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2020-04-27T03:45:00.000+05:30

First Google Doodle Image in 1998

Google Doodle is a rare, temporary modification of the logo on Google's homepages intended to celebrate holidays, activities, milestones and notable historical figures. The first Google Doodle celebrated the 1998 edition of the long-running annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada. It was designed by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to alert users of their absence in the Burning Man event in case of a server crash. Subsequently, Google Doodles was designed by an outside contractor until 2001, when Page and Brin requested Public Relations Officer Dennis Hwang to create a logo for Bastille Day. Since then, the Doodles have been compiled and written by a team of employees called "Doodlers."

The techniques of Doodle have also continued to develop over the years. In September 2018, Doodle honouring Fred Rogers used stop motion animation, while Halloween Doodle was a multiplayer video game that allowed users to play with others. On 2019, July 4th Google Doodle featured an animated baseball backyard game.

Novice designers are also invited to participate. In 2008, the organization formalized this process in one way, launching a competition for kindergarten to 12th-grade students in the U.S. The winner of the annual Google Doodle contest will be featured on Google's homepage, as well as scholarship money and "tech packages, Google conducts different contests for countries all over the world.

Some of the Amazing Google Doodles are:

50th Anniversary of JFK's Inauguration, January 20, 2011

80th Annivesary of Moscow Metro, 15th May 2015

Franz Kafka's 130th Birthday

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has increased U.S unemployment rate

2020-04-23T23:44:00.000+05:30

Unemployment in the U.S. has risen to levels most recently seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American employees thrown out of work due to coronavirus.

Last week, more than 4.4 million laid-off employees applied for unemployment benefits, the government. In total, some 26 million people — more than the population of the six largest U.S. cities combined — have now applied for unemployment benefits in five weeks, an epic crisis that has increased the stakes in the debate over how and when to lift the state-ordered home-stay limits that have lead to shut down factories and other businesses across the globe.

Abroad, there were mixed reports about the outbreak. Some nations, including Greece, Bangladesh and Malaysia, have announced extensions to their lockdowns. Vietnam, New Zealand and Croatia were among those who were working to end or ease these measures.

According to John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 43% of cases in Africa rose from 16,000 to 26,000 cases in the past week. The statistics highlighted the recent alert from the World Health Organization that the virus could kill more than 300,000 people in Africa and drive 30 million into extreme poverty.

Huge lines have developed in food banks from El Paso, Texas, to the suburbs of Paris, and food scarcity are hitting Africa especially hard.

The European Union has promised EUR 20 billion ($22 billion) to support disadvantaged people worldwide. EU leaders planned a virtual summit on Thursday to take stock of the harm done to the bloc's own people by the crisis and to draw up an economic rescue plan.

The coronavirus killed more than 184,000 people worldwide, including about 47,000 in the United States, according to a study collected by John Hopkins University from official government statistics. The real numbers are almost definitely much higher.

In the U.S., the economic effects of the shutdowns have caused violent protests in state capitals by demonstrators demanding that businesses be reopened, and President Donald Trump has expressed his impatience with the restrictions. Some governors have started to ease the situation amid warnings from the health authorities that it might be too early to do so without triggering new infections. In Georgia, gyms, hair salons and bowling alleys can be reopened on Friday. Texas has restored state parks.

The high unemployment rate of the Great Depression continued for 10 years and peaked at about 25 percent. U.S. authorities are hoping for a stronger turnaround this time, but there could be more cuts coming from many small companies who have tried in vain to obtain loans from the federal assistance programme.

Although the health crisis has eased at bit in places like Spain, Italy, and France, experts warn it is far from over, and the possibility of new outbreaks is looming at large.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed some German states for moving too fast to seek and re-open their economies. Germany has been lauded for its response to the pandemic and has registered a significantly lower death rate than other major European countries.

Governments bear this danger in mind with the start of Ramadan, the holy month of daytime fasting, overnight festivities and public prayer that will begin for the world's 1.8 billion Muslims. Many Muslim leaders have closed mosques or forbade joint prayers to avoid new infections.

The virus also interrupted the Christian Holy Week, the Passover, the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage and other big religious events.

Authorities in the capital of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, expanded its disease-fighting restrictions to cover all of Ramadan, while Turkey banned public eating during holidays.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan bowed to the country's religious clerics, refusing to close the mosques despite a nation's doctors warning that these meetings are like a petri dish to spread the virus in a world with a weak health care system.

McAfee MVISION Cloud offers a safe and compliant way to handle data and user activities in Microsoft teams.

2020-04-23T12:23:00.001+05:30

McAfee, a device-to-cloud cybersecurity organization, revealed that McAfee MVISION Cloud now supports encryption upgrades on Microsoft Teams, including encrypted webhooks and encrypted payloads. It enables organizations to improve the productivity of their employees by allowing them to use Teams as a collaborative platform, participate in conversations and calls, and upload and share documents while ensuring that customer data remains secure with encryption when evaluated by McAfee MVISION Cloud. By keeping up with team enhancements, McAfee MVISION Cloud remains one of the only Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) to be certified for Microsoft teams.

Working from home has become a new reality for many, as more and more businesses are allowing their workers to work remotely. Teams, a platform for teamwork in Microsoft 365, combine people, content and tools that employees need to be more engaged and efficient. Microsoft has seen an incredible growth in Team use with more than 44 million daily users1—a amount that has increased by 12 million in just seven days. Those users create more than 900 million team meetings and call minutes every day as workers work from home. Employers must not only educate their staff on best practices in the area of digital security, but must also provide them with resources to counter cyber threats that can emerge from remote work.

McAfee MVISION Cloud for Teams leverages McAfee's Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) technologies on a single, centralized platform — offering an unbridled, cloud-based approach for enterprises to reliably protect their data and defend themselves against cyber threats. MVISION Cloud for Teams also offers the following:

Modern data protection - Extends current DLP policies to messages and files in all types of Team Platforms, enforces policies based on keywords, signatures, user identifiers, regular expressions, and matches for content and metadata.

Controls collaboration - Restrict messages or files on networks to individual users, including restricting the transfer of data to any external venue.

Vital remediation - Enables auditing of controlled data uploaded to Teams and fixes policy breaches by coaching users, notifying administrators, quarantine, tombstone, restoring and removing user actions. End users can independently correct their actions by raising the burden on The security teams.

Preventing risks - Empowers organizations to identify and avoid anomalous behavior that is suggestive of insider threats and compromised accounts; maintains a full record of all user interaction in teams; and leverages machine learning to evaluate activities through various heuristics to effectively identify threats.

Forensic investigation - Provides a rich capacity for forensics and investigations, providing an auto-generated, comprehensive audit trail of all user activities.

On-the-go safe policies - Helps secure multiple access modes, including browsers and native apps, and implements context-based controls, including user, device, data and location; blocks access from computers and devices that lack sufficient data control.

MVISION Cloud for Teams is now being used by a various large organizations to meet their security, governance and enforcement requirements. The solution is ideal for all business verticals and all sizes of organizations due to its policy versatility and ease of use.

Top 10 currencies of the world

2017-06-10T00:04:00.002+05:30

List of Top 10 Highest Value Currencies in the World :

1) Kuwait: KWD

An oil rich country located in the middle-east, Kuwait has the highest valued currency in the world currently. Kuwait is a small country with enormous wealth. The high value (rate) of its currency is explained by significant oil exports into the global market.

Kuwaiti Dinar rates:
1 KWD = 3.29 USD (Kuwaiti dinar to US dollar).
1 KWD = 2.97 EUR (Kuwaiti dinar to euro).

2) Bahrain: BHD

Many would be surprised to see Bahrain in the list but Bahraini Dinar is the second most valued currency in the world. Bahrain is a Persian Gulf island state with a population of just over 1 million people. As in the first case, this country’s largest source of income is the "black gold" exports.

Bahrain Dinar rates:
1 BHD = 2.66 USD (Bahrain Dinar to US Dollar).
1 BHD = 2.40 EUR (Bahrain Dinar to Euro).

3) Oman: OMR

Another Middle-Eastern country with high valued currency. Oman is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. Thanks to its strategic location, it possesses a developed economy and a high quality of life.

Oman Rial rates:
1 OMR = 2.60 USD (Oman Rial to US Dollar).
1 OMR = 2.34 EUR (Oman Rial to Euro).

4) Jordan: JOD

Another middle-eastern country. Rich in Oil and hence a rich economy and a high valued currency. It is hard to explain the high value of Jordan Dinar. This country is not economically developed, and it lacks essential resources, such as oil.

Jordan Dinar rates:

1 JOD = 1.41 USD (Jordan Dinar to US Dollar).
1 JOD = 1.27 EUR (Jordan Dinar to Euro.

5) United Kingdom: GBP

Now this name won’t surprise many. An erstwhile world power which still holds a sway in the world has a very useful and high valued currency. Most people consider that British Pound is the strongest world currency, but it only closes the top five of this list.

British Pound Sterling rates:
1 GBP = 1.32 USD (British Pound Sterling to US Dollar).
1 GBP = 1.19 EUR (British Pound Sterling to Euro).

6) Gibraltar: GIP

Another surprise entry in this list. This African nation has a very high valued currency that not many of us are aware of. 1 Gibraltar is equal to 1.24 Dollar.

7) Cayman Island: KYD

Another surprise entry to this list. But Cayman Island is economically very stable. The Cayman Islands are one of the world’s best tax haven. These islands provided licenses for hundreds of banks, hedge funds, and insurance companies.

Cayman Islands Dollar rates:
1 KYD = 1.22 USD (Cayman Islands Dollar to US Dollar).
1 KYD = 1.01 EUR (Cayman Islands Dollar to Euro).

8) European Union: Euro

Not a country but a bloc of nations and when nations come together for trade and other purposes, the economy is bound to be stronger and the value of the currency is high.

The Euro currency has strengthened over the past few years. This allowed it to rise in the list of the most powerful currencies. Partially, its strength is explained by the fact that it is the official world currency in European countries, among which you will find several economically developed ones.

European Euro rate:
1 EUR = 1.11 USD (European Euro to US Dollar).

9) Latvia: Euro

A surprise entry in this list. This Eastern European country is not often in news? good or bad. But having the Latvian Lats is beneficial. Exchanging one Lats will give you around 1.08 Dollar.

10) Switzerland: Swiss Franc

Switzerland is not only one of the richest countries in the world, but it also belongs to the most stable ones. Its banking system had long been known for its formerly resolute "Bank Secrecy".

Swiss Franc rates:
1 CHF = 1.01 USD (Swiss Franc to US Dollar).
1 CHF = 0.91 EUR (Swiss Franc to Euro).

Note: The currency exchange rates may fluctuate in future.