Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a prolific tweeter, posted nearly a dozen times. One of them was a reply to Cricketer Virat Kohli on his fitness challenge. The PM in a tweet accepted the challenge by the Indian Skipper and said he will soon post his fitness challenge video. While fitness is an important topic, as …

Sometimes, it’s not only humans who bring their wrath upon animals. Sometimes it’s the animals themselves who cast out members of their family.  Heartbreaking images have emerged showing the final moments of an emaciated old lion known as Skybed Scar. Once a king of his land, he was kicked out from his pride to die alone.  caters news agency Also …

Apple is currently offering $29 iPhone battery replacements, but if you paid full price ($79) for an out-of-warranty replacement before Apple discounted its rate, you may get your $50 back. Apple announced that it’s giving $50 refunds to customers who paid full price for an iPhone battery replacement, for iPhone 6 or later, at an authorized Apple store between Jan. 1, …

Malaysians are coming together to try to satisfy the police’s alleged sweet tooth. A campaign called #chocs4cops was launched Sunday calling for Malaysians to give chocolates to their local police officers, Reuters reported Wednesday. The campaign came about after the country’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, alleged that police “helped themselves to food and chocolates in the refrigerator” when they …

Legal troubles stemming from unhappy MacBook users are piling up for Apple. A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over its use of “butterfly switch” keyboards on MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Defendants say the keyboards, which Apple introduced in 2015, are defective.  This is the second lawsuit over the keyboards this month.  It follows blog posts, tweets, support-forum comments, a Change.org petition, …

Sprint and T-Mobile have finally sealed the deal to merge and virtual network provider FreedomPop sees an opportunity. The budget MVNO, which has traditionally operated across Sprint’s wireless network, on Wednesday unveiled its new Unreal Mobile service. According to the company, the new carrier is aimed squarely at premium customers. Currently FreedomPop’s plans are geared towards budget and value-oriented subscribers. Unreal …

On Tuesday, Instagram announced you’ll soon gain the ability to mute other users. When muted, a user’s story and photos no longer show up in your feed, but for all the other person knows, you still follow them and everything is just fine. No drama. Muting an account is especially handy if you don’t want to upset a friend or …

Pandora is taking on Spotify‘s popular Discover Weekly personalized playlists with its own individualized mixes it calls Soundtracks, which center on themes like high-energy music or tunes to help you focus. Pandora, a streaming-music provider best known for its free digital radio, is widening these personalized playlists Wednesday to all subscribers of its Premium service, which is a $10-a-month membership that competes with …

The Kindle Paperwhite is the e-reader I usually recommend to people looking for an Amazon e-reader because it’s got all the features you want in a Kindle and isn’t as expensive as the higher-end Voyage and Oasis. When recommending it to folks I always add, “It goes on sale from time to time, so you may want to wait.” Well, …

Yelp has filed an antitrust complaint against Google in the EU, crying out that the search giant has abused its dominance to favor its own services over competitors’. The complaint follows a 2017 EU ruling that Google misused its dominance in shopping search results. That ruling resulted in a 2.4 billion euro fine ($2.9 billion, £2 billion or AU$3.7 billion). Google is currently appealing …