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People tend to trust machines more than humans when it comes to sharing private information and access to their financial data, an Indian-origin researcher has stressed. People who trusted machines were significantly more likely to hand over their credit card numbers to a computerised travel agent than a human travel agent, said S. Shyam Sundar, Co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory...

Facebook is actively creating new terror content on the website with its auto-generation feature, alleges a whistleblower who analysed over 3,000 Facebook profiles of individuals expressing affiliation with terror or hate groups. The social networking giant last year claimed that with the use of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and a growing team of expert human reviewers it could...

New York, May 10: Google will never sell any personal information of its users to third parties, CEO Sundar Pichai has said, amidst growing global concern over the misuse of personal data by some social media giants. In an opinion piece Tuesday in The New York Times, he also said that privacy cannot be a “luxury good” that is only available to people who can afford to buy premium products and...

Bengaluru, May 8: The Southwestern Railway has announced Partial Cancelled /Regulation of some trains due to Line Block from 20:00 hrs to 02:00 hrs on 13/14.05.2019 for the work of Road Under Bridge at Level Crossing No.371 between Khanapur – Desur Stations on Londa – Belagavi Section over Hubballi Division as detailed below. Train No: 51405 Miraj-Castle Rock Passenger commencing journey on 13.05...

Mysuru, May 7: Activists of the BJPprotested in the city wearing black ribbons to express their outrage against what they called the ‘abuse’ of power by Karnataka home minister MB Patil. The activists, who assembled near the deputy commissioner’s office on Monday, raised slogans against Patil, whom they accused of failing to act against former MLA Belur Gopalakrishna and JD(S) MLA Narayanagowda...

Kottayam (Ker), May 2 (PTI) The wife of a Dalit Christian man, who was allegedly killed last year, told a court here Thursday that it was a case of honour killing as he was abducted and killed by her relatives. Kevin P Joseph's wife Neenu Chacko told the District Additional Sessions Court that her father Chacko had objected to her relationship with the man from Kottayam, as he belonged to the...

Mysuru, May 1: Perpetuation of the caste system posed a grave threat to the ethos of India, warned acclaimed Kannada writer Moodnakudu Chinnaswamy here on Tuesday. Chinnaswamy, participating in a seminar on ‘Ideologies of BR Ambedkar’ organised by the Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies, University of Mysore at the BM Shri Auditorium, recalled Ambedkar’s tireless crusade against caste in India...

Kasaragod, Apr 30: Even as the Chief Electoral Officer confirmed casting of bogus votes by the CPI(M) in this Lok Sabha constituency, vindicating the accusation by the Congress, the Marxist Party on Tuesday came out with their retaliatory allegation against the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), an ally of the United Democratic Front. The Marxist leadership of Kasaragod has alleged that the IUML...

New Delhi, Apr 30: The Indian Army has claimed that an expedition team sighted the "mysterious Footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti'" at the Makalu Base Camp in the Himalayas. "For the first time, an #IndianArmy Moutaineering Expedition Team has sited mysterious footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti' measuring 32x15 inches close to Makalu Base Camp on April 9, 2019," the Army's Additional Directorate...

Mysuru/Chmarajanagara, Apr 28: Close on the heels of death of famous Mysuru Dasara elephant 'Drona' a couple of days back, two more elephants found dead in Mysuru district and Bandipur National Park forest ranges. In the first incident, a 45 year old female elephant found dead in Choukur forest range in Piriyapatna taluk in the district. Forest officials said on Sunday that an elephant with weak...