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China opens windows on ‘The Great Firewall’
01 Jun 2015
Woman dumps rare Apple computer at recycling firm
01 Jun 2015
A mystery woman who dumped a rare Apple 1 computer to a Silicon Valley recycling firm could end up $100, 000 richer according to the Silicon Valley recycling firm
Google hopes to gobble up e-comm giants with ‘buy’ button
29 May 2015
If Google manages to bring online buyers on its website, it could stop users and advertising revenues from flowing into e-commerce sites like Amazon, Flipkart and Alibaba
EMC buys cloud services provider Virtustream for $1.2 bn
27 May 2015
With falling sales in its main data storage products business, EMC has been looking to expand its cloud services business
User account secret questions not secure: Google
22 May 2015
IBM takes stakes in in WayBlazer, Sellpoints to advance Watson-powered apps in online travel and shopping
22 May 2015
Hackers target Starbucks app
16 May 2015
Indian-origin 13-year old invents low-cost Braille printer
16 May 2015
Last year at 12, Shubham Banerjee became the youngest entrepreneur ever to receive venture funding after Intel Capital invested in his startup, Braigo Labs
The New York Times makes app NYT Now free
12 May 2015
Smallest computer Chip to cost $9
11 May 2015
The Chip packs a 1GHz processor, 512 RAM and a storage of 4GB and all of it at just $9
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation