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April 11, 2016 Tesco to accept Sainsbury’s brand match coupons after rival supermarket pulls out of promotional deals
Tesco: Will it lure Sainsbury’s shoppers away with this plan? (Source: Getty) Promotional deals might be on their way out across the UK’s supermarket sector but there is one place where they are still thriving. Tesco has said it will accept customers’ brand match coupons issued by Sainsbury’s – just days after the rival supermarket said it was […]
NEWS April 10, 2016 Why Apple and Google Are Struggling to Design Simple Software
Right now, millions of consumers are facing a simple problem. Or rather, they’re facing a problem with simplicity, as both the number of smart products and the functions of those products multiply. I was recently reminded of this when I tried to quickly snap a picture at Apple’s launch event. I tried to double-click the […]
NEWS April 8, 2016 Microsoft Edge Browser to Start Automatically Pausing Flash Content
Microsoft has announced that much like Apple, Google, and Mozilla, it too is wary of Flash. The company says that it will introduce changes to its new Web browser Edge alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update later this year to give users more control over Flash content. The company also noted that it doesn’t see […]
COMPUTERS April 8, 2016 Never 10 Prevents Windows 7, 8.1 PCs From Upgrading to Windows 10
Plenty of people, including us, like Windows 10. It’s a substantial upgrade over Windows 8.1, giving users a plethora of improvements and features. We aren’t, however, a big fan of how Microsoft is pushing this upgrade to some people. Ten months since Windows 10’s release, users on Windows 7, and Windows 8.1 continue to report […]
NEWS April 8, 2016 Goqii Adds Former Google Head of Search Amit Singhal to Board of Directors
Wearable fitness devices maker Goqii has appointed former Google executive Amit Singhal to its board of directors, a move that will help it expand the presence in the US market. This is Singhal’s first role since leaving his position as Head of Google Search in February this year. Singhal brings more than 20 years of […]
ELECTRONICS April 8, 2016 Amazon to Restore Encryption to Fire Tablets This ‘Spring’
Amazon is reversing course and will let customers resume encrypting locally stored data on their Fire tablets. Amazon removed the ability to encrypt local data in September because it said customers weren’t using the service. That decision came under new scrutiny last week as Apple squares off against the FBI over access to the encrypted […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 Panama Papers: How a global media operation held the rich and powerful to account
Image credit: Reuters/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti With the Panama Papers exposé perhaps we can now say the fortress walls of offshore secrecy are finally cracking. Such havens allow corruption and tax avoidance to take place on a massive international scale by some of the richest and most powerful people on Earth. Meanwhile, the poor get poorer. Western […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 In Tamil Nadu, the Forest Department is being forced to kill tigers
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Rana was on a single-minded mission. His task: to find a tiger, an alleged “man-eater” before it killed again. Sniffing out wild cats is his speciality. The 27-month-old German Shepherd belongs to the Special Tiger Protection Force at Bandipur in Karnataka and is specially trained to detect wild animals in dense forests […]
NEWS April 7, 2016 Bhogbhumi quip: Perhaps RSS’s Bhaiyyaji Joshi needs to read some (more) Hindu scriptures
Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader leader Bhaiyyaji Joshi recently made a rather controversial quip. He said that those who view India merely as a land of bhog, or consumerism, are the ones who refuse to say Bharat Mata ki jai! Really now? Hindu scriptures describe achieving dharm (religion or duty), arth (money power), kaam (physical […]
NEWS April 6, 2016 Samsung Is Bringing Virtual Reality Tech to Roller Coasters
Samsung, one of the frontrunners in the nascent virtual reality space, wants to blend the best of the real world and the virtual world into one. The South Korean technology conglomerate has teamed up with Six Flags Entertainment to launch nine roller coasters powered by Gear VR headsets in North America. As part of the […]
ELECTRONICS April 5, 2016 Leap Motion Opens Door to Reach Into Virtual Worlds With ‘Orion’
California virtual reality startup Leap Motion on Wednesday opened a door for makers of games or other applications to literally touch virtual worlds. The San Francisco firm is using its expertise in computer tracking of hands and fingers to let people manipulate things in virtual reality with the kind of dexterity that they do in […]
NEWS April 5, 2016 Microsoft, Nasa Partner to Bring You Closer to Mars With HoloLens
The US space agency and tech giant Microsoft have teamed up to create “Destination: Mars”, a guided tour of Mars using the same HoloLens headset technology that helps scientists plan the Curiosity rover’s activities on Red Planet. It will offer people a guided tour of an area of Mars with astronaut Buzz Aldrin this summer […]
