Android Nougat is almost here. A post on the Android Developers blog has the operating system’s final developer preview build listed for download, which means that a bulk of the bugs and kinks we saw during our demo period should be mostly worked out. However, because it’s still technically a ... Read More »
Android Nougat is almost here. A post on the Android Developers blog has the operating system’s final developer preview build listed for download, which means that a bulk of the bugs and kinks we saw during our demo period should be mostly worked out. However, because it’s still technically a ... Read More »
How creative are you? When the Apple iPad Pro was released last autumn, I interviewed several artists who had just started using the advanced tablet and its clever, super-precise Pencil. The results they came up with were phenomenal and used some of the inexpensive, or free, apps available for general ... Read More »
Home Minister Rajnath Singh today directly accused Pakistan of stoking tension in Kashmir. “Whatever is happening in Kashmir is Pakistan sponsored,” the Union minister said in the Rajya Sabha. Replying to the debate, he affirmed that while militancy will be dealt with sternly, there should be “no instant” use of ... Read More »
If the Centre wants permanent peace in Kashmir, it needs to revamp its policies and review its attitude towards the Valley, writes RIYAZ WANI In the six years that he was alive, Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani, 22, had acquired a cult-like status in Kashmir. The pictures and videos ... Read More »
The political career of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been shaped by military coups, real or imagined, for more than four decades. Friday’s attempt is likely to prove the most consequential, and potentially empowering, of them all. Whatever goals the rebels had, they may have ended up securing Erdogan’s ... Read More »
If we were to pick a moment that marked the beginning of the smartphone age, the great transformation that has upended how people communicate, shop and work, we would probably choose January 9, 2007, when Steve Jobs held up a small black rectangular device called the iPhone and declared that ... Read More »
Android has a problem. New research shows that the mobile operating system’s encryption can be bypassed using a fairly straightforward brute force method. The hack Brute force is actually pretty simple; heck, you may have even done it yourself and not known about it. All it really means is that ... Read More »
Kookaburra and Indian cricket are hailing the first four-day pink-ball trial in Kolkata a success as that country signals an intent to re-embrace the Test match and joins others following Australia’s lead on day-night games. The latest version of the Australian-made Kookaburra pink ball was used in a four-day Cricket ... Read More »
An innocuous news item on the discovery of a predatory fish in a lake near Kolkata may have excited anglers, but it is cause for serious concern. The newly discovered alien fish, known as alligator gar, could potentially wipe out every local species in the lake where it was discovered. ... Read More »
