New York, April 30 (IANS) The wait was finally over on Saturday when social media giant Facebook rolled out the much awaited Facebook and Messenger apps on Windows 10 after several months of beta testing….
Beijing, April 30 (IANS) A group of internet video player service providers have been investigated and punished for spreading pornography in a nationwide crackdown, the anti-porn authority said. The anti-porn authority in Beijing has probed…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The government will conduct special audit of telecom companies for three subsequent financial years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11, parliament was informed on Friday. Government has decided to conduct Special Audit…
London, April 29 (IANS) The image-recognition technology in a self-driving car can learn to respond to unfamiliar objects on the road akin to the responses of a human driver, say researchers. Imagine heading home in…
New York, April 29 (IANS) Google Translate – a free service that instantly translates words, phrases and web pages between English and over 100 other languages — turned 10 on Friday. “Our goal was to…
Nanowire array electocaloric fabric placed on flexible substrate is flexible. Credit: Qing Wang, Penn State New York, April 29 (IANS) Firefighters entering burning buildings, athletes competing in the broiling sun and workers in foundries may…
London, April 29 (IANS) If you find that you just can’t “unfriend” your well connected friend on Facebook because he may make your real life hell, your are probably right. According to researchers, socially well…
New York, April 29 (IANS) Taking a break from the tradition where Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin shared the company’s progress and vision every year, this time it was Indian-origin CEO Sundar Pichai…
London, April 29 (IANS) British astronaut Tim Peake, currently on the International Space Station, will command a robot to roll around a giant sandpit in Stevenage town that simulates the surface of Mars. The programme…
London, April 29 (IANS) Recent discoveries of exoplanets have rekindled hope for other advanced technological civilisations that may have ever existed near us, researchers have found. A new paper shows that unless the odds of…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) Self-driving shuttles for in-campus travel, designed by a team of students from IIT-Kharagpur’s Robotics Research Group, would reduce operating costs by 40 to 60 percent, a statement from the institute said…
London, April 29 (IANS) Serious gamers generally avoid touchscreens because these devices lack physical buttons due to which the key press timing in touchscreen input is unpredictable, a team of Finnish researchers has found. When…
New York, April 29 (IANS) After several months of beta testing, social media giant Facebook will be launching its new Facebook and Messenger apps on Windows 10 on Friday, a media report said. Facebook is…
New York, April 29 (IANS) After reporting dismal results this week, micro-blogging website Twitter is no longer pitted against social networks like Facebook and is now categorised under the “news” section in the Apple’s App…
New York, April 29 (IANS) Retweeting or sharing information on the micro-blogging site can actually make things worse for you as it creates a cognitive overload that interferes with learning and retaining what you’ve just…
Bengaluru, April 29 (IANS) Software major Infosys has developed a knowledge-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform to drive automation and innovation for its global clients. “The platform Mana brings machine learning with knowledge of an organisation…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, April 29 (IANS) The common man in India has to wait for some more time to use the “Indian GPS’ as the Indian navigation system has to be formally declared operational…
BERLIN, Nov. 13, 2015 (Xinhua) — Visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attends a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 13, 2015. (Xinhua/Zhang Fan/IANS) Canberra, April 29 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister…
Bengaluru, April 28 (IANS) International e-commerce platform Shopmatic, which promises to offer the entire online sales ecosystem, on Thursday launched operations in Singapore and Hong Kong, aimed at helping SMEs and individual entrepreneurs go digital…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Rahuri Municipal Council in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district on Thursday became the country’s first civic body to attain integration with the government’s ‘digital locker’ initiative for issuance of all essential documents…