San Francisco, Sep 15 (IANS) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has said that the conservative employees at the social media service “dont feel safe to express their opinions” at work. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey – like his counterparts at Facebook and YouTube – has consistently said that his service isn’t biased. “But[Read More…]
San Francisco, Sep 15 (IANS) Google has released the latest beta version of “Chrome 70” with touch-sensitive web authentication for Android and Mac devices, adding an extra layer of security to the browser. “Mac’s TouchID and Android’s fingerprint sensor would allow developers to access biometric authenticators,” Google Chrome wrote in a[Read More…]
Chennai, Sep 15 (IANS) The Indian space agency expects to fly its first small rocket with a carrying capacity of about 500-700 kg sometime next year, according to a top official. “The developmental work for our small rocket that can carry satellites weighing around 500 kg is on. The first flight[Read More…]
After thousands of accounts got suspended due to hackers’ threats, the famous social media app Instagram has taken some quick actions to make the platform more secure for its one billion users. In these efforts, among the several features that Instagram for the first time has offered its users a straightforward[Read More…]
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya also known as Sir MV was a great Indian engineer, scholar, statesman, and the 19th Diwan of Mysore, who served from 1912 to 1918. Google Doodle celebrates Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya’s 158th Birthday Sir MV received India’s highest honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a[Read More…]
Rapid developments in technology require professionals to upgrade their skills for technology-centered jobs of tomorrow. Srikanth Vidapanakal, who has been into data for more than 18 years, was inquisitive to learn about new technologies. He did a Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree that helped him acquire advanced skills and landed him[Read More…]
Facebook-owned Instagram is rolling out a new “prompt feature” that would pop-up if users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services or look to buy drugs illegally on the platform using certain hashtags such as “opioid”, the media has reported. “Instagram says people are using hashtags to[Read More…]
San Francisco, Sep 13 (IANS) Google is set to shut down its alternate mailing app “Inbox” in March 2019, giving users time to shift to the traditional Gmail by then, the company has said in a blog post. Launched in 2014, “Inbox” was introduced as an innovative new email app that[Read More…]
Apple on Wednesday officially unveiled its next generation of Apple Watch that features a larger edge-to-edge display with smaller bezels, which is 30 per cent bigger. The device brings a design overhaul to the Apple Watch as the iPhone-maker is now using a new dual-core 64-bit chipset, custom designed to[Read More…]
Twitter, in collaboration with the International Association for SuicidePrevention, has launched a special emoji for ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’ available globally and in India, the microblogging platform said Monday. “September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day and the theme for this year is ‘Working Together to Prevent Suicide’… Twitter, in partnership with the International Association for SuicidePrevention, is launching a special emoji[Read More…]
Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Monday announced it is now available on Reliance JioPhones across India. WhatsApp has built a new version of its private messaging app for JioPhone, running on KaiOS operating system. “Millions of people across India can now use WhatsApp private messaging on the best-in-class JioPhone across India,” said Chris Daniels, Vice[Read More…]
Drones are proving to be the most cutting-edge innovations for emergency situations, health hazards being one of them. To the saviour, comes a start-up aiming to revolutionise the way blood reaches the remote areas across the country. Anshul Sharma (23), Arnab Bhattacharya (24), and Rishabh Gupta (25), aerospace graduates from MIT,[Read More…]
As 4G penetration increases in India, Kolkata has emerged as the top city with a 4G availability score of an impressive over 90 per cent, London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal said on Thursday. Kolkata topped the list of 22 telecom circles in the country. However, the other 21 circles saw 4G (LTE) reach scores over 80 per cent, including[Read More…]
US tech giant Google announced on Monday that it is employing a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to combat online spreading of contents involving child sexual abuse. Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. The new tool based on the deep neural networks[Read More…]
Google Doodle is celebrating the 130th birth anniversary of German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer. He was associated with the Bauhaus school of art and is most vividly remembered for his “Triadisches Ballet” where the performers are seen converting into geometrical figurines from normal beings. His ideas were complex and hard to decipher. He infamously rejected the absolute abstract and[Read More…]
Twitter is planning to roll out threaded conversations like Facebook along with status indicators — showing who else is online among your followers — on its platform. In a tweet, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Friday that the micro-blogging platform will soon get interesting updates. “Playing with some new[Read More…]
Photo-messaging app Snapchat has reportedly joined hands with third-party service TuneMoji to allow users to post musical Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs) to a personal chat or their Story. TuneMoji shows a searchable gallery of GIFs which users would be able to set to different licensed songs and sounds from which users could select a messaging[Read More…]
A newly-launched restaurant in the Nepalese capital is using robots as waiters under the slogan, “where food meets technology.” The Naulo Restaurant (“naulo” means new in Nepali) operates with the help of five robots, three named Ginger and two named Ferry, designed and manufactured by Paaila Technology, a Nepali company established by six young engineers, specializing[Read More…]
With smartphones capable of measuring atmospheric pressure, temperatures and humidity, a novel study suggested that the devices may one day be able to track and anticipate weather patterns that leads to flash floods. Researchers noted that smartphones can be harnessed to forecast flash floods as well as other natural disasters.[Read More…]
To brighten up your day as you wade through a sea of bad news, Google Assistant will now deliver curated good news – stories about people who are solving real-life problems across the world. “Tell me something good” is a new experimental feature, currently available for Assistant users in the US. Just say “Hey Google, tell me[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has been ranked the top company globally in the Fortune’s fourth annual “Change The World” list released on Monday. The list ranked companies as per their profit motive to help the planet and tackle social problems. “If access to the Internet is a basic human right[Read More…]
Google has updated a help page for customers of mobile phones to acknowledge that they still can be tracked for using its Search or Maps services, even if they turn off the phone’s tracking feature. In the help page for the Location History setting, Google clarified, “This setting does not[Read More…]
Patanjali’s Ayurved’s messaging app ‘Kimbho’ is back on Google Play Store. Earlier today morning, the desi messaging app was removed by Google from its Play Store. Patanjali had launched a beta trial version of the messaging app on August 16 which got disappeared only a day after its introduction. Patanjali[Read More…]
Just a day after Patanjali Ayurved’s messaging app Kimbho’s beta trial version was launched, it went missing from the Google Play Store. The desi messaging app was known for coming as a competitor for WhatsApp in the Indian market. The Baba Ramdev-led firm Patanjali claimed that this is a conspiracy[Read More…]
Recognizing the importance of data protection and keeping personal data of citizens secure and protected, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India constituted a Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Justice B N Srikrishna, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India. The Committee of Experts on Data[Read More…]
