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internet user news

Viral Swiggy agent who made deliveries with daughter refuses financial help

Swiggy delivery agent Pankaj and his two-year-old daughter Tun Tun became social media's fave dad-daughter duo
Published on May 15, 2025 07:26 pm IST

Wake up babe, a new generation just dropped! The era of Gen Beta begins TODAY

2025 through 2039 marks the Gen Beta baby boom: What kind of world will they inherit from us?
Published on Jan 02, 2025 06:46 pm IST

Jared Isaacman makes history with first private walk in space; internet reacts

Fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman led the first-ever private spacewalk
Published on Sept 13, 2024 05:26 pm IST

Active internet users likely to reach 900 mn by 2025, rural may lead: IAMAI

Mobile continues to remain the device of choice for accessing the internet in both urban and rural areas.
Published on Jun 03, 2021 03:54 pm IST

Pornography consumption has become widespread among young netizens, study

Pornography consumption widespread among young Internet users (Representative image)
Published on May 10, 2021 09:22 am IST

Gmail, Google Drive outage cause trouble for users across the world

The Google Inc. Gmail logo is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, July 19, 2019. Alphabet Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 25. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
Published on Aug 20, 2020 12:44 pm IST

Covid-19: What you need to know today

India has thus far seen 2.4 million cases and around 47,000 deaths.
Updated on Aug 14, 2020 03:37 am IST

Connectivity gets better but parts of India still logged out

Mobile telecom networks have played an important role in increasing internet access in India. 3G internet service was first launched in 2008 and 4G in 2012.
Updated on Aug 14, 2020 03:58 am IST

For Rediff boss, early success meant ignoring sceptics, self-learning tools

Given his unique experience in advertising and computer hardware manufacturing, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder of rediff.com, says he could see a wonderful world was about to dawn.
Updated on Aug 17, 2020 04:46 pm IST

Construction hanging fire, Kharar flyover now a subject of viral memes

Among the viral memes are those depicting actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui from his Netflix web series, Sacred Games
Published on Jan 14, 2020 12:50 am IST

Cyber crimes against women, kids a major threat: Experts

Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar during a conference on ‘Safety of women and children’ in Panchkula on Friday.
Updated on Jan 11, 2020 04:44 pm IST

Reconciling a child’s right to privacy and autonomy

Adolescents should be treated as a class separate from adults and children
Published on Dec 18, 2019 06:56 pm IST

Google searches on Kashmir peaked after Article 370 move

Google Trends also gives data on the most related queries that users search for. Users across the globe actively searched for news from Kashmir in August.
Updated on Sept 13, 2019 06:20 am IST

Popular video platform LIKE gets rebranded as Likee to improve user experience

The app has transformed its features to add more value to users’ lives.
Updated on Jan 29, 2021 09:32 pm IST

‘Do you believe in UFOs?’: China hints at test of new missile

On Sunday, footage circulated on China’s Weibo microblogging service of an object travelling up into the sky, leaving a white trail behind it, over the Bohai Sea, partly closed at the time for military drills.
Published on Jun 04, 2019 03:19 pm IST

India adds 40 mn new internet users each year

At 400 million active internet users, India is the second largest internet user market after China.
Updated on May 10, 2019 02:02 pm IST

To preserve freedoms online, amend the IT Act

In the absence of transparency, we have to rely on a mix of user reports and media reports that carry leaked government documents to get a glimpse into what websites the government is blocking
Updated on Apr 16, 2019 09:43 am IST

Twitter warns Pakistani rights activists over government criticism

Social network Twitter has warned two Pakistani rights activists against objectionable content.
Published on Nov 12, 2018 08:37 pm IST

There is no evidence that Internet shutdowns work

The answer has been evasion as the central government till date has refused to provide any count or centralise a reporting and disclosure system
Updated on Nov 12, 2018 05:30 pm IST

Why data is the new oil

As things stand, data collected from individuals is owned and manipulated by the companies that collect it (such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon – the much vaunted GAFA oligopoly – and others such as ride sharing, food delivery, grocery apps, etc ).
Updated on Nov 09, 2018 06:03 pm IST

Why India should make online child safety a priority

Children and young people are remarkably sensitive to the matter of online safety. As a Unesco global youth survey of 2017 shows, 95% of the respondents believe that their online safety is very important to them, and 94% place a high premium on the online safety of others.
Published on Jun 29, 2018 12:30 pm IST

‘I am gay’ protests sweep China over ban on homosexual content on Weibo

Weibo says the three-month campaign will target ‘illegal’ gay and violent content.
Updated on Apr 14, 2018 06:30 pm IST