Startled farmers in Bihar were in for a huge shock after a suspected meteorite the size of a football plunged into a rice field. Onlookers said the light brown-coloured object sent them fleeing from the field when it fell at their rural village, sending up smoke. “The farmers were working in the paddy field when …

14 years ago on July 26, 2005, Mumbai was ravaged with severe rains as the city had received over 944 mm rainfall in a single day. If the rains don’t subside in the financial capital of the country, things are definitely going to get worse in the upcoming days as the MET has forecast heavy rainfall in the coming days. …

Merely a month before his demise, former President APJ Abdul Kalam had advised DRDO chief Satheesh Reddy to shift focus on reusable rockets and missile systems, that could deliver a payload and launch it, come back and take another payload.  Reddy was the then Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister. “After I became the scientific adviser, I met him [Kalam] …

T-Mobile appears to be getting its merger with Sprint after all. In an advisory sent late Thursday night, the Department of Justice alerted the media to a press conference at 11 a.m. ET Friday in which Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the DOJ’s antitrust division is set to “announce a significant merger enforcement action,” though it did not specifically …

The Pokemon Company has announced that its mobile game Pokemon Duel will be shutting down on Oct. 31. You won’t be able to install, update or even use the app. Already, you can’t buy Gems but you can spend them until the game shuts down, and as of Aug. 26, you won’t be able to check monthly rankings or get …

Australia’s antitrust watchdog wants to create a branch dedicated to investigating the impact on competition by Facebook and Google. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report follows an 18-month probe and comes just after the US Federal Trade Commission slapped Facebook with a $5 billion fine over privacy issues. Australia’s treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, told reporters that the fine revealed how …

With the Brave browser, advertisers can put money into a digital wallet when you see their ads. Now you can start getting that money out again, too. But you’ll have to get used to Brave’s cryptocurrency-like payment system and sign up with the Uphold cryptocurrency exchange to retrieve those payments. If you sign up for it, Brave’s ad system gives …

It’s mid-summer, and that can mean only one thing: School is coming. (Sorry, kids.) And with a new school year often comes the need for a new laptop. For college students in particular, it can be tough to pick the right model. How much should you (or, more likely, your parents) plan to spend? How much horsepower do you really …

Twitter‘s has been slowly rolling out its new design on desktop to its users and people are not pleased. Most of the comments on #NewTwitter have been urging Twitter to bring back its older design.  The new Twitter look lets you change the background color and font size and colors. Twitter told us it’s exploring the option of the new …

Twitter isn’t afraid of change. It constantly tests new features and has rolled out a revamped desktop site and a Olympics partnership this month alone. All the experimentation appears to be worth the effort. On Friday, Twitter said 139 million people logged into the app every day in the second quarter. That’s up from the 134 million daily active users the company had …