Man dies watching Conjuring 2 in Tamil Nadu

Man dies watching Conjuring 2 in Tamil Nadu

In a freak incident, a man watching a horror movie died in the cinema hall in Thiruvannmalai on Thursday. The deceased, who has not been identified by the police so far, was believed to be of about 60-years-old. 

According to The Hindu, the man was from Andhra Pradesh and was staying at an ashram in Thiruvannmalai. 

He was watching the horror movie 'Conjuring-2' at Balasubramaniyar theatre, when he complained of chest pain. 

Though 108-ambulance was called for immediately, the man breathed his last before the ambulance arrived. The report say that someone who had accompanied him took the body to the place where he was staying. The police is awaiting further details about the deceased

9-Year-Old Anvitha Vijay Is the Youngest Developer at Apple's WWDC 2016

Nine-year-old Anvitha Vijay, the youngest developer at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam )

New York: A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl has earned the distinction of being the youngest app developer at Apple's annual developer conference with her apps for children and she now dreams of meeting the tech giant's CEO Tim Cook.

Anvitha Vijay from Australia is the youngest attendee at WWDC 2016 in San Francisco and has already built several apps for iPhone and iPad, a report in Fortune said.

Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web, and learned how to program. "Coding was so challenging. But I'm so glad I stuck with it," she said.

Vijay, who has been developing apps about empowering children, hopes to meet Cook during the conference. "It's my dream to go to WWDC and meet Tim Cok," she said.

Vijay is attending WWDC as part of Apples scholarship program, which gives hundreds of free tickets to developers from around the world who are creating apps for Apple devices.

Out of 350 recipients this year, 120 are students under the age of 18, Fortune said, adding that the number of women who applied for the scholarship tripled this year, and this year, 22 per cent of scholarship winners are women, which is an increase from last year.

The report said Vijay's apps were inspired by her toddler sister, who was learning how to talk and identify animals. Her brainchild was the Smartkins Animals app, which uses sounds, and flashcards to help teach children 100 different animals' names and sounds.

She then developed another similar interactive iOS app for children to help them learn colors and is now already working on her next app, which wants to help kids her won age with setting goals.

"Turning an idea for an app involves a lot of hard work," Vijay said. "There are so many components to building an app, including prototyping, design and wirreframing, user interface design and then coding and testing."

With WWDC, like most tech conferences, overwhelmingly dominated by white and Asian males, the company has been making efforts to diversify the attendance at the annual event.

Scott Lilly, who is vice president of programs at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, said that Apple approached his organisation to offer scholarships to WWDC last year. "I think they are making sure that diversity is represented," Lilly said.

Under that programme this year, Lilly is sending two female African American college students and three African American men to WWDC

Short exposure to blue light helps in faster decision making

Blue light — present in electronic screens — can be used in occupational settings where alertness and quick decision making are important.

Spending half an hour in blue light may help you make difficult decisions faster up to 40 minutes after the exposure has ended, a new study suggests.

Researchers from University of Arizona in the US found that exposure to blue wavelength light led to subsequent increases in brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) when participants were engaging in a cognitive task after cessation of light exposure.

The results also showed that a short single exposure to blue light for half an hour is sufficient to produce measurable changes in reaction times and more efficient responses (answering more items correctly per second) during conditions of greater cognitive load after the light exposure had ended.

Moreover, these improvements were directly associated with measurable changes in the activation of the prefrontal cortex.

“Previous studies only focused on the effects of light during the period of exposure. Our study adds to this research by showing that these beneficial effects of blue wavelength light may outlast the exposure period by over 40 minutes,” said Anna Alkozei from University of Arizona. “Importantly, our findings suggest that using blue light before having to engage in important cognitive processes may still impact cognitive functioning for over half an hour after the exposure period ended,” she added.

“Blue-enriched white light could be used in a variety of occupational settings where alertness and quick decision making are important — such as pilot cockpits, operation rooms or military settings. It could also be used in settings where natural sunlight does not exist — such as the International Space Station,” said Alkozei.  According to Alkozei, this may be valuable in a wide range of situations where acute blue light exposure is not a feasible option, such as testing situations.

The study consisted of 35 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 32 years. Participants were randomised to receive a 30-minute exposure to either blue (active) or amber (placebo) light, immediately followed by a working memory task during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

“These findings are important as they link the acute behavioural effects of blue light to enhanced activation of key cortical systems involved in cognition and mental control,” said William DS Killgore from University of Arizona.

The findings were published in the journal Sleep