May, 2018

• 7 May

  Taliban Abduct 7 Indian Engineers Thinking That They Were Afghan Govt Officials

  

  Indians are working in high-risk places in Afghanistan, they often fall prey to the attacks by armed groups fighting amongst each other. In a similar incident, seven Indian engineers were taken hostage by the Taliban, who thought that they were Afghan government officials. The external affairs ministry said in New Delhi it is in touch …

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• 7 May

  Thunderstorms And Heavy Rains Likely To Hit 13 States Today, People Advised To Stay At Home

  

  Remember the horrors of last week’s thunderstorm that killed more than hundred people in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan? A similar, or even more powerful storm is likely to hit 13 states in north and east India today. The home ministry has issued an advisory asking people to remain at safe places. Thunderstorms accompanied by squall, hail and heavy rains are …

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• 7 May

  9-Year-Old Among 1 Lakh Indians Who ‘Took Off’ For Mars In November This Year

  

  Nine-and-a-half-year-old Pratik G.K, who is attached to the Chennai-based Space Kidz India, was one of the around1,38,899 people from India who ‘departed’ for Mars at 4.36pm on Saturday on a Nasa mission called InSight (Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport). AFP/Representational Image Pratik was among one of the thousands to be included in response to a global …

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• 6 May

  Apple’s Tim Cook celebrates the iMac’s 20th anniversary

  

  Apple’s iMac computer was unveiled in 1998, and Sunday marks its 20th anniversary. CEO Tim Cook celebrated the milestone for the company’s all-in-one computer with a tweet commemorating the occasion. 20 years ago today, Steve introduced the world to iMac. It set Apple on a new course and forever changed the way people look at computers. pic.twitter.com/GbKno7YBHl — Tim Cook …

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• 5 May

  iPhone X is the best

  

  While rumors of the next generation of iPhones continue to proliferate, it was Apple’s current lineup, including the $1,000 iPhone X, that captured most of the attention this week. On Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple earned nearly $150 billion in revenue and $34 billion in earnings for the first half of the company’s fiscal year. People have really …

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• 5 May

  Two new audiophile amps from Emotiva are outstanding values

  

  Emotiva is one of those American companies best known for its outstanding price to performance ratio designs. Take their BasX TA-100 stereo integrated amplifier. This handsome low profile design houses a Class AB power section rated at 50 watts per channel for 8 ohm speakers, and 90 watts per for harder to drive 4 ohm speakers. Class A/B amplifier circuitry …

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• 5 May

  Cambridge Analytica must hand data to US citizen, says British regulator

  

  It looks like Cambridge Analytica, the firm behind the recent Facebook data scandal, may be forced to tell a US citizen what data it held on him and how it was being used. And it took a UK regulator to make it happen. The development could clear the way for millions of other Americans to demand info on their data …

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• 5 May

  Twitter urges password change, T

  

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• 5 May

  Our wish list for Google I/O 2018

  

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• 5 May

  NASA’s InSight Mars Lander launches from California

  

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