fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about cyber safety, artificial intelligence, dystopian futures and our everyday gadgets.
Pros and cons of E-books
Books are one of the oldest forms of telling a story. But today e-books are the new digital form of sharing your story. E-books have been around for a few years now. E-books are slowly gaining popularity just like physical paper books. E-books which are also known as electronic books is a text presented in a format that allows it to be read on any digital device like a computer, tablet, laptop. E-books are gaining more popularity and are preferred over traditional books. It has become more convenient for people to read a book online rather than buying a physical copy of the book. Print books do not seem to be relevant anymore but there are still a lot of people who prefer traditional books over e-books. The main purpose of e-books is to reduce the complexity of storing books. It can be noted that there are many advantages of e-books, but along with the advantages they indeed come with disadvantages too.
By Dia Palhar4 years ago in 01
Click on Accept. Top Story - March 2022.
It was one of those nights when there was nothing on TV and it was too early to go to bed, so I was web surfing. I had heard about a site that was like Amazon but all their items were pre-owned (used). They sold everything from houses to hose clamps, vacation packages to vacuums — you name it, they had it for sale. I eventually found the site and started exploring a virtual cornucopia of items for sale. Why someone would buy slightly used shoelaces is beyond me, but there they were for 25 cents per lace. As I was scanning other items, an information box popped up on my screen informing me that, after reading the Terms and Conditions, I would need to click the Accept button if I wanted to continue using the site. I had 10 seconds to click Accept. No one, me included, ever takes the time to read the 25 plus pages of legalese that are usually included in the conditions box. I clicked Accept and continued browsing. About an hour later, I called it a night and went to bed.
By Mark Gagnon4 years ago in 01
The Secret of Black Hat SEO strategy
The commonly used term for bad SEO strategies is the "White Hat" SEO strategy, in contrast to "Black Hat" SEO, which uses the ethical way to optimize a website so as to achieve a better ranking position. Take a look at what methods SEO companies are using, promising your business 1# results immediately. This article will help you understand the various "bad" methods, the so-called "black hat" techniques — and yes maybe there's a bit of magic involved in it.
By Bikash Paul4 years ago in 01
An international Collaboration of Vision11 with Pollard.
The BigMan -Pollard joined hands with the top Fantasy Sports Platform Vision11, being the first foreign player associating with this platform. Who doesn’t know about this great all-rounder, the one who can hit balls beyond the human visionary! His magnificent presence in the cricket stadium is evidence of his contribution to cricket.
By Anurag Gupta4 years ago in 01
One person can change everything
At the age of 9 I experienced my first major loss. We were in Bali, partying hard and living it up when my mums phone rang. She picked it up, answering it with a sigh and moving away from the blaring music. “Hello?” It was my aunty Debby, my mums sister. She ranted on, her strained hollow voice escaping the speakers and within a second I knew something was wrong. Dad dragged me away as mum started screaming, her voice piercing into my memory so that I remember it to this day. My cousin Nickolas was dead. Crashed his car somewhere in New Zealand, his own thoughts and regrets being his reason. From then on, my life steeped down. A year later, after fighting cancer for a gruelling 6 months, my grandfather passed away. By then, I was depressed, unable to control my feelings and often letting them escape without intention and them hurting others. I was struggling to balance life and everything was getting worse. Then covid hit. I was finding it harder and harder to find reasons to live, my depression steering many people away from me including my friends and family. All of my emotions were bottled up tight and I kept them inside me so as not to worry others. Once my dad lost his job, he decided we would travel Australia. I didn’t see this as a vacation, more of a hinderance in my life. I was lonely, depressed and feeling further away from my old bubbly self than ever. Despite being on the trip of a life time and travelling Australia I was far from happy. I felt as if my whole life had just been thrown away by this trip, my education, my independence, my freedom and whatever slithers of friendships I had left. We had been travelling for 4 months, exploring places I had only heard of but never really pictured to be anything much. I missed my family and my home and was regretting my decision to join my family in travelling. By random chance, a family we had known when I was little were staying in the same caravan park as us. There was five of them, Abi, Tim, Nick, Uncle Dave, and Aunty Nicky. My first impression was the whole goody-two-shoes-I’m-perfect thing and I made very little effort to get to know them. Eventually I was half shoved by my parents to socialise and lets just put it straight: I sucked at making friends. I was an awkward and weird person who was 100% different to them, I was much more of a rebel-nothing-scares-me person and yet I was oddly afraid to talk to any of them. I guess they felt the same way about me, because it took two weeks for us to start up a conversation despite the fact that we had begun travelling with one another. All three of them were homeschooled, me being the first non-homeschooled teen that they had really known. Wasn’t that a shock for them. Not only that, they were highly religious as I found out after loosing my crap and letting an arrangement of colourful words out infront of them. Baaaddd idea. So anyway, slowly as we got to know one another I felt the barriers around myself loosen and draw down. Abi and Tim were nothing like the depressed crack-filled teens I was used to and to be frank, I didn’t know what to do about it. A whole part of me I didn’t even know existed opened up, changing my mind set and lifting my spirits. Abi and I were the same age, Tim a few years older. It was great to have another girl around, having had only my three younger brothers to talk to in previous months. After a while, I got to know Tim. He was everything I wasn’t; smart, funny, confident, and he was always smiling. We were literal opposites. But like they say, opposites attract. He showed me the beauty in people and in nature and, day by day, began to pull me out from the dark hole I had been trapped in for years. He made me feel like I mattered. I could open up to him in ways I never had to anyone else, and it filled me with hope. He picked flowers for me when we walked through the lush landscapes of Australia and gave me chocolate and hugs when I was struggling with my feelings. He was the only person who understood me, he was the fresh start I had been unknowingly looking for. Barely two months after first meeting Tim in Darwin, I was a new person. My morals had changed, my view of life, school, people and the world had been shaped to fit who I was as a person. All feelings of regret, doubt, unwantedness, loneliness, depression and anxiety had faded. Meeting Tim gave me hope that I could be something more than what I thought. I felt empowered being around him and Abi, and although we had nothing in common, we could talk for hours about anything and everything. Tim, thank you so much for being such an outstanding, amazing person and for helping me through that tough time. You have inspired me to help others overcome their emotional pain and you have given me strength to do many things I never thought I could. They say hope is the thing with wings, like a bird or an angel. You are my angel <3
By Amelia Stead4 years ago in 01
Inside Pataudi Palace and Saif Ali Khan’s royal house in Mumbai
Bollywood celeb couple, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan live in a royal little world of their own. While Kareena hails from one of the first families of Hindi cinema, Saif is the 10th Nawab of Pataudi. Ever since Kareena Kapoor joined Instagram, we have often been able to get a sneak peek into their beautiful home.To begin with, Saif-Kareena or Saifeena used to live in a luxurious apartment in Bandra, Mumbai, called Fortune Heights. The four-storeyed property, with each consisting of 3BHK units, were valued at Rs 48 crores in 2013, when the couple bought it. Talking about space, the flat measures up to 3,000 sq ft. Besides this, Khan owns bungalows in almost 10 locations but the most prominent among them is their Mumbai home at Fortune Heights and the very well-known Pataudi Palace. Ahead of the arrival of Taimur’s little brother, the celeb duo had moved into their new home in Mumbai.The Pataudi Palace is reportedly worth a whopping Rs 800 crores. Recently, there were reports of Saif buying back the Pataudi Palace from the Neemrana Group of Hotels to which the property was leased to by Mansoor Pataudi. However, Saif said that since he already owned the property, and he did not have to buy it back from the hotel chain. However, there were other financial arrangements made for taking possession of the ancestral home.The property in Gurgaon, Haryana, has 150 rooms. Saif Ali Khan, who has a net worth of about 150 Million USD, acquired the property after the death of his famous father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. The Pataudi Palace is also called Ibrahim Kothi. Spread over 10 acres, the property has seven bedrooms, seven dressing rooms, seven billiard rooms and shahi drawing and dining rooms. Designed by Robert Tor Russell in 1900 with assistance from Austrian architect Karl Moltz von Heinz, the Pataudi Palace was built on the lines of the colonial mansion of Delhi. The Pataudi Palace is where the couple celebrated their son’s first birthday. Taimur would inherit this property when he turns 18.
By ashish jaat4 years ago in 01
