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World Cups Down Under are different. For one thing, folks on the sub-continent and in the Middle East will tune in to watch matches in the morning and afte..
Most eagerly anticipated is another classic final between top seed Novak Djokovic and second seed Rafael Nadal as 40-year-old Federer, recovering from his third knee...
Shrimp is passé. How about some mud crabs or quail? Aqgromalin co-founders Bharani C.L. (left) and Prasanna Manogaran in a quail farm.Premium 4 min read Share Via Read Full Story It was hard to find the farm in a forest area near Madurai in Tamil Nadu. But an entrepreneur looking for it got plenty of directions from locals, because everyone there had heard of the idiosyncratic farmer growing black soldier fly larvae. The protein-rich worms make for a great poultry or fish feed. The flies grow in a confined space where their larvae feed on copious organic waste. Bucketfuls of worms are taken out before they grow into flies. Only some remain to continue the cycle.
This chip lets the bat do the talkin’ via a mobile app Anil Kumble’s stroke gets analysed with an IoT device made by Spektacom, a startup founded by the ace leg-spinner in Bengaluru. 6 min read Feedback from players testing the product also goes into training the algorithm to gauge the impact location Share Via Read Full Story Gujarat batsman Priyank Panchal has been knocking on the doors of the Indian Test team by piling up runs in domestic cricket. Last year, he drew attention with a century for India A in New Zealand, batting at No. 3 in the same match in which Shubman Gill got a double century and earned a place in the Test team. Now, Panchal has come a step closer, as he has been named among the standbys for the England series starting this week.
Rising from the ashes to figure out the business of dry waste Nepra founder Sandeep Patel at his dry waste plant in Indore. 4 min read Ahmedabad-based Nepra handles more than 500 tonnes of dry waste a day, making it the largest player in this space. It is also the highest funded waste management startup in India, with over $36 million in funding, according to data from Tracxn Share Via Read Full Story Sandeep Patel recalls a huge fire in his dry waste handling plant in Ahmedabad that had almost put his fledgling star-tup out of business in 2013. “I lost more than half of my first round of funding within four months of raising it," he says wryly.
Smart factories keep an ear to the ground Asquared IoT’s sound analytics edge computing device Equilips (seen at top right corner) deployed at a welding station.Premium 5 min read Asquared takes IoT into the untapped market of analyzing the sounds of machines to predict impending breakdowns The neural network or AI brain is periodically trained with fresh data and learning captured on the edge devices Share Via Read Full Story When you take your car to a mechanic, the first thing he might do is to rev it up. The sound of the engine can tell him straight away if something’s off.
Accessibility is better than doles for the disabled Stakeholders have to collaborate and share insights with the participation of disabled communities for assistive tech to become more accessible (Photo: iStock) Share Via Read Full Story Harvard University has one of the longest-running programmes to improve accessibility for disabled people, especially students. Michele Clopper has been involved with this for nearly two decades in various capacities. About five years ago, she became the director of disability services at Harvard following a career as an occupational therapist. Clopper has thus been at the front end of helping an educational institution understand the needs of disabled people and adopt best practices for them. “Creating an accessible and hospitable environment for the disabled is a long and complicated journey because it touches multiple aspects of life, from dining and sleeping to working and learning. We need to gather critical mass, allies and focus along this journey, because we know that disability will affect us or someone dear to us at some point," she says.