In the past couple of years, ‘selfie’ has emerged as the go-to method for campaigns and various government schemes. Be it the selfie with daughter, selfie with cow, selfie with ink, governments across states have been promoting it religiously. But what the Madhya Pradesh government has just asked newly-weds in the state is taking this …
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October, 2019
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11 October
Even As India Awaits His Extradition From Antigua, CBI Wants PNB Scam Accused Mehul Choksi To Be Declared Proclaimed Offender
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moved court with a plea to declare fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, one of the main accused in the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam accused a proclaimed offender. On Thursday, while moving the plea before the special judge for CBI cases VC Barde, the agency said Choksi left the country even before the …
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11 October
Disowned By Family, Kerala Govt To Fund & Help 20-Yr-Old Adam Harry Become India's First Transgender Airline Pilot
Coming out of the closet is not an easy thing to do especially in a country like India. Things have been changing of late as more members of the LGBTQI community are getting the respect they deserve but not all are lucky. 20-year-old Adam Harry is set to become the country’s first transgender pilot but that didn’t come easy. He …
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10 October
The midrange Moto Z3 Play is on sale for an entry
When it was released just over a year ago, the Motorola Moto Z3 Play had a $499 list price. Sure, that included a battery pack, one of various Moto Mods that would magnetically snap onto the backside to enhance the phone’s capabilities, but many still felt it was overpriced. Okay, how about this price: For a limited time, Motorola is …
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10 October
Tim Cook defends Apple’s HKmap.live app takedown
CEO Tim Cook defended the decision to remove the HKmap.live app from the App Store in an email to Apple employees Thursday morning. The email from Cook was published by the developers of the app, and confirmed by Apple. The decision was “not easy,” Cook said in the email, adding that “technology can be used for good or for ill.” “The …
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10 October
Get Samsung’s 43
Samsung’s The Frame is pretty damn cool. It’s a smart TV built to look like a picture frame. It comes with a black bezel (other colors are available separately), a no-gap wall mount and a collection of 100 works of art, which will show onscreen when the TV isn’t doing TV things. You can also upload your own photos (giant digital photo-frame!) …
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10 October
Apple iPhone 11 Pro vs. iPhone XS: Camera and Night Mode comparison
The iPhone 11 Pro, its triple rear cameras, Night Mode and new selfie camera are surely meant to be Apple’s photography antidote to Android’s three camera kings, the Huawei P30 Pro, Google Pixel 3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10. But the newest iPhone also has to show existing iPhone owners that there’s a step up in terms of camera features …
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10 October
Apple pulls HKmap.live app used in Hong Kong protests
Apple has removed HKmap.live, a mapping app that crowdsources the location of police and protesters in Hong Kong, from the App Store, saying it violated the store’s guidelines and local laws. The move comes after the iPhone maker was sharply criticized by the Chinese state newspaper and accused of facilitating illegal behavior by allowing the app. HKmap.live lets people report …
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10 October
Global PC shipments saw record growth in third quarter, analysts say
The worldwide PC market grew 4.7% in the third quarter of 2019 to 70.9 million units, the highest growth for the sector since the first quarter of 2012, according to a Thursday report by Canalys. Lenovo and HP ranked first and second, with the former shipping 17.3 million units and the latter 16.7 million units. Dell came in third place, …
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10 October
Donald Trump joins Twitch, Amazon’s game
Donald Trump is spreading his social media wings with the launch of a channel on Twitch. Trump is at least the third candidate for president to create a presence on the video game streaming service. Trump’s account, which has a verification check mark, counts about 7,000 followers but hasn’t posted any content as of this writing, but the move suggests …
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