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Type 'Atari Breakout' in Google's Image search and play the game

May 15, 2013

Google is commemorating 37 years of the Atari's famous game Breakout, which was introduced way back in April 1976, by letting users play the game on Google's Image Search. #Internet #Technology #Google Inc. #ThingsWeLike #Google Image Search #Personal Technology #Atari BreakOut #Google Atari Breakout
Why Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy

May 14, 2013

Angelina Jolie wrote on a New York Times blog how she decided to undergo double mastectomy surgeries to prevent developing breast cancer. #Health #ThingsWeLike #Angelina Jolie #Cancer #Breast cancer #Ovarian cancer #mastectomy #preventive mastectomy
Why this Mothers Day an experience is better than a washing machine

May 12, 2013

When you gift a consumer durable, like a washing machine or a microwave oven, you don�t really gift her anything. Surely these items do make her life a bit easier, but all these items are simply used by her to serve the family, in her capacity as a mother. #India #ThingsWeLike #lifestyle #Mother #Mother's Day
Now, a shirt that can be worn for 100 days without washing or ironing!

May 02, 2013

Manufacturers claim the wool-blended shirt remains wrinkle-free and resists odour so effectively that it even smells fresh after being worn during rigorous exercise. #Fashion #ThingsWeLike #Wrinkle-free shirt
Porter's wife wins Rs 1 crore on Malayalam version of KBC

May 02, 2013

The graduate answered all the 15 questions correctly and was the first person to win the prize money. #India #Kerala #ThingsWeLike #Reality television #Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
We now know what Alexander Graham Bell sounded like

Apr 29, 2013

The National Museum of American History announced that Bell's voice was identified with help from technicians at the Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. #Technology #science #ThingsWeLike #Smithsonian #Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory #Alexander Graham Bell
Smartphones overtake 'dumb' phones worldwide

Apr 28, 2013

Samsung and Apple are the top makers of smartphones. LG Electronics Inc. of South Korea; HTC Corp. of Taiwan; and ZTE Corp. and Huawei Technologies Ltd. of China jostle for the No. 3 position. #IPhone #smartphones #Technology #ThingsWeLike #Apple #Samsung #HTC #IDG
4 lakh Dalits in UK to benefit as govt outlaws caste discrimination

Apr 26, 2013

Amendments tabled by Business Secretary Vince Cable in the House of Commons state that the Equality Act will "provide for caste to be an aspect of race". #ThingsWeLike #Caste #UK #House of Commons
Here's how Gujarat celebrated Charlie Chaplin's birthday

Apr 17, 2013

Adipur's only claim to fame is the annual Charlie Chaplin parade � now in its 40th year � to honor the filmmaker and comic actor known for his "Tramp" character. #Gujarat #ThingsWeLike #Charlie Chaplin #Adipur
Here is why cricket needs 'Sir' Ravindra Jadeja

Apr 16, 2013

Jadeja is probably one of those few cricketers who knows to be himself even in the media's eyes � a fact which has prompted commentators, teammates and experts to join everyone on the 'Sir Jadeja' bandwagon. #Twitter #Indian Premier League #Chennai Super Kings #ThingsWeLike #MS Dhoni #Ravindra Jadeja #IPL 6 #Sir Jadeja

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Editor's picks

Not just niceties, China and India need to focus on thorny issues

India’s discourse with China has traditionally been trapped in the Mao-ist maze that defines how “friends” ought to conduct themselves. But Chinese statecraft has evolved, and India too must up its diplomatic game.
Why the Indian media gives a damn about poverty

In that sense the poverty line of India is cruel. It is merciless and doesn’t allow the majority of Indians any money for shelter or access to education or healthcare or sanitation or anything else that civilised nations would consider as essential as food.
Goa meet: Will the BJP finally find a way out of its troubles?

Can the party resolve internal discord and take a call on Modi’s PM candidature?
Why Dhoni, Tendulkar can't distance themselves from spot fixing

Try following a game on twitter or with friends or at the ground. At every step of the way, the spot-fixing question raises itself.

Movie Review: 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' leaves you dissatisfied

If you forget the politics and just look at the film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist doesn’t fare much better. It’s a thriller that lacks tension and suspense.
Here's how the Delhi Police stumbled upon spot-fixing in IPL

After monitoring a phone call, the investigation had virtually turned pan-India with some of the bookies based in Gujarat and Mumbai.
Ex-Citi CEO Vikram Pandit, JM Financial join hands for banking foray in India

JM Financial will nominate Pandit as the non-executive chairman of the proposed bank. Pandit and Aiyar will have the right to purchase shares up to the amount prescribed by the RBI in this entity.
Movie Review: The Great Gatsby is the most Bollywood of Baz Luhrmann's films

The great American dream is an integral part of America. It’s ‘great’ in that it symbolises not truth, but hope when the truth is disillusioning; it symbolises not facts, but ideals when facts are unnerving; it symbolises not likelihood, but promise when likelihood is all but bleak.

Google I/O 2013 keynote: New Maps, Search, Plus, and S4 with 'pure' Android

We’re tracking the Google I/O conference 2013 live – what will be unveiled?
Hero worshipped in Kerala, Sreesanth still innocent in his state

The summary of the response in his Sreesanth’s home turf is that of incredulity. They are unwilling to believe that the pacer is guilty.
Why return of Dreamliners won't change Air India's fortunes

The original promise of the Dreamliner has failed to materiallise due to limitations in its flying range. Will Air India continue to pay a price for this?
Did Indira abolish bonded labour or Sonia? NREGA's tall claims

The UPA ads eulogising MGNREGA as a a huge success needs to be taken with bags of salt. The scheme did make a difference, but not as is claimed.

Angelina’s breast surgery possible in India, but there's a catch

So can we test in India and gain from the same treatment privilege that Jolie had? Yes, but there is a catch.
IPL 2013 KKR vs PWI Live: Yusuf kicks KKR out of the IPL

Live detailed updates as KKR take on Pune in a must-win game at Ranchi.
Wrong on Ghaziabad: The Kiran Bedi argument for moral policing

Bedi’s argument that we should focus on the legal wrong committed by the girl slapped by cops is technical, disingenuous and enabling.
Cloak but no dagger: The awfully mundane world of spies

There’s an endearing quality to reports that a CIA spy was arrested in Moscow: he comes across as a bumbling amateur who represents the lost Age of Innocence in the world of espionage.

From here on, Sonia-Manmohan dyarchy is a slow train wreck

The “two heads” power arrangement between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is coming apart at the seams.
Lessons from Karnataka: Cong must stop backing corrupt leaders in Andhra

The fact that it has allowed individuals named in chargesheets to continue as ministers is evidence that the Congress runs Andhra Pradesh as if it is its fiefdom, without a care for ethics in public life.
IPL 2013: How Isa Guha is changing perceptions about cricket presenters

Isa Guha is not your usual female cricket presenter. Apart from being an ex-player, she’s highly educated and injects a breath of fresh air on Indian screens.
Android and Chrome aren't merging for now, says Google's Sundar Pichai

Pichai has emphasised that Google is embracing both Chrome and Android is investing in both at least for now.

Ashwani to be shifted, Bansal to be booted? PM will decide

The fate of the two ministers is reportedly in the hands of the Prime Minister who has been told to take a final call.
How the Sarabjit-Sanaullah episode diminishes India

The Sarabjit-Sanaullah episode shows that for all of India’s attempts to project itself as an emerging global power, with a footprint larger than just the South Asian peninsula, it is unable to break out of its hyphenated relationship with Pakistan.
Changing dynamics: Is low-cost flying becoming really high cost?

Consumers may have to pay a high price for both the lower price and increased choice.
Star Trek Into Darkness is a perfectly adequate popcorn film

Star Trek Into Darkness is a perfectly adequate summer blockbuster film. It is impeccably tailored to please both the Trekkies and the non-geeks, genre lovers as well as the average moviegoer.