January, 2018

• 20 January

  Couple Gets Divorce On Condition That They Can't Post Photos Of Each Other On Social Network

  

  Social media has taken over our lives more than we can imagine. Be it telling people what we eat to who we love and who we hate, the online domain rules our lives completely. While this is okay if everyone thought alike, but sometimes posting things someone does not like can lead to extreme circumstances …

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• 20 January

  Trump Gets An Unlucky Anniversary Present, US Govt Shuts Down As He Finishes One Year At Office

  

  The federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday, halting all but the essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in a striking display of Washington dysfunction. Last-minute negotiations crumbled as Senate Democrats blocked a four-week stopgap extension in a late-night vote, causing the fourth government shutdown in a quarter century. The slide …

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• 20 January

  RSS Kicks Out Hindutva Poster Boy Pravin Togadia, Two Others For Making Anti-Modi Statements

  

  Peeved at their confrontational stance towards the BJP brass and the government at the Centre, RSS is planning to remove VHP international working president Pravin Togadia and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh general secretary Virjesh Upadhyay. VHP international president Raghav Reddy, too, is on the Sangh’s ‘sack’ list. Sources said senior RSS functionaries were unhappy at the way the three had being …

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• 19 January

  NSA surveillance programs Prism and Upstream renewed with ease

  

  For all the controversial issues US lawmakers have debated lately, there was one bill that made it through both houses of Congress and on to President Donald Trump with little fanfare. There was so little fuss around its passing, you might be surprised to hear the law renews two government surveillance programs that less than five years ago caused public …

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• 19 January

  Tim Cook: I keep my tween nephew away from social networks

  

  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Not a Facebook fan? Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Facebook and its ilk have taken a beating of late.  Even former executives have admitted they fear social networks are doing terrible damage to kids’ psyches. Now there’s another senior tech figure who seems to be …

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• 19 January

  Facebook

  

  WhatsApp is king of the messenger apps, with over a billion daily users. Now, the Facebook-owned company looks to better expand its reach to businesses. WhatsApp Business is a free Android app released Thursday in the US, UK, Mexico, Italy and Indonesia, with more countries coming soon. WhatsApp did not state when or if an iOS version would be available.  …

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• 19 January

  Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus could get some serious camera upgrades

  

  Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S9 is nearly upon us, and the latest points to some welcome changes in the S9’s camera. A recent report from Korean site ETNews claims that the larger Galaxy S9 Plus will get dual 12-megapixel rear cameras. The Galaxy Note 8 was Samsung’s first dual rear camera phone and the report claims that the larger S9 variant could …

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• 19 January

  Get a Propel Star Wars Battle Quad drone for $74.99

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Indulge your childhood fantasies of flying a Star Wars ship or speeder. Propel’s drones are a blast. Propel …

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• 19 January

  Amazon Alexa on Android can now find the best restaurants near you

  

  Alexa on Android just got a little bit smarter. The digital voice assistant from Amazon will receive an update in the next few days that will allow users to ask aloud about restaurants nearby or what movies are playing. The feature will roll out to the Apple iOS app version as well. With this update, it will be easier and …

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• 19 January

  Photo format from Google and Mozilla could outdo Apple and JPEG

  

  Last year Apple managed to shrink photo file sizes dramatically so you could cram twice as many photos onto your iPhone. But hold on, because that might not be the only game in town. Google, Mozilla and others in a group called the Alliance for Open Media are working on a rival photo technology. In testing so far, the images …

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