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COMPUTERS 
April 8, 2016 Windows 10’s Latest Preview Brings Bash Support, Skype UWP, and More
Microsoft took everyone by surprise last week when it announced that it is bringing Linux’s command line Bash to Windows. If you’re a Windows Insider, you can already begin using this feature. Microsoft has released a new preview of Windows 10, build 14316, for Insiders on Fast Ring, with a range of features including cross-device […]
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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 […]
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NEWS 
April 7, 2016 The Sri Sri syndrome: What we should not forget about so-called gurus and godmen
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Even as the high-decibel criticism of students from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad University continues unabated, the riverside celebration of “Hindu-India” curated by the self-anointed Sri Sri has been forgotten. It has dissolved into the polluted air that hangs over the Yamuna. This so-called guru initially proclaimed that he would pay no […]
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NEWS 
April 7, 2016 How JNU and HCU were ranked as the best universities in the country (and why it may not matter much)
Image credit: PTI They might have been called dens of anti-nationalists and good for nothing. But on Monday, the government added another label to Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University: The best educational institutions in the country. In its first-ever nationwide ranking of educational institutions and other universities, JNU and HCU came in at the […]
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COMPUTERS 
April 4, 2016 Meet the Laptop With 64GB RAM, 5TB SSD, and 6 USB Ports
If the current lineup of high-end laptops in the market isn’t cutting it for you, Eurocom’s new offering may interest you. The Canadian computer manufacturer has launched its Sky X9W laptop, a ‘mobile workstation’ upgrade to its already impressive Sky X9 that it released in October last year. Much like many other good things in […]
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ALL DEALS 
April 1, 2016 Serious academic research and high teaching quality is our winning proposition: Ilian Mihov
Ilian Mihov. New Delhi: In January, when the Financial Times released its annual Global MBA Rankings, a business school with a one-year MBA programme made it to the top of the list. INSEAD, with campuses in Fontainebleau (near Paris), Singapore and Abu Dhabi topped the 2016 rankings, dislodging the previous year’s leader Harvard Business School. […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 26, 2016 Quikr launches service for doorstep pickup and delivery of pre-owned goods
Pranay Chulet, Founder, Quikr Quikr launches diagnostic app to boost used mobile salesIndia’s top 5 startup foundersStart-ups take to mergers to surviveQuikr to acquire Commonfloor todayCasa Grande’s investment arm sells analytics portal to Quikr Online classifieds platform Quikr has launched its ‘Quikr Doorstep’ service to offer buyers of pre-owned goods ane-commerce like experience by facilitating […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 23, 2016 Microsoft Surface Pro 4: A lethal combination of efficiency and style
Microsoft launched the latest version of its Surface tablets in India on Thursday. Surface Pro 4, a device combining style with computing efficiency, will be available from Rs 89,990 onwards to customers. Conceived as a tablet, it can transform into a full-fledged laptop in the blink of an eye with the help of the additional […]
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ELECTRONICS 
March 22, 2016 Check Out Massive Discounts on Laptops, Speakers, Printers, and More
This week we have the Lenovo ThinkPad, a curved screen LED monitor from Samsung, wireless headphones by Sony and a lot more at great discounts. 1. Lenovo X250 ThinkPad In the market for a solid Windows laptop? The Lenovo X250 ThinkPad is available with a decent cashback offer on Paytm. You can grab the laptop […]
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NEWS 
March 22, 2016 Google Mastered a Game That Vexed Scientists – and Their Machines – for Decades
Artificial intelligence took a historic step forward last week when a Google team announced that it taught a machine to master the ancient Chinese game Go, a feat researchers have chased for decades. While computers learned to outclass humans at checkers and chess in the ’90s, Go – a 2,500-year-old game – was still vexing […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 22, 2016 Apple’s OS X 10.11.4, watchOS 2.2, and tvOS 9.2 Now Available for Download
Apple on Monday finally put an end to rumours by officially launching its iPhone SE, 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and new Apple Watch Bands. It also released OS X El Capitan v10.11.4, along with watchOS 2.2 and tvOS 9.2, all featuring new functionalities and improvements over the previous versions. Apple alsoreleased iOS 9.3 on Monday for […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 19, 2016 Meet the Laptop With 64GB RAM, 5TB SSD, and 6 USB Ports
If the current lineup of high-end laptops in the market isn’t cutting it for you, Eurocom’s new offering may interest you. The Canadian computer manufacturer has launched its Sky X9W laptop, a ‘mobile workstation’ upgrade to its already impressive Sky X9 that it released in October last year. Much like many other good things in […]
