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History teacher Subrata Pati takes an online class for his students, perched on a neem tree, in a village of Bankura district in West Bengal. Pati climbs the tree to get better connectivity during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. (Photo | PTI)

Internet connectivity in India too slow and patchy to enable online...

Improved broadband reach and uninterrupted power supply are required if online classes are to become mainstream, survey...

21 April 2020 11:17 AM GMT

WhatsApp is good enough for small family calls now with up to eight participants allowed but it cant still compete with Zoom which supports up to 100 participants.

Now WhatsApp video call can have 8 participants; Centre offers Rs 1 cr...

WhatsApp's earlier limit was four callers; Centre's innovation challenge encourages developers to build an alternative...

21 April 2020 9:46 AM GMT

Facebook made the aggregated survey information from its users available at https://dataforgood.fb.com/covid-symptoms-map/, while the data for the all responses including from Google users will be published on Carnegie Mellon page covidcast.cmu.edu soon.

Coronavirus 'heat map' visualises spread of COVID-19 from Facebook,...

Carnegie Mellon researchers said they received about one million responses a week from Facebook users, and 600,000 from...

20 April 2020 3:25 PM GMT

Couples can now organise a videoconference between them, the town clerk who approves marriage licences and the person solemnising the marriage.(Photo | AFP)

New Yorkers can now get married on Zoom! Governor Andrew Cuomo permits...

It helps one to get health cover on their spouse's company insurance if they lose their jobs. Over 20 million filed for...

20 April 2020 1:59 PM GMT

In the US, the OnePlus 8 will sell at USD 699, which works out to approximately Rs 53,000 and nearly the price of the OnePlus 8 Pro in India

India- specific prices of OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro announced: Rs...

One Plus 8 will cost Rs 41,999 in India, while the OnePlus 8 will sell at Rs 54,999

20 April 2020 11:49 AM GMT

Granted that Google and Facebook give news content legs. They take the story beyond the geographical limits of the newspapers reach. But if the disseminator makes nearly all the profits and shares mere peanuts with the producer of the content, how long will news production survive?

Why Google and Facebook should be paying news publishers worldwide

Governments of France, Spain and Australia have ordered the giant aggregators to pay publishers for content, but will...

20 April 2020 10:24 AM GMT

Ecommerce platforms such as Amazon, Flipkart, Bigbasket, Grofers and Netmeds are allowed to sell essential commodities such as food, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Non-essential items cannot be sold by Amazon, Flipkart, government's...

There was talk of some retail traders mounting pressure on the government that local shops be allowed to sell...

19 April 2020 9:52 AM GMT

COVID-19 will cast a long shadow on our social and cultural lives. What repercussions these changes will have on the shape of human society only time can tell, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Videoconferencing will replace business travel after lockdown lifted,...

In a blog post on changes we can expect post-corona, she also said COVID-19 had exposed the huge shortcomings in public...

18 April 2020 3:59 PM GMT

When someone accesses a porn site, the fraudsters manage to breach the data of that person. The browser then starts working as a remote control desktop, using which they access the visitors display screen and get the contact numbers of his friends, his contacts on social media and e-mails, Mumbai police said.

Rise in Sextortion' as people visiting porn sites are blackmailed for...

Cyber criminals email users and threaten to release videos of them watching porn if they fail to pay up

18 April 2020 12:04 PM GMT

The Huawei P30 Pro is priced at Rs 56,490, the Huawei P40 Pro at USD 925.79 (Rs 70,000 approx).

Huawei P30 Pro, Huawei P40 Pro and Huawei Watch GT2e enticing even...

The premium phones and the smartwatch have been lapping up a bunch of awards

18 April 2020 11:04 AM GMT

Hundreds of protesters gather outside Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz official residence, Friday, April 17, 2020 in St. Paul, Minn. President Donald Trump tweeted his support for a protest outside Gov. Tim Walz¢â‚¬â„¢s official residence in St. Paul against Minnesotas continued stay-at-home order. (Photo | AP)

Fake news being spread in US by conspiracy theorists claiming COVID-19...

Group called QAnon believes Trump is on a secret campaign against the deep state and Satan-worshiping Democrats who...

18 April 2020 8:34 AM GMT

Surveyors will ask questions about travel and contact history, flu-like symptoms and shortness of breath, and enter the data into the Assess Koro Na app.

Use Assess Koro Na app for door-to-door survey in containment zones,...

With this app, the data collected can be uploaded on the servers in real-time and analysed immediately.

17 April 2020 2:14 PM GMT