Manish Grover, the Haryana Minister of State for Cooperatives has courted controversy after he allegedly offered guns, money and gunmen to voters while campaigning for the municipal elections. Grover who was addressing an election campaign in Rohtak’s Pahrawar village allegedly made the offer after some villagers complained that that one of the candidates in the …

If  the assembly elections, which just concluded was anything, it was a credibility nightmare for the Election Commision.  A number of incidents, mostly related to Electronic Voting Machines.  Adding to the headache of the EC is an EVM which was found lying unattended on the national highway in Shahabad area of Kishanganj constituency in Rajasthan.  #WATCH: A ballot unit was …

Out of a total population of 180 million Indian Muslims, only 108 had joined the terrorist outfit Islamic State informed former Intelligence Bureau Director Syed Asif Ibrahim on Friday. 108 Muslims accounted only for 0.000058% of the total Indian Muslim population. He attributed the reason behind such low numbers to Sufi and non-Salafi nature of Islam in India. Existence of …

If you’re looking to buy an Apple Watch Series 4, the biggest changes include a new FDA approved ECG feature and fall detection, but hopefully you won’t have to use those two features on a daily basis. What you may use regularly are its fitness features.  The Apple Watch Series 4 has added better training tools for athletes, automatic workout detection and …

Facebook temporarily pulled down a post by a former employee who accused the tech firm of having “a black people problem,” a removal that didn’t escape the attention of its author. Mark Luckie, who left his job as Facebook’s strategic partner manager for global influencers, posted his note publicly on Nov. 27. The post accused Facebook of “failing its black …

The federal government keeps a map that highlights areas that have or don’t have broadband service. Critics say this national broadband map doesn’t accurately reflect the level of access in the US. Now, the Federal Communications Commission is going to act on this. On Friday, Chairman Ajit Pai said his agency will investigate if carrier companies have submitted incorrect coverage …

On Friday, Apple released the new Beddit 3.5 Sleep Monitor. It’s the first sleep tracker Apple has launched with Beddit since it acquired the company in 2017. The Beddit Sleep Monitor was registered on the FCC website earlier in the week, and now you can buy it from Apple’s website for $150/£149/AU$229. Like the previous Beddit Sleep Monitors, the new …

Holidays shoppers are set to break even more online sales records this year. Adobe Analytics forecasts that this holiday season, which runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, will see at least $124.1 billion in total online retail sales in the US. By Thursday, shoppers had already spent a record $80.3 billion online, an 18.6 percent increase from last year, …

With laptop battery life, I’ll take any help I can get. The clearest sign that my MacBook Pro ($575 at Amazon) is aging is the unavoidable fact that its running time continues to evaporate, if not day after day then month after month. It just doesn’t hold a charge like it used to.  Powering the display is the biggest drain …

Borrowing Google’s open-source Chrome browser technology is popular these days. One day after Microsoft announced it’s ditching its own EdgeHTML core and rebuilding its Edge browser on Google’s rival Chromium project instead, rival Brave said it’s completed its own move to a tighter integration with the software. When Brave launched two years ago, it used its own interface software, but …

Premium budget. I’m not sure how I feel about that term, but it feels appropriate here. When I heard Amazfit was making a new watch called the Verge, I was definitely curious. Amazfit, a brand of the Chinese wearables company Huami, already has several fitness trackers and watches that are popular on Amazon. One is the Amazfit Bip, which looks …

In 2018, two of the best phones you can buy are the iPhone XS Max and Samsung Galaxy Note 9. If photography is your main focus, each one is ready to meet your needs with nearly identical specs: dual rear cameras, dual optical image stabilization and nifty software that makes photos and video look extra special. According to Apple, the …

Italy’s Competition Authority on Friday slapped Facebook with two fines that total 10 million euros ($11.4M) for using people’s data for commercial purposes in ways that break the country’s laws. Italy issued the first fine after deciding that the social network persuaded people to register for accounts on the platform without informing them during the signup process that their data …

Hey Cheeps, Rick is off today, so I’m filling in. He’ll be back in the deals saddle Monday, don’t worry. Looking for a “real” laptop that’s super thin and light, touchscreen-equipped yet powerful enough to handle whatever you want to throw at it? Today’s deal on a tablet could be for you. The 2018 Microsoft Surface Pro 6 convertible tablet …

When Apple announced the new iPhone XS, XS Max and XR on Sept. 12, one particular feature captured the imagination of international travelers and multiple phone-owners alike: the dual SIM. Josh Miller/CNET If the processor is your phone’s brain, then the SIM, or subscriber identity module, is its soul — a tiny little chip that stores your phone number and …