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PIX: Online age brings down a 244-year-old ICON

The convenient gadget age of iPads and Kindles have probably shot down its bulkiest ancestor. The Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in......

The real greatness of Indians is that we are consensual

Sanjaya Baru, former media advisor to prime minister Manmohan Singh, delivered the second H Y Sharada Prasad memorial lecture on media, business and government recently in Delhi. Sharada Prasad was......

Indian American girl wins Spelling Bee

In her fourth appearance at the annual spelling marathon, a supremely-confident Kavya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, breezed through to win the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee competition,......

It must be true...I read it on Wikipedia!

Six years after Wikipedia, the referencing portal, which allows users to edit information, was hosted by Jimmy Wales, it has become the butt of jokes for bringing 'democracy to knowledge.'"Who is......

Weaving it together: Web 2.0

Why don't you just change it, uncle, if you feel so strongly about it?" asked Rohit with a hint of irritation. He is my friend's son, all of fourteen years and having been brought up entirely in......

This cell phone also kills germs

There's a video playing these days at New York's Museum of Modern Art about a curvaceous cell phone called 'Morph'. Unlike your typical phone, this one's form-fitting: It wraps around your wrist......

Wikipedia planning search engine

As part of efforts to widen its reach and showcase the power of 'wikis,' online encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning a search engine that is intended to rival that of Google."Yes, Wikimedia......

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Q. who is known as Father of modern day engineering and father of robotics ?
Truth Exposed: A. more

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Q. who was Alhazen and his works?
Khabardar: A. Al Jazari, is considered the father of modern Engineering and Father of Robotics. According to encyclopedia britannica 2009 latest research in...... more

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Q. encyclopedia Britannica won't be available on paper anymore. Is this the flagship move to the end of printing ?
ABC XYZ: A. Anyone who has ever used vision glasses or contact lenses, taken a picture with a camera or watched television has a reason to be thankful to the...... more

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Q. who is your choice for the The greatest leader of all times ?
Bharat Trivedi: A. Than it is loss to many more

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