North Kolkata Calling !!

By Saibal Kumar Deb. Courtsy: Samik Hazra.

For two decades Google search engine helped us to find our queries.  Now after a quarter century it is ready to provide search with Artificial Intelligence. According to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, AI Mode will function like a chatbot. People can begin their questions and later they can ask follow-up questions too. He is confident that Google's AI will be able to give back comprehensive answers!

Nigerian movies were not found suitable for  film festivals.They have been trying for 80 years to show their movies internationally.Their films were rejected because it never reached the standard.  Nollywood based in Lagos usually produced low budget films.The stories encircled around love, religion, poverty and clash between traditional and modern values Finally Nollywood gets approval to show "My Father's Shadow". This is the first Nigerian movie to make it to the Temple of Arthouse Cinema -Cannes !

Two Belgian teenagers were found with   5000 ants in Kenya.Their names are Seppe Lodewijckx and Somoy David.They were arrested in Nakura country which is the home to several national parks.After primilinary inspection it was found that the species were expensive. According to Kenya Wildlife Services these teenagers were sending the ants to markets in Europe and Asia. They were charged with a fine of $7,700. If unable to pay they have to serve 12 months in prison.

By Saibal Kumar Deb. According to IBM CEO and chairman Arvind Krishna- most clients are now in a hurry to increase and scale up revenue.They want to save cost and increase production. AI has the potentiality to solve all the three areas. Change for the last 12 months is that people are stopping experimentation and giving more importance to where the value of the business is right now!

The plane , with its passangers, survived 36  hours in a swamp full of alligators.This happened when it made an emergency landing in Bolivian Amazon. Along with an anaconda the alligators came rushing but stopped within 3 meters of their target. The pilot, later recollected, that the reason was possibley - the kerosene. It leaked out from the plane and spread around, creating a barrier. This kept the creatures at bay !