Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) New images taken from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory show a spectacular jet that emanates from a black hole in the centre of the galaxy and extends across 300,000 years toward a…
New York, Feb 3 (IANS) In a bid to deliver a more meaningful News Feed experience to its over 1.5 billion users, social networking giant Facebook is set to change the way it works after…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) After the success of Bangla software for Windows and keyboards, researchers here are now developing the same in Nepalese and Manipuri languages. The Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), which…
New York, Feb 3 (IANS) At a time when the world is bracing itself against the growing Zika virus, social networking giant Facebook has partnered with Brazil’s non-profit Abrasco Divulga to help combat the disease…
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) The US space agency NASA on Tuesday said its new rocket for deep space mission, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 small satellites along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft…
Beijing, Feb 2 (IANS) Chinese authorities have named an asteroid after scientist Tu Youyou who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her work with artemisinin, which is now widely used to…
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) US tech giant Apple has launched a new app “Airmail”, a lightning fast mail client for Mac and the iPhone to help user manage emails without any hassle by making…
London, Feb 2 (IANS) Social media giant Facebook’s official mobile app is slowing Android smartphones by 15 percent and is consuming excess battery power, a media report said on Tuesday. The hugely successful smartphone app…
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) The Orion capsule, NASA’s spacecraft designed to land humans on Mars, was carried from the US space agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Kennedy Space Centre Florida for…
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp has reached the milestone of one-billion users, with 42 billion messages being exchanged daily, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. One billion people now…
San Francisco, Feb 1 (AFP) Microsoft today revealed that as the world turns to computing power in the cloud it is working to put data centers under water. Researchers working on “Project Natick” tested a…
San Francisco, Feb 2 (AFP) Alphabet, the new parent firm for Google, pushed into record territory as a strong quarterly report put it on track to be the world’s most valuable company. Alphabet yesterday reported…
London, Feb 1 (IANS) Scientists have developed a new soft gripper that uses a process called electro-adhesion and picks up fragile objects of arbitrary shape and stiffness — like an egg, a water balloon or…
New York, Feb 1 (IANS) A computer scientist in the US has developed a software to detect and verify potential nuclear tests, especially by smaller devices, possibly by terrorist organisations or other non-state actors. Erik…
New York, Feb 1 (IANS) While major auto companies are working on introducing the futuristic self-driving technology in cars soon, this threatens to open new security problems for them as hackers have sensed an opportunity…
Toronto, Feb 1 (IANS) At least three most-downloaded pedometer smartphone apps have lower accuracy than standard pedometers, a study says. According to a study of pedometer apps Runtastic, Moves and Accupedo by researchers from the…
Singapore, Feb 1 (IANS) A ‘green’ satellite that will not become space debris at the end of its useful life and a propulsion engine that has the potential to send a nano satellite to the…
Washington, Feb 1 (IANS) NASA space scientists, trying hard to understand the Sun’s electromagnetic field that is crucial for future deep space travel, have released a first-ever video model of the Sun showing how its…
New York, Jan 31 (IANS) Common citizens and not politicians or celebrities were the ones who, using the micro-blogging site Twitter, shaped the national dialogue in the US following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown…
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) There exists a stark “digital divide” among states, with Delhi having the highest score of 238 percent while Bihar and Assam lag behind at around 55 percent, business chamber Assocham…