It has happened before and appears to be happening again! For most of the nineteenth century, immunity to yellow fever divided people in New Orleans between the acclimated (who survived yellow fever) and the unacclimated (who did not catch the disease). Lack of immunity dictated whom people could marry, where they could work, and, for […]
In a world crippled with coronavirus, the importance of social distancing can’t be overestimated. As suggested by health experts, maintaining a considerable distance from others is the only way to break the chain of transmission. But how do we do that? How to know if we are considerably away from other people and not putting […]
The process of identification of people who could have possibly come in contact with covid-19 infection came to be known as contact tracing. While being called exposure notification apps, the idea here is to use smartphones to slow the spread of virus by proactively finding people that are at a high risk of infection. They […]
It all started in 2018 when RBI issued a circular instructing banks not to indulge in any virtual currency dealings. IAMAI challenged this decision in court, as a result of which Supreme Court ruled in their favour and boosted morale of blockchain community. While the new rule brought crypto trading back, Indian government continues to […]
In the early days, a link between any two networking endpoints could be traced via direct physical connections. By 1982, it was already a complex diagram with only 100 nodes, which got even more complicated by 1998. Engineers needed an easy way to depict the seemingly cumbersome, boring and static wiring information. Therefore, they started […]