest guides to the world wide web — for some perspective, this is when there were about a thousand websites, by her estimate....

Well, technically the invite said the company “will talk about devices and Windows,” which could include partner devices, but the imagine in the invite made it clear that there will be some kind of Surface news. Learn more about the #MicrosoftEvent: https://t.co/tpK3TB8Xxb — Microsoft (@Microsoft) September 1, 2021 So far, we’re expecting at least a couple of new devices. We’ve already seen leaks of a new and improved Surface Duo 2, which appears to include much beefier cameras and the Snapdragon 888 processor....