Ather and Ola are successful rivalries of the electric scooter market. Ola electric a unicorn company takes the smarter way by playing with the numbers. The company strongly believed that the price of electric scooters in India can be reduced only when the sales are as huge as 4000 units a year. They are strategically planning and working over the same.
Ather on the other hand is one of the early adopters of the Indian EV market. It had a slow and steady plan to capture the Indian market. Incubated at IITM in their early stage, they did a lot of brainstorming to achieve their design, range, and performance. As a result of this once it was introduced to the market people were awestruck with its design and came up with a question “Why not give it a try?”. Ather made sure that the try was worth the cost. Their service and support were well appreciated in the first place. Ather experience centres made a huge impact in its sales numbers. It made people realise that it’s more than just a ride.
Patrimony Automotive players like Hero Motorcorp, Bajaj Auto, TVS Auto came up with their own strategies and features to launch in the Indian market and they are blooming in the same. Bajaj Chetak has a terrific range of 95 kilometers on a single charge, which is more than enough for a user to switch from petrol to an Electric vehicle. The e-showroom on their website is made in such a way that users can get the feel of visiting a showroom and exploring the vehicle with a smartphone in their hands.
Apart from these startups like Ultroviolette, Ampere electric, Okinawa scooters are also trying to sustain a better place in the Indian Market. Ultraviolette bike is expected to have exceptional sales due to its breath-taking design and performance.
Passenger Electric Vehicles:
The passenger electric vehicles sales in India have not met their expected growth in sales. But the market is predicted to change in the upcoming years. The key players in electric passenger vehicles in India are as follows:
Tata – Nexon EV.
Hyundai – Kona EV.
Morris Garage – ZS EV.
Tata – Tigor EV.
Nexon EV has a range of about 312 km on a single charge while MG ZS EV and Kona EV have a promising range of about 419kms and 452kms respectively. The offered range is promising and sufficient for trips and travels. They have pretty good acceleration and drive modes.
Tesla, a prominent player in the EV market across the world, has entered the Indian market and things are anticipated to change. Headquartered in Bangalore(the city of EV growth), the company is making plans to reduce the battery cost and production cost. The charging infrastructure would become better due to the dashing intervention of Tesla.
The growth of EVs in India is mainly dependent on the charging infrastructure across the country and experts are Forecasting it to get better in the upcoming years.
Students and teachers can communicate with each other through virtual or online learning using numerous channels such as email, online chat, and video conferencing. There is just one way for students to communicate with one another in a classroom. Many pupils have a visual memory and appear to study more eagerly, as well as being engaged in online learning. Due to the closure of schools and institutions, virtual learning has become popular. To some extent, it is advantageous because it eliminates the need to wake up early, there is no worry of being reprimanded, and one may study in a relaxed environment. However, the greatest way to create a teacher-student bond is in the classroom. An online engagement cannot replicate the conversation and questions that a student asks the lecturer in class. In an emergency, virtual learning can be a suitable substitute for classroom learning, but it cannot replace the classroom. Classroom learning is still the preferred method of imparting education and knowledge because it allows for the teaching of discipline. Virtual classrooms and reality Because it is not completely’ real,’ the virtual classroom cannot replace the traditional classroom. Teaching on the Internet is like teaching in a virtual world, but it isn’t the same as teaching in the actual world. Is this to say that any education provided or obtained on the Internet isn’t genuine? There is no way. The professors are trustworthy. These are genuine students. The substance is authentic. Virtual teaching, on the other hand, cannot replace classroom teaching because the atmosphere isn’t real.
Interaction between the teacher and the students Teachers are not taught to just provide their students data and figures and then leave for the day. A teacher’s abilities extend beyond the topic to include the capacity to lead students, filter through material when it isn’t well received by a class, change up material as needed, and even handle random queries that may necessitate more exploration of a thought. Teachers are expected to lead in a real-life classroom setting, where face-to-face interactions with students set the tone for the day’s instructional planning and execution. Interaction between students and teachers The course instructor or moderator in a virtual classroom is someone who merely watches the activities of an online classroom to verify that students log in and finish assignments on time. Assignments are assessed, and feedback is provided by e-mails, texts, and video chats on occasion. There are no one-on-one sessions with the teacher, no subject discussions, and no contacts with the teacher.
Interaction between students Students can influence the course of a day’s lesson, as any instructor who has taught in a real-life classroom situation understands. A student may ask a question about the subject matter that necessitates pausing for a time to investigate a completely different topic. Students can benefit from one other in the same way. For example, suppose the teacher poses a question, and a student’s response prompts another student to respond with an additional answer or question. The teacher has soon steered the students’ ideas and questions into a deeper study of the subject matter, assisting them in gaining more insight; however, this is unlikely to happen in the virtual classroom.
Classrooms are created by their surroundings. The only way for teachers to acquire the entire training and teaching they need to be the greatest at what they do is in a genuine classroom setting with students and teachers engaging with one another. Whether a virtual or classroom teacher is desired, the foundation for this vocation will always be laid in a genuine classroom setting. Leading, guiding, instructing, connecting, and growing as a teacher are all skills that must be learned. Because the classroom is created by the environment, virtual teaching will never completely replace traditional classroom instruction.
The name Agni(meaning fire) was given after one of the 5 elements in nature(Agni, Vayu, Prithvi, Akash, Jala). Agni missiles are medium to intercontinental-range ballistic missiles, developed under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, INDIA. The family of missiles consists of AGNI I, AGNI II, AGNI III, AGNI IV, AGNI V, AGNI P, AGNI VI. And here is a brief description of each one of them.
India night-tests Agni-I missile
Agni I:
Agni I is an intermediate-range ballistic missile, it is 14.8 m long, with a diameter of 1.3 meters, and weighs 22,000 kgs. With a maximum payload of 1,000 kgs, the missile could extend its range up to 1,200 km of distance. Agni I is used by the SCF of the Indian Army. It is made of all-carbon composite materials to protect the payload during its re-entry stage. It is designed to be launched from Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) vehicles, either by road or rail-mobile through transportation. The development of this missile began in 1999, and was first tested in January 2002 from a TEL vehicle at the Interim Test Range on Wheelers’ Island of India’s eastern coast. This missile has relatively high accuracy, simplicity, and due to its combination of an inertial guidance system with a terminal phase radar correlation targeting system on its warhead.
Agni II missile
Agni II:
Agni II is a medium-range, two-and-half-stage solid propellent ballistic missile, and is 20 m long, with a diameter of 1 m, and weighs around 26,000 kg. With a payload of 820-2,000 kgs, the missile could extend its range from 2,000 to 3,500 km. Agni II was first tested on 11th April 1999 at the Wheelers’ Island of the Odisha coast using IC-4 launch pad, over the range 2,000 to 2,200 km. The Agni II uses a combination of inertial navigation and GPS in its guidance module as well as dual-frequency radar correlation for terminal guidance. The 20-meter-long, two-stage ballistic missile has a strike range of 2,000 km to 3,000 km during the night trail of a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile on 16th Nov 2019.
Agni-3 ballistic missile successfully launched by Indias Strategic Forces Command (SFC) from Wheeler Island, off the coast of Odisha on September 21, 2012.
Agni III:
Agni III is an intermediate-range, two-stage solid propellent ballistic missile, it is shorter (17 m and wider and 2 m in diameter) compared to other missiles (Agni I and Agni II), and weighs up to 44,000 kg. With a payload of 2,500 kg, Agni III could extend its range from 2,000 to 3,000 km. It is made using advanced carbon composite materials, while the second-stage booster is made of iron-based steel alloy. Agni-III was first tested on 9th July 2006 from Wheeler Island on the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, by Rail-mobile, possible road-based TEL( Transporter-Erector-Launcher). It was again tested on 12th April 2007 successfully, again from Wheeler Island. The third successive trail-test was fired on 7th May 2008 from Wheelers island, which had a range of 3,500 km,taking a warhead of 1.5 tonnes. It is the most accurate strategic ballistic missile which increases the “kill efficiency” of the weapon. It was reported that with a low payload Agni III and hit a target of over 3,500 km.
Agni IV missile
Agni IV:
Agni IV is an intermediate-range, two-stage nuclear-capable ballistic missile, it is 20 m long, with a diameter of 1 m, and weighs up to 17,000 kg. It was previously called as Agni II prime. Agni IV was first tested on 15th November 2011 and on 19 September 2012 from Wheeler Island(Abdul Kalam Island) off the coast of the eastern state of Orissa. It could reach the target up to the range of 3,500–4,000 km with a payload of 800–1,000 kg. On 20th January 2014, that is during its third test, the missile was lifted off from the launcher and after reaching an altitude of over 800 km, and impacted near the target in the Indian ocean with a remarkable accuracy carrying a payload of 900 kg. Agni IV is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies, that include indigenously developed ring laser gyro and composite rocket motor.
Agni V missile
Agni V:
Agni V is an intercontinental-range, three-stage solid-fuel ballistic missile, it is 17 m long, with a diameter of 2 m, and weighs up to 50,000 kg, developed by the Defense Research and Development Organisation of India. It could reach a target of more than 5,500 km. It was first test-fired on 19th April 2012, from Abdul Kalam Island formerly known as Wheelers Island off the coast of Odisha. It is a canister launch missile system and ensures that it has the requisite operational flexibility and can be swiftly transported and fired from anywhere. The second test launch of Agni-V was completed on 15th September 2013 and the canisterized version was launched in January 2015.
Agni P missile
Agni P:
Agni prime is a medium-range, two-stage solid-fueled ballistic missile, it is half of the weight of Agni III, developed by the Defense Research and Development Organisation, India. Both the first and second stage of the missile was made of composite materials. It could extend its range up to 1,000-2,000 km. As per DRDO, Agni-Prime is a new generation advanced variant of the Agni family, launched on 28th June 2021. “Being a canister-launched missile, Agni-P will give the armed forces the requisite operational flexibility to swiftly transport and fire it from anywhere they want. The test at 10:55 met all mission objectives with a high level of accuracy,” says DRDO. This missile has followed the Textbook trajectory with a great level of accuracy.
Agni VI under development
Agni VI:
Agni VI will be a four-stage intercontinental ballistic missile, currently in the hardware development phase and expected to have a Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle(MIRV) as well as a Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle(MaRV). It is expected as the latest and most advanced version among the Agni Missiles.
Artificial Intelligence has found an important place in our day to day lives. We might not realise it but it has surrounded and transformed almost all aspects of our lives. AI is a branch in computer science that deals with the intelligent behaviour of machines. It is an ingeniously simulated ability of a machine to imitate human behaviour and our conventional response patterns. This is made possible with specific algorithms that make the AI function in a specified scope of activities. This means that with AI, many of our everyday activities can now be carried out effectively by programmed machine technology.
Microsoft’s chief envisioner David Coplin says “AI will change how we relate to each other. I would argue that it will even change how we perceive what it means to be human.“
Real-life examples
The use of AI in organizations, governments, security frameworks, energy and natural resource management, etc., is drastically on the rise. For example, artificial intelligence has been pointed at to possess the potential for more accurate medical practices. Thus, you can be sure of a more accurate surgical procedure using this framework than what is currently available.
Another example would be the most commonly used AI-oriented app nowadays- Google maps. Google maps uses AI to detect traffic and its causes, time taken to travel to the destination, calculate speed of the vehicle and display estimated time accordingly, suggest fastest route alternatives. It is a very helpful tool and everyone uses it during travel.
Similarly, apps like Uber and Ola also use AI to connect you to the closest driver, display estimated wait and travel time, calculate prices according to the time of the day, traffic and other factors etc.
It is also used in food delivery apps to assign the closest outlet of the restaurant you want to order from and to assign the closest delivery person, calculate estimated time of arrival of the food, keep track of the timely preparation and delivery of the food etc.
Another most commonly used example would be voice assistants like Siri, Cortana, Alexa and Google assistant. These are AI powered assistants that can perform any tasks given to them with the help of AI.
Another example would be AI used by entertainment channels like Netflix, Prime video and even YouTube to keep track of the content consumed by every user to determine their liked genres and taste in order to give recommendations to every user according to their taste and preferences.
Google Translate uses AI to help you translate text from a source language to the target one. The company has a lot of contributors across the globe, which means that any person in the world can contribute to Google Translate by entering some words like synonyms or anything else related to languages.
Most importantly, it is used by businesses for providing valuable insights. Using AI supplies them with information about customer behaviour, their preferences, and the history of their interactions with a company. Moreover,AI can be a real game-changer in how marketing and ads campaigns are being run today. For instance, personalized advertisements are a hit with various companies. Corporate giants as Facebook, Google, YouTube, have already been using ads powered by AI for targeting specific audiences.
In these pandemic situation there no offline meetings and interviews. Video conference is daily habited in these time , we are using lot of application for video conference like Google meet, zoom meet, Microsoft teams , Skype and jio meet
Most of people facing problems while hosting and interviews times ,our laptops and PC doesn’t have good quality of video
Then , is there any way to optimise for good quality of video . yes there is a way for that problem
In these day every one have mobile phones , by those mobile phone we can as a webcam
Are you thinking I am joking , then just follow my instruction you will be find my word are no joke..
I have research many application but ,I recommended an application Droidcam that can be download by our favourite app stores
Now you connect your PC or a Laptop over the same Wi-Fi network or with the help of a USB cable. If you downloaded the DroidCam app on your phone from the app store, then download the DroidCam Client on your Windows laptop or PC
There are two ways :
Using wi-fi
Using cable
using Browser
Using Wi-Fi
Open the DroidCam app on your phone and click on the ‘Wireless’ option.
Then next screen should display the ‘WiFi IP’ and ‘DroidCam Port’ . If your ‘WiFi IP’ appears 0.0.0.0, then you are not connected to the Wi-Fi.
Open the DroidCam Client on your PC or laptop and enter the ‘WiFi IP’ and ‘DroidCam Port’ as displayed on your mobile phone. Click on the ‘Start’ button.
Now start the video conferencing app and check the webcam by clicking on the ‘Webcam’ or ‘Video’ settings.
Using cable
Connect your mobile phone to your PC or Laptop with USB cable.
We have remember to note is that you need iTunes downloaded on your PC to connect using USB cable. If you do not have iTunes, you can download it . Once you login to iTunes, it will automatically detect your mobile Phone.
Start the DroidCam Client, select the ‘USB’ option and tap on ‘Start’.
using Browser
DroidCam mobile phone application also connect to the camera using a web browser.
Then you have to connect your phone to a Wi-Fi and open DroidCam application.
Lunch Chrome on your Laptop or PC and enter the ‘Browser IP Cam Access’ data then ‘http://192.168……./video’ and click on enter.
If you have wish to specify the resolution of the video in the URL by using the path including ‘force’. example – http://192.168…./video.force?1280×720.
The application DroidCam Wireless Webcam we used was the free ver . You canl also find the paid ver of this app, called the DroidCamX Wireless Webcam Pro in the Google Play Store. The paid version application supports HD video streaming with out ads
there is one more application I recommends i.e Xsplit connect
Online learning is rapidly becoming one of the most cost-effective ways to educate the world’s rapidly expanding workforce.”
– Jack Messman
Introduction
Virtual classes are becoming a new word in the dictionary of 21st century. It was introduced to the country before but it came to the popularity when people become prisoners in their homes.
Due to the pandemic , virtual world widely came into connect with different countries and one of them was our’s.
Virtual classes become an virtual space where one can ensure to be a keen learner .
How does it work ?
Is it safe to learn online and using different apps for classes ?
How can you assure it cannot harm our privacy ?
Well for the answers you have to read this editorial.
Virtual classes
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
– R. Buckminster
A virtual classroom is a learning and online space where teachers and learners can come together to learn , engage and interact with one another, and work in groups .
The main aim of virtual classes is to provide teacher and learner a platform where they can interact with each other.
It provides an environment to share the learning and thought of the learner and the mentor through video conferencing , Google meetings and others .
How it works
To learn about the virtual classes first you need to know how it works . Their are different portals where we can join virtual classes like zoom , Google meet , WebEx and others . They enable high connectivity , effective communication , simple usage with less internet .
Don’t you think it’s getting to much conceptual . Like OJO -MOJO , I also used some apps for virtual classes and what happened next is the story for me to know and you to explore .
Well , we were at the train station and waiting for a bus , I know I can do standup comedy very well .
Let’s rewrite the statement we were talking about virtual classes . For that we need the most important thing that cannot always be there . Guess what it’s Internet connectivity.
Than we need to login and join from the link that our teachers send in the group .
Want to know a secret , most of the time the link was invisible and students started to create fuss in the group and when it’s time to join the class there were more than 200 messages from where I have to dig the grave , I mean find the link. See how hard I have to work.
Today’s world
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
As the COVID resulted the shut-down of schools and colleges all over the world. More than 1.2 billion children had stoped learning.
And the result , we all know education system changed dramatically with the new e-learning in the digital platform.
Census shows that online learning showing retention of information and take less time. With the increase of online learning many platform providing free learning like BYJU’s , Coursera , Edx , etc,.
Some believe that due to the dramatically changes it was hard to use such platforms and others believe that integration of learning Internet technology education will help to accelerate the learning with diversity.
Choose the sides and make your choice.
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
Promotion of a brand involves informing, persuading and keeping the potential consumers for continued and long term engagements. Promotion can be done by informing the public about the features of the product or brand, persuading them to buy the product by telling its unique features and keeping in touch with the customers to convince them to further buy more products of the same brand by providing after-sales-services and by maintaining good producer-consumer relations.
It is also important to note that there is a difference between promoting a product and promoting a brand. Promoting a brand is broader in terms as it focuses on building and maintaining brand image and is related with the promotion of the entire business. Promotion of a product is narrower in terms as it just focuses on promoting a “particular product”. For example, when Loreal Paris uses the tagline “You’re worth it”, it not just promotes a particular product but the entire Loreal brand. However, when it uses “5 problems, 1 solution”, it promotes a particular product (i.e., Total Repair 5) by highlighting the importance of it.
Online Brand or Product Promotion is the method of promoting the brand or product on different social media and online platforms by using the internet to its full potential to reach a wide range of audience. For ages, brands and advertisers have influenced and shaped consumers’ attitudes and behaviours and sometimes we don’t even get to know about it.
There are several ways in which Social Media Influencers impact promotion of a brand or a product:
1) Influencing Purchase Decision of Consumers:
Consumers’ purchase intentions are frequently measured and used by marketing managers as an input for decisions for new and existing products. Social Media Influencers do not put up advertisements but just directly talk about the product or brand in details, how to use their, if they are value for money. So influencers cover the “Frequently Asked Questions” about a product.
2) Convincing customers to buy products:
After influencing the purchase decision of the customers, the main task of influencers is to make their followers buy the products. Actions involving social media influencers help more when there is best personalised advertisement done by the influencers.
3) Distribution of Samples:
This is one of the newest techniques through which social media influencers help business firms in their promotional activities. The influencers take free samples from the producers and further distribute them to their followers in terms of “online giveaways”. This technique of “Online Giveaway” becomes extremely beneficial for those firms which are new in the market. The social media influencers ask their followers to comment, like or share the posts of the business product/firm they’re associated and few lucky winners are the ones who get to take the products in these Online Giveaways. There’s also traditional form of distribution of samples where influencers distribute a business firm’s products which are generally smaller in quantity than the original products so that customers get a first hand experience of the products.
Clearly, social media influencers have had gained and influenced their followers a lot in recent years and especially during the pandemic. People rely on influencers more these days and influencers keep on creating more content for their followers.
Today, the internet dominates many aspects of our life. We’re so used to it that we don’t even think about all the areas it touches. It helps us communicate with our friends and family. It’s an invaluable tool in the kitchen as we look up recipes and ingredients. If we’re attempting DIY repairs on our car, we might look up a tutorial on YouTube. We access our entertainment online. Whenever we have any question, from the most mundane to the most complicated, we ask the internet. There’s one facet of our life, however, where we might not often think about the effects of technology, and that’s the realm of education. Today, we want to spend some time examining how technology has found its way into the halls of schools across the country and around the globe, and all the ways technology has changed education. Technology has improved education by using advanced techniques and tools for research and development. Technology has improved the speed of the learning process through the internet. Technology helped to create new and updated educational material and syllabus. Data analysis and visualizations Technologies have improved the quality of education. Technology improved the student’s security and provided low cost, real-time platforms for communication. Now there are thousands of fonts support different emotions and facts in the text. Now notes, eBooks, blogs, videos, apps, charts, smart arts, data visualizations, infographics are the part of educational materials. Today Corel Draw, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, smart class apps, Adobe Photoshop, stock images and many other IT sources helping to create, design, and various types of educational materials and class syllabus. This is a big change in education through technology. And I think the goal should be to store data/information/knowledge systematically in the brain of students. And this helps them to memorize it faster during the class and competitive exams. Even when they will in the jobs they can execute that knowledge to produce creativity in their works. Technology has changed, improved the quality of education. And I think we need to think on long-term problems and results while we plan and integrate the change in education by using Technologies. Technology has improved the Teachers and students communication channels and methods. There was a time when students fear to ask a question from teachers. There was a time when student hesitates to communicate with the teacher about what they are feeling. If someone wants to learn more about the class topic from the same teacher then there were not the ways. There were no ways to keep connected with the teachers for years. But technology has changed teachers and students communication methods and types. It is now much stronger, easy, high tech and possible to builds long-term connection with teachers and students with the help of technologies. Now today’s teachers understand that technology is a part of our life. So they are trying to learn the use and methods of advanced technological tools that help them to explain the class topic. Use of social media by teachers not only helps students to learn but also help society. If Physics teachers/lectures/professor have social media pages and groups then they can invite and target students especially college students to like and join the group. After that, they can create, post, like content that is related to physics (class wise/chapter wise). It builds a great connection and generates student’s interest to learn physics not only in the class but after class. And I think it’s the biggest and greatest use of social media in education. Technology removed the communication gaps and it is above then political boundaries. And when we matter education and development of students above then politics then I am sure that we will become not only developed but wise citizens. Now if students have the option to learn from teachers on their blog, they can follow them on twitter, they can join the communities and overall it helps to study the subject and it helps to create a positive environment. This way, I think technologies speed up the learning process. Technologies created the platform for students to post questions and answers. Students from different cultures are connected with each other for the class topic. The better use of technology in the classroom and education mostly depends on our teachers, professors, and management. When they adopt a positive attitude to enhance the capacity of students then it will improve and align the education in the right direction. But we also need to careful that our students are not motivated to follow the wrong direction directed by trolls, politicians, companies for personal benefits. To stop the negative impact of technology on students, teachers and professors have to lead students. And it will happen if the government, school, college, university, and management boards work on teacher’s development. So that they can feel safe, secure and inspired to lead students for a better future by developing expertise in students through technologies. Technology has improved the transparency in the educational process and in the organization, improved the staff management methods, streamlined career development programs, faster and easier methods to conduct exams and test, students’ performance reporting, real-world problem-solving assignments, and projects. But whatever the ways you choose to integrate technologies in the classroom, school or in the colleges. But always remember that don’t ignore the happiest and joyful environment and projects. If students not happy, everything you do will not be beneficial. So that it’s important to integrate technology around the happiness, interests, and motivations of students.
“Technology will not replace great teachers but technology in the hands of great teachers can be transformational”
Not many industries have suffered the fate of disarray as the chip industry after the advent of the Covid pandemic. Things were not great for chipmakers in 2020 due to the pandemic but instead of seeing any signs of improvement, 2021 has been even worse for the industry so far. There has been a deficit of chip supply as compared to the demand and it’s not just the electronic industry that is going through a rough phase but it’s many other industries as well. Unlike a couple of decades back when chips were mainly present in personal computers and specialized electronic appliances and gadgets. Now chips power the world. One of the worst-hit industries has been the automobile sector. When the first wave of Covid-19 hit the world, global sales of cars had dwindled, and to compensate for this, car manufacturers had lowered their chip orders from the manufacturers. These chips are a requirement for assembling the critical electronics and computers that are inside modern cars. 2021 saw a sudden increase in automobile sales and this caused the disruption in equilibrium of chip supply and many automobile manufacturers started giving large orders and chip fabrication plants like TSMC were unable to cope up with the sudden growth in demand. This parallel demand for chips has increased the backlog and even though the chip manufacturers are operating over time, they have not been able to keep up with the demand. Now even home appliances might face issues with their chip supply.
There is one more important aspect that we have to address and it’s the increased demand for electronics items after the pandemic. As many people were and are still stuck in homes, they are buying computers, consoles, televisions, and various other electronic components. Many companies have not been able t keep up with the demand due to this. Graphics card is one of those elusive items that have suffered a double whammy. Both potential gamers and crypto miners want their hands on the newest graphics card but due to a shortage of chips card manufacturers are not able to keep up with the demand. There have been many cases where individuals and groups are scalping (buying in bulk) these new cards and reselling them at much higher prices.
Basic appliances and car components often use chips manufactured with older technology. For instance, PC and smartphones are using 7nm manufacturing whereas cars manufacturers uses older 32 nm or 14 nm technology because they are comparatively cheaper to manufacture. But due to the shortage in supply, manufacturers are prioritizing their newer chips and it’s getting challenging to allocate resources for older manufacturing processes. Due to this many car manufacturers have scaled-down on the extra amenities in their models.
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing company) is one of the biggest chip manufacturers in the world. The company produces 60 percent of the world’s chips for automobiles and 92 percent of cutting-edge chips. Recently Taiwan is experiencing its worst drought in over 50 years. A high quantity of water is required to clean the wafers during the manufacturing of the chips. Droughts have only increased the problems in the manufacturing of these chips. There is immense pressure when most of the world’s chips are made in one single building. This also exposes the problem of relying on a single source of manufacturing. Due to globalization and completion, most of the world’s manufacturing shifted to Asia. The issue of chip shortage will most probably remain next year as well. Intel (U.S) is has started to set up two new manufacturing plants in Arizona. This comes at a time when many have realized that a concentrated source of manufacturing is not the most reliable thing and diversification is the only way to deter any future shortages.
Videos games have become a significant part of our culture for over half the century. They have also lead to many leading artistic and technical endeavors including many innovations in all these years. People have started to recognize the importance of these games as culturally important and the need to curate and store them properly.
Education is one of the areas that have gone through a transformational change in 2020 and forward. The learning space has transitioned from a physical space to a space that has gone digital. The convergence of various technologies and modalities has given birth to a new space in the education system.
When it comes to Computer games, many used to scoff at them as a mere product for brief entertainment, but the increased proliferation of digital in every individual’s life means that Video games have a more significant role to play than ever before. The increased visual fidelity with better computing power has signified more immersion in the digital world. Online education has been given a push from governments around the globe. The majority of the higher institutions are teaching remotely with the help of different online tools. One of the major challenges that many educators face is the problem of engagement on par with the physical class.
Instead of just looking at online education as an alternative for the physical classes, we have to look at online education as a means of learning that can enhance the experience and engagement of the students than the physical classes as well. The technologies in 2021 clearly indicate that various tools and measures can be added into the experience of not just online learning and but also in the space of cultural heritage and digital tourism. Video games are an important tool that educators can leverage to fulfill these requirements.
Engagement and immersion can be the key factors that can drive the education system forward. There are many instances where students skip a certain subject even before attempting to learn it. This can be due to a poor and unfavorable experience with a certain instructor or wrong assumptions about the difficulty of that subject. Engaging interfaces in the form of creative games, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality can help alleviate these types of issues.
Human-Computer-Interaction is an important field where the aspect of design and technology converge. This area not just deals with technological issues but also with the psychological and socio-cultural problems while designing/building a product or an interface. The interface is an important area that is often overlooked on many platforms. Many Educational platforms don’t offer the freedom that can help students, but they rather use the stingy design philosophy and force the users to a particular behavior while using it. Therefore the interface of games becomes equally important. Games can be used to create a more participatory environment for both the teachers and students alike while increasing the experimentation and systematic thinking in the class.
Video games are usually played to win or accomplish a level. Players are motivated by winning these challenges and this is the key to stay engaged. Games motivate through fun, which is part of the natural learning process in human development with instant and visual feedback.
We can conclude that the implementation of video games in the realm of education can make online learning more engaging and intuitive for learners. This is still a novel field of research and we have a long way to go but we cannot dismiss the numerous possibilities that games can provide us in this area.
Over the past decade, social media has managed to secure a special position in our hearts. Like every other evolutions in the world, the way we use social media platforms also evolves. With the quick growth of social media, trends change every second day and thus brands and individuals are in a hurry to adopt them fast!
Major Trends…
1) Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual and auditory.
How it is used in different ways in social media?
Now, during the pandemic times, it wasn’t easy for people to go out for shopping and try out the things they wanted to purchase. So Augmented Reality became an important feature in social media apps so that consumers can try out the business products from their respective homes.
Popular furniture company IKEA using AR.
MORE COMMON EXAMPLES OF AR IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, recently said Augmented Reality has slowly become the company’s “topmost priority” . We have already witnessed how social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram have become more AR oriented– all the face filters that we use on such social media apps are nothing but small facets of Augmented Reality.
Credit: The Verge
2)VIRTUAL REALITY
Virtual reality (VR) refers to a computer- generated simulation in which a person can interact within an artificial three-dimensional environment using electronic devices, such as special goggles with a screen or gloves fitted with sensors. Users have a realistic feeling experience when it comes to Virtual Reality.
VIRTUAL REALITY IN SOCIAL MEDIA
A) VR CHAT VRChat is a free-to- play massively multiplayer online virtual reality social media platform. It allows players to interact with others as 3D character models. Users can interact via text chats and then play the games according to their needs.
Credits: Business Insider
B) FACEBBOOK SPACE It allows an integration with Facebook, which makes it easy to invite our friends and acquaintances to the VR world. Three people can actually interact using a VR device. This has however now been discontinued.
3)Shopping through Social Media
Many new brands and business firms deal with their consumers entirely though social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
Both these social media platforms provide services like a complete e- commerce portal and also allows business firms to show their products on the platforms while attaching a link to the firm’s official website. Customers can view products, see prices and can directly order products from these social media platforms.
Credits: Cosmetics Business
4) News Culture on Social Media
This is one of the most popular trends we tend to see these days on social media. People spent most of their times in social media and therefore many mainstream media channels maintain good interaction with their audiences on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter via video stories, pictorial presentations and like.
Many new media houses are completely based on social media. People mostly get to know about recent happenings through social media. Twitter as compared to any other social media platform has distinctively been credited for instantaneous news.
Facebook page of ABP News
5) Hash-tag Culture
This is another form of social media trend that can be seen these days where interested groups make a hash-tag phrase (for example: #xyz) regarding their concerned matters. This has widely been witnessed on Twitter and Instagram where users make their interested topics “trendy” on social media. This is especially done on Twitter to bring anything to public notice.
Creating an app without coding language is easier and cheaper than you think. You just need to use an app builder like AppInstitute. With these tools you can have your app up and running in days or even hours.
The way of Simple steps:
1.Choose a template.
2.Brand your app.
3.Edit and add content.
4.Publish your app.
How to Create a Mobile App Without Writing a Code
To create a mobile app without coding, you need to use an app builder. These are tools that come with pre-programmed templates and features that you can edit and customize.
Because the features in app builders are pre-made, you don’t need to program them yourself. And because you can customize the look, content, and features, you can build mobile apps that are entirely your own.
AppInstitute is one of the most popular app builders. We have designed the mobile app development process to be as straightforward as possible. We believe you will be able to build an app that wows your customers, no matter your level of technical ability.
The device apps are perfect for small businesses and learning plotforms that want an app to improve their service and compete with bigger brands.
The every user currently include:
Restaurants that use their mobile apps to enable contactless ordering, takeaway, and delivery.
Coffee shops that use their app for loyalty schemes or order in advance.
Hair salons use the app to manage bookings and loyalty schemes.
Radio stations provide listeners with an easy-access radio stream.
And more.
You can quickly build both an iOS and an Android app with the app maker. This is essential, as releasing native apps on each platform ensures your entire customer base can use your product.
If you want to make an app while reading this guide, head over to this link to sign up and try out our app builder.
Step One: Choose Your Template
The first step in the app development process is choosing a template. We have templates available for a wide variety of business types, industries, and use cases.
Each of these templates contains the features that most benefit the people who run each type of business.
step one:App Builder
For example:
The beauty salon app template makes it easy for salons to accept bookings. It also has a gallery businesses can use to show off haircuts and styles.
The coffee shop app template contains a loyalty rewards program and the ability for customers to make orders ahead of time.
The radio station app template has features for a live stream and time schedules.
All the templates are customizable. That means if it doesn’t have all the features you want, you can easily add more in the following steps.
If your business doesn’t fit any of the existing templates, you can make an app from scratch and only add the pages and features you need. Just choose the relevant option when setting up.
Step Two: Branding
Next, select a color scheme for your template. We make this easy by letting you connect your website to the app builder. We then pull out the colors you already use and suggest a suitable palette for your app that matches your existing branding.
step two:theme
If you don’t have a website or you’d rather choose your colors, you can do so in the next step. Just click the “Skip this step” button.
At this stage, you can enter your mobile number so we can send you a preview link that lets you see how the app looks on a mobile device.
The colors you choose aren’t the only way you can brand your app. Our app builder makes it easy for you to customize your app with images that you can use on the splash screen or as a header bar image.
This makes your app instantly recognizable. Just upload the images via the relevant section.
The final step in the branding process is uploading your app icon. This is the logo that people see when they want to open your app or search for it on the App Store or Google Play. Make sure yours stands out and is instantly recognizable so people can quickly access your app.
Step Three: Content
Each app template comes with preloaded content, which you can easily edit to suit your own business. For example, you can change the text shown on the About page or add new images and descriptions to your menu.
The app builder also makes it easy to add new tabs to your mobile apps.
Whether it’s an about us page with details of your company’s contact and social information, a services page that outlines all you have to offer, loyalty programs, or simple to use forms. You can customize your content to build an app suitable for any business type.
It’s also easy to remove features you don’t think will benefit your audience. If you don’t want to offer a loyalty program, for example, just delete it from the app.
This customization ensures that novices can create mobile apps unique to their business without writing a single line of code.
Once you’ve added content, you can set navigation options. Choose from a tab bar or sidebar menu that enables customers to access features in your app easily.
Setting up the back-end of the features is easy. You can adjust the settings so that you receive a notification when someone makes an order or sends you a message. It’s also possible to restrict access to certain pages to only logged-in users.
Step Four: Publish
Now you’ve worked on the design and added your content to each area of your app, you just need to publish it. Users will then be able to easily download either the iOS or Android app to their phones.
We provide all our users with an easy-to-use wizard that simplifies the publication process. Just follow the steps to set your app live on the App Store, the Google Play Store, or both.
There are several sections you will have to complete before you go live. First, you need to confirm that you don’t breach any of the content warnings from either store. Then you can fill in the details that will show up in your app store listing, including:
App Title
Icon Name
Categories
Keywords
Description
Before publishing your app, you’ll need to sign up for a Google and Apple Developers account. This is required by everyone who wants to publish an app on one of these platforms.
Top App Builder Features for Your Business
The AppInstitute app maker has features that help many types of businesses: including coffee shops, nightclubs, hair salons, driving instructors, charities, and many more.
Here are some of the available features:
Mobile Coupons
Incentivize customers to download your new app by offering exclusive discounts with mobile coupons. These redeemable coupons can have set start and end dates to suit your offer and can help drive those all-important sales. Coupons are particularly effective at driving sales during quiet periods of the year or to promote special occasions!
Food Ordering
With the rise of food ordering apps like JustEat and Deliveroo, restaurant consumers are used to ordering food with just a few clicks. Create and customize your own food ordering app and benefit from great features like one-click ordering without the substantial commission fees charged by third parties. You can use this same system to provide a contactless ordering experience at your restaurant, coffee shop, or bar.
Gallery
Promote your business with gorgeous images in a photo gallery. Hair salons can easily upload the latest photos of their stunning cuts and colors. Or ecommerce stores can showcase images of all their latest products.
Loyalty Program
Our loyalty program tab lets you create a rewards scheme that gives user a stamp whenever they buy from your business.
When the customer hits a predefined number of stamps, you provide them with a gift. The scheme is entirely customizable, so you can make it work for your business and users. It’s perfect for any business that would benefit from repeat sales.
Booking System
Connect your online booking service to your app to accept bookings. It’s perfect for hotels, salons, restaurants, or any type of business that uses bookings. Or you can create events and then accept reservations from your customers. Bars and pubs will find this tab useful, too.
Ecommerce
Connect your ecommerce provider to your app to give people a new way to order directly from your business. We can integrate with platforms including Amazon, Etsy, Magneto, and Shopify.
Audio Stream
Give your customers direct access to an audio stream from their phone or tablet. It’s a great way for radio stations to ensure listeners always have access to their stream.
Push Notifications
Keep customers engaged by sending push notifications directly to their phone. A well-timed message could be the difference between someone ordering from your takeaway on a Friday afternoon and cooking at home.
You can tailor push notifications based on different user segments or the location of the user. For example, you can show families one offer and couples another.
Directions
Add a directions tab that shows users how to find your business. The tab uses Google Maps so it is easy for customers to use.
Contact
Make it easy for customers to contact your business by including a page with a form. We offer several preset forms that allow user to register, send feedback, or send images. Or you can create your own form with the form editor. Add various types of fields including checkboxes, email addresses, and images.
You can check out the complete list of features that we have available here.
Achieving Long-Term Success
App builders make it easy to create apps without programming knowledge. But building your app from scratch and then launching is only the start of the mobile app development process. And it is certainly just the start of the journey with us at AppInstitute.
We want to help you make the most of your new tool, so supply a 30-day success plan which covers all the things you need to do in the early stages to help achieve your long-term goals.
We’ll equip you with social sharing tools to promote your app on the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
You’ll also be able to access your app’s analytics data to view downloads, app actions, and download sales reports across customized time frames to track the success of campaigns or learn how much revenue you are bringing in.
If you wanted even more in-depth analytical information, use Google Analytics to identify the most viewed pages, where your traffic is coming from, and many more insights and reports.
Once you’ve got a captive audience, communicating with them to keep them that way is the next crucial element. Push notifications are one of the best ways to connect with user almost instantly.
Use them to promote exclusive deals and discounts, send important updates, reminders, and much more. With the addition of geofencing technology, you can use push notifications to target user when they are near your business.
Building your first Apple or Android app doesn’t have to be a scary, daunting prospect.
AppInstitute makes the process easy, stress-free, and affordable. You don’t have to write a single line of code. You get complete control over how your app looks, functions, and feels.
The plunge and delve into the world of the mobile app to take advantage of features that will blow your user away and put you ahead of the competition.
The technology called internet of things, a tech section with a zany name, can be a much fascinating thing for technophiles. Because this booming sector has a lot of opportunities for growth both economically and technologically, equally for the country and the individual. What’s Internet of things? The answer is simple. What’s internet, the global system of interconnected computers. In the similar way internet of things is also a network of interconnected physical objects -a.k.a. things, that are implanted with sensors, software and other technologies which will help them to connect and exchange data with each other. And the term was coined by Kevin Ashton, a British technology pioneer in 1999. The prime role is of the sensor. They are embedded in all physical devices like refrigerator, an air conditioner, a barcode, or a car as well. These sensors continuously vent data about the working states of the device. All this data is dumped in a common platform provided by the IOT which also provides a common language for devices to communicate with each other. The data collected is sent to IOT security and this platform integrates the collected data and performs the analytics and extracts a valuable information about the device. This information is shared between all other connected devices. For example, the sensor in your AC collects the data about the performance of the device, emits it which is collected by IOT and from which a result about the devices is extracted. This result is shared to your smartphone which is connected with the AC and you can easily access information about your device`s state. Arrival of cheap computer chips and omnipresence of wireless network made the conversion of anything into an IOT possible, from a pill to an aeroplane. Now anything that can have a sensor introduced can become an IOT device. The automated switches of lights, a self-driving car, a smartwatch or fitness bands are all IOT devices. ATMs are one of the old IOT device. But a conventional smartphone or a PC is not an IOT. Because a device which you would not expect to have internet connection and can communicate with the network independently is included in this category.
The industry of IOT will contribute a lot to the economic growth. McKinsey report says that 127 new IOT devices connect to the internet every second and it may produce an economic value of $11 trillion by 2025. A research organization called Zion states that $53 billion growth will be shown by the smart house automation market. The number of IOT connected devices will grow to 50 billion by 2030 as estimation. India also shows a significant growth in IOT sectors. India’s investment in IOT sector is projected to reach $15 billion by 2021 from $5 billion on 2019 and this estimation is given by zinnov report. The companies like TCS, Infosys, HCL tech, LTI, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Mindtree and may other are involving into the IOT sector. There are 154 industrial suppliers of IOT in India. And initiatives like smart manufacturing and smart cities will make India one of the best IOT ecosystem in the world. The IOT sector has more opportunities and high salary compared to IT sector because it’s a new field and there are less skilled professionals. Median salary of an IOT professional is 15.2 LPA and that of IT professional is 8.65 LPA. According to talent supply index, 304% increase in the demand for IOT professional between 2014 and 2017 is observed. IOT India salary study of 2017 mentions that salary of IOT professionals is 76% higher than that of IT professionals. Despite of all the comfort and benefits of the IOT there are some serious concerns about the security of the consumer data and botnet attack. There will also be a problem of device management at the individual level and also lack of user knowledge impacts the system. There are also concerns about the impacts on nature from this technology. But how much growth will this self-aware device technology will attain is a matter of time.
In the tech world, we call a drone as ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’. Started as a military invention in the US, drones and their scope of use is growing day by day. At present, civilians and police departments around the world are also enjoying the benefits of the drone technology at an increasing rate. Photography, videography, food-delivery, farming, environmental and crime surveillance, etc. are the activities for which we are using the features of drones. We can buy drones for personal of professional use from any local or online tech or gadget store starting from a range of USD 50 or INR 45,000 to 50,000.
Scope of drones
Drone is another rapidly growing and adaptive gadget which the humans can manipulate for humanitarian causes and as well as causing harm to life and property. From delivering food packets for flood-relief to deadly gunshots on people, drone industry is much diverse and is rising soon creating a boom into the ecommerce delivery system and agricultural industry in the coming years.
But before that, let’s have a look at some important facts about drones which you probably don’t know.
Drones are not always remote controlled.
It will surprise you that there are three types of drones according to their piloting methods:
Remotely Piloted Drone–Piloted from a remote station where the drone is not directly visible.
Model Remotely Piloted Drone-Piloted for educational, recreational or experimental usage only within a visible area of sight.
Autonomous Drone–Does not require a pilot. We feed the flight and working instructions into its system before taking off, just like any targeted missile.
Drones can legally invade your privacy.
To your shock, there is no national framework or statutory body to govern the use of drones by the police. Police don’t even require a warrant or permission to survey using drone. The drones flown by the police or military drones have ungoverned access to all parts of the United States to gather data except government properties and lands. Many other countries act similarly for regulating drones by government authorities.
Can you fly a drone easily in your country?
The drone rules of each country are different and very complex. It takes days or months for common people to get certain licenses and permissions to fly drones in a particular country.
Examples:
A foreigner or a foreign company cannot fly drone in India. To use drone for commercial activities, a foreigner is bound to lease their drone to an Indian company who will get Unique Identification Number (UIN) and drone permit called UAOP (Unmanned Aircraft Operator Permit) from DGCA (The Directorate General of Civil Aviation) for the foreigner.
A non-US citizen is bound to take permission and licenses 15 days prior to using drone in the US.
Drones have killed lakhs of children
The military, police, and terrorists use attack drones or weaponized drones at the time of warfare. Drones work as small weapons, which is very hard to notice for a common citizen. This reckless use of drone technology by military, police and criminals over the years is taking many lives. Most of the victims are civilians and children.
Resolving worst farming and food problems by using drones.
Thermal cameras installed on drones can identify water leakages and identify which crops are getting enough water. A drone can zoom down to even an individual plant. Farmers in Canada and other countries are using drone data for years to calculate the health of the plants.
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