This Week I Learned - Week #52 2021

This Week I Learned - 

* Azure Cognitive Services Translator can transliterate/converts text in one language from one script to another script.

* Gmail protects your email by making sure messages you send and receive are authenticated. Unauthenticated messages might be sent to spam. Gmail authenticates messages with SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), and DMARC or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance. 

* SPF specifies which hosts are allowed to send messages from a given domain by creating an SPF record. DKIM allows the sender to electronically sign legitimate emails in a way that can be verified by recipients using a public-key. DMARC helps mail administrators prevent hackers and other attackers from spoofing their organization and domain. Spoofing is a type of attack in which the From address of an email message is forged. A spoofed message appears to be from the impersonated organization or domain.

* Messages that aren't authenticated aren't necessarily spam.

* Best practice for sending email to Gmail - Check regularly to make sure your domain isn’t listed as unsafe with Google Safe Browsing. To check your domain status, enter your domain in the Safe Browsing site status page. Also check any domain that’s linked to yours. 

* You can use Postmaster Tools to track data on large volumes of emails sent and find data about your sending domain. You can view different dashboards to understand details like Gmail delivery errors, spam reports, feedback loop, and more.

* The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation.  Many companies did not begin to take emoji seriously until Google employees requested that Unicode look into the possibility of a uniform emoji set.

Source: Internet

* Wingdings, a font invented by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, was first used by Microsoft in 1990.

* With more than 1 billion people in the world with disabilities, there is no limit to what people can achieve when technology reflects the diversity of all those who use it.

* Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.  - BBC

* The TTD’s IT wing, with the help of Jio and TCS has shifted the online darshan ticketing systems to cloud-based technology. A total of 2.60 lakh free darshan tickets were booked by devotees in less than 14 minutes -- after the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) released the online quota of the Slotted Sarva Darshan (SSD) tokens for January 2022. 

* By default, most stereo audio experiences send some sounds to the right channel or speaker and some sounds to the left channel. Windows supports mono audio, so that you can send all sounds to both channels. This allows users who have partial hearing loss or deafness in one ear to hear all sounds from the PC so they don't miss anything.

* Browser-level lazy-loading for iframes is now standardized and is also supported in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Add loading="lazy" to iframe tag to enable the feature.        

* California produces 80 percent of the world’s almonds. Almond farms need one critical resource that many people might not think about to grow all those almonds: bees. 

* Poor nutrition and illness in childhood limit human growth. As a consequence, the average height of a population is strongly correlated with living standards in a population.  

* A 2011 Harvard study found people assign higher value to self-assembled goods (willing to pay 63% more vs. pre-assembled).

* Advertising is salesmanship in print

* Those people of the Backward Class whose annual income exceeds Rs.8 Lakhs fall under the Creamy Layer while those whose annual income is less than Rs.8 Lakhs belong to Non-Creamy Layer. 

* National Translation Mission (NTM) is a Government of India scheme to establish translation as an industry in general and, to facilitate higher education by making knowledge texts accessible to students and academics in Indian languages in particular.

* Among scooters, TVS Jupiter has a high fuel tank capacity of 6 litres. Popular motorcycles in India have a fuel tank capacity in the range of 10-14 litres. Mahindra Mojo has a fuel efficiency of 36.25kmpl and a 21 litre fuel tank. The BMW R1200 GS Adventure motorbike has a 33-litre fuel tank – making it a motorcycle with the biggest fuel tank in India. Its German manufacturer claims a fuel efficiency of 20kmpl. That’s a whopping 660km riding range for a motorcycle with a 1170cc engine. 

* The highest 24-hour rainfall period in India was 1,168 mm (46.0 inches) in Aminidivi in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep on 6 May 2004. 

* The Mumbai floods of 2005 were caused by the eighth heaviest-ever recorded 24-hour rainfall figure of 944 mm (37.17 inches) which lashed the metropolis on 26 July 2005, and intermittently continued for the next day. 644mm (25.35 inches) was received within the 12-hour period between 8 am and 8 pm. The floods caused a direct loss of about ₹5.50 billion (€80 million or US$100 million) & claimed 1,094  human lives. 

* It is estimated that Mumbai has lost about 40% of its mangroves between 1995 and 2005, some to builders and some to encroachment (slums). Sewage and garbage dumps have also destroyed mangroves. The Bandra-Kurla complex in particular was created by replacing such swamps. 

*  "You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it." — Yann Martel, Life of Pi