Krishna An HTML page adheres to defined standards which you need to meet or otherwise the page will not display correctly. The point of having these standards is that you know the page will look more or less the same in whatever browser you use. If you don’t follow the rules you can’t be sure it … Read more
If you have a site which consists only of HTML web pages, the server merely sends the HTML data to the web browser as shown in the figure This is why HTML pages can be viewed locally in your web browser from your own computer since they do not need to be “served,” whereas dynamically … Read more
Sometimes we interchangeably use the term internet and world wide web or simply the web, as it is popularly known as. But web is only one of the several the utilities that internet provides. Some of the popular service that internet provides other then web is e-mail, usenet, messaging service, FTP, etc. The web use … Read more
Several people hold the opinion that writing good quality programs is an art. In this context, let us examine whether software engineering is really a form of art or is it akin to other engineering disciplines. There exist several fundamental issues that set engineering disciplines such as software engineering and civil engineering apart from both … Read more
You might be surprised to learn that computer science is not the study of computers. A famous computer scientist named Edsgar Dijkstra once quipped that computers are to computer science what telescopes are to astronomy. The computer is an important tool in computer science, but it is not itself the object of study. Since a … Read more
An intercity passenger train will be converted to run on battery power for the first time in the UK, Hitachi Rail has announced, cutting diesel use on non-electrified lines by 20 per cent. Hitachi has signed an agreement with Eversholt Rail, owner of the 36 intercity express trains operated by Great Western Railway on the … Read more
Researchers at the University of Delaware have built a complex model to simulate the molecular dynamics within the Ebola virus. Their findings could assist the development of new treatments for Ebola and other viral diseases such as Covid-19. Ebola outbreaks have continued to flare up in West Africa, even after the development of a vaccine … Read more
Temperature data collected from a wearable device can be reliably used to detect the onset of a fever – a key symptom of Covid-19 – before the wearer feels it, according to a study from the University of California-San Diego. The University of California researchers worked with MIT’s Lincoln Lab to assess the effectiveness of … Read more
China announced new measures designed to fight climate change over the weekend, during a virtual UN summit in which all countries were asked to declare a “climate emergency” by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. China, which is currently the highest carbon emitting country, now plans to cut its emissions per unit of GDP by over 65 … Read more
We look forward to interesting times, led by successes in aerospace and transport. Electric mobility will gain momentum and passenger vehicles will be more sought after than before. As Asia’s third-largest economy, India is preparing for a new growth story. Global think-tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) noted this year that India is now … Read more