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With the festival of Durga Puja knocking on the doors, Corona Virus pandemic is a huge concern for not only in the nation but also throughout the whole world especially given the fact that it's been said that the second wave of Covid is being spread. Amid all of this chaos, Durga Puja is a ray of hope for the Bengalis where they can forget all the tensions happening around and celebrate with happiness.   The relevance of Durga Puja: Durga Puja in bengali culture depicts the return of Maa Uma ( Durga ), the wife of Lord Siva to Earth, which is her Father's homeland ( Kailasa ). During these 4-5 days, she stays here with her four children----- Lakhmi , Ganesha , Kartikeya and Saraswati . The bengalis celebrate her stay with joy and happiness and stay away from all the pressure and tensions revolving around their lives. Durga Puja also marks the victory of good over evil wherein Maa Durga defeated and killed the evil demon Mahishasura who wreaked havoc on the p...

Humans have always thought of innovative ideas to solve trivial problems that made our life easier, right from the invention of electricity to computers and mobiles to aircrafts. It's not new that technology has been changing around us and there's no stopping it. But how about a machine that can think on its own and act logically without any intervention of the humans! Just like us, they can also decide the outcome based on their own thinking. We get a mixed feeling of excitement and fear both, right?   The evolution of Artificial Intelligence in human world Although the concept of Artificial Intelligence have been floating around for a long time, it was in the year 1950 when Alan Turing , a British mathematician who came up with a well-defined possibility of AI's concept. He suggested that when Human beings can use the available information and reason to solve a particular problem, why can't a machine do the same? There are many sci-fi films regarding robots wit...

  From being a luxury item for the rich, mobiles over the past few years has transformed itself into a necessity for every individual irrespective of their social status and economy. Now each people have got their mobiles in their hand or pocket and it has become a challenge for anyone to stay without it even for few minutes.   The invention that changed the way we communicated During the 1940s, the engineers at AT&T developed a cell phone that could transmit signals for mobile base stations but they were not the mobiles that we see today, but was mostly like radio devices that could be used to communicate in emergencies. Although there were lots of efforts after that to transform the device for more general purposes, Motorola was the first company that successfully introduced the modern mobiles and on April 3, 1973 made its first phone!   Evolution of mobile phones Mobile phones have come a long way over a very small period of time. In few decade...

With advancements in the digital world, technology have evolved over the years especially after the invention of computers. Digital systems are now enabling us to solve several real-life problems and with better accuracy. Several applications have now been built that can process images and make them more meaningful for us.   What is Image Processing? With the advancement of technology, we can save images digitally, might be in computers or mobiles or any other digital media. Now we might need to process that image either to enhance the same image or to extract some information embedded in it using some algorithm. The primary steps for digital Image Processing includes: Import the image. Analyze and process the image imported. Output the image after the original image has been modified to get the desired result. Some of the fields where digital image processing include but not restricted to are - Image sharpening and restoration. Medical field such as X-Ray imag...

Databases are an important part of an application, be it a simple form to a complex enterprise level to a mobile application we need our data to be stored. Now there are a lot of SQLs up for grab in the market, but which one to choose? How will a developer or an architect choose the best way to store their data?   What are the different types of database? Databases provides way to store data into some space which will be secure and can easily be retrieved without any data loss. Now depending on their usage, databases can be of different types. Some of which are listed below: NoSQL Relational Object-oriented Centralized Distributed Cloud Network Hierarchical In this blog, we will be discussing that are primarily used by the development teams i.e., Relational database and NoSQL database .   What is SQL? SQL stands for Structured Query Language is used to access and manipulate data stored in database . So what kind of database does it quer...

OTT platforms have emerged as a key player in the entertainment industry and are giving tough competition to the cable operators especially, these have become the favourites among youth. But over the recent months, the OTT platforms have become the center of debate due to various scenes which have raised a question mark on the content that are being presented.   The controversy of ALTBalaji and Ekta Kapoor ALTBalaji is an Indian subscription based OTT platform which is owned by the subsidiary of Balaji Telefilms ltd whose founder is Ekta Kapoor. Now ALTBalaji among its other contents, is mostly popular for its XXX web series which is primarily an adult series and is filled with sex scenes in every episode with little or zero focus on storyline. In the recently released season of the series, the Indian Army uniform was involved in a sex scene in which it was disrespectfully torn, and this sparked controversy and nationwide protests.   The Patal Lok controversy ...