NEW DELHI – Three Indians were detained for hurling shoes inside the Chepauk stadium, Chennai, during an ongoing Indian Premier League between the Chennai and Kolkata sides on Tuesday. Kolkata were batting in the game against when a few shoes were hurled from the upper tier of the stands opposite to the main pavilion. The […]
The best long-form writing on technology and more on the web. There are a number of issues surrounding the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica saga. Perhaps the most prominent one is the question of whether or not the social network needs to be regulated by the government. The Atlantic discusses four ways regulators could “fix” Facebook if there is a […]
Google just lost a major copyright case that could cost it billions of dollars and change how tech companies approach software development. An appeals court said on Tuesday that Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle’s open-source Java software to build the Android platform in 2009. Tuesday’s ruling is the latest development in a […]
The government has expressed its willingness to enter in trade liberalisation deals with countries in the Pacific and Africa regions in a bid to increase the country’s exports. ‘ Commerce Minister Pervaiz Malik has said the government was looking forward to start preferential trade agreement (PTA) talks with Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and Kenya. Economic […]
Playboy has today joined Elon Musk, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton and thousands of others around the world by deleting its Facebook presence in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. If you too are debating whether or not to hit the wipe button, or you’re simply curious about the data the social media company owns about you, then you’re in […]