If you answer YES to any of these two questions, then this post is for you. - Have you ever been “bluebugged” or have been a victim of “bluebugging”? - Do you keep Bluetooth on your phone or laptop on always and keep the device discoverable? If you are the…

In a survey conducted by #NordVPN earlier this year, about 65% of respondents (of 9,800 adults surveyed) have said they used their phones in the bathroom/toilet. No surprises there and am sure the trend will be similar in India as well. Nir Eyal, an author & lecturer who writes about…

Hours of frustrated waiting in traffic — this is a reality that Bengaluru car drivers face almost every day and so do many car drivers in major cities across India, although not as bad as how Bengaluru folks have it. Now help is on the way … in the…

Each of us might have done any number of online transfers or received money from someone in our bank account online. What is used most commonly in such transfers is the IFSC code. But do you know what it means? IFSC stands for “Indian Financial System Code” and is an…

In 2017, the Supreme Court of India ruled that privacy is a fundamental right for every Indian Citizen. The Indian government has now proposed a new data privacy bill — Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022. This is the fourth iteration of the proposed bill and is now open for…

Those interested in what’s happening with #China will NOT be surprised to know that China has ‘stolen more’ US data ‘than every other nation combined’ as per the head of #FBI in the #USA. Christopher Wray, FBI Director, said at the House Homeland Security Committee’s annual worldwide threats hearing: “China’s…

The news flashed: “Google to develop a single AI language model supporting over 1,000 spoken languages” But what does this mean to the common man or even to the techies among us? Google has unveiled an Artificial Intelligence trained model of over 400 languages, which they claim as the largest…

Any sufficiently advanced science appears like magic — as said by someone famous. If you had the ability to predict what the stock prices could be tomorrow, would you not become a multi-millionaire or a billionaire? You would be the most sought-after analyst, isn’t it? That, in short, denotes the…

Isha Foundation may, after all, not need environmental clearances for its buildings because it does come under the bucket of educational institutions, as observed by the Chennai High Court. https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/sha-foundation-educational-institution-madras-high-court-environmental-norms-breach-case “Therefore, when this OM has clarified that educational institutions will mean not only schools colleges etc, but also those that…