London, Dec 21 (IANS) Can Facebook be used as a tool for official communication by government functionaries? A deputy governor in Afghanistan just did that. Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar has made a plea to Afghan President…
London, Dec 21 (IANS) Researchers have developed two new smartphone-based systems that can accelerate development of driverless cars by identifying a user’s location and orientation in places where GPS does not function. These can also…
New York, Dec 21 (IANS) Smartphone users in the US and Britain prefer handsets with 5.3-inch screen displays, a new study says. According to global analytic research firm Strategy Analytics, while Android users were more…
Chennai, Dec 21 (IANS) The year 2015 could be termed as the year of commercial launches for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), while steps have been taken to spread the usage of space technology…
New York, Dec 21 (IANS) NASA is training space robots with Virtual Reality (VR) where the operators are using Sony’s PlayStation VR to control a humanoid in the space environment. Part of Mighty Morphenaut project,…
New York, Dec 20 (IANS) What if Facebook already knows what you like, where you live, who you hang out with and recommends to you what to do? The social media giant’s new feature does…
New York, Dec 20 (IANS) Climate change over the last 150 years may estimate future global temperatures, a NASA study has found. According to a new NASA study published in the journal Nature Climate Change,…
Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) Expedition 46 commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Tim Kopra of NASA are set for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on either Monday or Tuesday. The pair will…
Tokyo, Dec 20 (IANS) Japanese police on Sunday announced that the international network of activist and hacktivist entities, Anonymous, has attacked at least 97 websites in Japan since September. The National Police Agency said cyber…
Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) In a crucial step, NASA has ordered its second crew mission from Boeing Space Exploration for the International Space Station (ISS) to establish regular crew sorties that will be launched…
Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) A team of NASA engineers has inched closer to building a completely 3D printed, high-performance rocket engine by manufacturing complex engine parts and test firing them together with cryogenic liquid…
United Nations, Dec 18 (IANS) Facebook blocks a million messages every week that promote terrorism or radical ideologies, said executive director of UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Jean-Paul Laborde. “We must learn to move through social networks…
Tokyo, Dec 18 (IANS) A shopping mall in Japan’s capital Tokyo has deployed an android that can give tourists sightseeing information in three different languages, a media report said on Friday. The android resembles a…
Beijing, Dec 18 (IANS) China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) unveiled the country’s first software package for its own nuclear power technology, a crucial step for exporting nuclear construction, the media reported on Friday. “This package…
Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found mysterious rocks rich in silica – a rock-forming chemical combining the elements silicon and oxygen and commonly seen on Earth as quartz. Curiosity spotted much…
New Delhi: Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a programme at Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) in New Delhi, on Dec 17, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Global internet search engine…
Beijing, Dec 17 (IANS) China Mobile has built the world’s largest 4G network, a media report said on Thursday. By the end of November 2015, China Mobile’s 4G network had 1.07 million base stations, covering…
New York, Dec 17 (IANS) Baljeet Singh, Twitter’s product lead in charge of video, will quit the company early next month, a media report said quoting a Twitter spokesperson. Singh, who works as a senior…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Hailed as one of the best composers of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven was paid a tribute with a doodle that lets Google users arrange his sheet music in the…
New York, Dec 17 (IANS) While some cyber terrorists are driven by ego, politics or entertainment, most of them carry out the attacks for monetary gain, says a study that looked into the human component…