The Nonconformist

Come the last few weeks of December every year and we are faced with a deluge of “new year resolutions” - promises to keep and targets to attain in the upcoming three hundred and sixty five days or so. The utility or veracity of such resolutions is often questioned, especially...

In today’s world, one would be hard-pressed indeed to come across someone who has not heard of Uber in any way. From a ride-sharing startup on the streets of San Francisco to a global transportation behemoth valued at a mind-boggling $70 billion, the startup, as they say, has apparently seen...

Every year around this time, a new batch of high school students finally confront the looming question in front of them - which course of study to pursue moving forward? (Sure, there is that 10% who has it all figured out for the next decade, but lets stick to the...

We so often face the scenario when we wanted to look up something on our mobile phones, but gave up halfway when the site was too slow to load. In a world where more traffic is moving to mobile from traditional desktop browsers, loading speed has become a major factor...

The latest story doing the rounds on Hacker News is how Cloudflare, one of the leading edge CDN providers, was susceptible to a vulnerability that dumped a massive amount of user credentials and other private data onto publicly accessible search engines. According to the same story, this vulnerability was first...