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Has your PC frozen during an update? Here’s how to get it running again. The need to maintain your Windows 10 operating system with security patches and updates is absolutely essential. These crucial updates plug gaps in the security outlay and add additional features too. Generally, regularly updating your

Taking the telecom war to the next frontier – broadband – Reliance Jio is sprucing up its arsenal. That definitely has the industry leader, Bharti Airtel, worried. Reliance Jio is set to launch its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) later this year and from the looks of it the two

Baidu’s AI researchers have built an algorithm that can spot cancerous tumors in breast tissue using a method that doesn’t rely solely on neural networks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) excel at pattern matching, and thus are useful at detecting potential clusters of cancerous cells in medical scans.

All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez So it has come to this: Yet more proof, as if we needed it, that our dependence on technology is overwhelming and our addiction to social media potentially toxic. Prenuptial agreements with a

Social media is hailed for its power to connect people and communities, but it can also do the opposite. They are forums where anybody can criticize anyone else from a distance, and this degree of separation just might fuel the notion that harsh words lose potency as

Today in absurd celebrity conspiracy theories, the internet now believes Meghan Markle is a robot. (Yes, really.) Let’s state the obvious: the Duchess of Sussex is, in fact, a living and breathing human being. But one clip has the web convinced otherwise. Let’s break this down, shall

HIGHLIGHTS Ezequiel Pereira’s sporadic poking around has finally paid off Vulnerability would have allowed him to make changes to internal systems I’m glad that I found something that was so important: Pereira Google has awarded an Uruguayan teenager a “bug bounty” of more than $36,000 (roughly Rs. 24.3

Paytm has launched a new payment mode, Tap Card, that it is promoting as India’s first “truly offline payments solution.” It is a card that uses NFC to transfer money on company-authorised Point of Sale (PoS) terminals, and is aimed at non-Internet users. The Paytm Tap Card uses enables safe

“Condom snorting” – a dangerous activity that involves stuffing a condom up your nose until it comes out of your mouth – has been the subject of a number of recent viral news reports. It’s a years-old trend that wasn’t very popular even when it first surfaced

This week on The Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul are back in New York City after being at SXSW last weekend. To kick off the show, they welcome back senior writer Sarah Jeong to explain a $1.6 billion lawsuit between Spotify and Wixen Publishing. In the second half of the