Look's like Google's really desperate to bring you pictures of literally all the nooks and crannies of the world -- so desperate in fact, it's willing to send one of its Street View cars crashing down a ravine, just to get that last shot. Or at least that's probably how the driver tells it. Read More >>
India is now responsible for 9.3 per cent of the world's spam — up from 8 per cent last year — overtaking the US for the first time, and meaning that it now accounts for more of the email trash than any other country. Read More >>
Shiva Ayyadurai, pictured above, is a shimmering intellectual. He holds four degrees from MIT (where he lectures), numerous patents, honours, and awards. He also says he invented email, and there's a global conspiracy against him. Guess which one of these statements is true. Read More >>
Featured comment by paulschapman:
"Numerous people will have written electronic mail systems years before it hit the mainstream - did it myself at college because at the time the offici..." More »
The long running Olympus corruption scandal that saw ties with the mob, hiding loses and executives leaving left and right has taken another sad turn with the apparent suicide of one of its top executives, Tsutomi Omori in New Delhi. Read More >>
Well, this is bad. OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of world maps, has been vandalised, with someone deliberately screwing up its data. Worse, the offending IP addresses seem to be coming from a set belonging to Google India. Careful where you drive. Read More >>
Featured comment by miocene:
"I've found the Google maps themselves have suffered a bit of vandalism/incompetent editing. Examples: Southwark tube station used to be in Korean or s..." More »
Featured comment by ssg007:
"No no, not savages. It's just a way of life in India (I should know, being an Arab British Asian and all).
It's pretty much the same as, how much o..." More »
Nidar Singh is the last known master of shastar vidya, a form of Sikh martial arts that involves lots of spinning blades flying around at the same time. It's seriously impressive—and seriously endangered, unless Singh gets help. Read More >>
Featured comment by janberktin:
"I'd do it, but I'm guessing he doesn't want someone already in their mid twenties who's not in fab physical condition who suffers from mild asthma and..." More »
Our very own Sam Gibbs, news editor extraordinaire, made an appearance on Al Jazeera news today to discuss the "world's cheapest tablet," which will be sold in India to students for the subsidised price of £22, and later in shops for £38. Read More >>
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