Chennai, May 11 (IANS) India will launch RISAT-2B, a radar imaging earth observation satellite, using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-Core Alone (PSLV-CA) variant, on May 22, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Saturday. According…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Paired with a biannual testing programme, a combination drug used to prevent HIV infection has the potential to improve average per-person survival by nearly one year and block more than…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman Satheesh Reddy said they were spending 25 per cent of the budget on research and development (R&D). “The DRDO has been spending around…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) While eight in 10 mothers in India believe technology has made parenting easier, 70 per cent mothers claim to have used a smartphone for rearing their kids, according to a…
New York, May 11 (IANS) People with advanced computer skills are more likely to accept and use digital healthcare services and robot doctors, says a study by an Indian-origin researcher. “There is increasing use of…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Most of the debris from the Anti-Satellite test has decayed and the remaining will also decay in a short period, DRDO Chairman Satheesh Reddy has said. He said the DRDO…
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) Despite criticism and work pressure complaints from its warehouse employees, e-commerce giant Amazon has quietly begun rolling out its one-day Prime shipping, cutting down from the traditional two-day delivery window….
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) Electric Vehicle (EV) maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk will undergo trial in October in a defamation case that was filed against him last year by a British cave rescuer who…
New York, May 11 (IANS) Memory slips with age, but getting a fair amount of sleep every night and having a cheerful mood each day may help you stay sharp even when you grow old,…
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) Facebook is actively creating new terror content on the website with its auto-generation feature, alleges a whistleblower who analysed over 3,000 Facebook profiles of individuals expressing affiliation with terror or…
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) After settling a bitter multi-billion dollar legal battle with Apple, the CEO of US-based chip-maker Qualcomm received a hefty bonus of $3.5 million. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf received 40,794 shares…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) ITC chairman Y.C. Deveshwar passed away on Saturday in a Gurugram hospital. He was 72, and was ITC’s longest serving corporate head. The cause of his death is not known….
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) Private instant messaging and voice over IP service Telegram has updated its app with a new design for Android and added an Archive Chats option. “Swipe left on a chat…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) ITC Chairman Y.C. Deveshwar died on Saturday after a long battle with cancer, company sources said. He was 72. Deveshwar was one of the longest-serving corporate heads in Indian history with…
Taipei, May 11 (IANS) Taiwanese handset maker HTC’s recent decision to pull its phones from two of China’s largest e-commerce sites strongly suggests that it is perhaps looking to exit the Chinese smartphone market. “Due…
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) After making the functionality to smartphones earlier, Google has now rolled out its podcast-focused search results for desktop browsers that would list playable podcasts for users to choose from. Announced…
Ankara, May 11 (IANS) Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority has fined Facebook 1.65 million Turkish liras ($280,000) over data breach. About 300,000 users in Turkey may have been affected by the data breach that exposed…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh-based sustainable tourism startup ‘NotOnMap’ has received 2,50,000 euros grant from digital travel platform Booking.com as part of its accelerator programme. ‘NotOnMap’ was among 10 sustainable tourism startups worldwide…
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that a four-year degree is not really necessary to excel at coding and termed it an “old and traditional view”. “I don’t think a four…
London, May 11 (IANS) People tend to trust machines more than humans when it comes to sharing private information and access to their financial data, an Indian-origin researcher has stressed. People who trusted machines were…