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A controversy has broken out in Kerala over the artwork used on the SK 34 "Suvarna Kerala" state lottery ticket, with the BJP ...

Brigitte Bardot, the iconic French actress, passed away at the age of 91. She was considered a sex symbol and also earned the ...

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A woman has died after collapsing and becoming unresponsive in the nightclub ICON, according to the family and club, as ...

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Actor-politician Vijay's TVK has requested a common election symbol from the ECI, proposing options like a whistle, linked to his film 'Bigil'. Meanwhile, Kamal Haasan's MNM seeks the torchlight ...

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner said he has covered up a tattoo after learning of its resemblance to a Nazi symbol. Facing scrutiny for his controversial tattoo, Platner said Tuesday ...

On September 19, 1982, Scott Elliot Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, created the first emoticons. His objective was to enable people to distinguish the tone of messages on ...

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You've seen it pretty much every day now for decades, and you've interacted with it just as many times, but have you ever wondered why the power symbol looks the way that it does? There's a joke that ...

The internet wouldn't be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned ...