• 11 June 2024
  • Hafsa Rizvi
The Connected Home Revolution: A Guide to IoT

The modern age has brought omnipresent internet connectivity and rapid technological advancement directly into our homes. The Internet of Things (IoT)

  • 28 May 2024
  • Hafsa Rizvi
Career Success in 2024: A Blueprint for Mastering In-Demand Expertise

The ability to continuously adapt, learn and apply new skills has become an essential differentiator for personal and professional success in our rapi

  • 21 May 2024
  • Hafsa Rizvi
A Beginner’s Guide to Staying Safe Online

You’re relaxing at home, curled up on the couch with your phone in hand. You’re not taking pictures, not video chatting with friends. You’re sim

  • 14 May 2024
  • Hafsa Rizvi
AI in your Pocket: From Ride-hailing to Your Social Feed

Forget about flying cars and robot butlers! Artificial intelligence is transforming our lives in many amusing ways. A recent study found that 75% of S

  • 17 May 2022
  • Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
‘Teargas Cinema’ - A space for upcoming filmmakers to showcase their creativity

The ever-changing ‘GotaGoGama’ protest site now includes a cinema hall that screens films based on themes relating to the protest along with discu

  • 19 November 2021
  • Rihaab Mowlana
Quick Help: On-demand services at your fingertips

Identifying this gap in the market, Shahid Adamani kickstarted QuickHelp, an online platform where help was just a click away. Daily Mirror Life spoke

  • 28 June 2021
  • Panchali Illankoon
Are NFTS The Next Big Thing For ART?

Today, many are calling NFT the ‘next-big-thing for the art industry and local entrepreneurs Lekhya Ratnayake and Dilanjan Seneviratne are staying a

  • 30 April 2021
  • Panchali Illankoon
Tales From The Crypt: A Conversation On Visibility, Advocacy And Storytelling

Creating a safe space for experiences, thoughts, fears and dreams, ‘Tales From The Crypt’ is a collection of Tamil and English stories, poems and

  • 28 April 2021
  • Panchali Illankoon
14-year-old Anudi creates ‘COLBY’ - an AI for loneliness

Anudi Nupearachchi (14), was one of the many school children who suddenly found herself homebound due to the ongoing global pandemic of 2020. Anudi, a

  • 29 January 2021
  • Fazmina Samat
Virtual learning for Preschool & Primary

The pandemic has brought forward many new norms and virtual classrooms have become an essential part of social structure and have evolved into the new

  • 12 November 2020
  • Panchali Illankoon
Dish It Out: Shiromi Pinidiya – Perera

How do our food experts cook and eat? This week, Asylum Restaurant’s Shiromi takes the Q&A! Located inside Independence Arcade, Colombo – the Asyl

  • 09 May 2020
  • Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Education Sector: Bounce back strategies

With COVID-19 the education sector too is at a standstill. Apart from students having to adjust to online teaching methods, school boards are also wor

  • 10 April 2020
  • Tina Edward Gunawardhana
Surviving in the time of Corona

With the declaration of a global pandemic and as countries all over the world fight the coronavirus which is wreaking havoc on lives and economies peo

  • 06 June 2018
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Revving up to race at Silverstone

The aerodynamics of the nose cone, the tilt of the rear spoiler, road grip, fuel mix, gear ratio, downforce. Most of us would be left baffled by this

  • 30 January 2018
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Time to Talk - Connectivity vs Connection

The word connectivity has become a staple in our day to day conversations, especially in relation to the phone, laptop, or any kind of gadget that req

  • 02 November 2017
  • Rihaab Mowlana
Google Keep

I’m a sucker for note management apps and I’ve tried and tested loads of such apps only to be left disappointed.

  • 02 August 2017
  • Zeeshan Akram Jabeer
Oppo F3: Reviewed

Whether you’re an occasional selfie-snapper or an obsessive-life-documenting-selfie king/queen, you would know that there is an abundance of smartph

  • 13 July 2017
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Connecting With Your Child

Mums in Colombo in conjunction with the Grassrooted Trust has organised two knowledge sharing sessions for parents of children between 8 and 16 years

  • 30 June 2017
  • Rihaab Mowlana
2six4

Women in Need is a non governmental organisation that has been tirelessly striving to eliminate all forms of violence against women and children and p

  • 22 June 2017
  • Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
THINK Before You Forward That Message

To love someone is to place your trust on him or her. At no point would you imagine your naked body to be shared with the rest of the world on Faceboo

  • 07 June 2017
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CAKE LABS Evolves To Sysco Labs

CAKE LABS, the premiere Sri Lankan restaurant technology company, which is owned by Sysco, announced the opening of a brand new office facility, along

  • 25 May 2017
  • Rihaab Mowlana
The Rise Of The Sex Tape

As a nation having topped the list of countries that searched for the word ’sex’ on Google for the fifth consecutive year in 2016, we seem largely

  • 19 May 2017
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Types Of Twitter Users

I like to think that Twitter is the window to your soul, in 140 characters. Try as you might, eventually, your true personality always shines through,

  • 04 April 2017
  • Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Oppo F3 Plus Selfie Expert Reviewed

The mobile phone industry was revolutionized with the introduction of the front cameras. The trend in taking selfies, increased the demand for smartph

  • 21 March 2017
  • Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Cyber security threats and how to deal with them

Social media has more or less influenced the daily activities of almost everybody in this world. In an attempt to shed light on how social media users

  • 02 March 2017
  • Rihaab Mowlana
App Roulette: Clue

Period tracker apps have gained in popularity due to their usefulness and convenience - after all, gone are the days of surreptitiously noting your pe

  • 21 February 2017
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ParkSmart App Launch

As the population of Colombo increases daily, the congestion on the roads is on a rise. With this, there’s a lingering need for an effective vehicle

  • 10 November 2016
  • Rihaab Mowlana
Countdown+ Widgets Lite

How often do you forget important events, deadlines, and incur the wrath of the near and dear? If you’re like us, we’ll wager enough times to warr

  • 25 August 2016
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OPPO Launches Selfie Expert F1 Phone

The everevolving smartphone brand OPPO launched the F1s at a glamorous event in Mumbai, introducing another superb device to its photographyfocused F