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How Microsoft helped one of its biggest video game rivals do something great for its players

RobloxRoblox CEO David Baszucki with a Roblox toy.

• Roblox, a popular online game with 56 million players, will let Xbox One gamers play with their friends on smartphones and PCs, starting on Monday.
• Microsoft helped Roblox build the feature - despite the fact that Roblox is a chief competitor to Microsoft's own Minecraft.

       Roblox CEO

• DavidBaszucki also hints that versions for the Nintendo Switch or Sony PlayStation 4 could be in the pipeline, though he says their focus is currently elsewhere.

Roblox, a massively popular online game, is giving its Microsoft Xbox One fans an early Halloween treat: Starting on Monday morning, Roblox gamers on the Xbox One will be able to play with their friends on PCs and smartphones.

Previously, Roblox users on the Xbox One could only play with each other. Meanwhile, Roblox has let smartphones, tablets, and PCs all play together in harmony for years now. With this update, the Xbox One joins the fun.

Now, if you're older than, say, 15, there's a healthy chance you've never heard of Roblox - a free online game, especially popular with kids. All of the games on Roblox are created by players, for players, and sold on a free-to-play basis,

turning a few lucky teens into video game millionaires.

So far, Roblox is available for Xbox One, PCs, smartphones, tablets, and virtual reality headsets, but

Roblox CEO DavidBaszucki tells Business Insider that the company is considering making versions for consoles like the Sony PlayStation 4 or Nintendo Switch, too - though it's not necessarily where Roblox's focus lies at the moment.

"It's natural to assume Roblox will be on more and more platforms," says Baszucki.

So what is Roblox, and where does Microsoft come in?

While the two games are very different, Roblox competes for much the same demographic as Minecraft, the phenomenon that Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire in 2014.

However, Roblox actually has slightly more players at the moment, 56 million monthly active users to Minecraft's last reported 55 million.Which makes it a little funny that Microsoft actually helped Roblox to accomplish the feat of getting this cross-platform play running. According to Roblox CEO David Baszucki, Microsoft came in and helped the company smooth out the technical wrinkles involved in letting the Xbox One "talk" to Roblox players on other platforms.

"They've welcomed us as if we were a completely neutral partner," says Baszucki. He sees it as "a testament to Microsoft's vision under [CEO] Satya [Nadella] as being part of a more connected world."

Matt Weinberger/Business InsiderSome Roblox games, like "Murder Mystery 2," can get a little violent...

In fact, Baszucki says that Microsoft helped bring Roblox to the Xbox One in the first place. Because all the games and characters on Roblox are generated and sold by players for real money, it presented a tricky challenge: the Xbox One wasn't really built for letting players swap and sell their own creations.

Baszucki says Microsoft worked with them to figure out a solution, growing from a small, curated selection of games and content into a full-fledged version of the core marketplace. Now Roblox's developers have a real opportunity to make money from Xbox gamers, while simultaneously giving those gamers more games to play for free.

"It's gonna make Roblox much more fun," says Baszucki.

Cross-play is a Microsoft passion project

Microsoft has called for an online gaming amnesty, urging developers and publishers to make it possible for Xbox owners to play with Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation, and Windows PC players. It would knock down one of the oldest barriers in online gaming.

Matt Weinberger/Business Insider...while others, like "Meep City," are just a place for its mostly younger players to hang out.

The company put its money where its mouth is, too, with a recent update to Minecraft that allows for cross-play between Apple iOS, Android, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Windows 10, and even the Nintendo Switch. However,

Sony has yet to play ball

- a problem that Roblox isn't facing, at least not yet, given that there's no PlayStation version.

Still, that makes it little wonder that Microsoft would play ball. Besides, anything that makes Roblox better for Xbox One gamers is going to help Microsoft sell more Xbox consoles this holiday season.

UAE to train 1 million students for coding and data analysis

UAE has launched a new initiative to train a million Arab youth for computer programming. The official tweet by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid confirms the program designed to create a pool of skilled talent in the country.

‘One Million Arab Coders’ is an initiative to offer computer programming training for the Arab youth. The new portal ‘arabcoders.ae’ has been launched in partnership with Udacity. The program will offer training in the areas of website development, Android application development, mobile interfaces and data analysis. A middle east-based recruitment portal, bayt.com is also supporting the initiative.

In the official announcement, Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid said, “Coding is the language of the modern era. Our goal is to teach it to one million young Arabs in order to prepare them now for the requirements needed to excel in the future.” The Sheikh wants the Arab youth to start Internet businesses and contribute to the global economy.

The training program is offered free of cost to the Arab youth. Many young Arabs with unstoppable potential will be supported through the program. Dubai’s ruler wants to Arab talent to find more jobs within the country than migrating to foreign countries. The initiative is part of Sheikh’s vision of reviving Arab civilization and creating innovative changes in the country.

The course curriculum is designed for three months of training, which is divided into three stages of implementation. Users have to register on arabcoders.ae. Applicants need to go through a screening test to be eligible to receive the training. Only top 1000 students will be selected for the certification program. The last stage of the program is the coding competition. Only top 10 students will be selected from the coding challenge.

Dubai’s government has announced the cash price of $1 million for the student securing first-place. The remaining nine students will be awarded $50,000 each. The platform also has an independent panel for tutors. The top four tutors voted by the students will the cash reward of $200,000. 

How to get interview call from Google

Here are some top tips which will help you land your dream job at Google, one among the most sought after company by tech professionals.

1)Gain professional experience-:

"If you have the right professional experience, it might not even matter if you have no university degree at all. (Of course, having a good degree is always preferable.)" Lutz Enke, Hamburg Googler. The statement is enough to determine the importance of relevant experience in bagging a job at the company.

2)Polish your coding skills if applying for an engineering job

While GPA is comes as one criteria. When you're starting out, what matters is how well you can understand coding and come up with innovative ways to excel in it. It is also important to figure out ways to quickly improve in your skills.

3) Focus on internships, campus recruiting and referral opportunities

"The best ways to get an interview with mediocre grades is the best way to get interviews in general...If you have to externally apply via (for example) a company web site, your chances of getting an interview aren't very good,'' as per  John L. Miller, interviewer at Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.

4)Reach out to a recruiter directly

"I have gotten two interviews at Google (both I have failed miserably)...but I got them. The first one I got by going on LinkedIn and emailing Google Recruiters. I emailed 3, and 1 responded,'' says Mark Kuczmarski on Quora.

5)Excel in a specialty

Google hunts for 'T-Shaped people' who are pretty skilled in one area, often the best in their field, but should also have other interests, as per staff.com.

6)Don't write your GPA on your resume if its low

"We all know Google doesn't care about the GPA if the Engineer is good enough. But still when the HR is comparing your resume with thousands of other resume, you don't want anything on your resume which is not your strength. And, I think having a low GPA does hurt your chances in some way'', answers  Shubham Bansal on Quora.

7)Wait for at least three years after school

"If you apply within 3 years [of graduation], Google will ask for your transcript and it will stay in the electronic records used by Google recruiters forever. If you wait to apply and don't volunteer your GPA they shouldn't ask,'' says Harvey Alcabes, MIT CS alumni.

‘Biggest mistakes’ of some rich person

We all make mistakes, and no one is perfect. Tech legends like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Narayana Murthy, Satya Nadella and others too have made mistakes.

Here are some of the biggest blunders these tech legends made in their decisions-:

Bill Gates- Not making a single key for Control-Alt-Delete

The world's wealthiest man and the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates says that he would make a single key for the Control-Alt-Delete command if he could time travel in the past.

"We could have had a single button. But the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't want to give us our single button," said Gates. "And so we had ... we programmed at a low level that you had to ... it was a mistake," he said.

Steve Jobs- Treating cancer with alternative medicine

In an interview Walter Isaacson,the  author of Steve Jobs' biography disclosed that the late CEO of Apple regretted to not treat his cancer with surgery but with alternative medicines.

"We talked about this a lot," Isaacson said in a television interview.

Despite requests from family and friends, Steve Jobs denied to undergo surgery for months.

Narayana Murthy-Quitting as chairman 

The co-founder of Infosys, NR Narayana Murthy said in July this year that  his biggest regret was quitting as chairman of Infosys in 2014. This statement came amid a fierce battle between him and Infosys's board and management.

“A lot of my founder colleagues told me not to leave Infosys in 2014, to stay a few years. Generally, I find that I am a very emotional person. A lot of my decisions are based on idealism and probably, I should have listened to them,” he said to news channel.

Sergey Brin- Working on Google+

In the year 2014, Google's co-founder Sergey Brin informed that it was "probably a mistake"  to have worked on Google+ citing that he is "not a very social person."

Google+ was the company's social network which failed to mark its impact in the social media industry.

Satya Nadella-Believing that PC will be supreme forever

The  India-born CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella accepts that "one big mistake" the software company made in the past was to believe that personal computer (PC) will rule supreme forever.

"If anything, one big mistake we made in our past was to think of the PC (personal computer) as the hub for everything for all time to come. And today, of course, the high volume device is the six-inch phone. I acknowledge that,'' said Nadella.

Mark Zuckerberg-Dismissing Facebook's influence on US election

In a post last month, the CEO of Facebook said that he regrets ridiculing worries about fake news on Facebook impacting the results of US presidential elections.

"After the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea. Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it," wrote Zuckerberg

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The world's first cochlear implant made for iPhone is here

Australian company Cochlear has teamed up with Apple to release the world’s first cochlear implant sound processor made for iPhone.

The Nucleus 7 sound processor will allow users to stream sounds directly to their Cochlear implant from their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

People living with severe to profound hearing loss will be able to listen to music, play games, watch Netflix or stream YouTube videos in high quality, get directions from Maps, or take FaceTime calls — it's all streamed directly to the processor.

Users can control the sound processor on their iPhone using the Nucleus Smart App, which monitors the device's volume, battery and location with the Find My Processor feature, in case you (or your child) has left it on the fridge, in the car etc. You can also adjust the mixing ratio on the app so background noise is blocked out.

“For people with hearing loss we know the ability to talk and hear on their iPhone is incredibly important," said Janet Menzies, General Manager, Cochlear Australia and New Zealand.

"The connectivity, monitoring and accessibility not only helps people with the day to day management of their hearing, but it also enables them to interact with friends, family and technology to live their life to the fullest."

Cochlear is also releasing a bimodal version (hearing aid in one ear, cochlear implant in the other) which will allow you to control both devices, if compatible, with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

The availability of the processors will differ from country to country.

Indian H-1B Visa Holders Plea to US Lawmakers for Green Card

Indian IT professionals working in the United States on H-1B visa have approached US lawmakers for green card approval. The country-specific quotas for the green card have resulted in massive backlogs in last few years.

More than 100,000 Indian IT professionals apply for the green card to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) each year. However, the country-specific quota allows the department to approve only 10,000 of these applications. With the number increasing each year, the backlog of green card applicants is massive.

More than 100 Indian IT professionals have formed a group called ‘Skilled Immigrants in America’. The group claims to have 150,000 members in 25 states of the US. The agonized IT professionals flew down to Washington to meet top American lawmakers and their aides on Monday.

All the green card applicants waiting for the approval are highly skilled Indian IT professionals. Most of these agonized professionals have moved to the US 10 years ago and still waiting for the green card. The group expects the US government to remove the country-specific quota for the green card.

The members of ‘Skilled Immigrants in America’ are Indian techies that have been legally working in the US on H-1B visa. The professionals are highly-paid individuals that are tax-paying and law-abiding immigrants. The group demands the Congress to check the positive contributions made by Indian professionals in the US and solve the problem.

The meeting with top US lawmakers is the awareness drive by the group. A lot of these legal immigrants have major issues like adult kids that are waiting to transfer on F1 visa to get into a college. The Indian IT professionals are demanding the equal rights for their children who have spent more than a decade in the US.

Indian Government To Increase Internet Speed By 4 Times

The government of India in a bid to increase the internet speed has flagged off the procedure of increasing the minimum internet speed to at least 2 MBPS against the existing 512kbps.
The secretary for Telecom,  Aruna Sundararajan has said that the government is aware of the slow internet speed available to users in many parts of the country and that the speeds promised by 3G and 4G networks no where meet the actual speeds received by the consumers. The issue is crucial as the country gears up for a pan India 5G roll out along with the implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) focused applications.

"We are very slow . While we have done a lot on (providing internet) access, we have not been able to actually deliver the quality of service that is required," said Sundararajan.


The telecom secretary also added that India needs better internet speeds to meet the targets of ambitious initiatives like Digital India Programme, digital payments, 5G rollout etc. Answering the question of whether a speed of 2MBPS would be sufficient to accomplish digital transformation, the secretary added.


Asked whether 2 mbps -which is also being pushed for ward by regulator TRAI -will be sufficient for digital transformation, she said, "2 mbps is the basic minimum. We should definitely mandate this. If at all, it should be higher than that. It cannot be lower than that."

The  slower internet  speed issue has come as a challenge for a majority of mobile users in India, particularly when download speeds of videos and other heavy applications is not at all satisfactory. The challenge also comes amid the roll out of faster networks like 4G, particularly after the roll out of Jio services.

Their main concerns in this regard were limited availability of spectrum per operator in 2G/3G bands; low coverage zones such as basements, high-rise buildings, tunnels; and variations due to external factors such as subscriber's device quality and type, number of subscribers browsing the data services, peak off-peak time, transmission bandwidth, website behavior, etc," said sector regulator Trai in its consultation paper on Data Speed Under Wireless Broadband Plans' this year.


A global report published recently which covered about 63 million internet speed tests across the globe placed India at 119th position in a list of 189 countries in terms of internet speed available to users.

Earn Big As A FreeLancer With These Tech Skills

Tech freelancers are on a roll, specially those that are into new-age technologies. A severe shortage of these skills is also encouraging many full-time employees to become independent workers offering their expertise to multiple companies and earning much more than in their erstwhile positions.

A study by Manipal Global Education -one of India's largest education services groups -says that with 15 million independent workers, India is second only to the US (60 million) in terms of the number of freelancers. The study, shared exclusively with TOI, says there's been a boom of freelancers because of growth of internet and mobile phones.

The most common roles that freelancers are present in are data visualisation, data mining, digital marketing and social media, says A P Ramabhadran, CEO, professional learning unit, Manipal Global Education.

"Specific areas like Google digital marketing, data science, analytics, Android and iOS app development programs are witnessing a significant shift towards individuals choosing to be entrepreneurs and freelancers," he says.

Thammaiah B, India managing director at staffing solutions firm Kelly Services, says the technology transformation is helping the sector's gig economy to evolve to a level seen only in the US. "In India, the gig economy used to be an extrapolation of temporary and contract employees. However, that is changing with the innovation required at IT companies demanding newer skills. You cannot have a single homogeneous group of talent anymore in a team. And what you need may be only available when you go shopping for talent with very specific requirements," he says.
On Freelancer.com, one of the largest global online platforms where freelancers can offer their services, the number of registered people from India is the highest, at more than 20% of the total. The portal currently has around 5.3 million people from India, and 3.3 million from the US.

The top projects awarded to Indians on Freelancer.com over the past 12 months include graphic and website design, PHP (programming language), search engine optimisation and internet marketing.

The Manipal report says that despite taking up re-skilling at scale, leading IT firms are struggling to fill the newer technology roles.The report estimates that 65% of professionals in IT firms are struggling to upgrade their skills in the newer technologies. So they need external talent.

"Areas like fintech, health-tech, retail-tech, sales, and analytics are areas that are witnessing interest in hiring freelancers," says Ramabhadran.

The startup boom and the changing ethos with respect to job safety and security are also encouraging employees to take up more independent projects. "The workforce of the current generation is not looking at a safety net. They are willing to take risks to work only on the projects that they want. They are also looking at a balance between work and life," says Thammaiah of Kelly Services. He estimates that at large IT organisations, freelancers account for 2-3% of the workforce. He predicts this will grow rapidly in the next three-four years.

How much money some of the biggest companies make per employee?

The world’s largest companies have many similarities, but the size of their respective org charts is not necessarily one of them.

At the one extreme, companies such as Walmart require a massive workforce in the millions to run retail operations around the globe. But at the other extreme, an energy giant like Valero is able to generate $76 billion of annual revenue with just 0.4% of the employees of Walmart.

It raises the question: which types of companies make the most revenue per employee?
1.Apple: $1.9 million
Apple is the most valuable company in the world, and it also makes the most money per employee. For each of its 1,16,000 employees, Apple makes $1.9 million (Rs. 12.3 crore). This is the most money any firm anywhere makes per employee.


2. Facebook: $1.6 million
Facebook now has a over a billion users, but it’s still run by relatively few people. Facebook has around 20,000 employees, and for each of them, it earns $1.6 million (Rs. 10.4 crore)   in revenue.


3. Alphabet: $1.3 million
Alphabet has nearly doubled its employee headcount over the last five years, but it’s still third on the list of companies with most revenue per employee. For each of its nearly 70,000 employees, Alphabet makes $1.3 million (Rs. 8.5 crore).


4. Verisign: $1.2 million
Number four on the list is Verisign. It has far fewer employees than the bigger companies on the list — Verisign only has 1,019 employees. But its revenues from its domain level registration services, SSL certificates, managed DNS, DDoS attack mitigation and cyber-threat reporting services, it ends up earning an impressive $1.2 million per employee.


5. Visa: $1.1  million
There’s a reason why finance firms are some of the best paymasters — finance firms make a lot of money. Payments giant Visa makes $1.1 million in revenue for each of its 11,300 employees.


6. Mastercard: $906,000
Fellow payments firm Mastercard follows Visa at number 6. Mastercard makes $906,000 (Rs. 5.85 crore) for each of its 10,300 employees.


7. Broadcom: $843,000
Networking company Broadcom is 7th on the list. Founded in 1991, Broadcom now makes $843,000 (Rs. 5.39 crore) per employee.

8. Lam Research: $785,000
One of the lesser-known companies on the list is Lam Research. Lam Research produces semiconductor  processing equipment that’s used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. It has 9,100 employees, and makes $785,000 in revenue for each of them.

9. Qualcomm: $772,000
Joining Broadcom in the list is fellow multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment giant Qualcomm. Qualcomm makes $772,000 in revenue for each of its 33,500 employees.

10. Microsoft: $748,000
And rounding up the top 10 is Microsoft. Microsoft might be not be the hottest software company at the moment, and it has more employees than any other company on the list — 1,24,000 of them. But it still makes a solid $748,000 per employee.

Micromax Bharat -1

Micromax Informatics has partnered with BSNL to launch Bharat-1, a feature phone with 4G LTE capability. This will be a direct competition for Reliance Jio's JioPhone. The state-owned telecom operator also claims to trump the JioPhone with a running cost that's even lower than the heavily subsidized JioPhone.
Despite a price of Rs 2,220 against JioPhone's "effective price" of Rs 0, Bharat-1 users will end up spending much lesser than JioPhone users in terms of total expenditure on recharges. Bharat-1 users will get free access to unlimited internet, calls and texts at a nominal price of Rs 97.

On the contrary, JioPhone users will have to recharge their devices with a recharge of Rs 153 for unlimited data, free voice calls, messages and access to Jio apps.

The new Micromax Bharat-1 can be used with any network provider, even a Reliance Jio SIM. This gives the device a huge advantage against the JioPhone as it can only be used with Reliance Jio.
The Micromax Bharat-1 device will be available at a price of Rs 2,220 but this will give complete ownership to the buyer contrary to JioPhone's claim over the device. In order to make the effective price Rs 0, Jio had to layer the deal with a long list of terms and conditions.

According to these terms and conditions, users will have to hand over the device if they fail to recharge the device with a minimum of Rs 1,500 per year which amounts to Rs 4,500 in three years. After the completion of these three years the JioPhone user will be eligible for a complete refund of Rs 1,500.
In terms of specifications, Micromax Bharat-1 comes equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 205 which is paired with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage. JioPhone also has identical specifications with a 1.2GHz processor paired with 512MB RAM and 4GB internal storage. The device also features a MicroSD card slot that will be capable of reading cards of up to 128GB.

Both devices come with a 2 Megapixel primary camera. Bharat-1 features a VGA selfie camera and the JioPhone features a 0.3Megapixel front camera. Both devices also share an identical QVGA screen with a  size of 2.4 inches. Both Reliance JioPhone and Bharat-1 are powered by 2000mAh batteries.

Despite a lower running cost, Bharat-1 phone, which is bundled with BSNL's voice and data pack, will not be able to achieve 4G LTE speeds. However, the state-owned company plans to launch their 4G services as early as January next year.

How Cyrus Mistry was Fired as Tata Chairman?

     Cyrus Mistry was appointed as chairman of the Tata Sons board in December 2012, succeeding Ratan Tata.

Nirmalya Kumar, who was group executive council (GEC) member under Cyrus Mistry, in his latest blog revealed how the former Tata Sons Chairman was sacked from his job. In October last year, Mr Mistry was fired as Tata Sons chief. Mr Kumar wrote that Mr Mistry was "offered the option of resigning or facing the resolution for his removal at the upcoming board meeting" by Ratan Tata and Tata Sons board member Nitin Nohria in Bombay House 4th floor office. Mr Kumar further stated that "only two Tata CEOs, Bhaskar Bhat and Harish Bhat, have had anything negative to say about Cyrus Mistry."


Here are the excerpts from Mr Kumar's blog:

On 24 October 2016, Cyrus was in his Bombay House 4th floor office examining what seemed like a routine agenda for the Tata Sons board meeting that was scheduled to start in five minutes at 14:00 hours. Through the grapevine, Cyrus had heard that some of the board members had an unscheduled informal meeting earlier that morning. However, what they had discussed was unknown, and as such, he did not give it much further thought. The previous week had been business as usual with trips to China and Singapore to meet partners and investors.

A knock on the door, and to his surprise, enter his predecessor, Ratan Tata and Tata Sons board member Nitin Nohria. Cyrus welcomes them and asks them to take the two chairs opposite him. Nitin Nohria begins by proclaiming that "Cyrus as you know the relationship between you and Ratan Tata has not been working." Therefore, Nohria continues, Tata Trusts have decided to move a board resolution removing Cyrus as Chairman of Tata Sons. He is offered the option of resigning or facing the resolution for his removal at the upcoming board meeting. Ratan Tata chimes in at this stage to say he is sorry that things have reached this stage.

Cyrus Mistry calmly responds with gentlemen you are free to take it up at the board meeting and I will do what I have to do. Nitin Nohria and Ratan Tata exit the room and walk over to the other end of the hallowed 4th floor of Bombay House, where the board room is located. Cyrus, sends a text "I am being sacked" to his wife Rohiqa, before putting on his jacket and heading to the Board Room.

The birthday of Himalayan explorer Nain Singh Rawat

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 187th birth anniversary of Nain Singh Rawat, a 19th century mountaineer and one of the first to explore the Himalayas for the British. Rawat was the first to survey Tibet, determining the exact location and altitude of the Tibetan capital Lhasa, and mapping the Tsangpo river.

Created by paper cut artists Hari and Deepti Panicker, the doodle is a silhouette diorama illustration with Rawat (a tripod placed in front depicting his ‘day job’) looking out at the horizon, a majestic lake below, and the sun in all its glory behind the mountains.

Born in 1830 in Milam, a Shauka tribe village in the valley of Johar in present-day Uttarakhand, Rawat as a young man visited Tibet with his father and picked up the local language, traditions and customs, which would later come in handy.

In the early 19th century, European explorers were fascinated by the Central Asian terrain and wanted to understand the local customs. But given the challenges, they realised they needed trained locals to help them in their quest. Rawat was one among the select group of local explorers.

As Europeans were not welcome everywhere, these explorers had to go under cover. Disguised as a Tibetan monk, Rawat walked from his home in Kumaon to places such as Lhasa, Kathmandu and Tawang. He would cover one mile in 2000 steps and measured each of them using a rosary. And in order to maintain the secrecy, he hid a compass in his prayer wheel and disguised travel records as prayers.

Rawat’s first exploration trip was with the Germans between 1855 and 1857. He travelled to the Manasarovar and Rakas Tal lakes and then further to Gartok and Ladakh. He then furthered his knowledge of surveying at the Great Trignometric Survey office in Dehradun, where he trained for two years. It is said that his greatest journey was from Leh in Ladhak to Assam via Lhasa, from 1873-75.

Rawat was the recipient of awards by the Royal Geographic Society and in June 2004, a postage stamp was released dedicated to him.

Did you know how delicate is the brain? Watch the video

Did you ever wonder why a bony cage guards the human brain? That’s because the all-important control centre of the body is extremely soft and can be damaged by a fingure, thumb.

Biology lessons and human anatomy illustrations show that the brain appears like a pink walnut, but a video of a scientist describing the various parts of the organ reveals it is extremely delicate.

The video of the freshly removed brain uploaded by Medical Videos shows the doctor running her fingers through the organ as she explains its anatomy. “It’s much softer than most of the meat you would see in the market,” she says, explaining that the brain is so “vulnerable” that it can be damaged with a thumb.

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TCS defends US visa use in anti-white worker bias case

An anti-TCS decision tomorrow may encourage white Americans to pursue similar suits against other cos with heavily foreign workforces.
As India’s Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. is squeezed by the Trump administration to reduce the use of overseas workers for U.S. jobs, the information technology outsourcing giant is also fighting claims in court that its hiring practices are anti-American.

TCS, Asia’s largest software maker, and Infosys Ltd., a rival Indian outsourcing firm, are both embroiled in civil rights lawsuits accusing them of discriminating against white IT workers that predate Donald Trump’s election last year.

Even as the outsourcers are responding to the president’s protectionist agenda by hiring more Americans in the U.S., Mumbai-based TCS cites its reliance on foreign guest-worker visas as a defense against the bias claims.

The men suing TCS allege discriminatory hiring practices explain why as much as 79 percent of its U.S. workforce is South Asian when that group makes up only 12.5 percent of the relevant labor market in the U.S.

But the company contends it’s misleading to include employees hired in India to work temporarily and “legally” in the U.S., many with H1-B visas for specially skilled employees. It also says more than 40 percent of its job applicants are South Asians and that not everyone is keen on working for an India-based company or willing to relocate to take a job.

Summary Judgment

At a hearing Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, California, on whether to dismiss the case entirely, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she would take the issue under submission. She indicated that she would deny the motion for summary judgment, at least as far as it involves white U.S. employees who were fired from Tata. She was less impressed by the evidence that Tata discriminates against white job applicants.

She told Tata’s lawyers that the plaintiffs “have evidence that they can present to a jury. Whether or not it is persuasive, I am not here to decide.”

The judge didn’t rule on whether to certify the suit as a class action, which would expand it to include potentially of thousands of American workers who either weren’t hired or were fired by TCS because of their race over the past six years.

If the case does proceed as a class action, it may encourage white Americans to pursue similar suits against other companies with heavily foreign workforces, said Andra Greene, a lawyer with Irell & Manella LLP in Newport Beach, California, who isn’t involved in the TCS suit.

‘Masters’ at Statistics

Greene also said it’s a “close” call which side’s numerical analysis will prevail in court. "People are masters at using statistics to argue their point,” she said.

After campaigning on a pledge to punish American companies for moving jobs overseas, Trump put pressure on the offshore IT servicing firms in April when he signed an executive order aimed at overhauling the work-visa programs they use to bring workers to the U.S. The next month, Infosys, which employs about 200,000 people around the world, said it planned to hire 10,000 Americans over the next two years.

The lawsuit against TCS was filed in 2015 by a white IT worker who claimed he was subject to “substantial anti-American sentiment” within the company and was ultimately terminated within 20 months despite having almost 20 years of experience in the field. He was later replaced as the lead plaintiff by two other men.

One, Brian Buchanan, said he worked at Southern California Edison for 28 years when the company outsourced the bulk of its IT work to TCS. He was among 400 people terminated, but said he was asked to stay on for a few months to train the Indian TCS employees that were replacing him. Buchanan claims that at a job fair organized for the employees losing their jobs, the South Asian TCS regional manager was dismissive of interest in a position.

TCS says Buchanan’s experience doesn’t prove he was a victim of bias. He has ”no idea” whether the application process was discriminatory because he didn’t attend any of the town hall meetings he was invited to during the Edison transition to learn about open positions with TCS and how to apply for them -- and he didn’t apply for a specific job, the company said in a court filing.

“Buchanan’s mere conjecture that he would have received more attention at the job fair if he were not an ‘old bald white man’ is not supported by any facts in the record," lawyers for TCS wrote.

While the company has a stronger defense if the men suing can’t point to any specific evidence that they were mistreated because they aren’t South Asian, that won’t necessarily carry the day, Greene said.

"Usually they don’t tell you I’m not hiring you because you’re white," she said.

‘Corporate Directive’

As for the broader claim that TCS engages in institutional discrimination against Americans, the plaintiffs claim the “highly skewed” workforce results from “a corporate directive to favor visa-ready South Asian Indian national candidates to fill U.S. positions and the use of third-party recruiters that forward to Tata a substantial percentage of South Asian Indian national candidates.”

The company contends there’s a “non-discriminatory” explanation that includes its use of workers with guest visas.

"These individuals are existing employees, were hired in India, and are thus hired from a completely different labor market," the company said in a filing. "They cannot be used to create a statistical disparity between TCS’ workforce and the United States labor market."

The company is “is confident that its evidence, data, and expert analysis” will persuade the judge not to let the case to advance as a class action and expects the claims will be thrown out, said Benjamin Trounson, a spokesman for TCS in North America.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers declined to comment ahead of Tuesday’s hearing.

The four workers who sued Infosys over similar allegations four years ago in Milwaukee are represented by the same law firm that filed the TCS suit. The Infosys case is also awaiting a judge’s decision on dueling requests for dismissal and class-action status.