Banksy's identity could be revealed in $1.6 million defamation lawsuitKnown for his thought-provoking graffiti, Banksy is facing a lawsuit over a trademark dispute. British greeting card company Full Colour Bl...
15 Oct, 2023, 06.00 PM IST
Amid sextortion's rise, computer scientists tap AI to identify risky appsPredators are increasingly weaponizing apps and online services to collect explicit images. Last year, law enforcement received 7,000 repor...
11 Aug, 2023, 11.08 AM IST
Banking turmoil takes the leveraged out of the buyoutFour acquisitions of companies by private equity firms that were announced in the last two weeks were funded by debt that accounted for bet...
23 Mar, 2023, 04.01 PM IST
Why US regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humansA year after the rejection, Neuralink is still working through the agency’s concerns. Three staffers said they were skeptical the company c...
02 Mar, 2023, 11.16 PM IST
Why some crypto creators are choosing to stay anonymous with pseudonyms like 'Gargamel', 'Zeus'The Bored Apes Yacht Club founders gave several interviews under their pseudonyms.
22 Feb, 2022, 05.03 PM IST
Tarantulas from Poland, Tamarins from Thailand seized in ChennaiThe end price of exotic creatures is very high. But enforcement agencies, in recent years, have stopped assigning any monetary value to wil...
31 Jul, 2021, 11.00 PM IST
Wall Street vs Robinhoods: How retail investors brought a hedge fund to kneesWith the pandemic hitting retailers the worst and online gaming gaining popularity in recent years, a company like GameStop that retails vi...
27 Jan, 2021, 09.27 AM IST
How Donald Trump plowed through $1 billion in his election campaignTrump bought a $10 million Super Bowl ad when he didn't yet have a challenger. He tapped his political organization to cover exorbitant leg...
20 Oct, 2020, 11.23 AM IST
View: One man’s vermin another’s animal?Many animals succumb to ‘snaring’ every year across India. It is a practice by which an edible item is filled with explosives, or sharp mat...
11 Jun, 2020, 11.24 PM IST
India-US bonhomie may make China allow Delhi into NSG: ExpertsUS officials have said it is the Obama administration's stated objective to help India enter the NSG and President Obama is fully behind it.
13 Jul, 2018, 11.49 AM IST
Service charge: Don’t eat if you don’t want to pay, says restaurants’ bodyThe government had clarified that the authorities could act against those levying a service charge without the knowledge and consent of con...
03 Jan, 2017, 12.13 PM IST
Fire on the mountains: A butterfly expert's take on the blazing hills of UttarakhandThe fires caused the forests to be cleared of vegetation and undergrowth. When that happens, the soil gets compacted and does not allow wat...
08 May, 2016, 02.21 AM IST
Administration calls halt to cattle donation at Karnataka's Mahadeshwara TempleA Dharmasthala-like goshala is not possible at the Mahadeshwara temple. And not just because the scale is 100 times more.
28 Nov, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Hershey close to acquiring healthy snacks company Krave: sourcesThe deal is expected to value Sonoma, California-based Krave at between $200 million and $300 million, the people said this week. An announ...
27 Jan, 2015, 08.49 PM IST
Global art and tech share stage at the Indian startup DailyObjectsBrezak is among hundreds of artists around the globe who are making graphic designs for Delhi-based startup DailyObjects that makes designe...
27 Dec, 2014, 07.41 AM IST
- Shrenuj in JV with Israeli co to mkt sports diamond jewellery
Mumbai-based diamond company Shrenuj in JV with Israel's SWA Trading, for developing and marketing sports diamond jewellery to woo soccer l...
16 Dec, 2009, 01.02 AM IST
'Wild saints' worthy of worshipIn the 1960s, the veteran grizzly expert and wilderness enthusiast Doug Peacock went to Vietnam as a young army medic. The searing experien...
10 Jan, 2009, 06.10 AM IST