Assorted

In a latest privacy goof up, Facebook "unintentionally" uploaded the emails of nearly 1.5 million of its users during the past three years. A Facebook spokesperson admitted on late Wednesday that emails of 1.5 million people were harvested since May 2016 to help build Facebook's web of social connections and recommend other users to add as friends. First reported by Business Insider, the...

New Delhi, Apr 18: Voting for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections is underway. Here are some interesting nuggets about this phase. * 95 Lok Sabha constituencies across 11 states and one UT to go to polls. * Nearly 15.80 crore voters to decide fate of 1,629 candidates. * More than 1.81lakh polling booths set up for the purpose. * Tamil Nadu, where all the seats, except one, is going for polls...

Udupi, Apr 18: A case has been registered against the Udupi MLA and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, K. Raghupati Bhat, for violation of the model code of conduct at the Malpe police station here. According to the police, Mr. Bhat held a padayatra from Kodibengre to Gujjarbettu for campaigning without taking permission on April 16. Some minors too had taken part in the event. Hence a case had...

Mysuru, Apr 17: To increase voters turnout at Polling booths during the Lok Sabha elections on April 18, the Hotel Owners’ Association has offered discounts to first-time voters and senior citizens in the Mysuru-Kodagu lok sabha constituency. Association President C Narayana Gowda said first-time voters will be eligible for a 50 per cent discount on items on menus at certain hotels. Those first...

New Delhi, Apr 17: Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a Madras High Court's directive to prohibit its downloads, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. The move comes hours after the Madras HC refused a request by China`s Bytedance Technology to suspend a ban on its TikTok app, putting its future in one of its key...

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is still developing its previously announced "Vacation Mode", but has changed its name to "Ignore Archived Chats" and added certain tweaks to its functionality. As part of the further development of this feature, WhatsApp's beta version for Android 2.19.101 shows that the "Ignore Archived Chats" feature would prevent the archived messages from coming on top of...

Bengaluru : At the onset of Lok Sabha elections 2019, Radio City, India’s leading radio network, announced a voting awareness campaign, ‘Votenalli Maja Ide’, with the objective of increasing voter turnout in Bengaluru. The campaign aims to help the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike), enhance voter participation in Bengaluru which otherwise usually sees the lowest voter turnout amongst other...

Washington: India is concerned about the “threats” it faces in space, the Pentagon has said, defending the country for acquiring anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test capabilities. On March 27, India achieved a historic feat by shooting down its own low-orbit satellite with a ground-to-space missile, making the country a space power. The test made India the fourth country in the world after the US...

New Delhi, Apr 9: In the run-up to the general elections, automated Twitter bots made a massive attempt to boost political hashtags, both in support of and in opposition to Prime Minster Narendra Modi, according to a research conducted by US experts. The automated accounts were deployed on a massive scale on February 9-10, with small groups of accounts pushing out thousands of posts an hour...

Mumbai, Apr 6: Mihika Mishra, an 11-year-old Mumbai girl, has in a letter to Anand Mahindra, Chairman of Mahindra Group, suggested how to reduce noise pollution on roads. Mishra requested Mahindra to produce cars with allowance of just five honks every 10 minutes, with each honk lasting just three seconds. "In this way, the noise will be minimised and roads will be quieter," she noted. In the...