Windows 10 update stops webcams working

The update, released earlier this month, stops many cameras being used for Skype or to broadcast and stream footage.The cause seems to be a change in the way Windows 10 handles video so it can be used by more than one program at a time.Microsoft said it was working on a fix but has not given any date for when the patch will be available.

Rio Olympics 2016: Usain Bolt wins 200m gold, his eighth Olympic gold

Usain Bolt won the men's 200m to claim his second Rio 2016 gold, his eighth at an Olympics, and keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented 'treble treble'.The Jamaican ran 19.78 seconds to come home ahead of Canada's Andre de Grasse and France's Christophe Lemaitre.

Rio Olympics 2016: Usain Bolt wins 200m gold, his eighth Olympic gold

Usain Bolt won the men's 200m to claim his second Rio 2016 gold, his eighth at an Olympics, and keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented 'treble treble'.The Jamaican ran 19.78 seconds to come home ahead of Canada's Andre de Grasse and France's Christophe Lemaitre.

Food Prices May Cool, RBI Rate Cut Unlikely: Experts

Experts and industry said kharif sowing trends indicate cooling of food inflation in the coming months, even as chances of a rate cut in the near-term are low, given the rise in wholesale and retail inflation.



Wholesale inflation (based on the Wholesale Price Index) soared to a 23-month high of 3.55 per cent in July as vegetables, pulses and sugar turned costlier. (Read more)



However, the rise in prices may provide partial relief to manufacturers and producers, although it brings bad news for household budgets of consumers, warranting redressal of the issues arising out of demand-supply mismatch.

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Assocham cautioned that a further increase in WPI inflation may push consumer price inflation which is likely to hit households and final consumers badly, observing that India was now in need of "strong actions" from the government to address structural issues of demand and supply within the industry.

Twitter and Facebook Trending Topics incidents highlight emerging social media bias

According to a report in Buzzfeed, former Twitter employees have said Dick Costolo filtered tweets during the #AskPOTUS townhall, the President's Q&A session in May last year. Costolo reportedly asked for a new algorithm that could filter abusive tweets, but didn't stop there. He also asked the media partnerships team to manually censor tweets in case the algorithm was inconsistent

revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, unlike the original Games, has a clear, concise history. Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937), a young French nobleman, felt that he could institute an educational program in France that approximated the ancient Greek notion of a balanced development of mind

The Greeks themselves had tried to revive the Olympics by holding local athletic games in Athens during the 1800s, but without lasting success. It was Baron de Coubertin's determination and organizational genius, however, that gave impetus to the modern Olympic movement. In 1892 he addressed a meeting of the Union des Sports Athlétiques in Paris. Despite meager response he persisted, and an international sports congress eventually convened on June 16, 1894. With delegates from Belgium, England, France, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States in attendance, he advocated the revival of the Olympic Games. He found ready and unanimous support from the nine countries. De Coubertin had initially planned to hold the Olympic Games in France, but the representatives convinced him that Greece was the appropriate country to host the first modern Olympics. The council did agree that the Olympics would move every four years to other great cities of the world.

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Facebook to let emerging market companies sell through their pages

Facebook Inc is to let small businesses in emerging markets sell to customers for free through their Facebook pages, the social media company said on Wednesday, marking a new effort to build up potential advertisers in its fastest-growing regions.