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PATOC 2020: Performing Arts in the Time of Corona This international conference further created a platform for many administrators and policymakers to discuss and debate how to facilitate and develop infrastructure allowing for a better online learning experience. It also allowed academics to reconsider how Covid-19 has altered teaching, learning, and assessment methods, and how technology has intervened in the teaching and learning experience. In general, a majority of academics and researchers are still not in a position decide whether the changes happening in academic spheres and the inter...

“Anil Jasinghe v eda mahatha, who studied in Ukraine, which was then a part of Soviet Russia, has come out against the syrup of Dhammika veda mahatha. Not aware that Dhammika veda mahatha is against any syrup of Anil Jasinghe veda mahatha. Anyway, Anil Jasinghe veda mahatha has not even introduced a syrup. Western doctors are prescribing western syrups” This is the translation of the opening paragraph of an article written in Sinhala, which was forwarded to me by an acquaintance of mine. It surprised me no end but the worst was yet to come, as later in the piece the writer states, “W...

Fraunhofer IIS: Netflix Now Streaming with Fraunhofer's xHE-AAC Audio on Android Mobile Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, today announced that Netflix is now using the xHE-AAC audio codec. Netflix has licensed Fraunhofer's high-quality xHE-AAC software and is using it to encode its entire catalog of TV series, documentaries and feature films across a variety of genres and languages. One of the key features of xHE-AAC for Netflix is the mandatory MPEG-D loudness and dynamic range control metadata. It allows service providers to embed content- and endpoint-specific m...

Fraunhofer IIS Introduces New Test Service and Trademark Program for xHE-AAC Audio Codec Fraunhofer IIS, an institute of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany, has announced a new web-based test service that developers and manufacturers can use to validate their implementations of the xHE-AAC audio codec for compliance with MPEG standards. The service, which is available exclusively at https://test.xhe-aac.com, is free to use upon registration with Fraunhofer IIS and will test both encoders and decoders. xHE-AAC introduces many additional features such as mandatory loudness normalization, dynam...

The labour of repair rooted in tutelage and kinship, and the loyalties and discontents that surround repair worlds regulate social order. They recast questions of interdependence and difference in cities. Kolkata’s cargo-cyclists and repair workers who assemble and maintain these old vehicles redeem the city from its disrepairs. Their location and lives are read against the history of capital, contemporary infrastructure building and the logistics of labour. While tutelage fulfils the promise of labour for those who were previously excluded from it, the kinship fostered in Kolkata’s repa...