A leaked version of Facebook’s moderation policy shows that the social network finds sex, nudity and the female body icky, but is generally ok with blood and gore.
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It’s puzzling that the Nobel Committee has ignored him this long as they did Gandhi.
When it comes to war zones, the world needs to listen to the voices of the subjects and the storytellers. We can’t afford the deaths of either.
Any Booth Voting will be a boon for travellers as well as economic migrants who have to live away from their constituency to earn a living.
Even as our actresses try to look more like Cameron Diaz, with their blonde streaks and skin whitening treatments, we have an influx of lily-white foreigners who are being bronzed and tanned – and not very well – to be made to look more desi.
A weakening yen coupled with higher interest rates in emerging markets means we could see a tsunami of fresh equity investments from Japan
Nothing else, but the unconcern of non-voting cribbers, will explain the victory of only 1 of the 79 candidates put up by the citizen groups across the city.
Beyond setting an internal pecking order within the organisation, from an employee’s perspective, what is the utility of this tag?
Tendulkar has more cricket left in him – good, world-class cricket. But he isn’t playing it today and that is the only issue.
Can RIM’s updated Playbook change anything for the beleaguered company?
#Android #Blackberry Playbook #RIM #TechBuzzSamsung Electronics Co Ltd, which emerged as the world’s top smartphone maker last year, said today that sales of its flagship Galaxy S II topped 20 million handsets since its launch in April last year.
#Apple Inc. #Samsung Electronics #smartphones #Technology #TechTrackerMajor contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group — which counts Apple, HP, Dell, Nokia and Motorola Mobility among its major clients — last week raised wages for its workers in China by 16-25 percent, the third hike since 2010.
#Apple Inc. #Dell #Foxconn #Hewlett-Packard #labour issues #TechTracker
CERN appeared to contradict Einstein last year when it reported that neutrinos could travel faster than light; now the lab says a loose cable could explain the surprising observations.
#Albert Einstein #CERN #Neutrino #NewsTracker
Google said in a statement that under the California agreement, Android users will have “even more ways to make informed decisions when it comes to their privacy”.
#Amazon Inc. #Android #Apple Inc. #California #Gmail #Google #Google plus #Microsoft Corporation #NewsTracker
IBM said on Wednesday that its QRadar Security Intelligence Platform allowed it to analyse real-time data feeds from more than 400 different sources.
#cyber security #Cyberspace #IBM #InsecureNet #Internet security market #QRadar #Security
Microsoft says it has lodged a formal complaint with the European Union’s competition regulator against Google’s Motorola Mobility.
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The Daily has claimed that Microsoft will soon be launching the MS Office iPad app in the coming weeks. The software giant has denied the story.
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Companies will be invited to bid again to make the device after complaints of poor performance and hiccups rolling out a pilot model.
#Aakash tablet #Datawind #Delhi #tablets #WhatNext
Saif Ali Khan was arrested this evening and has been released by the police on bail after being charged with assaulting an NRI businessman.
The West Bengal chief minister said the NCTC in the current form will harm the federal structure of the country disturbing the Centre-state equation.
“There is some kind of confusion reigning in the dressing room. Let’s not deny that. Why are people speaking in such disparaging voices and so randomly?” asks senior cricket writer Ayaz Memon.
The telecom policy crisis emanating from the SC’s cancellation of licences is the third time the sector is falling apart. It will take all of this year to unravel.
Google’s privacy violation issues have become bigger with Microsoft jumping in this tale by proving that the search engine did the same with Microsoft’s, Internet Explorer.
Tendulkar has more cricket left in him – good, world-class cricket. But he isn’t playing it today and that is the only issue.
Almost every airline is crumbling under the pressure of high operating costs, fierce undercutting of tickets by rivals, and heavy debt loads.
His critics attack him as elitist. In truth, however, all good Indians know, it’s the bade log who make things happen. It’s when the powerful don’t deliver that their big name pedigree becomes a huge problem.
Robert is discovering that it’s no fun being the nation’s first damaad, or bahu for that matter.
Where do Dhoni and Sehwag want the team to go? Because even in a fight, one’s guessing, someone has to win. But if India loses, then the both of them lose too.
Plans to expand the bill food are a likely vote-winner for the ruling Congress but could worsen strained finances as a flagging economy crimps revenue.
Firstpost spent a day with Alfred Prasad, executive chef at the London-based Michelin starred Tamarind restaurant. And watched him cook his best dish.
Even a two-year-long campaign in UP and brazen pandering to voters hasn’t given Rahul Gandhi and the Congress much room for optimisim in UP.
Firstpost spoke to foreign aid expert Dr Nilma Gulrajani who sheds light on the reasons Britain insists giving aid to India, when they clearly do not want it.
Two decades after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, meet a man whose connection to that history is both direct and controversial. But few know of Baba Dharamdas’ other link – to the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
India’s position is quite indefensible, it is true, and it really has no case to make except for the accession document signed by a monarch.
Marcus Bestin is a man on a mission: to fight the unfair double-standard that makes male prostitution illegal in Nevada. If only this self-described Gandhian could get his history right.
When it comes to the anti-rape debate, everybody has answers on how to keep the victims safe. How about looking at the perpetrators of the crime instead of blaming the victim?
First Mausam, then Rockstar, and now Ekk Deewana Tha. This is the season for failed epic love stories. Perhaps it’s time to stop and reflect on the irrationality of what passes for love in these movies.
The PMO claims it has solved a major issue in the power sector, but it has not really dealt with the problem.
The whole fiasco will serve as a reality check for the BCCI. They will now realise that there is a world beyond their offices at the Wankhede stadium.
Amazon has pulled the iPad 2 from its online stores in China setting off a flurry of speculation as to the reason due to an ongoing trademark dispute over the tablet in China.
The City of Joy is now feeling the blues. Kolkata is on a painting spree. Forget the Orange Revolution and the Green Revolution. Now Kolkata gets its state-sponsored Blue Revolution. Apply two coats and you are done.
It should be easy to withdraw tax concessions to the rich and finance food security. But the numbers prove otherwise.
