Amrutha Gayathri

As the clamor for legalizing marijuana peaks in US, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) remains adamant on its stand that smoked marijuana is harmful. Since the prescription medicine Marinol, which is a synthetic form of Delta-9-THC, the chemical found in smoked marijuana that treats distressing symptoms, is available for the medical consumption, DEA believes that legalizing smoked marijuana will only lead to misuse.

The Chinese economy is facing the risk of inflation and property price bubble, say IMF economists, though the imminent danger of a major downturn in the property sector has been ruled out.

The 42-year-old actress and former Friends star has been managing to look young with almost no bothersome wrinkles on her face. She has admitted to using Botox but says that she hated its hard effect.

As the scandal hit media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's Tuesday's parliamentary committee hearing was progressing, a man nonchalantly approached Murdoch and slapped a plate of shaving cream in his face and shouted, You are a greedy billionaire. Wendi Deng, Murdoch's wife, and his son James Murdoch promptly defended the attacker with Deng, a former volleyball player, slapping the assailant.

It is simply a matter of time before Google+ replaces Facebook, suggests ForeSee Results Annual E-Business Report for the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The E-Business Report covering search engines, Internet news and information services, and social media services has placed Facebook at the bottom of the social media category, just like last year.

The patent battle Apple has engaged with Android OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturer) can have extremely grave consequences including ban on the disputed Android products, which could mean anything between a complete wipe-out to decreased US market share, to the Google's mega-hit mobile OS.

Google's Android Operating System is in serious trouble with the ITC ruling which says Android-run HTC devices infringe two of ten Apple patents in an initial determination by an administrative law judge (ALJ). These determinations will undergo review by the six-member Commission, the highest decision-making body at the ITC, to reach the final decision, with the target date of the final Commission decision set for December 6, 2011.

Casey Anthony, the woman acquitted of the murder of her two-year-old child Caylee and dubbed America's Most Hated, left Orange County Jail Sunday midnight accompanied by her attorney Jose Baez.

You got a body, you got a Plank, is the universal slogan for planking, an activity that involves a person lying face down, body stiff and often on dangerous or unusual places. Termed by many as an Internet craze, planking is promoted mostly through planking photos uploaded on Facebook and dedicated sites. Owling, which is replacing Planking, involves crouching on one's haunches and staring into the middle distance like the nocturnal birds.

America's Most Hated murder suspect Casey Anthony walked out of the Orange County Jail at 12:10 a.m. with attorney Jose Baez, wearing pink T-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes. Anthony acquitted unanimously of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, was not particularly emotional while walking out of the prison. She didn't carry anything with her.

Casey Anthony, the woman acquitted of the murder of her 2-year-old child Caylee and is being dubbed America's Most Hated will walk free within hours, as absolute uncertainty shrouds her future. Orange County Jail officials are reportedly planning a midnight release of Anthony, as her defense team will try everything to keep her away from media spotlight and public wrath. According to an attorney of Anthony, she is scared to leave jail, given numerous threats on her life as a large section of ...

iPhone has a great history. History of ruling over the smart phone market, ever since its launch in 2007, with the kind of charisma others found impossible. Four years later, as the industry is eager to have a look at iPhone 5, would it be realistic to believe that iPhone's charismatic grip hasn't loosened?

Microsoft might be working on a social project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently. Currently a message which reads, Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest, is on the display as the unintentionally published page has been taken down.

You got a body, you got a Plank, is the universal slogan for planking, an activity that involves a person lying face down, body stiff and often on dangerous or unusual places. Termed by many as an Internet craze, planking is promoted mostly through planking photos uploaded on Facebook and dedicated sites. Planking, also known as lying down game or face downs, often see players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to plank.

The dust is yet to settle following Facebook's teaming up with Skype to launch the video chat, a feature Facebook's founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed as something awesome. Far from being awesome Facebook's feature, hosted at facebook.com/videocalling, acquired the URL through extremely undignified means, alleges a company called Samuday Web Technologies.

Apple has enough reasons to worry as the latest order in the ongoing Apple-Samsung patent dispute is a pointer towards which way the wind is blowing. Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Apple's motion to speed up the federal lawsuit against market rival Samsung. On July 1st, along with motion for Preliminary Injunction to halt the sale of four Samsung devices, Infuse 4G, Galaxy S 4G, Droid Charge, and Galaxy Tab 10.1, Apple also filed two m...

Celebrity death hoaxes are nothing new, but when the false death news of Hugh Hefner, spread after a hack of his Twitter account, many panicked as the iconic man behind Playboy magazine is 85. The rumors of my death are, as Mark Twain observed in a similar situation, greatly exaggerated. I'm very much alive and kicking, Hefner tweeted, responding to the hoax. I'm lying in bed next to Shera Bechard with a big smile on my face, reading tweets about my unexpected demise. I'm ...

The dust is yet to settle following Facebook's launch of video chat teaming up with Skype, a feature Facebook's founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed as something awesome. Far from being awesome Facebook's feature hosted at facebook.com/videocalling acquired the URL through extremely undignified means, alleges a company called Samuday Web Technologies. According to Samuday's CEO, the video chat app developed by his company and hosted under facebook.com/videocalling was ...

Google will roll out a flexible tool to add more contacts on Google+ over the next few days. For users with contacts scattered across diverse email services and social networks, Google+'s new address book uploader would be the one click button to synchronize and manage all. The already existing one-click contact importer on Google+ imports contacts from Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail and also takes care of keeping the sync up to date.

Though Android and the parent company Google cannot be termed little guys, they are being bullied by the big guys, for being successful. Android team, Google and Android OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) are wading through rough waters with as many as 48 Android related lawsuits under the scrutiny of US laws.

In an allegedly unholy coalition, Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion have joined hands to demote Android's position in the smartphone market. Six of Google's rivals tied up recently to prevent Google from buying a critical trove of telephony patents, at Nortel's wireless technology patents' auction, with judges in the United States and Canada approving the $4.5 billion transaction.

Web is moving forward to an era of seamless integration, with better technologies in place and with a better understanding of users' digital rights. Open source codes and data protocols were prerequisites in the evolution of web as we see it now. Cloud is here and it is simply a matter of time, before the web integrates platforms, no matter who the provider of a particular service or platform is. Operating as separate entities on web wouldn't make much sense in future, just like it doesn.....

A giant hogweed is spreading across New York, threatening humans with sap that causes severe burns, blistering, permanent scarring and even blindness. N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued a giant hogweed warning and set up a hotline since the weed's growth has become out of control.

The Federal Trade Commission has finally got Google chairman Eric Schmidt to testify in September in a hearing that will address fundamental questions of business operations (of Google) rather than merely legal issues. The federal regulators will investigate into the allegations that the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising.

Katy Perry was forced to cancel a pair of concerts for Friday and Saturday after suffering a bout of food poisoning and severe dehydration, announced her official website.

Krokodil or Crocodile in Russian is a homemade substitute of heroin, which is casting deathly shadows over the lives of thousands of Russia's drug addicts. It has a reptilian name because the users' skin starts developing crocodile-like unpleasant scales, over repeated use. And that is arguably the least this deadly drug can do to your body. The scales would give way to decaying sores and gray skin. The flesh would soon start to degenerate and would peel away leaving bones exposed....

The story has a tough cigarette smoking hero, his lover girl, emotional turbulence and finally a happy wedding. Sounds like usual drama? Not really. The characters in this story are monkeys who live among humans. According to a Reuters report two monkeys tied the knot in the forests of northwestern India on Friday. Worship of animals as avatars of the gods isn't new in Hindu beliefs. Monkeys enjoy significant role in Hindu mythology where they are worshiped as avatars of Hanuman, the mighty.....

Google Chrome Extensions come in handy when you need to perform tasks on Google+ the easy way. Extensions make customizing and sharing fast and hassle-free. Here is a list of Chrome Extensions for Google+.

The week has passed, and people are yet to get over the shocking outcome of Casey Anthony Murder Trial. Space Shuttle Atlantis, Facebook's new video chat, President Obama's digital campaign for 2012 presidency run, hackers wrecking havoc with two official Twitter sites and rare-earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean- all generated a good amount of public debate this week. A quick roundup of this week's major headlines