Severe cyclonic storm ‘Maha’ which is currently in the central Arabian Sea — around 640 km from Porbandar is expected to weaken as a cyclonic storm before it is expected to make landfall on the Gujarat coast on November 7, between Devbhumi-Dwarka district and Union Territory of Diu. Cyclone Maha came just a few days …

A 30-year-old man was allegedly beaten up by four men from a backwards community for dropping dishes at an eatery in Sabarmati area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. According to a complaint filed with the police, Pragnesh Parmar was hit by Mahesh Thakor, Jogi Thakor and two others when he went to Mahesh’s eatery for dinner and accidentally dropped a dish, …

The United States has formally notified the United Nations that it was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord. This makes the world’s largest economy the sole outlier from the key agreement. News agency AFP reported that US President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change, with September the fourth …

Want to put Microsoft Office’s popular apps on an iOS or Android device? Soon you won’t have to download individual versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to use them.  Microsoft on Monday revealed that it’s beginning to publicly test a new version of the Office app that combines the three apps into one. The tech giant made the announcement at its Ignite conference in Orlando, …

Licenses allowing US companies to sell equipment to Huawei “will be forthcoming very shortly,”  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Bloomberg. A deal regarding the controversial Chinese company is apparently on track to be signed this month, as part of a wider US-China trade agreement. The government has received 260 license requests, Ross told the business outlet on Sunday, a considerable …

Sprint’s pending merger with T-Mobile has kept the company in a bit of a limbo state. While the deal has received approval from the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission, litigation from 16 attorneys general over whether the deal would be anti-consumer, along with a pending review from the California Public Utilities Commission, has kept the $26.5 billion …

I have childhood memories of long afternoons at Joann Fabrics, wandering the aisles in a bored daze while my mother shopped for yarn. It didn’t seem like an especially exciting place back in the ’80s, but my opinion may be changing now that the chain (known these days as simply Joann) is adding 3D printers and other new products and …

Let’s restate the obvious: Black Friday deals are no longer confined to the Friday after Thanksgiving. Amazon’s Black Friday deals have already begun, Walmart has its “Early Access Sale” and Costco is readying its first holiday sales for Nov. 7. Dell is getting in on the early sales action with a Black Friday Sneak Peek sale that started a few days …

The next phase of Microsoft’s effort to lure you into using its overhauled Edge web browser begins in your office with an effort to making searching for work information not suck. Today, you’re likely to get useful results if you search the internet for hotels or car repair tips, but a lot of people can’t find what they need from …

Internet freedom declined for a ninth consecutive year as governments around the world used social media to monitor citizens and manipulate elections, according to a new study that warned of creeping “digital authoritarianism.” Thirty-three of the 65 countries surveyed were found to have experienced worsening internet freedom since June 2018, compared with 16 that were found to have improving conditions. …