Author: Akshay Tyagi
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Live sky-diving at the Google I/O conference, and other insane stuff!
The Google I/O conference is going on right now ( it’s a 3 day event ), and Google just outdid themselves, and everybody else, including Facebook and Apple, in terms of pure awesomeness. The first part of the demo was pretty normal, where they introduced stuff like Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with a very fluid interface,…
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Surface: The Microsoft tablet that is awesome!
Microsoft is finally entering the tablet market with its own hardware. The Surface comes with Windows RT, and by the looks of it, is pretty awesome. The Surface used to be the name of Microsoft’s touch screen tables, which this is not. This is finally a tablet that I would buy, mainly because when I…
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Awesome free music streaming apps for Indians
Here is a list of music sites that you can use for free, from India, to listen to International as well as Bollywood music. 1. Grooveshark + Good for International music. It’s like the YouTube for music. Grooveshark has the best library controls. Ad supported. + Works on mobile ( HTML5 ). – The majority of the music…
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The Anonymous Occupy movement was not a failure
The general feeling that I have been sensing among some of the social media chatter around me is that the Anomymous protest was not big enough. It is obvious that it was nothing compared to campaigns run by protesters who are very skilled in their art, for example the anti corruption campaigns by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev. Despite this…
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Anonymous protest goes from Internet to real life. #Occupy India on June 9
A bunch of stuff has happened since we last reported about ISP’s blocking a bunch of Internet sites, and Anonymous India retaliating. Amongst other things, their twitter account was banned, but they are back up again. More government sites were targeted, This time it was not just DDoS attacks, but they actually hacked into the sites…
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The Facebook phone doesn’t have to suck
This is a response to reports that Facebook is certainly working on a phone and that it will, with certainty, suck. The project is allegedly code-named ‘Buffy’. If Facebook is indeed making a phone, I am pretty sure it will not be a ‘Facebook’ phone in the sense that they will just slap a boat load of the…
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Why is Elon Musk the real life Tony Stark ( Iron Man )?
Elon Musk founded PayPal. And Tesla Motors. And SpaceX. And a bunch of other companies. He is a brilliant engineer and entrepreneur. When he was 10, he bought a computer, and by age 12 programmed a game and sold it for 500 USD. Later (in 1995), he went to Stanford for his second degree, which…