The social media platform is reportedly shadowbanning posts containing certain terms. TikTok blamed algorithm flaws for the blocks. TikTok has been running a questionable word-filtering system in Ger...

A wide-eyed world has spent all of March, named after the Roman god of war, riveted to Russia’s depredations in Ukraine. The story of this annihilation has been a montage of image and text, with...

A war inevitably becomes a media war, which the invasion of Ukraine has triggered in multiple ways with the internet as its battleground. The battle to win support for the country under attack and its...

Ring side view Sir — Communication is vital during a crisis. While the radio formed the eyes and ears of the masses during the two World Wars, television brought the battle in Vietnam into Amer...

Neha Jhunjhunwala, whose Kolkata label Studio13 offers customised crockery, also swears by functionality – even when it comes to party numbers like tapas plates or luncheon sets. “Even tho...

To check the doneness of the cake, insert a toothpick into the centre, if it comes out clean, it’s ready! If you are making a fudgy mug cake, insert the toothpick into the sides of the cake to...

There is madness all around us. But we can do our bit to cope with some of it. One idea: do not doomscroll. Keep yourself informed. But do not be preoccupied with only news of disease, death and disas...

The 50-foot-tall Christmas tree set up by Fox News, America’s largest conservative TV network, outside its headquarters in New York, went up in flames. It turned out that a homeless person was b...

Things haven’t been great the last two years but our choice of emojis haven’t changed since 2019 when the Unicode Consortium last released its list. Instead of reflecting the languishing m...

Pakistan's telecom regulator has lifted a ban on TikTok following assurances by the popular Chinese video-sharing platform that it would control "immoral and indecent contents. The Pakistan ...