New York, Feb 5 (IANS) A Google engineer has developed a smart Android-powered bathroom mirror which automatically displays the latest updates on date, time and weather, and lets you do voice searches on Google, a…
New York, Feb 5 (IANS) Free software community Mozilla will soon end support for Firefox OS on smartphones after the release of the operating system’s latest version 2.6, a media report said. “We are announcing…
Washington, Feb 5 (IANS) In yet another example of Pluto’s fascinating and abundant geological activity, NASA’s New Horizon has captured nitrogen ice glaciers carrying an intriguing cargo – numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments…
Hyderabad, Feb 4 (IANS) The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics(ICRISAT) said on Thursday it has helped develop first machine harvestable variety of chickpea in Andhra Pradesh. The global organisation, headquartered in Patancheru near…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Over 70 percent of android smartphone users in India do not receive an update to the latest Android operation system (OS) or its latest features at the time of purchase,…
New Delhi, Feb 04 (IANS) Moved to a new city and need to settle down quickly? Well, here are some pocket-friendly apps that will help you to sort out things and bring you out of…
Rome, Feb 4 (IANS/AKI) An Italian priest has offered to bless users of smartphones, tablets, computers and laptops “to protect them from any harm these devices may bring”. Don Giorgio, parish priest of Citta di…
New York, Feb 4 (IANS) As the world gets ready to watch Super Bowl coming Sunday, a new Facebook study has revealed that the volume of Facebook shares and posts from its users 15 minutes…
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Set to arrive at Jupiter this year to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit, NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully executed a maneuver to adjust its flight path on…
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) India-born Amit Singhal, the longtime chief of Google’s Internet search business, will leave the company on Feb 26 and be replaced by the head of the technology giant’s artificial intelligence (AI)…
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) New images taken from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory show a spectacular jet that emanates from a black hole in the centre of the galaxy and extends across 300,000 years toward a…
New York, Feb 3 (IANS) In a bid to deliver a more meaningful News Feed experience to its over 1.5 billion users, social networking giant Facebook is set to change the way it works after…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) After the success of Bangla software for Windows and keyboards, researchers here are now developing the same in Nepalese and Manipuri languages. The Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), which…
New York, Feb 3 (IANS) At a time when the world is bracing itself against the growing Zika virus, social networking giant Facebook has partnered with Brazil’s non-profit Abrasco Divulga to help combat the disease…
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) The US space agency NASA on Tuesday said its new rocket for deep space mission, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 small satellites along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft…
Beijing, Feb 2 (IANS) Chinese authorities have named an asteroid after scientist Tu Youyou who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her work with artemisinin, which is now widely used to…
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) US tech giant Apple has launched a new app “Airmail”, a lightning fast mail client for Mac and the iPhone to help user manage emails without any hassle by making…
London, Feb 2 (IANS) Social media giant Facebook’s official mobile app is slowing Android smartphones by 15 percent and is consuming excess battery power, a media report said on Tuesday. The hugely successful smartphone app…
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) The Orion capsule, NASA’s spacecraft designed to land humans on Mars, was carried from the US space agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Kennedy Space Centre Florida for…
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp has reached the milestone of one-billion users, with 42 billion messages being exchanged daily, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. One billion people now…