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In a time when it is really difficult to get a good job, finding a satisfying career path seems next to impossible. The problem is greater for recruiters as they end up hiring the wrong talent. 132Connect aspires to bridge this gap. In conversation with Kartik Sharma & Pavan , about their Ericsson Innovation Award winning startup, 132Connect. - What is 132 Connect? For engineering students: 132Connect is a platform to connect with career opportunities in the market place in a more efficient way. This is done by exposure of student to customized industry information and domain knowledge, helping them being industry ready. For recruiters: 132Connect is a platform to effectively engage and identify employable talent who are currently non accessible. - How did you come up with the idea and what is the problem statement that you are trying to solve?  Both of us have engineering background and experience of working in well structured companies. However after feeli

The code management platform GitHub has risen victorious in the wake of continuing just about a week of distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks. The company figured out how to get workarounds set up to settle the site and come back to typical operations in the wake of encountering accidents since March 26. San Francisco-based GitHub saw gigantic measures of activity originating from Chinese search engine, Baidu , which brought on the site to seem occupied to different guests. While GitHub hasn't stuck the assault on any particular association, the pages focused on were ones that connection to duplicates of websites banned in China. The company has said that it is the greatest assault in its history. Everything operating normally. — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 31, 2015

Just when we all though email marketing was a thing of the past, Internet & Mobile Association of India organised an Email Marketing Summit to re-establish the fact that Email Marketing is one of the best sources of communication and engagement with your customer. The 3rd Email Marketing conference discussed various aspects of email marketing like use of Big Data, automation of marketing, segmentation, cross and multi-channel marketing, the art of storytelling, new techniques of making marketing more effective and design needs for effective emailing. Here is a sneak-peek to the conference. [ View the story "IAMAI presents 3rd Email Marketing Summit" on Storify ]

Open education includes resources, apparatuses and hones that utilize a system of open offering to enhance educational access and viability around the world. Open Education consolidates the conventions of learning offering and creation to 21st century innovation to make an incomprehensible pool of openly shared educational resources, while tackling today's community soul to create educational methodologies that are more receptive to learner's necessities. The thought of free and open partaking in education is not new. Actually, offering is most likely the most essential normal for education: education is imparting learning, experiences and information with others, whereupon new information, abilities, thoughts and comprehension can be constructed. Open Education looks to scale up educational open doors by exploiting the force of the web, permitting fast and basically free spread, and empowering individuals far and wide to get to learning, interface and team up. Open is key;

The voice calling feature that WhatsApp had been teasing and testing for quite a while is at last going standard. The WhatsApp voice calling feature is empowered in the most recent form of the WhatsApp Messenger that is currently available for download for Android devices on Google Play (version 2.11.561). Anyway WhatsApp isn't enacting voice calling feature immediately. Burning users will in any case require an invite, as a WhatsApp call from whatever other WhatsApp user who has the feature activated on his/her application. The steps to be followed: 1. Go to Google Play and download/ upgrade the free WhatsApp Messenger application. 2. Ask whatever other WhatsApp user you know with the voice calling feature activated to call you through WhatsApp. Taking after the call you ought to discover the WhatsApp voice calling feature activated on your telephone. You will now see another "Calls" tab to one side of the Chats and Contacts tab on the WhatsApp home screen. While th

Yesterday Matt Barry, researchers at Wordfence discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in WooCommerce version 2.3.5 and more established amid a code review of the plugin storehouse. WooCommerce is introduced on more than 1 million active WordPress websites . Wordfence has quickly reached Woo about the issue and they've been unimaginably responsive, discharging a fix early today with their arrival of WooCommerce version 2.3.6. We emphatically recommend you instantly upgrade on the off chance that you have not as of now. The particular issue is a SQL injection weakness in the administrator board. Inside the Tax Settings page of WooCommerce, the key of the "tax_rate_country" POST parameter is passed unescaped into a SQL insert articulation. For instance, a payload of tax_rate_country[(SELECT SLEEP(10))] would result in the MySQL server to rest for 10 seconds. Since this helplessness requires either a Shop Manager or Admin client account, it would need to be consolida

Official suicide statistics discharged on February nineteenth contain disturbing news: suicide rates climbed by 4% somewhere around 2012 and 2013, and the ascent was because of one group: men more than 30. Rates were extensively level among ladies, and among young men—regularly thought to be especially at danger suicide rates fell. Why are moderately aged men so defenseless? The subsidence hit working-age men particularly hard in Western nations, where social and employment status are nearly connected. A late study in the Lancet, a diary, discovered solid ties in the middle of unemployment and suicide. Roger Webb and Navneet Kapur of the University of Manchester say unemployment is one and only contributing element, be that as it may. Different parts of the subsidence, for example, falling income, "zero-hour" contracting and obligation, might likewise be imperative.  Source: Economist

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency ( NCA ) has arrested 56 suspected hackers in a campaign against cybercrime called "strike week." Law-authorization officials directed, altogether, 25 different operations crosswise over England, Scotland and Wales, and those arrested were suspected in an extensive variety of cyber crimes including: Network interruption and information theft from MNCs and government agencies Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks Cyber-empowered fraud Noxious software and virus improvement The strikes directed by NCA were composed by its National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), exceptional officers Metropolitan Police and Regional Organized Crime Unit's (ROCUs), connected with nearby strengths around the UK. The arrested hackers additionally incorporate claimed hackers suspected of being behind attacks on Yahoo, the US Department of Defense (DoD), and PlayStation. The rundown of hackers arrested in the operation is given beneath:

The late big name hacking episode and Home Depot data breach may have you worried about your online security, and rightly so. As we bring more parts of our lives online — social, shopping, saving money, stockpiling — the dangers of cyber crime increment. Anyway there are ways you can better ensure yourself. The infographic underneath outlines the most widely recognized ways hackers access data and the errors consumers make that abandon them powerless against getting to be exploited people.

For the entire of last week, and up until this Monday, unknown hackers had knocked of New York City government's email framework. The attack was really savage, as per a City Hall source, who said that the "universal denial of service attack had now been contained, however there was all the while "ongoing pernicious activity". Pretty much all government agencies, including the FBI and NYPD, were not able to send or get email messages. A few agencies set up interim Gmail accounts so they could keep on working.  DDoS or Hack? It is not known whether New York City government sites were under DDoS attack or were hacked in light of the fact that Albano included that no touchy data or data was bargained amid the attack. He however said that this was a "big attack" yet made light of its impact on New York City taxpayer supported organizations. Remarking on this, Lancope CTO, TK Keanini, said: "Anything associated with the Internet is liable to thi

Another WHO guideline prescribes adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to beneath 5% or around 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day would give extra health advantages. Free sugars allude to monosaccharides, (for example, glucose, fructose) and disaccharides, (for example, sucrose or table sugar) added to foods and drinks by the maker, cook or shopper, and sugars commonly introduce in nectar, syrups, organic product squeezes and organic product juice condensed. "We have robust proof that keeping intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake reduces the danger of overweight, obesity and tooth rot," says Dr Francesco Branca, Director of WHO's Department of Nutrition for Health and Development. "Rolling out strategy improvements to help this will be key if countries are to experience their responsibilities to reduce the trouble of noncommunicable diseases." The WHO

Wrenching up the tunes today may prompt the failure to hear them tomorrow, concurring the World Health Organization. Young people have a tendency to turn the volume excessively high on their mobile music gadgets, and also visit noisy shows and clubs. Thus, more than 1.1 billion people ages 12-35 are at danger of listening to misfortune, the WHO said in a late proclamation. A few studies have demonstrated that the quantity of young people with harmed hearing has expanded over the previous decade, likely on account of the uplifted utilization of iPods and cell phones to play loud music. In 1994, 3.5 percent of American teens experienced listening to misfortune, however that number rose to 5 percent by 2006. To battle this expand, the WHO prescribes listening to mobile gadgets for a most extreme of one hour per day, and the volume ought to stay around 60 percent. The thought is to minimize perilous listening practices, which rely on upon two factors: to what extent you listen and how l

The Mobile World Congress has kicked in and each gadget manufacturer is all eager to draw out their best devices which will modernize the gadget world in their own particular manners. Thus, precisely here are a percentage of the coolest and most awaited devices in the MWC not long from now being good to go to shake the stage and take the viewers for a twist with their different gimmicks and dashing looks as gathered by the Economic times. # Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge A standout amongst the most awaited dispatches from Samsung flaunting a totally distinctive look on the appearance is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. The Phone was unwrapped at the Mobile world congress not long from now and is accepted to be worthy competitor to different phones in its range. The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge packs in a very much an affluent equipment with great camera and screen on board. It accompanies a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED showcase bragging a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels and runs

Catherine Clifford few days back wrote for Entrepreneur.com in his article ' Why Business That Use 'Big Data' Make More Money (Infographic)' , "Big data is buzzy, and in the event that you drop the expression at a cocktail party, you will most likely gain yourself a few genuine road cred. Also legitimately so. Big data is big news nowadays, in light of the fact that it can possibly have a really significant effect on the main thing for a business. Gathering huge amounts of data and examining it permits ambitious people to improve, all the more deliberately useful business choices." Clifford goes on, "The infographic underneath was produced by the big data analytics stage Datameer to demonstrate how utilizing data can come about as a part of more intelligent business choices and more income for a wide range of organizations. Think: advertising firms, loyalty programs and online retailers, to give some examples. Observe the infographic for different sa

Mozilla has released Firefox Developer Edition 38, which includes a 64-bit version of its browser for Windows surprisingly, adding to the officially supported Mac OS X and Linux platforms. The 64-bit version of Firefox brings significant enhancements over the 32-bit version, including the capacity to run bigger applications, speedier execution and expanded security. "For a portion of the biggest of these applications, a 64-bit browser implies the contrast between whether a game will run," Mozilla says. 4GB isn't as far as possible worth recollecting: Heap sizes, for instance, are prescribed to be 512MB in a 32-bit browser, while they can go up to 2GB in a 64-bit version of Firefox. With respect to execution time, Mozilla says 64-bit Firefox is faster in light of the fact that it can get to new hardware registers and instructions. This fundamentally accelerates how rapidly JavaScript code can run. The expanded location space additionally lets Firefox use hardware memory

Google+ is currently being going by Bradley Horowitz (a long-lasting VP of item for Google+), taking over David Besbris. The social network is likewise being part into Photos and Streams. Besbris just assumed control Google+ not as much as a year prior, in April 2014, after Vic Gundotra — who had begun and driven Google+ since its initiation — left the organization (Source: ReCode ).   The declaration comes only a few days after Google's senior VP of products Sundar Pichai said in an interview to Forbes , "I think progressively you'll see us concentrate on correspondences, photos and the Google+ Stream as three vital zones, as opposed to being considered one region."   "Some incredible remarks from Sundar Pichai about future item heading for Google+, Photos, Hangouts," Horowitz composed on his G+ page. "We've been buckling down on these progressions and I'm truly amped up for what these will mean for our clients." Notwith

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today called upon the Indian IT Industry to concentrate on meeting the global challenge of cyber-security. Expressing that the whole world is worried about this issue, the Prime Minister said Indian IT experts could do a great deal for cyber-safety of digital assets over the world. #Cybersecurity is biggest challenge for world. India shud build capabilities n the direction Says @narendramodi @nasscom 25 yrs celebrations — Deepankar (@dp2web) March 1, 2015 The Prime Minister was talking at an extraordinary occasion to check the finishing of NASSCOM 's 25th year. Lauding NASSCOM for its commitment to the IT sector in India, the Prime Minister noticed that seldom has an association changed into a movement in such a short span of time. He added that it was because of the success of India's youth in the IT sector, that the world began taking a gander at India in an unexpected way. Alluding to the subject of today's function: IT

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed the setting up of a "techno-money related incubation and help program" called the Self Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU), amid his financial plan presentation today. He specified that Rs 1000 crore will be at first put aside for this. From the monetary allowance discourse: "The legislature is making a mechanism known as Self Employment and Talent Utilization ( SETU ) to be techno-money related incubation and help program to help all parts of new company and other self employment exercises especially in the innovation driven ranges. I am setting aside Rs 1,000 crore at first for this reason." The goal for this he said was to address "concerns, for example, more liberal arrangement of raising global capital, incubation offices in our focuses of incredibleness, funding for seed capital and the simplicity of working together need to be addressed to make a lakh occupations and many billions of dollars in quality."

Have you ever pondered precisely when a certain gathering of plants or animals initially evolved? Not long from now a historic new asset for scientists will go live, and it is intended to help answer simply those sorts of inquiries. The Fossil Calibration Database , a free, open-access asset that stores painstakingly reviewed fossil data, is the aftereffect of years of work from an overall group drove by Dr. Daniel Ksepka, Curator of Science at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, and Dr. James Parham, Curator at the John D. Cooper Archeological and Paleontological Center in Orange County, California, supported through the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). "Fossils give the discriminating age data we have to unlock the timing of major transformative events,"says Dr. Ksepka. "This new asset will give the essential fossil data expected to adjust 'sub-atomic timekeepers' which can uncover the ages of plant and creature bunches that need good fossil reco

AB De Villiers took 64 balls to achieve 150, beating the past best, set by Australia's Shane Watson, by 19 balls. He scored unbeaten 162 off 66 balls, setting 408-5 on board for South Africa, the second-highest total in World Cups. Imran Tahir took 5-45 as West Indies were 151 all-out  with heaviest World Cup defeat by runs. Just a month ago, De Villiers hit the fastest-ever ODI hundred against the West Indies in Johannesburg, from 31 balls. In that same innings, South Africa's caption likewise set the record for the fastest fifty in ODIs, from 16 balls. The Proteas made a lazy begin and were 87-1 after 20 overs, before De Villiers went to the wrinkle in the 30th over with his side 146-3. De Villiers put on 134 with Rilee Rossouw (61 from 39) and South Africa scored 222 from the last 15 overs, with De Villiers' 73 from the last five an alternate ODI record. West Indies skipper Jason Holder's last two overs strove for 64 runs, with one over striving for 34. De Villier