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Sesame Phone is the world’s first completely touch-free smart phone, recognizes face movements and hand gestures. It is designed by and for people with disabilities.

A new EU initiative might make life miserable for corrupt individuals and companies to hide their identity behind a maze of anonymous shell companies. The new move might make it easier for investigators and the public to uncover the source and intended destination for funds stolen from the public or given and accepted as bribes for winning public contracts. Many secret companies till now being used to hide illicit funds.

Is it going to be the beginning of bad times for PM Narender Modi? The thinking in the BJP and RSS is that Modi is enjoying too much power than required. A powerful lobby wants to show him his place.

Banning the youngsters from the internet, each time they are stalked, harasses or bullied online is not the solution, parents need to set clear rules about what they are allowed and not to do online. Parents should know what children are doing online, who their friends are, and if they have made any new friends. Make sure that kids do not post photos or open accounts without permission and tell you whenever something makes them uncomfortable, hurts or scares them.

The Internet can be both a fun outing and a dangerous place where you commonly get pornographic images, adult content and pop-up ads during routine searches. Chat rooms can be fun to talk to friends and make new ones but then anyone can access chat rooms, even secure ones. There is always the danger of adults intent of harming children.

Tevon Harris’s modus operandi was simple. He would contact young girls through social media and offer them modelling jobs with lots of money. Later they mere made to have sex with Harris and other customers. The girls were then photographed and their images posted in online ads for prostitution. Even the money they earned was pocketed by Harris who used violence and intimidation to make them cooperate. They were also not allowed to speak to their friends or relatives and kept without food for days if they did not cooperate.

Helicopters are versatile fighting machines that do not need fancy airfields to take off or land and can engage targets on the ground, air or sea. A typical helicopter gunship is like a samurai that can destroy around 17 times its cost before being destroyed.

Shopping is the main preoccupation for Indians abroad. Indians just love shopping. Nearly half the people from India travel only to for shopping overseas. Almost 73% buy branded duty-free goods. According to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Indians spend over $5.52 billion while traveling abroad. Part of the reason behind it is that the credit cards issued by Indian banks are valid internationally.

Ironically over 100 million sharks are killed every year for a tip of their tail in the soup bowl. But what makes the practice called 'shark fining' even more cruel and repulsive is the fact that the fins of living shark are cut off, and their squirming bodies are thrown back into the ocean for the Shark to die in pain.

Is frequent sex among married couple, bad for their health and longevity? Recent medical researches have suggested having regular sex can make you feel closer to your partner but the BJP MP from Bhopal does not think so.

IITs and IIMs setup with the help of Americans in the 60s are not the best intuitions of learning that we can create. The elite that they are creating is much too imperfect and incapable of leading the society. Were the IITs and IIMs created for producing elite management cadres for the American market? Surely something is wrong, more so when, most IIT and IIM graduates are moving into marketing and not in the manufacturing sector for which they trained.

People in India fear the police as much as the criminals. Today many police officers are facing charges like brutality, torture and helping criminals or politicians - frame or eliminate opponents-- to get promoted. This may lead to total breakdown of values and erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system.