New York, Aug 19 (IANS) In its continued effort to curb terrorism-related activities, the micro-blogging website Twitter has suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for violating its policies related to promotion of terrorism in the last…
San Francisco, Aug 19 (IANS) American multinational online transportation firm Uber Technologies Inc. announced that it has acquired ‘Otto’, a technology startup whose aim is to make trucks self-driving. While announcing the move in a…
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Locating people living in poverty, such as through door-to-door surveys, sometimes is difficult. Therefore, scientists are now turning to satellite images. In a study published on Thursday in the US journal…
Kolkata, Aug 18 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, on Thursday presented the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology award to ISRO scientist M. Jeen Britto. The award was handed out to Britto for his…
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) on Thursday said it is acquiring 7.39 per cent additional stake in the holding arm of India’s largest telecom company Bharti Airtel for around $650 million. The…
Mumbai, Aug 18 (IANS) Sale of smartphones to end-users totalled 344 million units globally in the second quarter of 2016 — a 4.3 per cent increase over the same period in 2015, market research firm…
Sydney, Aug 18 (IANS) The earliest standing stone monuments of Britain were constructed specifically in line with the movements of the Sun and Moon, 5,000 years ago, a new research has suggested. The research, published…
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) on Thursday said it will pick up 7.39 per cent stake in Bharti Telecom, the holding company of India’s largest telecom service provider Bharti Airtel, a company…
New York, Aug 18 (IANS) Software developers please take note. If you want people to pay attention to security warnings on computers or mobile devices, you need to make them pop up at better times….
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Cybercriminals are using a non-existant video that claims to show Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton exchanging money with an Islamic State (IS) leader to distribute malicious spam emails. The…
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Reliance Industries has strongly refuted the claims of the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) that its members are providing sufficient inter-connection points for Jio’s 4G services, saying the reality…
New York, Aug 18 (IANS) Until now, bots from brands assisted you in making purchases on Facebook Messenger, but from now on these bots can directly send you advertisments and subscription messages. If you’re worried…
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) Taking us one step closer to internet-connected wireless implanted devices, a team of Indian-origin engineers has introduced a new way of communication that allows devices to talk to smartphones and watches….
New York, Aug 18 (IANS) Apple will post the first annual decline in iPhone shipments despite the launch of iPhone 7 in September, said a study, adding that India has emerged as a hot smartphone…
New York, Aug 18 (IANS) Opponents of the Islamic State (IS) are six times greater in number on Twitter than ISIS supporters, but those sympathetic to the group are more active on the social media…
Tokyo, Aug 18 (IANS) Japanese company Mitsubishi Electric announced on Thursday that it has developed the world’s first system to predict crowd-congestion in real time, a technology that can be used on roads and streets…
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday launched the process of tariff-based reverse auction in the transmission sector, simultaneously inaugurating a portal for electronic bidding for transmission projects. He launched here…
Bengaluru, Aug 17 (IANS) US-based global supplier of semiconductor chips and electronic components Mouser Electronics opened its customer service centre and back office in this tech hub on Wednesday. “The new full-service centre underscores our…
Jerusalem, Aug 17 (IANS) Providing strongest evidence to the prediction made by physicist Stephen Hawking more than 30 years ago, scientists have created a virtual black hole in the lab and observed particles slipping out…
Rome, Aug 17 (IANS/AKI) A bishop in Italy’s southern Sicily region on Wednesday pledged to take legal action over the globally successful mobile game Pokemon Go, claiming it is evil and a threat to society….