Search giant Google on Monday created an animated cake doodle on its homepage while celebrating its 23rd birthday. The doodle features a cake with ’23’ written on top of it. Also, a birthday candle substituting for ‘L’ in “Google. “Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the […]
Short video platform TikTok, that continues to be banned in India, is adding new warnings to its in-app search that will alert users when results may include “distressing content”. The app has employed “sensitive content” warnings on individual videos since last year, but the updated alerts will appear in search results for terms that could […]
Leading German luxury car-maker BMW Group has unveiled its CE 02 concept electric mini-bike. According to The Verge, the CE 02 has an 11kW belt-drive motor, which can help the bike reach a top speed of around 90 kilometres per hour (about 56 miles per hour). BMW isn’t sharing the battery capacity, but claims the […]
Pawandeep Rajan from Champawat, Uttarakhand, lifted the ‘Indian Idol Season 12’ trophy and took home a cheque of Rs 25 lakh and a Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire after being declared winner at the ‘The Greatest Finale Ever’ of the Sony Entertainment Television reality show late on Sunday night. An artiste, said a beaming Pawandeep after […]
Facing intense scrutiny over the presence of bad accounts and troll armies on its platform globally including in India, Twitter has announced to establish a legal entity in Turkey to continue operating there under the country’s internet law that came into place last year. Under the new law, social media firms that have more than […]
Miss India World 2020 Manasa Varanasi would like to try her luck in Bollywood if something interesting came up, but for now she is focussed on representing the country in the Miss World pageant. She adds that her curiosity for new challenges prompted her to participate in the beauty pageant. “I am an explorer and […]
NASA has selected an initial team of 18 astronauts, including Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari, to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next lunar missions, including sending the first woman and next man to walk on the lunar surface in 2024. Vice President of the US Mike Pence introduced the members […]
Wrestling legend The Undertaker has laid his stellar career to rest with an emotional farewell at Survivor Series. The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, had made his WWE debut at Survivor Series on November 22, 1990. And exactly 20 year later on Sunday, he walked down to the WWE ring for the final […]
Parents, take it easy if your kids are spending more time on various screens. New research claims that parental restrictions on tech use have little lasting effect into adulthood and fears of widespread and long-lasting tech addiction may be overblown. The study is among the firsts to examine how digital technology use evolves from childhood […]
How many women have the courage to portray in graphic detail the sexual abuse they have suffered from age six? Rituparna Chatterjee grew up through the “sheer hell” of it — and “healed and made peace with the demons” to write “The Water Phoenix” (Bloomsbury), a memoir that she describes not as a catharsis for […]