‘We intend to bring a revolutionary change in the agriculture sector with a special focus on promoting animal husbandry,’ Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu tells the hill State’s milk producers

Minister Anurag Thakur says the decision will benefit 5 crore farmers, including family members, and lakhs of other persons involved in the sugar sector

A poor harvest could force the Centre to import wheat, palm oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil

Centre has permitted 24,400 MT shipments to the country amid ban on exports ‘till further orders’; exporters allege selling price being set too low, triggering windfall profits for selected UAE importers

Karnataka Agriculture Price Commission headed by Prakash Kammaradi submitted a report on the legally backed MSP to the government in 2018

Reserve Bank of India’s annual report highlights MSPs, foodgrain stocks, and challenges faced by agriculture in 2023-24

The country is among those most vulnerable to water management risks, and has the poorest access to basic services, including water, among G-20 economies, the rating major flagged

The new MSP for a quintal of wheat is ₹2,425 in comparison to ₹2,275 per quintal, which was in place for the previous rabi season

The most significant user interface change from iOS 17 to iOS 18 are the navigation differences in Apple's Photos app. The ubiquitous tab bar that's became the default navigation model in mobile apps is gone and in its place is one long scrolling page. So how does it work and why?

Most mobile applications have adopted a bottom bar for primary navigation controls. On Android it's called bottom navigation and on iOS, a tab bar, but the purpose is the same: make the top-level sections of an application visible and let people move between them.

And it works. Across multiple studies and experiments, companies found when critical parts of an application are made more visible, usage of them increases. For example, Facebook saw that not only did engagement go up when they moved from a “hamburger” menu to a bottom tab bar in their iOS app, but several other important metrics went up as well. Results like this made use of tab bars grow.

But in iOS 18, Apple removed the tab bar in their Photos app. Whereas the prior version had visible tabs for the top-level sections (Library, For You, Albums, Search), the redesign is just a single scroll view. The features previously found in each tab are now accessed by scrolling up and down vs. switching between tabs. One notable exception is Search which stays anchored at the top of the screen.

In addition to the persistent Search button, there's also a Select action and user profile image that opens a sheet with account settings. As you scroll up into your Photo library a persistent set of View controls appears at the bottom of the screen as well. The Close action scrolls you to the end of your Photo library and reveals a bit of the actions below making the location of features previously found in tabs more clear.

It's certainly a big change and given the effectiveness of tab bars, its also a change that has people questioning why? I have no inside information on Apple's decision-making process here but based on what I've learned about how people use Google Photos, Yahoo! Photos, and Flickr, I can speculate.

1. By far the dominant use of a Photo gallery is scrolling to find an image whether to share, view, or just browse.
2. Very few people organize their photo libraries and those that do, do it rarely.
3. People continue to have poor experiences with searching images, despite lots of improvements, so they default to browsing when trying to find photos.
4. Most automatic curation features like those found in For You just get ignored.

All that together can easily get you to the design answer of "the app should just be a scrolling list of all your Photos". Of course there's trade-offs. The top-level sections, and their features are much less visible, and thereby less obvious. The people who do make use of features like Albums and Memories now need to scroll to them vs. tapping once. But as iOS18 rolls out to everyone in the Fall, we'll see if these trade-offs were worth it.

New device could boost telecommunications and be adapted for photonics

Exhibition: 20 Apr 2018 - 21 Apr 2018, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Our pets shower us with so much love and affection. But are we providing them the right environment they are entitled to live in?

A visit to the 160-year-old Minerva watch factory in Switzerland is a revelation for the watch enthusiast about the many complex components that ultimately makes for a fine timepiece

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The screenings at two other multiplexes in Kochi were cancelled

The Mantle twins want to “change the way women give birth” — the body horror subgenre has always been nimble and alert to the red-button political issues of the day

Director Sailesh Kolanu, now working on Venkatesh-starrer ‘Saindhav’ discusses his approach to cinema and how he hopes to have his signature as the ‘HIT’ universe grows bigger

Gowtam Tinnanuri, the reticent writer-director, talks about his unlikely journey into cinema and the learnings thus far. Next up is a film starring Vijay Deverakonda 

Lack of quality writing — even in much-hyped latest films like Kranti and Kabzaa — is one of the biggest reasons behind the poor show of recent mainstream Kannada films

Director and actor Tharun Bhascker Dhaasyam’s new Telugu crime comedy ‘Keedaa Cola’ stars Brahmanandam, Rag Mayur, Chaitanya Rao, Raghu Ram and others 

Discussing his new Telugu movie ‘Circle’, director Neelakanta says his style of filmmaking has changed to connect with the present generation  

It’s hardly about sticking two screens together with a hinge. The real innovation is how the two displays work in tandem as one device

The ‘Train a Trainer’ programme will enable new discoveries in the areas of healthcare, energy, environmental systems, smart materials, and beyond

The company uses the Surface business to showcase its Windows and Office programs and to experiment with hardware designs

Powered by the latest 10th Gen Intel i5 Quad-Core Processor

This special notebook isn’t space, but giving you more display to work with

Revival led by strong growth in Chromebooks and tablets

Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge will be supported till at least 2029

Shailendra Katyal, Managing Director, Lenovo India, on the company’s services-led transformation

Also launches Vivobooks starting ₹75,000 and will be sold across online channels beginning December 14.

Here are the product’s salient features and its pricing Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go 2 is available in two configurations for customers

Two flagship products — the laptop and micro-PC — have been designed in association with Intel Corporation

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