Bars And Texting

Google Lens now has Copy Text, Translate, and Find image source tools in the desktop version of Chrome.

Reddit is now adding multiple new features to Reddit Talk. It is allowing users to record and replay sessions and has added the ability to interact with text and emojis during Talks. Reddit is also bringing the Reddit Talk experience to the Web. Additionally, the social media platform is testing a new live bar feature that shows when live Reddit Ta...

The nationwide lockdown will continue till May 31, allow movement of people during the daytime, and inter-state transport -- buses and public vehicles, the government of India announced today. It will, however, retain the key bars on air travel and metro rail, malls and gyms and big gatherings. People above the age of 60 and children below 10 shoul...

The Supreme Court today confirmed the disqualification of 17 Karnataka MLAs whose revolt triggered the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government and the subsequent takeover by the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP. But the court has cancelled the Speaker's decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till 2023.

In Facebook and Twitter posts addressed to Uber, Pune resident Ambika Sharma Anavkar details how a cab driver continuously texted her days after she booked a ride for her relatives. Her posts have since prompted the cab company to start an investigation and take action against the driver, barring him from using the app.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget for the 2017-18 financial year starting April 1. For the first time the general budget included the railways budget this year. Also in a first, the budget announcement date was advanced to February 1 in a move that would help streamline new schemes and spending. The budget comes just da...

Google's Now On Tap can now translate text from any screen and will also allow users to scan bar codes and QR codes.

With apprehension that in the wake of the agitation in Haryana, the Jat demand for reservation could pick up pace in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, the administration has declared Section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code and banned the use of social media there as precautionary measures.

US President Barack Obama sent Congress his text on Wednesday for an authorisation to use military force in the campaign against the Islamic State, limiting operations against the militants to three years and barring use of US troops in "enduring offensive ground combat."

In a second major crackdown on entities luring investors fraudulently through short text messages (SMS), market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has barred 37 entities, including a listed company and its promoters and directors, from capital markets.

The accreditation dispute is the latest between the BCCI and media organisations to mar the series. News agencies such as AFP, Thomson-Reuters and the Associated Press have all suspended text and photo coverage of the four Test series over the BCCI's decision to bar photo counterparts such as Getty Images and Action Images.

As patrons at Bull Feeney's danced to a '90s cover band and sipped from cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Eric Coulombe, the manager, fiddled with what he says is the latest weapon against the rowdiness and fighting that has long plagued the bar scene in this seaside city -- an iPod Touch. Bar owners and the police here have started a text messaging syste...

Google Lens now has Copy Text, Translate, and Find image source tools in the desktop version of Chrome.

Reddit is now adding multiple new features to Reddit Talk. It is allowing users to record and replay sessions and has added the ability to interact with text and emojis during Talks. Reddit is also bringing the Reddit Talk experience to the Web. Additionally, the social media platform is testing a new live bar feature that shows when live Reddit Ta...

The nationwide lockdown will continue till May 31, allow movement of people during the daytime, and inter-state transport -- buses and public vehicles, the government of India announced today. It will, however, retain the key bars on air travel and metro rail, malls and gyms and big gatherings. People above the age of 60 and children below 10 shoul...

The Supreme Court today confirmed the disqualification of 17 Karnataka MLAs whose revolt triggered the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government and the subsequent takeover by the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP. But the court has cancelled the Speaker's decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till 2023.

In Facebook and Twitter posts addressed to Uber, Pune resident Ambika Sharma Anavkar details how a cab driver continuously texted her days after she booked a ride for her relatives. Her posts have since prompted the cab company to start an investigation and take action against the driver, barring him from using the app.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget for the 2017-18 financial year starting April 1. For the first time the general budget included the railways budget this year. Also in a first, the budget announcement date was advanced to February 1 in a move that would help streamline new schemes and spending. The budget comes just da...

Google's Now On Tap can now translate text from any screen and will also allow users to scan bar codes and QR codes.

With apprehension that in the wake of the agitation in Haryana, the Jat demand for reservation could pick up pace in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, the administration has declared Section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code and banned the use of social media there as precautionary measures.

US President Barack Obama sent Congress his text on Wednesday for an authorisation to use military force in the campaign against the Islamic State, limiting operations against the militants to three years and barring use of US troops in "enduring offensive ground combat."

In a second major crackdown on entities luring investors fraudulently through short text messages (SMS), market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has barred 37 entities, including a listed company and its promoters and directors, from capital markets.

The accreditation dispute is the latest between the BCCI and media organisations to mar the series. News agencies such as AFP, Thomson-Reuters and the Associated Press have all suspended text and photo coverage of the four Test series over the BCCI's decision to bar photo counterparts such as Getty Images and Action Images.

As patrons at Bull Feeney's danced to a '90s cover band and sipped from cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Eric Coulombe, the manager, fiddled with what he says is the latest weapon against the rowdiness and fighting that has long plagued the bar scene in this seaside city -- an iPod Touch. Bar owners and the police here have started a text messaging syste...