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What is fuschiaOS?

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  You probably don’t need telling that   Android   is a very   powerful and versatile  Operating System   but   Google   is working on something else which may well end up being   a direct replacement .      So before we get into it a quick note on  kernels . Computer  Kernels  are the core of the operating system. They provide the basic mechanism around which the  Operating System (OS)  can be built and a lot of  Androids’ main problems  come from the fact that it is based off the line of the kernel, which was not originally intended for phones. In fact,  Android  the software itself was built initially for  digital cameras. S o from its very core, it isn’t exactly specialized for what a phone it needs to do, so what about  Fuchsia.      Well,  this OS  will base off a completely  new kernel  with two key benefits. It is designed with the...

We ARE living in a material world! Scientists reveal hi-tech textiles breakthrough in wearable, washable electronic displays

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 Chinese scientists have unveiled next-generation wearable tech in the form of flexible, breathable electronic fabric which serves as a wearable, washable, interactive display, with diverse applications from telecoms to medicine. Polymer scientists Peining Chen and Huisheng Peng at Fudan University in Shanghai achieved the remarkable feat by weaving electrically conductive transparent fibers and luminescent threads together with cotton yarn.  This intricate yet flexible framework could form the basis for ‘smart clothing’ to accompany the already largely ubiquitous smartphones and smart watches seen around the developed world today. The researchers produced a sheet of woven ‘smart’ fabric 20 feet long by 10 inches wide which can serve as a fabric display comprising roughly half a million pixels, one for each point of overlap between each of the different thread types.  Their wearable displays are reportedly about as bright as the average flat-screen TV and their performanc...

India Russia partnership in nuclear energy

Although the first prime minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru was a self-proclaimed socialist-inspired during the days of the country’s freedom struggle by the transformation of the Soviet Union under a Marxist government, this did not ensure a close and cordial relationship with the USSR after independence. Stalin continued to view Nehru as a leader under the influence of the British and, the policy of non-alignment pursued by India also caused apprehensions in his mind. It was only after his death that there was a thaw in bilateral relations and a period of multi-dimensional economic and technical cooperation began when Khrushchev became the supreme leader. The USSR stepped in when the Western countries refused or were reluctant to help India with its economic development. The first steel plants (Bhilai), chemical fertiliser factories (Sindri), Heavy Engineering establishment (Haridwar and Bhopal) and units to produce life-saving drugs and vaccines (IDPL in Rishikesh) were set up with...

Russia no longer exports emigrants, but a new cohort of Global Russians

Russophobia in the West has long been enabled by once-Soviet immigrants, who needed constant reinforcement of their justification for emigrating: they hated the place they left behind, and embraced the one in which they arrived. Today’s Russians travel and live all over the world, but they remain connected to their homeland. They refuse to “take sides” against Russia, and instead become the targets of Russophobia themselves. For years, émigrés were the main source of the most prevalent anti-Soviet, and then anti-Russian, myths. Emigration from the Soviet Union was one-way. On exit, you were stripped of your Soviet citizenship, and lost all meaningful contact with friends and family that remained behind. Whatever real memories you did have of the place were subject to constant conditioning and adjustment - be it through the recitation of the facts in your own asylum application, or absorption of the stereotypes that already existed in the place where you arrived. The fact that most emig...

Azerbaijan Becomes Turkey’s Top Gas Supplier

Azerbaijan has become Turkey’s major gas supplier and this could have major geopolitical ramifications for the region. But it also fits into Turkey’s efforts of the past several years to diminish its dependence on Russian gas. Hence Ankara’s particularly harsh position regarding the recent Armenia-Azerbaijan fighting in the Tovuz region where regional gas, oil and railway infrastructure runs. From January-May of this year, Turkey imported 4 527,39 cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas (from Shah Deniz field). This is some 20,4 percent more in comparison to the same period of 2019. On the other hand, in May 2020 the import from Russia diminished by almost 62% compared to the same month in 2019. In May 2020, Azerbaijan officially became Turkey’s top gas supplier. Overall this is a continuation of the trend from 2019 when Azerbaijan’s share in Turkey’s gas supplies reached 21.2 percent, which is some 6.23 percent more compared to the same period of 2018. This became possible after the launch of...

India’s Chabahar Dilemma

India has been a key stakeholder in the development of Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar. A landmark India-Afghanistan-Iran trilateral agreement on Establishment of International Transport and Transit Corridor was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tehran in May 2016. Many important steps have since been taken to speed up the development of the port and realise its full potential. However, growing United States (US)-Iran confrontation and imposition of harsh economic sanctions by the US on Iran under its “maximum pressure” policy has adversely affected New Delhi’s desire to convert its commitments into concrete actions on ground. In the light of the emerging debate in Indian academic and media circles about India’s Chabahar dilemma, it is important to analyse India’s advances as well as challenges in implementing the port project. Advancing Cooperation on Chabahar Chabahar is considered to be of great strategic value to India. It not only provides access to Afghanist...

Lakshmi Mittal was the third in the list of wealthiest people in the world in 2005, however he has fallen to the 91st position in 2019. What caused a significant reduction in his wealth?

Lakshmi Mittal is the product of the wave of Globalization that started around 1970’s. To answer your question i need to give you some background. The major powers decided that another World war would be too destructive for the world economy and steps had to be taken to integrate the developing world into the developed world. This was especially important as people could see the effects of Nuclear weapons that had been used in Japan During WW2. It was obvious another WW would lead to end of life on this planet. It was becoming obvious that we could either live as half slaves or equals and both things were not possible together. So began the process of Liberalization of the world. Western Germany invited Engineers from the developing world (This is how the foundation of Turkish Diaspora in Germany was laid) USA introduced mass migration from the non White world for the first time as equals instead of as slaves on a large enough scale. The laws banning marriage between Europeans and non ...

Foreign trade of the Soviet Union

Soviet foreign trade played only a minor role in the Soviet economy. In 1985, for example, exports and imports each accounted for only 4 percent of the Soviet gross national product. The Soviet Union maintained this low level because it could draw upon a large energy and raw material base, and because it historically had pursued a policy of self-sufficiency. Other foreign economic activity included economic aid programs, which primarily benefited the less developed Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) countries of Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. The Soviet Union conducted the bulk of its foreign economic activities with communist countries, particularly those of Eastern Europe. In 1988 Soviet trade with socialist countries amounted to 62 percent of total Soviet foreign trade. Between 1965 and 1988, trade with the Third World made up a steady 10 to 15 percent of the Soviet Union's foreign trade. Trade with the industrialized West, especially the United States, fluctua...