Brussels, February 17 A Belgian court has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data on users or face daily penalty of 2,50,000 euros. The court found the social media site guilty of breaching Belgium’s privacy laws, www.deredactie.be reported late Friday. The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy (CPP) had takenRead More

London An international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of nearly 100 new exoplanets—planets located outside our solar system. The discovery was based on data from the second mission of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope or K2 released in 2014. K2 searches for exoplanet transits by registering dips in lightRead More

San Francisco, February 16 Apple has admitted that the iOS 11.2.5 has a serious bug which is capable of crashing apps and Apple devices via iMessage, saying that it was working on to fix it. The vulnerability was discovered earlier this week and involves sending an Indian language character (inRead More

Los Angeles NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s mysterious dark storm that probably smells like rotten eggs, and is shrinking out of existence. Immense dark storms on Neptune were first discovered in the late 1980s by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, according to the Hubble team. Hubble found two darkRead More

San Francisco, February 15 In a clear message to news publishers, a top Facebook executive has emphasised that it is not their job to recruit people from media organisations for the content on the social media platform. At the “Code Media 2018” conference in California organised by the famous techRead More

Washington The UN Paris Agreement that aims to limit the global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius is unlikely to be met, and could increase the likelihood of extreme weather, a study warns. Researchers found that emissions consistent with the commitments countries have made are likely to resultRead More

New Delhi Buoyed by its performance in the fourth quarter last year, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Wednesday launched two devices — Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 and Note 5 Pro — in the price-sensitive Indian market. Redmi Note 5 — a successor to the highly-acclaimed Redmi Note 4 — willRead More

London, February 13 Snapchat’s latest redesign, which was released last week, has not gone down well with many users. This is evident from the fact that an online petition calling for removal of the new update has attracted more than than 6 lakh signatures. The “Remove the new Snapchat update”Read More

New York, February 13 Social media giant Facebook will begin allowing news publishers to run paywalls inside the iOS app from March 1. According to TechCrunch, Facebook’s head of news partnerships Campbell Brown said that publishers wanted to give away five free articles, not ten, so Facebook is switching toRead More

Sydney Do you tend to get aggressive just after a peg or two? It is because certain areas in the brain that temper aggression shuts off, researchers say. In the study, the researchers noted changes in the working of the prefrontal cortex—the brain area involved in tempering a person’s levelsRead More