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Netflix enthusiast? Soon, you could get mobile-only plan at Rs 251 a month

The basic Netflix streaming plan in India starts from $7.27 (Rs 500) and the test plan would slash the existing subscription plan exactly by half

Skullcandy Push wireless earbuds is a performer when it comes to music

The Push has an on-battery time of around five hours - not exceptional, but decent

Arming CXOs with data: 25-year old's budgeting tool project goes global

An MBA candidate is helping companies increase efficiency, use data-based budgeting

MBA student who uses data to tell best spot for e-vehicle charging points

A 27-year-old final-year MBA candidate's project may provide a template for planning a future electronic vehicle transport ecosystem across major cities

Now, AI to predict Cricket matches, assess the luck of the players

IIT Madras and ESPNcricinfo partner to create an engine that leverages rich data collected from over over a decade of insights of ball-by-ball updates

Facebook admits to storing passwords in plain text on internal servers

The security slip left the passwords readable by the social networking giant's employees

How political parties are leveraging social media ahead of 2019 elections

With 500 million internet users, which is about half of India's electorate, no party can afford to ignore the digital space

From 1950 to 2018: How Artificial Intelligence has evolved over the years

In 1956, a conference was held at Dartmouth College where the term Artificial Intelligence was coined

Virtual advice for real finances

Physical advisors have been receiving tough competition from algorithm-based investment counselling and robo-advisories

Towards farms of the future: How AI is revolutionising agriculture in India

Technological interventions - on the part of the government and tech majors - are likely to lead to better agricultural practices, yields, and an improvement in the lives of farmers

Facebook to block housing, job and bank ads that are age, gender specific

The changes to Facebook's advertising methods which generate most of the company's enormous profits are unprecedented

WhatsApp, NASSCOM Foundation partner to fight fake news before elections

WhatsApp and NASSCOM Foundation has partnered to deliver digital literacy training to curb fake news, propaganda and misinformation menace before Lok Sabha Elections 2019

Zaap Hydra Xtreme: Rugged, loud, gives a steady playback of over six hours

For Rs 3,200, it's a versatile speaker if you don't possess a terribly demanding ear

Gentlemen chatbots for B2B, ladies to the fore for online consumer services

Male persona fits well with enterprise tech, where voice is limited, while female bots work well with voice-based consumer interaction usually offered to women, like call centre exec or receptionist

IPL 2019: RCB partners with an Israeli sports tech firm to engage fans

Virat Kohli-led RCB has formed the strategic collaboration with Israel-based Interacting Technology Sports to place the fans at centre stage and unite them on an innovative digital community platform

Explained: How smart devices are changing the threat landscape

Research company Gartner predicts that by 2020, IoT will connect more than 20 billion 'things'

India's first-time internet users are addicted to these quirky Chinese apps

Hundreds of millions of Indians, newly connected to the web, are flocking to wacky, racy content on apps such as Like, Helo and TikTok

Explained: Why telcos don't want you to buy mobile boosters online

While illegal signal boosters may enhance wireless coverage in a particular area, such devices, when improperly designed or installed, will cause interference with mobile network

Facebook rules out cyber attack after its family of apps suffers outage

According to the website downdetector.com, outages were heaviest in North America and Europe, but some users appeared to be affected in other regions

Facebook and Instagram down in worldwide outage, users get error message

Users headed to Twitter, making the hashtag #facebookdown the top trending topic in the United States