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IIT-Kharagpur Lost Out In Rankings Over Faculty-Student Ratio, Says Director

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‘India Rankings 2016’ released by the Human Resource Development Ministry ranked IIT Kharagpur at Number 3. KOLKATA: The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, which came third in the Education Ministry’sranking of engineering institutes in the country, on Monday said it lost out mainly due to its faculty-student ratio. “We lost out primarily due to our faculty-student ratio as we were placed eighth in the list. We have 11,300-plus students, which is by far the largest. In all other areas, our performance was very close to the top,” IIT-Kharagpur Director Partha Pratim…

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Why a Chatbot Creeped Out Microsoft’s Satya Nadella

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In February, Microsoft Vice President Derrick Connell visited the Bing search team in Hyderabad, India, to oversee a Monday morning hackathon. The goal was to build bots artificial intelligence programs that chat with users to automate things like shopping and customer service. Connell’s boss, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, thinks they’re the next big thing, a successor to apps. The Bing team was so excited they showed up Sunday night to throw a party and brought their spouses and kids. There was even the Indian version of a pinata. Some…

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Augmented Reality Mapping Out Tech’s Next Mind-Bending Trip

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Virtual reality is a trip, but an even wilder ride could be around the corner as mind-bending startups and technology trendsetters try to emblazon the world with interactive holograms that enlighten, entertain and empower us. The concept, known as augmented reality, looks like something out of a science-fiction movie. Think Tony Stark, the comic-book character who scans information-filled holograms beamed in front of his “Iron Man” mask, or John Anderton, the character that Tom Cruise played while flipping through digital screens floating in the air in “Minority Report.” It hasn’t…

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MIUI 7.2.8 China ROM Based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow Starts Rolling Out

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Xiaomi has finally released a stable Android 6.0 Marshmallow-based MIUI software update for select smartphones. The rollout, which is currently underway only in China, is available for Xiaomi Mi 3 and Mi 4 smartphones, the company announced on a blog post. Specifically, this is the China ROM for the handsets, and the global ROM (which also features Google Mobile Services) is expected to be released soon. The MIUI 7.2.8.0 stable China ROM began being seeded to the Xiaomi Mi 3, Xiaomi Mi 4 smartphones in China last week. The update…

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LG X cam, X screen Start Rolling Out Globally

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LG as promised last month, on Tuesday announced it has started rolling out its LG X series smartphones globally. To recall LG introduced its X series smartphones, namely the X cam and the X screen, ahead of its MWC 2016 event last month. The South Korean tech giant says the handsets will first be made available in its home turf South Korea followed by other key markets including Europe, Latin America, and Asia. India-specific availability details of the devices are not yet known. “What’s appealing about the X screen and…

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First Android N Update Starts Rolling Out With Fixes for Performance Issues

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Google unveiled Android N last week with an early developer preview, and alongside introduced the Android Beta Program offering enthusiasts the chance to stay up-to-date with the latest pre-release builds of Android. Now, Google has started rolling out its first Android N update for Nexus devices enrolled in the Android Beta Program. The release was confirmed by Ian Lake, an Android Developer Advocate, on Google+. In his post on Thursday, Lake said, “If you’ve been doing N Dev Preview testing on a Nexus 5X, 6P, or 9, make sure to…

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