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Cloud Control: 10 GitHub Repositories to Elevate Your Cloud Computing Skills in 2025
- Cloud computing in 2025 is foundational for modern technology, offering automation, website deployments, app development, machine learning, data engineering, and more.
- Cloud skills are essential for tech professionals, with a high demand for cloud-fluent individuals in platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- GitHub is a valuable resource for learning cloud computing due to its open-source ethos, community support, practical focus, and cutting-edge content.
- List of 10 GitHub repositories curated to elevate cloud skills in 2025, covering web development, data science, machine learning, Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, DevOps, and more.
- Repositories like freeCodeCamp, learn-to-cloud, and Amazon SageMaker examples offer foundational knowledge and practical projects for beginners.
- AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud repositories provide hands-on examples for deploying cloud services efficiently using Infrastructure-as-Code.
- GitHub resources focus on ML workflows, data science on GCP, cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes exercises, Terraform, DevOps, CI/CD, and site reliability engineering.
- Engaging with the repositories through cloning, running code, consistency, combining resources, building projects, and contributing enhances cloud learning.
- Mastering cloud computing requires a blend of foundational knowledge, hands-on practice, and leveraging community-driven resources for career advancement in the cloud ecosystem.
- By utilizing GitHub repositories, individuals can gain valuable cloud expertise, improve career prospects, and empower themselves for navigating and controlling the cloud environment effectively.
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The Ethical Mind Reader? How Marketers Use Neuroscience to Understand You
- Marketers often struggle to understand customers as up to 90% of decision-making occurs in the subconscious mind, leading to flawed insights from traditional market research.
- Neuromarketing uses physiological and neural data to gain direct insights into consumers' subconscious responses, employing techniques like fMRI, eye-tracking, facial coding, and EEG.
- Neuro-Insight utilizes EEG technology to map subconscious reactions to stimuli, providing a head start in understanding genuine responses without subjective questioning.
- Emotion, personal relevance, and memory encoding play crucial roles in driving decisions, with memory encoding showing an 86% correlation with predicting sales.
- Effective marketing aims to create strong, positive, subconscious long-term memories linked to brands or messages, influencing future choices based on encoded memories.
- Neuromarketing offers actionable strategies by optimizing creative elements, informing channel strategies, building stronger brands, and developing more effective communication for complex issues.
- With a higher predictive power compared to traditional methods, understanding the deeper subconscious drivers through neuromarketing can lead to significantly more effective campaigns and reduced waste.
- As we move towards 2025, the focus on efficiency, personalization, and authentic connections in marketing is heightened, with neuromarketing providing a powerful tool for understanding consumer behavior on a deeper level.
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Liberation Day Tariffs: A New Trade War or Tough Love?
- On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on all imports, with India facing a 26% tariff.
- The 26% tariff is expected to impact Indian industries, including electronics, gems and jewelry, textiles, and automotive components.
- However, the pharmaceutical industry, exporting $9 billion annually to the U.S., is exempt from the tariffs.
- India is proactively engaging in negotiations to mitigate the effects, proposing tariff reductions on U.S. agricultural products and considering eliminating import taxes on U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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A Deep Dive into Athletes Dietary Habits
- Elite athletes have significantly higher energy needs, varying based on their sport and training intensity.
- Carbohydrates are the primary energy source for athletes, with varying intake requirements.
- Protein plays a crucial role in muscle repair and growth, and fats are important for hormone production and nutrient absorption.
- While supplements can be beneficial, it's important to approach them judiciously and seek guidance from nutritional experts.
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How Trump’s New Tariffs Are Quietly Upending Venture Capital and Private Equity Around the World
- Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has reignited one of his hallmark economic tools: tariffs.
- Private equity firms and venture capital funds are recalibrating their models, mandates, and maps in response to the new tariffs.
- Cross-border transactions now face 'tariff-adjusted' projections, resulting in lower multiples, more conservative debt structures, and increased reliance on domestic value creation.
- Startups and investors are experiencing increased uncertainty and risk due to the tariffs, leading to adjustments in funding strategies and investment decisions.
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How Singapore Management University’s fintech master’s course equips students to power the future of finance
- Singapore Management University’s Master of IT in Business integrates finance with technology through its Financial Technology & Analytics (FTA) track, catering to diverse students.
- The program covers topics like digital banking, fintech innovations, blockchain, and data analytics to prepare graduates for the modern financial ecosystem.
- SMU ensures that graduates have hands-on experience and networking opportunities with industry partners to drive innovation in the financial sector.
- Graduates possess skills in banking technologies, design thinking, blockchain, and data analysis, enabling them to develop data-driven financial products and services.
- Partnerships with financial institutions and fintech companies provide insights into emerging technologies, keeping the curriculum up-to-date with the latest industry trends.
- FTA graduates have transitioned into roles like chartered financial analysts and founders of fintech startups, showcasing the program's impact on their careers.
- SMU collaborates with industry partners for internships, capstone projects, and practical industry learning experiences beyond the classroom.
- SMU supports students in building entrepreneurial skills through incubation and acceleration programs, fostering a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation.
- Challenges faced by FTA graduates include regulatory compliance, risk management, resistance to change, technical integration, and market acceptance, which the program helps students navigate.
- Future curriculum upgrades will focus on advanced technologies like quantum computing, digital currencies, and AI, offering research opportunities and a more global perspective to keep students at the forefront of industry developments.
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From degrees to skills: The rise of India’s intelligent learning economy
- The education system in India has transformed from traditional classrooms to digital learning, with the COVID-19 pandemic acting as a catalyst.
- Collaboration between universities, industries, and governments has resulted in the development of flexible, modular degree programs and industry-led certifications.
- Global education collaborations have made high-quality education more accessible, allowing students to earn degrees from top institutions without geographical constraints.
- Continuous skilling and lifelong learning have become critical for India's economic growth, with a focus on AI, data science, cybersecurity, and automation skills.
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Implementing reforms for gig workers; Foreign policy through a feminist lens
- Indian startups are gaining support with a significant allocation from the Rs 10,000 crore fund by Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.
- SIDBI will disburse Rs 2,000 crore this year to aid startups, with a dedicated Startup India Desk launched for entrepreneurs.
- Nykaa's parent company anticipates robust revenue growth in Q4 FY25, while Zomato and Mamaearth saw managerial exits.
- Swiggy received a second IT notice for alleged tax violations, and Meta AI introduced Llama 4—a set of AI models trained on vast data.
- Gig workers face challenges as governments and platforms navigate regulations and social security measures, including defining gig worker status.
- Foreign policy is being redefined through a feminist lens by initiatives like the Kubernein Initiative, emphasizing gender perspectives in global policy-making.
- A key project by the Initiative, 'An Inclusive Indian Foreign Policy', aims to integrate gender mainstreaming and human security into decision-making.
- China investors brace for market impacts post-US tariffs, while EU countries plan to present united front with targeted countermeasures.
- Middle East markets plummet on trade war risks and oil price concerns, and RBI's monetary policy decision and corporate earnings are awaited.
- Indian stock markets will be closed on April 10 for Mahavir Jayanti, and the origin of Chinese Checkers dates back to 1892 in Germany.
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HardTech Reads: The AI & Robotics Revolution vol.26 — template
- Kawasaki unveiled a hydrogen-powered quadruped robot called CORLEO designed for human riders with motorcycle dynamics and off-road navigation capabilities.
- Hyundai intends to acquire 'tens of thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots, while Chinese startup Agibot plans to match Tesla's production of humanoid robots by 2025.
- Hyundai and Nvidia are investing billions of dollars in the U.S. manufacturing sector to strengthen industrial supply chains and advance chip and AI infrastructure.
- Barcelona is testing a driverless and electric minibus equipped with cameras and lidars for autonomous public transit.
- Google predicts practical quantum computing within 5 years, with significant progress in quantum error correction and hardware competition.
- The U.S. blacklisted 80 companies, primarily Chinese, from accessing sensitive AI and quantum tech to protect American innovation.
- China allocated $137 billion towards robotics and AI industries, focusing on humanoid and AI development as essential sectors for economic growth.
- The revival of 'shop class' in American schools includes robotics, automation, and AI training to address AI displacement fears and enhance domestic engineering skills.
- Several robotics companies, such as Allen Control Systems, Agility Robotics, Chef Robotics, MemryX, Dexterity, Aeolus Robotics, received substantial funding for innovative projects.
- Upcoming events in the robotics and AI industry include conferences like Automate in Detroit and International Conference on Robotics & Automation in Atlanta.
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Gig workers to get a social security shield, but will moonlighting be a problem?
- The gig economy is rapidly growing, with platforms like Swiggy and Zomato employing a significant number of workers in India.
- Gig workers often engage in moonlighting across different platforms to increase their earnings.
- States like Rajasthan and Karnataka have initiated social security reforms for gig workers.
- The Union Budget 2025 highlighted the importance of providing social security to gig workers.
- Identifying who qualifies as a gig worker poses a challenge for the government due to the diverse nature of gig work.
- A large portion of gig workers earn less than Rs 2.5 lakh per annum, as per a recent report.
- Implementing reforms for gig workers requires platforms to be transparent and cooperation from the government.
- The government aims to track gig workers through the e-Shram portal, enabling them to access benefits like health coverage.
- Establishing a standardized tracking system linked to Aadhaar is crucial for monitoring gig employment effectively.
- The e-Shram portal operates on a self-declaration model and requires gig workers to register using Aadhaar verification.
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Fabless startups seek major wins to crack chicken & egg dilemma
- Indian fabless semiconductor startups face a chicken and egg problem.
- Startups need investment to build working silicon and attract serious interest.
- Most VCs hesitate to invest in the capital-intensive semiconductor industry.
- Indian startups raise funds from international VCs or strategic investors instead.
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Impact investor Asha Ventures raises $10 million from British International Investment
- Mumbai-based impact investor Asha Ventures has raised $10 million from the UK government-backed British International Investment (BII) for its fund I.
- Asha Ventures' debut fund aims to raise a total of $91 million.
- The fund focuses on backing high-growth, impact-focused early-to-growth stage businesses across India.
- Asha Ventures has already made investments in startups such as Ascend Capital, TrueMeds, and AutoMony.
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She Was Selling Fax Machines, Then She Changed the World.
- A woman who used to sell fax machines door to door changed the business world with her idea, Spanx.
- Sales is a crucial skill for entrepreneurs as it drives cash flow, survival, and growth.
- To master sales, entrepreneurs need to know their product, understand their audience, listen effectively, build relationships, keep learning and embrace rejection.
- Sales is not just about transactions, but also about transforming strangers into believers and brand ambassadors.
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Proposed Dividends Tax in Brazil (1/2): Consequences for individuals living in Brazil
- Individuals earning up to BRL 5,000 per month will be exempt from income tax in Brazil.
- Dividends received by high-income individuals earning BRL 50,000 or more per month will be subject to taxation.
- Two-phase system for dividend taxation will be implemented, involving monthly withholding tax and annual income tax declaration.
- Dividends paid to Brazilian companies and dividends received by individuals living abroad will have different tax rules.
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From First Sales to $63: How Paran Is Gaining Momentum
- Paran has achieved $63 in total revenue, with $35 earned in the last week alone.
- The company has experienced steady growth through updates, marketing experiments, and trial and error.
- The next goals for Paran include further growth, building on the momentum gained.
- The company encourages others to act on their ideas, learn from them, and let momentum drive them forward.
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