Eastman Kodak company, known for its films and cameras, on Thursday forayed into the HD LED TV business by entering into a partnership with Noida-based Super Plastronics Pvt Ltd (SSPL). SPPL, which manufactures TVs under the […]
Heard of “virtual meetings”? With a new drone with a projector, this will soon be possible. US tech giant Google has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for an “unmanned aerial […]
COIMBATORE: ICICI Bank on Thursday unveiled a payment service that uses a smartphone keyboard. Christened ‘iMobile SmartKeys’, this feature enables ‘iMobile’ users to make quick and secure payments on any mobile application including chat, messenger, email, […]
WASHINGTON: 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. Such devices include […]
Two Indians and four other Indian-origin teenagers are among the 16 global finalists for the sixth annual ‘Google Science Fair 2016’ who will compete for the USD 50,000 scholarship. Fatima, 15, from the Sadhu Vaswani […]
Facebook has added 60 million monthly users in the last three months to reach a staggering 1.71 billion users while scoring $6.44 billion in revenue — blowing an earlier estimates of $6.02 billion. This is Facebook’s […]
Micro-blogging website Twitter has updated its Android app and added a dark-themed mode for night time viewing to make it a little easier on the eyes. The feature can be found in the app’s main menu […]
#BlackBerry has launched another Android-based handset on with a broad app catalogue for security and productivity features at a lower price (USD$320 ~Rs 20,000). The faded smartphone pioneer is hoping the DTEK50 will sell in greater […]
The Pokemon Go app update doesn’t add new capabilities but fixes the privacy issues besides squashing some bugs. While the app can manage to get most of your information from the camera and GPS location, it […]
Twitter has increased its animated GIF (graphics interchange format) size limit from 5MB to 15MB if uploaded on the web from a desktop, a media report said on Tuesday. However, the 5MB photo limit stays the […]
NEW YORK: Certain personality types are more likely to rebel rather than comply when seeing the colour red, suggests a study led by an Indian-origin researcher. The study was inspired by a problem faced by […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): After introducing end-to-end encryption to WhatsApp, Facebook is now planning to bring it to Messenger soon. The social media giant announced today that it is testing a new feature Secret Conversations to […]
You’re smiling bright for a selfie, but there’s no flash on the front camera. You’re playing a great new video game on your phone, but you can barely see what you’re doing. There are some things […]
Google is trying to make it easier for you to manage the vast pool of information that it collects about your online activities across phones, computers and other devices. Among other things, a new privacy tool […]
Facebook has introduced new ways to let people share and save content with two new Chrome extensions, as well as update to its suite of Social Plugin buttons — the Share, Comment and Like button for […]
LONDON (TIP): Using your device just before sleep may lead to a condition called transient smartphone blindness, say doctors who reported a case of two women in the UK suffering from temporary vision impairment in […]
A family of mobile malware called “Godless” has affected over 850,000 Android devices worldwide with almost half of these devices in India alone, a new report said. Based on the data collected from cyber security firm Trend […]
BOSTON (TIP): Researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist have developed a software that can turn any smartphone into an eye-tracking device, a discovery that can help in psychological experiments and marketing research. In addition to […]
BEIJING: China is developing a supercomputer capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second that will be operationalised by 2020, a top official has said. According to the national plan for the next […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): To better understand and predict South Asia’s seasonal monsoon, scientists are getting ready to release robots in the Bay of Bengal in a study of how ocean conditions might affect rainfall patterns. […]
NEW YORK: Scientists have developed a new tool to modify brain activity and memory in targeted ways, without the help of any drugs or chemicals. The new tool is a protein that can be encoded […]
WhatsApp beta users on iOS have started receiving an update that lets them share auto playing GIFs. After the recent update to emojis, the messaging is app seems to have been keeping a keen eye on […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have developed a software that turns computer webcams into eye-trackers, an advance that may help developers optimize content and make websites more user-friendly. The software, called WebGazer.js , can infer where on […]
BEIJING (TIP): China plans to launch an independent optical facility, which will function like the Hubble Space Telescope , along with the construction of a space station in the coming years, scientists said. The field […]
The Twitter and Pinterest accounts of the co-founder and CEO of social media giant Facebook Mark Zuckerberg were compromised over the weekend, a media report said. LinkedIn password dump likely to blame The group responsible, OurMine Team, also claimed to […]
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