New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) An open and free internet is a key contributing factor to innovation in the digital economy, making it critical to protect this openness, says a World Bank report. Regarding the…
London, Jan 14 (IANS) Swiss scientists have developed a unique software that can map the entire building in 3D with a tablet and other mobile devices – that too in sunlight. The software, developed by…
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) NASA’s first solar-powered spacecraft Juno to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity’s most distant solar-powered emissary. The probe, launched from the Earth in 2011 to study the giant planet…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (File Photo: IANS) New York, Jan 13 (IANS) Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has urged nearly 1.5 billion users on the platform to celebrate the social networking giant’s 12th anniversary as…
Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) NASA’s Dawn spacecraft that recently reached its lowest-ever altitude at the dwarf planet Ceres has sent fresh images that show Kupalo Crater, one of the youngest craters on Ceres, in a…
Detroit, Jan 13 (AFP) Google plans to partner with automakers on its self-driving car project, but is not yet ready to announce anything concrete, the head of the project has said. “We are going to…
New York, Jan 12 (IANS) Social media platform Twitter is said to be developing a way to give brands an access to mentions about their products in everyday users’ tweets that they could use into…
New York, Jan 11 (IANS) Bored of calls, emails, chats and endless Facebook posts with your smartphone? Now offer your friend an electronic puff with this unique magical device that also works like an e-cigarette….
Las Vegas (US), Jan 10 (IANS) Seven-inch tablet computers, the stars of the tablet world in the last few years, are witnessing a shrinking percentage in global shipments due to severe competition from emerging big-screen…
New York, Jan 10 (IANS) Peach, a new messaging app, lets you find your friends and upload GIFs, photos and status updates in your news feed using “magic words”. Available on Apple store, the app…
New York, Jan 10 (IANS) NASA’s planet-hunting revamped Kepler mission has found more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars. The information about the planets, some of which are very different from what the spacecraft…
New York, Jan 10 (IANS) Facebook is building an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger app for Mac desktop that would help Apple users to instantly access it straight from the dock, a media report said. Instead of…
Shimla, Jan 10 (IANS) Einstein’s mass-energy equation (E=mc2) is inadequate as it has not been completely studied and is only valid under special conditions, an Indian researcher has claimed in an international paper. Einstein considered…
Beijing, Jan 9 (IANS) China’s country code domain “.cn” is now the world’s most commonly used, the state media reported. It had 16.36 million users by the end of 2015, topping Germany’s “.de”, Xinhua cited…
Agartala, Jan 6 (IANS) The Tripura Police is likely to approach Interpol to probe the fake Facebook account opened in the name of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, an official said here on Saturday. This is…
New York, Jan 8 (IANS) A team of astronomers have detected a massive, sprawling and churning galaxy cluster that formed only 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang and is 1,000 times more massive than…
Beijing, Jan 8 (IANS) China’s ministry of industry and information technology (MIIT) began to research and test 5G technology with the aim of commercialising it by 2020, the media reported. “The purpose of the research…
Earthquake and Tsunami damage, Japan-March 14, 2011: This is a satellite image of Japan showing damage after an Earthquake and Tsunami at the Dai Ichi Power Plant, Japan. (credit: DigitalGlobe) www.digitalglobe.com Tokyo, Jan 8 (IANS)…
San Francisco, Jan 8 (IANS) With the help from NASA space technology, automaker Nissan has successfully test-driven its all-electric, driverless car at NASAs Ames Research Centre in California this week that will help scientists send…
Beijing, Jan 8 (IANS) China is preparing over 20 space missions this year, including a manned one and the maiden flights of two rockets, a media report said on Friday. China Aerospace Science and Technology…