'The 2019 election and the run-up to it will certainly see bots being deployed in large numbers on all sides.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com On Friday, Devangshu Datta explained in the first......
'It has been inconvenient, yes, but the public has borne it largely with good humour.''There have been long queues, but thanks to decades of shortage-economy socialism, we are used to standing in......
Companies like Amazon's Prime Video are also temporarily lowering bit rates -- a measure of how much data is being transferred -- to ease pressure on telecom network infrastructure. IMAGE: A......
The first phase of online video's growth is over. Netflix, Amazon, Hotstar, Voot, YouTube are all developing a new content ecosystem, finds Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Netflix's global content......
The 'in' thing in today's keyboard design happens to be its ergonomics. Here are the choices. People tend to be less finicky about keyboards. However, they do expect the keyboard layout to be......
The appreciative response to the courtroom drama, Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai, reiterated the popularity of legal shows on streaming platforms. In real life, cases may go round in tareekh pe tareekh......
Sendhil Ramamurthy, the geneticist from Heroes, is ready with his second Bollywood outing with Shor In The City, out this Friday. Sendhil started his acting career with theatre. In the late......
The last two months of the year have plenty of entertainment to offer. Besides films, there are quite a few Web series coming up. Some of them have spilled over to the next year, giving us......
Ekta Kapoor has launched a new television show Bol Niti Bol, which tells quite a different story from her usual fare. At 17 episodes, the show tries to reach out to the youth. The soap......
In decades past, Indian-origin actors in Hollywood were relegated to narrowly-defined, cliched roles like nerdy doctors, penny-pinching store owners and the occasional terrorist. And while that......