Warm Ocean Temperatures Helped Make 2015 A Record Year For Shark Attacks

Increasingly warm waters around the globe due to climate change and El Niño led to the highest number of shark attacks ever recorded in 2015, according to data relea...

Interview: Kathryn Kolbert And Melissa Silverstein, Founders Of The Athena Film Festival

The 6th Annual Athena Film Festival, a festival to highlight works by women filmmakers and stories about women, is next week at Barnard. I got a chance to talk on the phone...

18th San Francisco Independent Film Festival Preview

In human terms, this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) has just reached voting age. Politics may be the subjects o...

Akshay Kumar To Feature In WHO's Diabetic Awareness Campaign

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar will feature in a video campaign by the World Health Organisation to raise awareness about diabetes in India. Akshay Kumar and Rajkumar Hir...

Tamara Tunie To Host Rush HeARTS Education Luncheon

The 4th-Annual Rush HeARTS Education Luncheon will raise funds for Rush’s Education programs for New York City’s inner city youth.

Hosted by Tamara Tuni...

5 Trends That Will Change How We Use Social Media In 2016

It’s been a memorable year in social media. 2015 saw the birth of live social streaming, with apps like Periscope and Meerkat winning over early adopters. Snapchat fu...

Delhi University To Host Three-Day 'Gender Mela'

In a first, the Delhi University is all set to host a three-day 'gender fair' from Thursday, where boys and men will stand shoulder to shoulder with girls and women to ques...

Family Of Woman Film Festival To Open With ‘No Woman, No Cry’

Model and social entrepreneur Christy Turlington Burns will open the Family of Woman Film Festival by introducing and showing her documentary “No Woman, No Cry,&rdquo...

A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...

Why It’s Taking So Long To Get To 5G

It’s only been five years since 4G mobile broadband came along and made it possible to browse the internet and stream videos on your phone at a decent speed. 4G speed...