#Nasa has sent a spacecraft chasing after an unexplored asteroid, in the hope that it might one day keep us from being destroyed. The OSIRIS-REx robotic hunter has blasted off to the asteroid Bennu. When […]
BEIJING (TIP): China has launched its second space station in a sign of the growing sophistication of its military-backed program that intends to send a mission to Mars in the coming years. The Tiangong 2 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): With regulation on pollution from automobiles getting stringent world over, carmakers finally moving towards electrics, but not in a hurry. Companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Volvo plan to start off with […]
Artificial Intelligence-powered bots will become the next interface, shaping our interactions with the applications and devices we rely on and Microsoft’s latest solutions are set to change the way HP interacts with its customers and […]
Indian American Nasik-born Ramesh Raskar, 46, has bagged the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize worth $500,000 for his groundbreaking inventions to create solutions to improve lives globally. Risker is founder of the Camera Culture research group at the MIT […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese scientists have claimed to have converted sand into fertile soil using a new method which they hope will be useful to fight desertification. A team of researchers from Chongqing Jiaotong University has […]
Twitter on September 5 began offering video creators a cut of ad revenue in a move that could help it better compete with YouTube and Facebook for content viewers seek. A Twitter Amplify Publisher Program […]
NEW DELHI: India’s premier scientific research body, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Mysuru-based constituent laboratory, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI), has developed an Omega-3 and Vitamin-E enriched frozen nutritional dessert – […]
Facebook’s ambitious plans of bringing internet access across world partly went up in flames with the Space X rocket that exploded on Thursday, September 8. The social networking giant had contracted the aeropsace manufacturer to deliver […]
Facebook is further automating its “trending” stories feature, a move that will scale back human input to prevent personal bias from influencing which stories get highlighted. The social media giant will rely more heavily on an […]
ATLANTA (TIP): The World Affairs Council of Atlanta and the American India Foundation [AIF] hosted, August 18, Dr. Rajeev Tayal, Executive Director of the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum [IUSSTF] for a breakfast presentation at […]
Messaging service WhatsApp has updated its global privacy policy, under which it will now share phone numbers of users with its parent company, Facebook. While the move will help Facebook offer more targeted advertisements on its […]
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 […]
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