Ever since Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman returned to India from his brief captivity in Pakistan to a heroes welcome Indians have been celebrating it unlike anything in the past. Amid all the news, controversy and celebrations one thing a lot of people notice is the Wing Commander’s mustache. A number of Indians have been paying …
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March, 2019
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6 March
India & Pakistan Had 5 Opportunities To End Disputes In Last 70 Years, Every Chance Was Missed
India and Pakistan have once again acquired the centre stage in the global affairs as the two nuclear-armed neighbours just had an air skirmish post the Indian Air Force (IAF) strike on Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror camp deep in Pakistan in response to Pulwama terror attack in which 44 CRPF soldiers were martyred. The tensions are high and the global biggies …
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6 March
IndiGo Passenger Taken Off Flight For Creating Bomb Scare In The Aircraft
At a time when tensions between India and its neighbour are rife following the Pulwama terror attack, airports and metro security staff are vigilant than ever before. After the air strike conducted by Pakistan, a red alert was also sounded at all Delhi and Mumbai airports. A Pakistan military drone was also shot down on Monday by a Sukhoi-30 fighter …
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5 March
Lego mocks Samsung Galaxy Fold with its own foldable
Lego’s jumping on the foldables bandwagon along with Samsung and Huawei, but not with a phone. The Danish toymaker made a direct visual reference to Samsung’s Galaxy Fold unveiling in a Monday tweet about its “Lego Fold” pop-up story book. “A stunning 5-inch cover display unfolds into an 11-inch pop-up story book,” it wrote. “For endless creative play that never …
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5 March
Apple will now fix iPhones even if they have third
Apple has reportedly changed its rule about fixing iPhones with unauthorized batteries in them, according to French tech news site iGeneration and MacRumors. The policy was reportedly updated on Feb. 28, and it allows Apple employees to repair broken iPhones even if you replaced the device’s battery with a third-party model. This is a major shift in policy, if true …
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5 March
Google denies it’s still working on censored China search engine
Google on Tuesday denied a report that work continues on Project Dragonfly, a censored search engine for China. “As we’ve said for many months, we have no plans to launch Search in China and there is no work being undertaken on such a project,” a Google spokesperson said in an email. “Team members have moved to new projects.” This comes …
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5 March
Democrats will try to save net neutrality with new bill, report says
Democrats in the US Congress will introduce a bill Wednesday to bring back net neutrality rules that were repealed in 2017, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said Monday. House Democrats will work with the Senate to pass the “Save the Internet Act,” Pelosi said in a letter to lawmakers, according to Reuters. The text of the reported bill hasn’t been …
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5 March
Which is better: Roku or Amazon Fire TV? (The 3:59, Ep. 528)
On this podcast, we talk about: Head-to-head rating of Roku against Amazon Fire TV. Amazon’s Alexa now working with Roku TVs and streamers. Netflix subtweeting Steven Spielberg in feud over future Oscars. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News team in New York and producer …
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5 March
The World Wide Web at 30 feels a lot like the early days
The internet has many birthdays. There was 1969, when remote computers communicated directly for the first time. Then there was 1983, when the TCP/IP standard was adopted. Today we’re celebrating 1989, the year Tim Berners-Lee laid out the basic concepts of the World Wide Web in a proposal, which included ideas like HTML, URL, and HTTP. March marks the 30th …
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5 March
OptiShokz headphone sunglasses available for preorder
Bose is already shipping its Frames audio AR sunglasses, but if you’re looking for a pair of sportier spectacles that have integrated wireless Bluetooth audio, there’s also the new OptiShokz Revvez from AfterShokz, which I previewed back in January. They’re now available for preorder via an Indiegogo campaign. Designed to allow cyclists, runners, hikers, golfers, skiers and others to listen to audio …
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