ABOUT Shashank Bhardwaj
Shashank is a Computer Science undergrad in India. Apart from being a tech fanatic, he can also hold endless discussions on The Dark Knight trilogy. Follow his blog on Yaabot.com
A mind-boggling 4 Gigapixel panorama image of the surface of Mars has been created by stitching together another mind-boggling 407 photos of the red planet. Thanks to NASA’s robotic rover – Curiosity – we earthlings have been getting to see a lot more of Mars recently. Andrew Bodrov, however, made it more interesting. Petapixel put…
Facebook has sent out invites for an event at their headquarters to be held on April 4th. Facebook plans to showcase its ‘new home on Android’ next week at 10:00AM Pacific Standard Time. A Phone ? There have been a lot of rumors flying around for some time now (ever since the Graph Search launch)…
Google has selected the winners for its Google Glass contest that launched last February. Each winner is going to be contacted directly by Google – but a few names are already out. Google launched its #ifihadglass initiative in February this year, where people were invited to submit original ideas on how they would use its…
One is a South Korean manufacturer that launched its first Android in 2009. The other is a Taiwanese company, making smartphones right from the start in the last decade. Yet, Samsung today is the world’s biggest Android manufacturer while HTC, despite its head-start in the industry, is not even second, but many levels below in…
Jurassic Park is re-releasing in 3D format this April. Remember the original 1993 release? Those dinosaurs still look equally convincing. Jurassic Park, in terms of its special effects, was a movie way ahead of its time. But now it seems like we’ve reached a saturation point in terms of visual-effects quality. Nowadays movies are throwing…
Microsoft has listed July 2014 for when it will end support for Windows Phone 8. Already? It’s been five months since Windows Phone 8 – the second generation of Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS was officially lauched. Has it saved Microsoft from its downward plunge in the mobile sector? Not quite, going by sales data. Problems…
An assassination is a murder of a prominent personality, usually a political figure. We’ve had a lot of those over the centuries, right from Assyrian king Sennacherib in 681 BC to Mahmoud-al-Mabouh in Dubai, 2010. Many assassinations have had a profound impact on the country, or its people, and changed the course of its history….
Whatsapp’s new look Holo-theme version is officially available on the Play Store. Released last month on its official website as a downloadable APK, the update was pushed to the Play Store on 15th March. Revamped UI The update involves a change in fonts, and a revamp of the UI, with a lot less of the…
Back in 2004, I was on a visit to a remote village in northern India. It’s a power-deprived area where the most you can get is about 8 hours of electricity a day. Naturally, I was having trouble keeping my devices charged. The neighbouring town, a few miles off, had an uninterrupted power supply. Wi-Fi…
New pictures have emerged of a previously unseen (and rather good looking) Motorola phone that might be the much awaited Motorola X. The leak includes a set of pictures and a video too. Tinh tế has uploaded a set of images as well as hardware information it has on this unknown device, which bears an…
Facebook disappointed phone enthusiasts when it launched its Graph Search in January 2013. People had been hoping Facebook might enter the smartphone arena with a Facebook Phone – but instead only got a semantic search tool. Nevertheless, the Facebook Phone rumors are back – and this time with some reliable confirmation too. HTC and Facebook…
The much-awaited, and incredibly hyped Samsung Galaxy S4, all set to launch on 14th March might just have been leaked. A Chinese website claims to have had access to the phone, and has uploaded pictures (and a video) of the device online. The Galaxy S4, the fourth generation model of Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup, will…
A rather stunning piece of news hit the headlines on July 27, 2011. On that day, Apple Inc. had more cash in hand than the entire United States federal government. Apple, at $76.15 billion, had about $2 billion more than $73.76 billion with the US Treasury. The Rise Although this was because the US government…
The tech world can hardly breathe with all the hype and expectations surrounding Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S IV, but that doesn’t stop their other flagship from hogging the limelight as well. Fresh rumours have surfaced about the latest edition to their highly successful phablet series – The Galaxy Note 3. Galaxy Note 3 Spec Sheet…
Our favorite racing game series – Need for Speed – is all set to move on to the big screen. After having sold more than 140 million copies worldwide, and having made a lot of money in the process, the franchise will now be getting its own movie. DreamWorks Deal Need for Speed is the…