21 Feb 2019 | 3:06 PMBEIJING: Scientists have developed pacemakers that can be powered by the energy of heartbeats, and successfully tested the device in pigs.
21 Feb 2019 | 2:24 PMSAN FRANCISCO: Apple users will now be able to stay up to date on their favourite places right from the Google Maps app on iOS, the Internet giant has announced.
21 Feb 2019 | 12:17 PMSAN FRANCISCO: The Micro-blogging site Twitter is launching a test of its redesigned conversations layout with a wider set of iOS users and is accepting survey-based applications from people who are willing to try the new interface out.
21 Feb 2019 | 12:17 PMCHENNAI: Scientists at IIT-Madras have developed an algorithm that can help manage dense crowds using minimal manpower, and prevent deadly stampedes in huge public gatherings like the Kumbh Mela and the Hajj.
21 Feb 2019 | 11:39 AMWASHINGTON: The lunar surface could act as a 'chemical factory' that produces the ingredients for water, making it easier for future human colonies on the Moon to sustain themselves, NASA scientists have found.
21 Feb 2019 | 10:52 AMNEW YORK: Americans use more toilet paper than anyone else in the world, helping destroy the habitats of native people who live where it is sourced and contributing to global warming, a research study said on Wednesday.
20 Feb 2019 | 3:08 PMNEW DELHI: Swedish caller identification app Truecaller on Wednesday announced that the platform has crossed the 100 million mark in terms of daily active users in India.
20 Feb 2019 | 1:37 PMSAN FRANCISCO: Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has revamped its community guidelines and after almost a decade, updated its Strike rules.
20 Feb 2019 | 1:17 PMWASHINGTON: Long before the advent of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, early Mississippian Mound cultures in America's southern Appalachian Mountains shared artistic trends and technologies across regional networks that functioned in similar ways as modern social media, according to a study.
20 Feb 2019 | 11:11 AMSAN FRANCISCO: Google has announced a brand new top level domain (TLD) dedicated to developers to allow them to build communities, learn newer technologies and showcase their projects with the new domain name.
19 Feb 2019 | 2:52 PMMELBOURNE: Social media platforms like Facebook can help support the health and wellbeing of people following a natural disaster, a study claims.
19 Feb 2019 | 2:40 PMNEW YORK: Stargazers on Tuesday are in for a celestial delight as the biggest and brightest Supermoon of the year, also called the Snowmoon, is set to brighten up the night sky after 8.30 pm.
19 Feb 2019 | 1:59 PMNEW DELHI: It is time to move on from dating apps like Tinder or Bumble as a French online dating community platform called Gleeden—the world's first extra-marital dating website for married people—is making waves in India.
19 Feb 2019 | 12:26 PMSAN FRANCISCO: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is reportedly testing a donation sticker on its Stories feature that would offer fundraising and donation tools for charity or personal reasons.
18 Feb 2019 | 2:35 PMSAN FRANCISCO: In a major goof-up, popular video-sharing platform YouTube projected it upon impressionable minds that—the Earth is flat—raising the number of people who now seriously believe the planet to be a flat unending stretch of land, a study said.
18 Feb 2019 | 12:10 PMHOUSTON: Scientists have identified a gene that increases a smoker’s preference for cigarettes containing menthol, a flavour additive that provides a minty taste and a cooling or soothing sensation.
17 Feb 2019 | 2:37 PMWASHINGTON: Scientists have discovered massive mountains in the Earth’s mantle, an advance that may change our understanding of how the planet was formed.
17 Feb 2019 | 2:35 PMWASHINGTON: Megalodon—a giant predatory shark that has inspired numerous books and blockbuster movies—likely went extinct at least one million years earlier than previously thought, a study has found.
17 Feb 2019 | 1:14 PMSAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly been retaining messages shared on its platform including deleted messages along with data shared and received from accounts that have been suspended or deactivated, the media reported.
17 Feb 2019 | 11:16 AMBEIJING: A team of Chinese scientists have developed a large-scale transparent smart window that can change light intensity while effectively capturing the particulate matter in smog, a study said.
16 Feb 2019 | 1:45 PMLONDON: Scientists have developed a wave energy technology that they say could help generate low-cost electricity for thousands of houses.
16 Feb 2019 | 1:16 PMWASHINGTON: While it was previously thought that long duration spaceflight can affect the human body, even at the molecular level, new results from NASAs "Twins Study" has showed that there are no major warning signs and no reason to think humans cannot survive a two-and-a-half-year round-trip journey to Mars.
16 Feb 2019 | 12:12 PMSAN FRANCISCO: The beta version of "WhatsApp Business" —a free-to-download communication tool specifically designed for small businesses —has been made available for iOS users.
16 Feb 2019 | 11:52 AMSAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly been developing a “News Camera” functionality that would allow users to add captions to photos, videos and live broadcasts — Snapchat-style.
16 Feb 2019 | 11:34 AMSAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly been developing a "News Camera" functionality that would allow users to add captions to photos, videos and live broadcasts - Snapchat-style.
15 Feb 2019 | 4:27 PMLONDON: Artificial Intelligence (AI) can significantly improve our understanding of the climate and Earth science, says a study by German scientists.
15 Feb 2019 | 1:36 PMLONDON: While having siblings makes childhood blissful, it can also lead to bullying, finds a new study.
15 Feb 2019 | 1:32 PMWASHINGTON: NASA plans to put American astronauts back on the Moon by 2028, with unmanned demonstration missions in 2024 and 2026, the US space agency Chief Jim Bridenstine has said.
14 Feb 2019 | 3:55 PMGURUGRAM: A team of Class 10 students here has developed a portable, cost-effective and user-friendly device driven by artificial intelligence (AI) that may help correct the posture of those suffering from ‘text neck’.
14 Feb 2019 | 1:00 PMSAN FRANCISCO: A bug on Instagram that has been altering follower counts of users would be taken care of latest by Friday, Instagram announced in a tweet on Thursday.
14 Feb 2019 | 11:57 AMSAN FRANCISCO: Software pirates have hijacked technology designed by Apple Inc to distribute hacked versions of Spotify, Angry Birds, Pokemon Go, Minecraft and other popular apps on iPhones, Reuters has found.
14 Feb 2019 | 11:34 AMSAN FRANCISCO: In an attempt to address the problem of following threaded conversations on its app, micro-blogging site Twitter is reportedly testing an overlay of profile preview that would enable users to see information of any person replying to their tweet-threads
14 Feb 2019 | 11:18 AMWASHINGTON: The record-breaking 15-year-long Mars mission of NASA's Opportunity rover was declared over after the US space agency failed to contact the robotic explorer for over eight months.
13 Feb 2019 | 5:12 PMLOS ANGELES: Hearing impairment in older adults may indicate increased risk of faster cognitive decline with age, a study claims.
13 Feb 2019 | 3:57 PMWASHINGTON: Mars may have volcanic activity below its surface, according to scientists who argue that without an underground source of heat it would not be possible for the Red Planet to host liquid water.
13 Feb 2019 | 3:26 PMWASHINGTON: Scientists are using humans' gait, body symmetry and foot placement to teach self-driving cars to recognise and predict pedestrian movements with greater precision than current technologies.
13 Feb 2019 | 1:51 PMNEW YORK: Are you searching for a partner with whom you can share personality traits? Relax. The key to relationship happiness could be as simple as finding a nice person, a new study has found.
13 Feb 2019 | 1:41 PMSAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday said it is working to resolve the problem that has been causing the 'Like' and 'Retweet' counts on its platform to fluctuate continuously.
12 Feb 2019 | 4:40 PMWASHINGTON: NASA's atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has embarked on a new campaign to tighten its orbit around the red planet to become a data-relay satellite for the US space agency's Mars 2020 rover.
11 Feb 2019 | 2:50 PMLOS ANGELES: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have created brain “organoids” of chimpanzees—our closest living relatives—in laboratory to help explain the evolutionary origins of the distinctly human brain.
10 Feb 2019 | 4:50 PMLONDON: The decade from 2014 to 2023 could end up being the warmest in over 150 years of records, say scientists who predict that the global average surface temperature for the next five years will be one degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
17 Feb 2019 | 11:17 AMNEW YORK: Researchers have identified a gene that could provide a new target for developing medication to prevent and treat alcoholism, according to a new study on mice.
09 Feb 2019 | 12:57 PMSAN FRANCISCO: In an attempt to enable users shop better using Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities, Facebook has acquired US-based virtual search start-up, GrokStyle, at an undisclosed amount.
08 Feb 2019 | 4:25 PMWASHINGTON: The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new mysterious dark storm on Neptune and provided a fresh look at a long-lived storm circling around the North Polar Region on Uranus, NASA said.