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…
London, Dec 17 (IANS) Using new nanotechnology, researchers have reproduced a colour image of Mona Lisa which is less than one pixel on an iPhone Retina display — 50 micrometres long or about 10,000 times…
Seoul, Dec 17 (IANS) Tired of WhatsApp messages and e-mail pings during a key client meet? Well, here comes an app that will lock the smartphone altogether and keep you from using it while engaged…
This image composite shows the search for the supernova, nicknamed Refsdal, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image to the left shows a part of the deep field observation of the galaxy cluster MACS…
Sriharikota: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s PSLV C 29 carrying six satellites of Singapore, lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on Dec. 16, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Dec 16…
Delhi: Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a press conference in Delhi on Dec. 16, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Google will build a new campus at Hyderabad, even as it is…
Islamabad, Dec 15 (IANS) Pakistan on Tuesday conducted a successful flight test of a ballistic missile the “Shaheen 1-A”, the media reported. The flight test was aimed at re-validating several design and technical parameters of…
New York, Dec 15 (IANS) Disney Research and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed a system that can transform stereoscopic content into multi-view content in real-time. The existing 3D stereoscopic content, which…