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Royal Challengers captain Virat Kohli is coming to terms with new conditions of cricket in the corona age. (PTI file photo)

Virat Kohli has just coined a new word. And we need it to cope with...

Wisdom from the Skip: No point being sad and grumpy about the situation

17 Sept 2020 11:29 PM IST

Charity is a big thing with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru team this season. (Photo: Twitter/@RCBTweets)

RCB players to honour COVID heroes by wearing tribute jersey

After the first match, players' jerseys will be auctioned to raise funds for charity

17 Sept 2020 11:07 PM IST

Among the concerns is a fear that under the so-called News Media Bargaining Code, news businesses will be able to somehow control their algorithms, Australias fair trade regulator Rod Sims said. Well engage with them and clarify that so that theres no way that the news media businesses can interfere with the algorithms of Google or Facebook, Sims said.

Australia's pay-for-news law: Facebook, Google won't have to give out...

The final draft of the bill could be introduced into Parliament in late October.

17 Sept 2020 10:52 PM IST

President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walk around NRG Stadium waving to the crowd during the Howdy Modi: Shared Dreams, Bright Futures event on Sunday, September 22, 2019, in Houston. (Photo: AP)

Centre says it spent no money on 'Howdy Modi' event at Houston last...

Specifically asked whether the government incurred any financial expenses for the event or funded its organisers,...

17 Sept 2020 10:33 PM IST

More than $3.3 billion was spent in the US in August on video game hardware, content and accessories, according to NPD analyst Mat Piscatella. Both Sony and Microsoft hope to gain a huge volume of sales during of the holiday season in the US, especially Christmas. (Photo | AFP)

Sony launching PlayStation 5 on November 12, right behind Microsoft...

The current PlayStation 4 has outsold Xbox by more than two to one, but Microsoft hopes to take the battle back to Sony.

17 Sept 2020 10:24 PM IST

A group known as the WeChat Users Alliance and several people who say they rely on the app for work, worship and staying in touch with relatives in China sued to stop the ban in federal court in California. The suit says the ban violates its US users freedom of speech, free exercise of religion and other constitutional rights.

US says WeChat ban' might impair messaging but will not draw criminal...

Using the app to communicate won't be a banned transaction, although messaging on it could be directly or indirectly...

17 Sept 2020 9:32 PM IST

The Financial Times had earlier reported that ByteDance was to place TikToks global business in a new US-headquartered company with Oracle investing as a minority shareholder along with other US investors. Trump says he wont allow that. (Photo | AFP)

Trump still scrutinising Oracle-TikTok deal, regrets that US won't get...

Some Republicans raise concerns that ByteDance would maintain access to information on the 100 million TikTok users in...

17 Sept 2020 9:00 PM IST

Former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Harsimrat Kaur Badal quits Modi Cabinet as Akali Dal opposes farm...

The farm bills have evoked strong reactions from farmers of Haryana and Punjab -- the bread baskets of India.

17 Sept 2020 8:53 PM IST

Facebook is facing questions on its ways in several countries of the world. (AFP)

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

This year marks Facebook's growth from innocence to experience

17 Sept 2020 8:12 PM IST

BJP wrote a letter to home minister Anil Deshmukh urging him to roll out a more aggressive action plan to protect Mumbai police. (PTI Photo)

Dilli ka Babu | 7 former DGPs jump in to defend Mumbai police

Their petition to Bombay High Court says there are sinister designs behind the campaign

17 Sept 2020 7:56 PM IST

Google Glass launched seven years ago faced privacy hurdles, so Facebook is testing Aria prototypes with just 100 people, who will record in Facebook offices, their homes, and public spaces, but not in stores or restaurants without written consent. (Representative Image | Wikimedia Commons - Rijans007)

Google Glass may not have taken off but Facebook eyes AR space with...

Imagine a pair of glasses that add a 3D layer of contextually relevant, meaningful information on top of the physical...

17 Sept 2020 7:17 PM IST

An army convoy carrying military material on its way to Ladakh amid border tension with China, at Manali-Leh highway. PTI photo

China border tension due to Indian soldiers' border patrolling

Indian armed forces have also made appropriate counter deployments in these areas to ensure that national security...

17 Sept 2020 7:05 PM IST