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The internet has come a long way from its idealistic beginnings. The history of the internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks since the 1950s. In 1974, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published a research note that evolved into...

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Many websites, especially news and general interest websites which are free, carry a large number of advertisements to help pay for the content. It becomes irritating to wade through the ads to read the main content.   Google Chrome has now introduced—Reading Mode–to take care of this. So...

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In today's interconnected world, cyberspace has become integral to our daily lives. We go online (some 'addicted' people are online 24x7!) for almost everything-from shopping and banking to socialising and working. However, the convenience of the digital age comes with an increased risk of...

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Just like social media is becoming a hotbed of deepfake videos and bogus products, malvertising, which is used for phishing attempts, scam pages, and even disguised malware, is rapidly spreading on almost every online platform. In fact, unless you have a paid subscription, you will find...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 July 2024
Sir Keir Starmer pledged a phase of 'national renewal' on Friday as Britain's prime minister (PM)-elect after leading the Labour Party to a landslide victory in the historic general election, gaining over 200 seats. Rishi Sunak, the outgoing PM, conceded defeat, with the Conservative Party...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 July 2024
Bharti Airtel Ltd (Airtel) has denied a data breach in its systems that allegedly led to a hacker publishing details of 375mn (million) subscribers of Airtel for sale on the dark web.   In a statement on X, Airtel says, "There has been a report alleging that Airtel customer data has been...

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Are you tired of writing emails? Do you spend substantial time composing long emails? Stop wasting your valuable time and use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate your email writing.   Install the GhostWrite extension for Chrome or Outlook and start writing emails with just a few prompts....

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2024
Holding two doctors, including one cardiologist, from Kolkata-based Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan, responsible for medical negligence in treating the patient who died of cardiac arrest, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed these two doctors to pay Rs10...

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Earlier this week, I noticed my friend and classmate posting a Facebook profile photo of another friend with a changed name. I first thought he was mocking the other friend (let's call him Nandu). However, I soon received a frantic phone call from Nandu saying someone had hacked his account and...

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Are you serious about caring for the planet? Want to know what is your carbon footprint? Want to do something about it yourself?   Cool the Globe is the app for you. Just enter details of your daily travel, your appliances, the materials you use (including plastics), forest / tree...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 28 June 2024
Savita Devi associates rain with death.   Last September, within a span of 10 days, the 30-year-old farmer and her husband Raju (he uses one name) belonging to the Baiga community, a scheduled tribe, lost five of their seven children to malaria as the southwest monsoons pounded their village,...

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Common Dreams 26 June 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday reached a deal with the U.S. government, agreeing to plead guilty to one felony related to the disclosure of national security information in exchange for his release from Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom.    A related document was filed in...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 26 June 2024
Jab machhar sab khoon pi lela, jab beemari ho jala, tab dawai chidki ka baa? [What is the use of spraying insecticide after the mosquitoes are done feeding on our blood and giving us the disease?].” Eighteen-year-old Seeta Devi’s voice cuts through the heat, as she talks from the doorway of her...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 June 2024
After enduring nearly 14 years of arbitrary detention in the UK and five years in maximum security prison for his groundbreaking publishing work with WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has arrived home on Australian soil.    JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE!! Watch here: https://t.co/7PlI9fnSMG#AssangeFreed

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While describing the challenges in Mumbai, Bambai or Bombay—as the city has been known over the years—Johnny Walker, in the 1956 Hindi superhit film CID, warned saying, "Zara hat ke zara bach ke, yeh hai Bombay meri jaan". Nearly seven decades later, the message of this evergreen number sung by...

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Groceries now have ratings! We all want to eat healthy, but do not know how to analyse the food products we buy. It is almost impossible to sort through and decode all the perplexing and contradictory health claims and counterclaims mentioned on the labels.   Xume’s food scanner takes the con...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2024
A recent study published in The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine has raised significant safety concerns about Rotavac, the rotavirus vaccine that is included in the government’s immunisation program and is widely used in India. The study found that Rotavac increases the risk...

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The antivirus app installed on your mobile device is expected to protect you, right? But what if the same app is also handing over your browser history to a major marketing company? In January 2020, PC magazine found out that user data was being shared between Avast and its subsidiary Jumpshot....

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We often come across lengthy YouTube videos which may be useful but are time-consuming. We just want to know the summary of the content without having to go through the entire video.   Summarize.tech is a very useful tool to get a text summary of the entire video within seconds. Just head to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2024
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay US$700mn (million) to settle an investigation by 42 US states and Washington DC into its marketing of baby powder and other talc-based products blamed for allegedly causing cancer, says a news report.   According to a report from Reuters, the...

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