Rage

Dear Reader,A thrilling event took place in the summer of my sixteenth year. It involved Nelson Mandela, whose birthday was celebrated earlier this week.On an early morning in 1986, a group of us got into our Delhi Public School R K Puram school bus, and drove to the residence of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at 7, Race Course Road. We carried with us sheaves of paper — a signature campaign we had run, for the release of Nelson Mandela. Standing there, on the beautifully manicured lawns, in my school girl uniform, talking…

Reliance Jio, an Indian telecom mega giant, has partnered with Japanese gaming company SEGA to bring new games to the Jio Games Store. The two games that will be available for download from SEGA include Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Streets of Rage 3. These two are among the most popular titles across Europe and US and they will now be available across multiple devices in the Jio ecosystem. JioFiber users will be the first to access these SEGA titles.Jio Games Store will list these two titles for Indian users to download and…

My earliest reading memoryMy first language is Bangla, and I can remember my father reading Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala – about a refugee who longs for his daughter – and trying to figure out the letters.My favourite book growing upThe Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone, starring Sesame Street’s Grover. It has it all – an unreliable narrator, a great buildup of suspense, and a twist at the end.The book that changed me as a teenagerI read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath when I was only 12 years old. The scene…

The members of Rage Against the Machine have always carried a message with their music. In 2022, they have plenty to be mad about, and after an 11-year break from performing together, they didn’t hold back over the weekend.During their pandemic-delayed return to the stage Saturday night, the rap-rock band was typically abrasive, performing its high-octane catalog to more than 30,000 people at Wisconsin’s Alpine Valley Music Theatre.Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the band members hardly talked between songs, but…

It is not the usual way of things, a first-time director being granted an audience with Hollywood royalty. But that is what happened to Charlotte Colbert when a producer sent the screenplay of her psychological horror She Will (co-written with Kitty Percy) to Sigourney Weaver.“It was crazy!” Colbert leans over the table, eyes popping. “I was flown over to New York to have lunch with Sigourney, who is this extraordinary force of nature. Incredibly tall, brilliant, et cetera.” Weaver loved the script, but the timing didn’t…

Tesla is bringing its Green Light Chime feature, which previously was only for people with the Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta to most of its cars, helping cut down on road rage at traffic lights. When Tesla started to bring traffic light controls to its vehicles equipped with its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Capability package, the automaker introduced a feature that would recognize when a traffic light turns green and emit a chime to let the driver know. With the new software update 2022.20, Tesla has expanded the…

After the dismissal of two DJs from KiSS 104.9 FM, a pop and soft rock contemporary station in Vancouver, a clean version of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” played on repeat for countless hours.Yesterday, two of the station’s most prominent DJs and radio hosts, Kevin Lim and Sonia Sidhu, were laid off from the company after working there for over five years. According to the Vancouver Sun, a listener called in that morning to request a different song but was reportedly ignored by the DJ, who continued to…

But what exactly is this technology, what can you expect from it and how will you be able to use it? This post will attempt to answer some of those key questions.Background: What is Layer-1 and Layer-2 Scaling? There are two ways to scale a blockchain ecosystem. First, you can make the blockchain itself have a higher transaction capacity. The main challenge with this technique is that blockchains with "bigger blocks" are inherently more difficult to verify and likely to become more centralized.To avoid such risks,…

A group of researchers made gene-edited hamsters that were meant to be less aggressive. The researchers used CRISPR, a gene-editing platform, to remove a gene they believed was responsible for aggressive behavior in hamsters. However, the genetic modification had a much different effect. Instead of being more docile, the hamsters became overly aggressive. Scientists accidentally made angry and aggressive gene-edited hamsters Image source: stockcrafter / AdobeHamsters have been at the heart of many animal…

Image: J. Bone and Aditya Bidikar/DC ComicsDC Comics’ latest collection of queer stories from queer creatives all over the DC Universe for Pride—and Pride in general this year—comes at complicated time for queer communities. Trans people face daily, horrifying denials of their rights, and places around the world attempt to erode the small, vital steps towards LGBTQ+ progress made this century. But the ways the collectionaddresses that pain alongside its joys holds a particular resonance this Pride... with a little help…