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Moneylife Digital Team 03 January 2025
The insurance regulatory and development authority of India (IRDAI) has directed that claim settlement should be done immediately or within an hour to ensure no delay in discharge from the hospital. However, six in ten health insurance policy owners surveyed who filed a claim in the past three...

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We often oversleep even after our alarm goes off. The snooze button is so valuable—we keep snoozing the alarm and never wake up. Or we may just disable the alarm for those precious 10 minutes more!   The QRAlarm is the perfect solution for this. Once set, the alarm can be disabled only when...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 31 December 2024
This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of encephalitis-causing virus called the Chandipura virus (CHPV) caused an outbreak in Gujarat, Maharashtra,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 December 2024
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the US and the longest-lived US president, has passed away at the age of 100. The Nobel peace prize laureate has been in hospice care since mid-February 2023.    Mr Carter, who served as president from 1977 to 1981, rose from humble beginnings in rural...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 December 2024
South Korea's acting president, Choi Sang-mok has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation system once the recovery work on the Jeju Air crash is completed. On Sunday, the deadliest air accident killed 179 people when an airliner belly-landed and skidded...

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If there is one area where the government and its regulators cannot be faulted, it is their tireless effort to warn citizens about cybercrime and fraud. All regulators, banks, stock exchanges, depositories, financial intermediaries and telecom companies are now mandated to warn people about...

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As researchers and techies continue to innovate, the increased use of progressive web apps (PWAs) and WebAPKs (Android package kits generated by the Chrome browser) are turning into powerful tools that bridge the gap between web and mobile applications, offering significant advantages for both...

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I was disappointed to read about the big fall of tourist numbers in Goa over the last few years. But I was not surprised. Even as a local Indian, visiting Goa, as a tourist, I have felt desperate many times with the way tourists are being treated and cheated by taxi drivers in...

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Kinetosis is Motion or Travel Sickness. It typically occurs when traveling in vehicles. It is caused by conflicting motion signals from your inner ear and eyes. This triggers an ancient toxic defense mechanism in our brain that causes dizziness, fatigue and nausea.   KineStop gets you back on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 December 2024
While cybercrime is evolving rapidly, with new scams, frauds and digital threats emerging every day, looking at their modus operandi and the involvement of criminal gangs, there is a need to use laws like the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for cybercrime cases, says...

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It has been over 30 years since Japanese auto manufacturing company Denso Wave first used the quick response (QR) code. Initially, QR codes were used for high-speed scanning and tracking of components during the assembly process. However, as it happens with every new technology or design,...

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Braindump transforms your voice memos into accurate, ready-to-use text notes, with artificial intelligence (AI) summaries that highlight your main ideas. Just record your voice and convert it into text for easy review later. Instead of the full length audio, you also have the option to...

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Menaka Rao (IndiaSpend) 16 December 2024
About 45% of households with tuberculosis (TB) patients suffered catastrophic costs--defined here as expenditure that is more than 20% of annual household income, a new study published this week in the journal Global Health Research and Policy showed. The poorest households, and those who are...

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In the past, I have often been surprised to find that there are very bitter contests for the position of president of the social or athletic group in our neighbourhood. There are mailers sent out to all members (many hundreds) some months before the elections. There are reminders sent —again,...

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Technology, at the base level, is a great equaliser. It does not differentiate whether the user is poor or rich. When you dial a number from your mobile, it gets connected and you can speak with the other person. It shows technology delivers the same results. However, the moment we club...

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Lumolight is an open-source flashlight app that can perform front as well as back flash. It uses the screen as a front flash by brightening up and showing some static colours (defined by the user) and it uses the flashlight for the torch mode. It has ‘Tile support’ where you can use the front...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 December 2024
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Union ministry of finance (FinMin) have asked banks to use MuleHunter.ai, an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-based model developed by the RBI Innovation Hub (RBIH) to deal with the issue of mule bank accounts expeditiously...

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The X handle of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) recently shared a video purportedly showing Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi in an advertisement urging people not to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, this video turned out to be an edited version or a deepfake created using artificial...

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Gamma is a new medium for presenting ideas – powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Create beautiful presentations, documents and even websites by giving just textual prompts. No design or coding skills are required.   You can access best-in-class AI for text, images and search for your...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 02 December 2024
In late September 2024, the high court of Chhattisgarh registered a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) over two non-functional oxygen plants at the Bilaspur district hospital, alleging that the plants had been operated by untrained operators and that their failure necessitated that the...

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