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Rolls-Royce Dawn Launched At Rs 6.25 Crore

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June 25, 2016

Jaipur, Jun 25: Today marks a new Dawn in Indian motoring - quite literally! British luxury marquee, Rolls-Royce has launched the Dawn convertible in the country today, with prices starting at Rs 6.25 Crore (ex-showroom). Check out the image gallery here!

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The spiritual successor to the Silver Dawn that debuted in 1953, the modern day Rolls-Royce is more than just a Wraith without a roof. The automaker hasn't bothered with sharing body panels - 80 per cent of the Dawn features all-new bodywork. In Rolls' own words, it is the "sexiest Rolls-Royce ever built". It will turn heads and make people swoon, that's a given. The Dawn oozes class and panache, without looking overtly in your face or brash. Now that's a trait I believe only the British can pull off.

The interiors are smothered in high-quality materials including wood, leather and knurled aluminium. It can be customised in a million ways, but, what I particularly admire, is the Dawn's obsession with silence. Most convertibles have a noisy cabin, even when the roof is in place. That's not the case with the Rolls-Royce. The six-layered fabric roof makes it the world's quietest convertible. The roof vanishes into the trunk in a mere 22 seconds, and, the mechanism that retracts the roof is so quiet, that the automaker calls it a 'silent ballet'. Rolls-Royce claims that the Dawn is as silent as it's sibling - the Wraith. That's a claim we're willing to believe with our eyes closed. Before we forget, the lowest fan speed is called 'Soft' and not 'Low'. Fanatical attention to detail right there!

Powering this barrage of British exotica is a 6.6-litre V12 motor. In case that wasn't enough, it gets not one, but two turbochargers. The result is a mind-numbing 571PS of go power and 780Nm of twist. Power is channelled through a ZF-sourced 8-speed transmission that is aided by satellites. In case you're wondering how that works, here's a crash course. The GPS tells the transmission what roads lie ahead, based on which the gearbox selects the appropriate gear. How cool is that?

All said and done, Rolls-Royces have always been garage queens for the ultra-rich and this one isn't a whole lot different. The fact that it can shed its top and charge like her Majesty's army is complimentary.

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Users complained that links to news stories about school closings and other information related to the virus outbreak were blocked by the company's automated system.

Later on Tuesday, Rosen tweeted that Facebook had restored all the incorrectly deleted posts, which also covered topics beyond the coronavirus.

Rosen said the problems were unrelated to any changes in Facebook's content-moderator workforce. The company reportedly sent its human moderators home this week because of the coronavirus outbreak.

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March 8,2020

New Delhi, Mar 8: In order to spread awareness, a special COVID-19 mobile phone caller tune was launched by all telecom operators with basic infection prevention messages played when a caller dials-out, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday.

"In order to spread awareness about COVID-19, a special COVID-19 mobile phone caller tune was launched by all telecom operators. Over 117.2 crore subscribers of BSNL, MTNL Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone-Idea are being progressively reached out to through SMSs and Call Backs," Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a press statement.

"As many as 52 laboratories are now operational across the country for testing the COVID-19 virus. An additional 57 laboratories have been provided with Viral Transport Media and swabs for sample collection," the statement added.

India has 39 confirmed cases of deadly coronavirus so far. The disease has caused deaths of 3200 people globally. 

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July 4,2020

Twitter has joined efforts to do away with racially loaded terms such as master, slave and blacklist from its coding language in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd and ensuing Black Lives Matter protests.

The project started even before the current movement for racial justice escalated following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd in police custody in May.

The use of terms such as "master" and "slave" in programming language originated decades ago. While "master" is used to refer to the primary version of a code, "slave" refers to the replicas. Similarly, the term "Blacklist" is used to refer to items which are meant to be automatically denied.

The efforts to change these terms in favour of more inclusive language at Twitter were initiated by Regynald Augustin and Kevin Oliver and the microblogging platform is now backing their efforts.

"Inclusive language plays a critical role in fostering an environment where everyone belongs. At Twitter, the language we have been using in our code does not reflect our values as a company or represent the people we serve. We want to change that. #WordsMatter," Twitter's engineering team said in a post on Thursday.

As per the recommendations from the team, the term "whitelist" could be replaced by "allowlist" and "blacklist" by "denylist".

Similarly, "master/slave" could be replaced by "leader/follower", "primary/replica" or "primary/standby".

Twitter, however, is not the first to start a project to bring inclusivity in programming language.

According to a report in CNET, the team behind the Drupal online publishing software started using "primary/replica" in place of "master/slave" as early as in 2014.

The use of the terms "master/slave" was also dropped by developers of the Python programming language in 2018.

Now similar efforts are underway at Microsoft's Github and LinkedIn divisions as well, said the report.

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