Why America Urgently Needs India's UPI Boost

The US’ FedNow is neither friendly nor an easy option for in-person transactions, limiting its utility in comparison to UPI | Continue reading


@news18.com | 1 year ago

Ray Liotta Has Died

Goodfellas actor Ray Liotta is no more. The actor reportedly passed away in his sleep in the Dominican Republic. The cause of death is still unknown. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 1 year ago

Ghost of PL-480 Returns as India Avoids the Wheat Trap All over Again

Six decades after the PL-480 controversy broke out between the two countries, India and the US find themselves at a crossroads over wheat all over again | Continue reading


@news18.com | 1 year ago

In Internet’s Winner Takes All Model, We End Up as Losers

In the winner takes all model of Zomato and Swiggy, billions of dollars are pumped into a single unicorn ($1 billion-plus valuation) to make it a deacon ($10 billion-plus valuation) so that it can decimate the competition by deep discounting the service or product being offered. … | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

Odisha Tribal Labourer Who Started YouTube Channel in Lockdown Earns Lakhs

Tribal youth Isak Munda from Babupali in Sambalpur district’s Jujumura block rise to fame as a YouTuber blogger has now made him an inspiration for entire western Odisha. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

Woman Discovers Tiddlywink Stuck in Nose for 37 Years After Covid-19 Test

Tiddlywink, which is a board game that was developed in England in the 1960s, is played with sets of small discs called “winks”. A "squidger" is used to shoot a wink into the air and into a pot for points. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

India bans Bitcoin as legal tender

Nirmala Sitharaman Cryptocurrency: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, FM Sitharaman said that the Centre does not collect any data on Bitcoin transactions in India, FM also informed that the government does not collect data on Bitcoin transactions Latest news | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

Amazon Under Scanner After Online Marijuana Racket Busted in India

The accused were operating the racket through Amazon, which was getting two-thirds of the profits generated, an official said. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

Cadbury's AI Tool Will Let You Create Ad with ShahRukh Khan's Face and Voice

Through a dedicated website, customers can create their custom advertisement, led by Shah Rukh Khan. Cadbury says it is using machine learning and AI technology to recreate the actor's face and voice. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

Import Woes, 'Unexpected' Demand Crack Coal Coalition as Indian States Sound SOS

After Covid-19, air pollution and violence in a few states, India has a new reason to worry. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

LinkedIn User Wrote a Fake Post About Meeting Bezos. The Internet Fell for It

Alexandar shared a tweet thread on Sunday where he shared a good laugh over the remarks and the comments he received on LinkedIn. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

Cow Cloned to Produce Milk for Lactose Intolerance People

Researchers at the Ernst Federal Livestock Science Center at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow produced the first viable cloned calf in Russia. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 2 years ago

Creator of World Wide Web Is Selling the Source Code

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@news18.com | 2 years ago

IIT-Delhi Scientists Withdrew Research on Evolution of SARS-CoV-2

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@news18.com | 2 years ago

Stone tools used by Homo erectus found in 700ka-old sediment in Sahara goldmine

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@news18.com | 2 years ago

Delhi Police Raids Twitter India Offices

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@news18.com | 2 years ago

Hacker Creates Instagram Story That Is Making Smartphones Crash

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@news18.com | 2 years ago

How New DRDO Drug 2-DG Works on Human Cells and Fights Covid-19

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@news18.com | 2 years ago

Amethi,India youth arrested for fake tweet seeking oxygen

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@news18.com | 2 years ago

YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

Did YouTube block a chess channel over violation of community guideline and usage of racist language? Late last year, a YouTuber who produces popular chess videos found that his channel was blocked over charges of 'harmful and dangerous' content. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 3 years ago

Lessons from Three Epidemics

In the second week of January this year, Beijing reported the first death in an outbreak of a pneumonia-like disease caused by an unknown virus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 3 years ago

Sunspot Turning Towards Earth Could Affect GPS Connectivity, Radio on Ou

A sunspot is a dark area on the sun and contains electrically charged gases producing areas of powerful magnetic forces. It is relatively cooler than the other parts of the star. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 3 years ago

Google Faces $5B Lawsuit for Collecting User Information via Incognito Mode

Google also violated a California law that requires consent of all parties to read or learn the contents of private communication, alleged the lawsuit. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 3 years ago

Indian Government makes contact tracing app mandatory for all employees

The Aarogya Setu application developed by the government helps people to assess themselves on the risk of their catching the coronavirus infection. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 3 years ago

Indian worker runs 100 mts in 9.55 seconds

Although the records cannot be directly compared, since the Kambala jockey was running alongside a pair of buffaloes and the speed generated was also by the animals. But the race was run in a slushy field, which can only be a speed deterrent. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

It May Be Dangerous to Send GIFs on WhatsApp from Your Android Phone

A hacker can take control of the phone’s data by running a malicious code on the device. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

India Decides Not to Join World's Largest Free Trade Agreement RCEP

PM Modi said When he measures the RCEP Agreement with respect to the interests of all Indians, he does not get a positive answer. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

Indian Govt Wants Users to Link Aadhaar with FB, Twitter for “National Interest”

Attorney General for India KK Venugopal said spurt in cyber crimes, use of social media in terror-related activities and inciting violence, pornography etc require identity of users to be made known to law enforcement agencies. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

Indian Government Repeals Articles 370 and 35A, Bifurcates Kashmir

Kashmir LIVE: The Rajya Sabha has got off to a chaotic start with the opposition raining questions on the J&K situation at home minister Amit Shah who rose to introduce a bill on implementing the 10% EWS quota in J&K. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

India successfully places lunar bound satellite in orbit

Chandrayaan-2 Launch LIVE: India’s second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 seeking to explore the unchartered Lunar south pole by landing a rover will be launched onboard its most powerful rocket GSLV-Mk0III-M1 from Sriharikota today, a week after the lift-off was aborted due to a tech … | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

Electric Vehicles in India to Be Exempted from Registration Fees

The exemption of road tax will apply to all categories of vehicles – two-wheelers, three-wheelers and four-wheelers sold in the country. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

Clock in by 9:30 Am, No Working from Home

Seeking to give more role to ministers of state, the prime minister said important files should be shared with them by the cabinet ministers. This, he said, would enhance productivity. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

Scientists May Have Found Possible Crash Site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370

An international team of researchers used what are known as Markov chain models used to power Google search algorithms and model financial markets to narrow crash location. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

Walmart Starts Using Artificial Intelligence to Guard Its Retail Stores

The Walmart Intelligence Retail Lab has been opened in Long Island, USA, and is the company's bid to take on Amazon's dominance, reports The Associated Press. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 4 years ago

Facebook Team Lands at Delhi Man's House for ID Verification over Political Post

The user was left stunned to see a Facebook representative landing at his home for inquiring about just a post. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 5 years ago

YouTube Wants Creator's Suggestions to Curb Misuse of Dislike Button

Apparently, the dislike button has been misused and YouTube creators are not about it. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 5 years ago

Yelp Tried to Remove Bugs on App, Artificial Intelligence Deleted Everything

When Yelp, the American local-search service powered by crowd-sourced review forum, had to fix a bug, they ended up deleting everything on the app. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 5 years ago

China to Launch Three Artificial Moons Bright Enough to Replace Streetlights

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@news18.com | 5 years ago

Meet the Mumbai Couple Seeking Permission for Their Freedom: Death

Active euthanasia is a slippery slope indeed, and there are chances that in a country like India if may become a cheap substitute for expensive palliative health care, that many have a hard time providing for. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 5 years ago

New Twitter Tool to Mark Real Candidates in US Midterm Poll

Twitter is partnering with Ballotpedia, a non-profit, civic organisation that publishes nonpartisan information on federal, state and local politics to help identify the campaign Twitter accounts of candidates once they qualify for the general election ballot for an applicable of … | Continue reading


@news18.com | 5 years ago

Indian dies caring for NIPAH virus patients

Lini contracted the deadly Nipah Virus while tending to two brothers who were the first victims of the fever outbreak in Kozhikode. She breathed her last on Sunday night, without even getting a chance to see her loved ones. | Continue reading


@news18.com | 5 years ago