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The end of Ask.com, and the shifting sands of internet useAfter a 25-year run, Ask Jeeves has officially shut down as part of a strategic shift by parent company IAC. Launched in 1996 as a conversa...
French lawmakers approve bill banning social media for children under 15French MPs have approved a bill banning social media for under-15s and stopping phone use in high schools. The government says the move pro...
As AI data scrapers sap websites' revenues, some fight backAI crawlers from major tech firms are scraping vast amounts of web content without permission, undermining traffic and revenues for publish...
Wikipedia will not appeal dismissal of its UK Online Safety Act challengeThe US government has criticised Britain's new online law, along with a similar policy in the European Union, and President Donald Trump co...
Britannica Education launches in India, to offer digital solutions for school learningBritannica Education launched 12 digital learning solutions in India, including Britannica School and Britannica Library. These subscriptio...
Russian version of Wikipedia to launch soon, reports sayBeta testing - a limited audience testing of the site - started in mid-2023, the daily Kommersant reported, and there were reportedly alrea...
Russia fines Reddit $20,000 for banned content: news agency RIAReddit joins a list of sites under scrutiny in Russia for failing to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, including Wikimedia, streami...
Russia fines Reddit for first time over 'banned content,' RIA saysWikipedia is one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified af...
Russia fines Wikipedia owner for failing to delete Azov battalion content - IfaxA Russian court on Tuesday fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, 3 million roubles ($36,854) for refusing to delete an arti...
Wikipedia gets new features in first desktop update after a decadeThe new desktop interface, according to Wikimedia that runs Wikipedia, was created to meet the needs of the next generation of internet use...
Wish you a happy 20th, Wiki bhai!Here’s to the strange repository of (largely) dependable information
Reasons why you should consider taking a tech sabbaticalIf you check your phone for new notifications just after waking up, this article is for you.
Jupiter Infomedia to expand revenue from online business catalogueJupiter Infomedia plans to mine its existing online assets through rigorous marketing efforts across various metro cities in India.
Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languagesIn the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-bas...
- Online version: Atleast Encyclopaedia Britannica will be there in spirit if not in form
Yet, the sheer grandeur of its physical presence, the awe-inspiring weight and breadth of its everincreasing volumes, will be missed.
- Wikipedia to recruit more women writers
Wikipedia is set to recruit more women contributors, after it was revealed that more that 85 percent of the articles are written by men.
- Wikipedia eases editing restrictions on controversial pages
Wikipedia says it has taken an "important step" towards making easier the editing of some its most controversial articles - the online ency...
- Britannica plans series of books on Science, Mathematics & GK
India is going to be a key growth area for Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB) as the 242-year-old behemoth diversifies into school curricula seg...
- Wikipedia under fire for showing 'dressed-up porn'
The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopaedia on the Internet, Wikipedia has come under fire for allowing pornographic images and vid...
- Govt to rope in young minds to invent cheaper drugs
The government has begun discussions with Sun Microsystems to set up web-management tools for an ‘open source’ drug discovery project. Day ...