April, 2019

• 26 April

  Nirbhaya's Parents Don't Want To Vote Because Nothing Has Been Done For Women Safety!

  

  As the battle for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 continues, one of the most talked about issues this year is about women safety. Cutting across age groups and geographic locations, women voters from all over the country have expressed their views on how important an issue it is and how they will prefer to vote …

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• 26 April

  Sri Lanka Releases Photos Of Easter Bombings Suspects With Links To Terror Group National Thowheed Jamath

  

  Five days after the deadly blasts on Easter Sunday left over 300 persons dead, Sri Lanka released photographs of six suspects, including three women as police intensified search and arrested 16 people, taking the number of those under custody to 76. Nine suicide bombers, believed to be the members of local Islamist extremist group called National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), carried …

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• 26 April

  Antarctica's Emperor Penguins Face Extinction With No Breeding Ground. Thanks To Global Warming

  

  The future of Emperor Penguins, the largest penguin species in the world is looking increasingly bleak after it emerged that thousands of chicks might have been drowned in the sea after their breeding ground collapsed. A new study has found that Halley Bay colony in the Weddell Sea which is said to be the second-largest colony of emperor penguins collapsed …

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• 26 April

  A Bond Of Togetherness! Hindus, Muslims Come Together To Preserve Assam Mosque

  

  Puranigudam Minar, as the locals call it, stands tall in a dusty bylane of Nagaon. Situated inside the Puranigudam Masjid, built in 1824, the turret was about to be demolished to make way for a highway expansion project. The people of Purunigudam, cutting across religious lines, would not let that happen. In 2015, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) …

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• 25 April

  Microsoft admits expiring

  

  Before, it was annoying. Now, it’s useless. Microsoft has admitted that one of the great scourges of our time, the password reset rule, is bunk. “When humans are assigned or forced to create passwords that are hard to remember, too often they’ll write them down where others can see them,” Microsoft’s Aaron Margosis said in a blog post Wednesday. Worse, Margosis wrote, …

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• 25 April

  Twitter adds option to report tweets spreading false info about voting

  

  Twitter wants to do what it can to protect voting. As such, the social network on Wednesday launched a new reporting feature that lets people flag tweets that aim to mislead voters. Twitter said content that’s meant to manipulate or interfere in elections violates its rules. This includes misleading information about how to vote or register to vote; misleading information about …

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• 25 April

  Amazon’s first quarter brings another record profit

  

  Amazon’s isn’t growing as fast is it used to, but it’s profiting a lot more than before. For its first quarter, Amazon reported on Thursday a fourth straight record profit, reaching $3.6 billion, or $7.09 a share, and trouncing analysts’ estimates of $4.72 a share while soaring past its year-earlier income of $1.6 billion, or $3.27 a share. Revenue rose …

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• 25 April

  Facebook F8: Messenger, VR, privacy and everything else we expect

  

  Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg uses the F8 developer conference to talk about the future of his social network. This time around, he’ll likely address its current problems. Zuckerberg shares big, hopeful messages. Facebook’s mission, he says, is “to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” Devices, like its Oculus line of virtual …

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• 25 April

  Free money: Spend at least $20 at Best Buy, get $20 cash back

  

  Today’s deal is a rerun, but last time out it was for Walmart. Now you have the chance to save $20 at Best Buy. First, an explainer: If you don’t use a cash-back service every time you shop online, you’re leaving perfectly good money on the table. I’m a convert and an evangelist, because these services have produced real savings …

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• 25 April

  Apple

  

  Just hours after Apple and Qualcomm announced a settlement in their long-running patent battle earlier this month, Intel said it would exit the 5G phone modem business. But the chip giant didn’t say at the time whether its decision was based on the settlement. It apparently was, according to a Wall Street Journal interview with Intel CEO Bob Swan. “In …

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