Washington: NASA’s landmark “Twins Study”, which gave us the first integrated molecular view into genetic changes, has demonstrated that a human body adapts and remains robust and resilient even after spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The findings, published in the Science journal, will help NASA[Read More…]
San Francisco: With elections happening around the world month after month, Facebook is kicking off a new collaborative process with outside experts to reduce the distribution of greater quantities of misinformation in a short span of time. “One promising idea we’ve been exploring would involve relying on groups of people[Read More…]
San Francisco: Taking on streaming giants like Netflix and Hulu, Walt Disney Co. has announced it will launch its new streaming service called Disney+ in November, at a price of $6.99 a month. This comes after the entertainment giant sealed the deal on its $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century[Read More…]
San Francisco: In an attempt to become more interactive for users, Microsoft-owned job seeking platform LinkedIn is bringing the Facebook-famed emoji “Reactions” on its app, but with a twist. Unlike Facebook’s subtle and traditional emojis, LinkedIn is adding colourful characters for — Like, Celebrate, Love, Insightful and Curious reactions. “We’re[Read More…]
The company said TikTok app is not liable for the content that the users post on it
London: Facebook has said that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violated its guidelines by creating fake profiles on its platform tied to the University of Farmington — a sham institution that left over 600 students, 90 per cent of them Indians, in detention. The Facebook profiles were allegedly[Read More…]
San Francisco: Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is still developing its previously announced “Vacation Mode”, but has changed its name to “Ignore Archived Chats” and added certain tweaks to its functionality. As part of the further development of this feature, WhatsApp’s beta version for Android 2.19.101 shows that the “Ignore Archived[Read More…]
SpaceX launched the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket on its inaugural commercial mission on Thursday evening at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the first time SpaceX managed to land all three rocket boosters after launch. For the first time ever, all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters returned to Earth[Read More…]
New Delhi: Aiming to make Google Pay more useful for Indian users, Google on Thursday announced its partnership with MMTC-PAMP India for buying and selling of gold through the application. MMTC-PAMP India Pvt. Ltd is an internationally recognised metal and mining service provider. “Google Pay users would be able to[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has asked YouTube to remove from its platform two songs posted by Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie. Justice Jayant Nath in an interim order on April 8 said the order should be complied with within two weeks. “In my opinion, it would be in the interest[Read More…]
San Francisco: Users will no longer have to download iTunes to listen to Apple’s podcast episodes with the company now allowing them to play these directly from its website. A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio or video files, which can be downloaded for listening. Apple’s redesigned webpage[Read More…]
Mumbai: Lenovo topped global PC shipments in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019 with a market share of 22.5 per cent, despite recording a decline of 4.6 per cent from the first quarter of 2018, said a report by Gartner Inc. on Thursday. Lenovo remained in the top spot in[Read More…]
New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with over 43.5 million likes on his personal Page and 13.7 million likes on his official Page on Facebook, is the most popular world leader on the social network as more world leaders are now paying to promote their posts, a new report said[Read More…]
The e-commerce platform Amazon is currently running Fab Phone Fest sale which offers eye-catching discounts on smartphones like the OnePlus 6T, iPhone X, Realme U1, Oppo F9 Pro, Vivo V15 Pro and more. Additionally, Amazon is offering 10 percent Instant Bank Discount for customers using HDFC Bank Debit, Credit Cards &[Read More…]
An Instagram blogger and an influencer who had 113,000 followers has made an emotional appeal to people on YouTube after her profile was deleted by the popular photo-sharing social media network. In the video, you can see Jessy Taylor crying as she warns people to ‘think twice’ before reporting her[Read More…]
San Francisco: In yet another bid to tame fake news, Facebook will crack down on Groups that repeatedly share misinformation by reducing that Group’s overall News Feed distribution. The social media platform will also hold admins of the Facebook Groups more accountable for the Community Standards violations. “When people in[Read More…]
New Delhi: Google on Thursday marked the beginning of the general elections in India with a doodle that featured an inked finger, which when clicked led users to a page explaining the voting procedure. This doodle’s reach was only for India where the world’s largest democratic exercise kicked off earlier[Read More…]
The National Science Foundation on Wednesday revealed the first-ever picture captured of a black hole. The black hole in the image is at present at the middle of a massive galaxy in the Virgo cluster, Messier 87. The galaxy M87 is 500 million trillion km away from Earth. The black hole[Read More…]
The Samsung Galaxy A80 will be featuring three colour variables- Phantom Black, Ghost White, Angel Gold.
An international scientific team is expected to unveil a landmark achievement in astrophysics – the first photo of a black hole – on Wednesday. Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration will present a “groundbreaking result” from the project on April 10, according to a media advisory. Anticipation is building[Read More…]
Samsung has organised a Galaxy event in which the company is unveiling a new set of phones for the Galaxy A-series lineup in Bangkok, Milan, and Sao Paolo. The star of the show is most likely going to be the Galaxy A90 smartphone which is said to come with a pop-out camera.[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Google India Digital Services Private Limited to file a reply on the plea alleging Google Pay not being listed as an authorised operator as per list of the ‘Payment System Operators’. A division bench[Read More…]
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Wednesday announced it has selected Swedish telecommunications manufacturer Ericsson to expand its pan-India voice over LTE (VoLTE) services to offer HD-quality calling over 4G smartphones and smart watches. Airtel will deploy the Ericsson Cloud VoLTE solution to deliver VoLTE services onto a customer data centre.[Read More…]
San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app WhatsApp has introduced its “audio picker” with a new user interface (UI), allowing users to choose a total of 30 audio files to send at once. “WhatsApp has recently enabled the new ‘audio picker’ with the possibility to play the audio before sending it and[Read More…]
San Francisco: To prevent users from falling prey to the questionable privacy practices of tech giants, privacy assistant app “Jumbo” has started rolling out for iOS users and will soon be made available for Android users as well. The privacy app comes with the capability to automatically adjust 30 Facebook[Read More…]
