New York, Jan 23 (IANS) In what can allow many people in countries like China and Iran use Facebook where it is censored, the social networking site has reportedly tweaked its software that links the…
New York, Jan 23 (IANS) If you are an Apple user, get ready to experience your Facebook Timeline in 3D soon. According to reports, the social networking site is rolling out a special feature “3D…
Beijing, Jan 22 (IANS) China is planning a supercomputer 1,000 times more powerful than its ground-breaking Tianhe-1A as it faces rising demand for next-generation computing. Meng Xiangfei, head of the applications department of the National…
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on the Red Planet. Sand from the second and…
Rome, Jan 22 (IANS/AKI) Apple will open in Naples a centre to teach a “new generation” of computer coders how to develop new software for its app store, the tech giant announced. The app training…
Panaji, Jan 22 (IANS) Friends of Caitanya Lila Holt, 30-year-old US national, who died after allegedly choking on mud in a paddy field last week, have started an online campaign on the social media seeking…
New York, Jan 21 (IANS) Leveraging publicly available tweets or other social media posts could help disaster response agencies quickly identify impacted areas in need of assistance, says a new study. By analysing the September…
Delhi: Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a press conference in Delhi on Dec. 16, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) Jaipur, Jan 21 (IANS) In an effort to get Indian languages better represented on the internet, Google…
New York, Jan 21 (IANS) Fourteen students from the Indian diaspora have been selected to compete for $1 million in prizes at the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search Competition this year by fielding high-level projects…
As the debate over Net neutrality and Free Basics intensifies, particularly with the sparring match between the telecom regulator and some stakeholders like Facebook, here’s a primer on these issues: Q: What is Net Neutrality?…
The Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares, or GRIPS, payload launched into the sky on a giant balloon on Jan. 18, 2016. It will ride the winds around the South Pole for at least two weeks…
Mizuna lettuce growing aboard the International Space Station before being harvested and frozen for a return to Earth. Image credit: NASA Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) You must have seen the picture of the solitary orange…
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Social networking site Facebook on Wednesday responded to the Indian telecom regulator’s letter regarding Free Basics, saying it tried to cooperate with the watchdog. “Facebook’s mission is to make the…
New York, Jan 20 (IANS) Micro-blogging site Twitter crashed for its users all over the world on Tuesday due to an internal code change, a media report said. Twitter experienced an issue “related to an…
Illustration by Jennifer Daniel London, Jan 20 (IANS) If someone claims that he or she has over 1,000 friends on Facebook, he or she is probably lying. According to an interesting research, the average number…
Sriharikota: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s PSLV-C31 carrying IRNSS-1E , lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, a barrier island off the Bay of Bengal coast located in Andhra Pradesh on Jan 20,…
New York, Jan 20 (IANS) Members of the public, not to mention budding scientists and engineers with spare time and creative minds, get ready for some action to contrive a robotic arm! For, the National…
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Jan 19 (IANS) India is reading to launch its fifth regional navigation satellite on Wednesday from its spaceport here, a senior space agency official said on Tuesday. “The countdown (T-48) is going…
Mumbai, Jan 19 (IANS) Exactly a month after Facebook allowed live streaming of commercial events, Reliance Industries on Tuesday took to the social networking site to announce its results for the third quarter of this…
Washington, Jan 19 (IANS) In what can be termed as an ironic twist of history, US-based Sierra Nevada Corporation’s NASA-contracted Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft has a design rooted in the Soviet Union’s space shuttle of…