Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) The Obama administration wants NASA to speed up work on sending humans on deep space exploration missions, including Mars, and has instructed the US space agency to spend at least $55…
New York, Dec 29 (IANS) Remember the Google Glass? Well, the project seems to be alive as a brand new model of it appeared on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website. The pictures show…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Oracle’s state-of-the-art SPARC M7 microprocessor, the world’s first silicon-based memory intrusion detection and a high-speed encryption chip, offers data security and memory protection without performance degradation and is cost-effective, a…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) First splashy full page ads in major Indian newspapers and now a personal piece by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a leading English daily defending Free Basics, the war over…
Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured a massive landslide on Mars, showing a boulder-covered landslide along a canyon wall. The landslide was relatively fresh as many individual boulders stood above the…
Beijing, Dec 29 (IANS) China on Tuesday launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen-4, as part of the country’s high-definition (HD) earth observation project, Xinhua reported. Gaofen-4 was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Micro-blogging site Twitter will help Delhittes know the best mode of transportation and route to take during the 15-day odd-even car scheme. Twitter India has partnered with the Delhi government…
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) The new year will see more banks, insurers and credit-rating firms across the globe turning to enhanced security measures to guard against online fraud more effectively, global software and cloud…
New York, Dec 28 (IANS) Looking for a good plumber or a reliable electrician to fix a nagging problem in your house? You will soon be able to find local service providers on Facebook. The…
Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) Want to connect with the best of academicians in India? Wish to know what is happening in their labs? Log in to Techtud, a new platform that acts as a social…
Bengaluru, Dec 27 (IANS) Even as disruptive technologies rolled out game-changing products and software majors vied for more outsourcing, the start-up revolution and the government’s Digital India initiative dominated the Indian IT industry landscape in…
Beijing, Dec 27 (IANS) Chinese scientists have announced the initial results of the country’s dark matter probe will be published within six months, the media reported on Sunday. Chang Jin, chief scientist of China’s Dark…
New York, Dec 27 (IANS) During 2015, social networking giant Facebook was truly a uniting force through both good times and tragedies and focused its efforts on boosting internet connectivity in India, says its COO…
New York, Dec 27 (IANS) Twitter users in India may soon be able to pay their bills through the micro-blogging site, the media reported. The company has announced a partnership with India-based start-up Lookup to…
London, Dec 26 (IANS) Facebook was yet again pivotal in reuniting two little ones with their family – in this case two stolen lambs who were reunited with their mother and delivered to a little…
Washington, Dec 26 (IANS) Researchers from US Department of Energy (DOE) have completed the production of a specialised fuel to power future deep space missions. The production of 50 grams of plutonium-238 – roughly the…
Credits: NASA New York, Dec 25 (IANS) On Christmas Eve in 1968, millions around the world listened in a live broadcast to the book of Genesis that describes the creation of the Universe. The only…
New York, Dec 24 (IANS) An algorithm developed by Brown University researchers may help bring high-quality 3D scanning capability to off-the-shelf digital cameras and smartphones. “One of the things my lab has been focusing on…
Washington, Dec 24 (IANS) NASA scientists have generated the highest-resolution images to date of an Asteroid that will safely fly past Earth on the Christmas eve at a distance of 11 million km. Using the…
Joining Hands with Microsoft Xiaoice, Dragon TV Launches First AI Program Ever (PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) Shanghai, Dec 24 (IANS) Shanghai Dragon TV has employed an artificial intelligence (AI) robot as a weather reporter on its live breakfast…