New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Encryption is a fundamental and necessary tool to safeguard digital communication infrastructure but the interests of Internet users should be foremost in framing any policy, the Internet and Mobile Association…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) India is one of the top priority countries for ‘Facebook at Work’ and the social networking giant will soon start testing the app with more companies in the country, top…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) European cyber security provider F-Secure has teamed up with Chinese smartphone manufacturer TCL Corporation to help Android users take control of their online privacy. A new agreement between F-Secure and…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) With almost a billion Indians still not connected to the internet, a World Bank report on digital technology launched here on Tuesday said the overall impact of digital technologies has…
Beijing, May 10 (IANS) Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Tuesday launched Mi Max — with the largest screen in its line-up to date — and MIUI 8, the next generation of its Android-based operating system…
By Aparajita Gupta Title: Myth Breaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech; Author: Seema Singh; Publisher: Collins Business; Pages: 324; Price: Rs.599 Start-ups may have become a familiar term in India in the…
Toronto, May 10 (IANS) Video game addiction can lead to sleep deprivation, thereby putting the players at serious risk of numerous health issues associated with sleep loss such as obesity and cardiovascular diseases, warns a…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Lenovo India on Tuesday launched Lenovo ZUK Z1 smartphone that runs on Cyanogen operating system (OS) 12.1 — an OS that enables deep customisation of the user interface with its…
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) Are you sinking into depression? Let your speech tell you. Analysing variations in emotions in your speech could be a pointer to neurological impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease…
May 10 (IANS) Even as Reliance Industries doesn’t intend to offer doles on its 4G handsets under the “LYF” brand, some concessions are certainly expected given the state of play in India’s mobile phone and…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) While India shipped a total of 52.8 million handsets against 55.4 million in the first quarter this year – registering a decline of 4 percent (year-on-year), Make in India’ smartphones…
New York, May 10 (IANS) In an upgrade to the human-computer interaction platforms, voice controlled assistance touched a new high when Viv — an artificial intelligence (AI) virtual system — was presented at the “TechCrunch…
New York, May 10 (IANS) Photo and video messaging app Snapchat has rolled out a new update that enables users to zoom in via a camera without needing to lift the thumb off the capture…
New York, May 10 (IANS) Micro-blogging website Twitter will soon roll out an update of its Periscope live video app that will enable users broadcast live directly from a drone and to save broadcasts beyond…
New York, May 10 (IANS) Are you getting bored easily when trying to focus, or having difficulty doing quiet tasks and activities? If yes, the pervasive use of a smartphone could be the reason behind…
New York, May 10 (IANS) The additional “Reaction” buttons that social media giant Facebook introduced next to the “Like” button this year have failed to charm users, a study has found. The study by social…
(Credit: www.washington.edu) Washington, May 10 (IANS) A team led by an Indian-origin computer engineer from University of Washington has built a five-fingered robotic hand that can not only perform dexterous in-hand manipulation but also learn…
By Aparajita Gupta Title: Myth Breaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech; Author: Seema Singh; Publisher: Collins Business; Pages: 324; Price: Rs.599 Start-ups may have become a familiar term in India in the…
Washington, May 10 (IANS) Twitter has banned the US intelligence agencies from using a service called Dataminr, which searches through real-time tweets to detect newsworthy events, including terror attacks and protests. Dataminr reportedly said that…
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) Want to conserve water and grow plants indoors without soil? One can do that by using fish poop. IIT-Guwahati student Siddharth Nimkar and his batchmates have developed a small scale model,…