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Washington, Oct 2: Google announced new steps to help struggling news organizations Monday - including an end to a longstanding "first click free" policy to generate fresh revenues for publishers hurt by the shift from print to digital. The moves come amid mounting criticism that online platforms are siphoning off the majority of revenues as more readers turn to digital platforms for news. "I...

San Francisco, Sept 30: A user from Taiwan claimed her iPhone 8 Plus, which belongs to Apple’s latest line-up of devices, split open while it was charging. “So far, the finger of blame is being pointed at the battery. Unconfirmed reports state the iPhone 8 Plus uses the same battery manufacturer, Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7”, The Next Web reported late on Friday...

Gadchiroli (Maharashtra), Sept 29: The residents of Amdeli village here had a long wait for 70 years before they could see their homes lit up with electricity and commute in public buses. Amdeli, surrounded by forest and having a population of around 200 people, all of whom are Telugu speaking, is a remote village in Gadchiroli district on the border of Maharashtra and Telangana. It is located in...

Orlando, Sept 26: Aadhaar's identity system rivals the growth of other platform innovations like Windows, Android or Facebook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said. Nadella, in his book 'Hit Refresh', which was released during the ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference, has praised India's leap forward in the digital and technological arena. "Aadhaar now has scaled to over one billion people...

San Francisco, Sept 26: Instant messaging service WhatsApp has been largely blocked in China, the media reported. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation, suggested on Monday night that Chinese internet service providers started blocking access to WhatsApp on September 23, reports. Public...

Coimbatore, Sept 24: A 60-year-old man in Coimbatore has been collecting cinema tickets of every single movie he was been watching since 1979. After 10 years (1979-1989) of collecting movie tickets, he has more than 1000 such pieces. Calling the hobby his only passion, Mum Murthy, popularly known as the 'Movie Ticket Collector', said, "I have more than 1000 cinema tickets, ranging from 50 paisa to...

New Delhi, Sept 22: Liliane Bettencourt, the world's richest woman and heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics fortune passed away at the age of 94. Confirming the news, her daughter Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers in a statement, said that she died in the early hours of Thursday at her home in Paris. "She would have been 95 on 21 October," she added. "My mother left peacefully," the Independent UK quoted...

Chikkamagaluru, Sept 20: As many as six officials attached to the Tanigebailu range of the Forest Department were allegedly assaulted by timber smugglers near Saidukhan village in Tarikere taluk on Sunday night. The officers attacked are forest officials. They are Praharsha Kumar, deputy range forest officer, Raghavendra, forest guard, Vasanth Kumar, Sampreeth, Mahesh – all forest guards and...

Washington, Sept 20: The world's oldest living person and the last living subject of Queen Victoria, Violet Mosse- Brown, has passed away at the age of 117 in Jamaica. Brown is also the first verified supercentenarian from Jamaica. In 2015, she was given a letter by Queen Elizabeth II in honor of her 115th birthday. Brown was born on March 10 in 1900, 67 years before Jamaica was founded, when it...

New Delhi, Sept 19: Ford Motor and India's Mahindra Group have announced they will work together in a fresh partnership as the US giant looks to boost its presence in one of the world's fastest growing auto markets. The two, who parted ways from a tie-up in 2005, will co-operate for three years on a number of areas including electric vehicles and sourcing. "Ford is committed to India," said Jim...