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Advocate Vrinda Grover after the SCs verdict in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

SC: Internet basic right, review all curbs in J&K

The court held that Section 144 CrPC cannot be used as a tool to prevent the legitimate expression of opinions or...

11 Jan 2020 5:54 AM IST

As per the recent report by Ookla examining trends in Indian telecom market, India is the leader in mean download speeds on fixed broadband amongst neighboring countries.

Fixed broadband speeds improved in India, mobile speeds remained...

UAE topped the mobile download speeds chart with 87.01 Mbps, Singapore lead the world on fixed broadband download with...

21 Feb 2020 7:19 AM IST

In the ever-so wide expanse of the Internet, the online and the virtual world has become a cavern full of unusual phenomena. Fads, sensations, trends, and even absurd challenges have become ubiquitous online due to instant communication with a global audience on social media platforms.

Taking down the challenges

With the Skull Breaking challenge gaining momentum online, young users and children are once again becoming victims of...

21 Feb 2020 1:52 AM IST

Heres a specimen of a fax machine, if youve never seen one. It functions like a copier machine that sends a photocopy of your paper document to someone on the other line.

Can you believe America still uses fax machines?

Public health workers are collecting vital pandemic data over faxes and phone calls in a country that invented the...

14 May 2020 7:11 PM IST

The billions of tax dollars avoided by multinational e-commerce, whilst feeding off the commercial data generated by their customers, often without explicit permission and without compensation and we have a fishbowl of growing global inequity. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The social media djinn: Excluding and unsocial

India women are 26 per cent less likely to access mobile Internet due to misogyny, harassment and revenge porn

9 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Your Face Belongs to Us. (Image: DC)

Is anonymity extinct? What about privacy

Duplicate software have come out in the wake of Clearview which is still highly controversial

8 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

The report of the team sent by the Editors Guild exposed one too many shortcomings in the state that a democracy needs to ponder over and make amends for. (FIle Image: PTI)

AA Edit | Don't shoot the messenger

The team found that media invented its own ways unprofessional indeed to report on the clashes and that such reports...

6 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

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The internet: A dangerous place for wild animals

IFAW's wildlife crime director said: "The internet has transformed the global economy, and illegal wildlife trade has...

23 May 2018 11:51 AM IST

Karnataka is the fastest among in states in fixed broadband speeds. (Representative Image: Pixabay)

South India gets fastest fixed broadband Internet: Report

Chennai ranks highest in fixed broadband speeds among the 20 largest cities.

16 March 2018 2:47 PM IST

The intervention by the 62-year-old MIT professor comes as some European governments turn to legislation to curb fake news and hate speech that they fear is undermining the basis of their democracies.

Big tech must be regulated, says inventor of world wide web

Tim Berners-Lee hits at social media companies to be regulated to prevent the internet from being weaponised at scale.

13 March 2018 7:44 AM IST