Covid-19 lockdown failed to reduce air pollution in Scotland. study finds

The level of toxic fine particles in Scotland’s air failed to go down during the Covid-19 lockdown, despite a significant drop in the number of vehicles on the roads, according to researchers at the University of Stirling.  Analysis of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) in the first month of restrictions found little change, despite a … Read more

Samsung and SK Hynix to halt chip sales to Huawei

The two South Korean electronics companies have been forced to halt their sale of semiconductors to Shenzhen-based Huawei as the latest US restrictions come into force. Amid the US-China trade war, US President Donald Trump has focused much of his energy on attacking Chinese technology companies such as Huawei, Tencent and ByteDance, primarily through the signing of … Read more

Harmony OS will come to Huawei phones in 2021

As Huawei’s relationship with the US government has deteriorated, the White House has taken action to cut the company off from American partners like Google, forcing it to launch its Mate 30 range using the open-source version of Android and without Google apps like Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube. This year, the White House restricted Huawei’s access to … Read more

How would people like coronavirus contact-tracing to be carried out?

The research, conducted by a team at the University of Exeter, found that people are more concerned about who runs the process than the risks of others having unauthorised access to their private information, or their data being stolen. Most people who took part in the research were in favour of the NHS processing personal data rather than … Read more

How to find anyone anywhere with online facial recognition

Facial recognition technology is turning up in ever more applications – from the useful, like unlocking smartphones, and the fun, like Facebook tagging, to the essential, like crime detection, or the life-saving, like prevention of terrorism. Our faces too are photographed, filmed and sometimes clocked almost everywhere we go. We post them ourselves, on social … Read more

What kinds of problems are solved by algorithms?

 The Human Genome Project has made great progress toward the goals of identifying all the 100,000 genes in human DNA, determining the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, storing this information in databases, and developing tools for data analysis. Each of these stepsrequires sophisticated algorithms. Although the … Read more

a program to read the data for the customer, calculate the interest and service charge, and print the customer’s name, average balance, interest, and service charge.

//calculate interest and service charge for bank customer #include <stdio.h> int main() { char customer[30], acctNum[30]; double avgBalance, interest, service; int numTrans; printf(“Name? “); gets(customer); printf(“Account number? “); gets(acctNum); printf(“Average balance? “); scanf(“%lf”, &avgBalance); printf(“Number of transactions? “); scanf(“%d”, &numTrans); interest = avgBalance * 0.06; service = numTrans * 0.50; printf(“\nName: %s\n”, customer); printf(“Average balance: … Read more

ICF Railway Trade Apprentice Online Form 2020

Integrated Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai Apprentice Various Freshers and Ex Iti posts. All the eligible candidates who in filling the Railway Apprentice Recruitment 2020 online form, should apply for the first Railway Recruitment advertisement only after reading it completely. In the advertisement, you will get age information, eligibility details, selection procedure, trade wise commitment details, … Read more