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Check if WhatsApp will work on your phone from Dec 31

Check if WhatsApp will work on your phone from Dec 31

Technology December 26, 2017 at 2:51 am 0 comments

San Francisco, Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp will stop working on a number of platforms from December 31, the company has confirmed. The messaging app will drop support for ‘BlackBerry OS’, ‘BlackBerry 10’, ‘Windows Phone 8.0’ and older platforms, from December 31, 2017, according to an express.co.uk report published on Monday.Read More

Hubble spots ‘holiday ornament in space’: NASA

Hubble spots ‘holiday ornament in space’: NASA

Technology December 26, 2017 at 2:50 am 0 comments

WASHINGTON: Scientists at NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a what looks like a colourful holiday ornament in space – a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas that are lit up by a central star nearing the end of its life. When a star ages andRead More

New system can help machines think like humans

Technology December 24, 2017 at 7:00 pm 0 comments

Washington Scientists have developed a new type of neural network chip that can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans. The network, called a reservoir computing system, could predict words before they are said during conversation, and help predict future outcomes based on the present. ReservoirRead More

Fujitsu, Microsoft to develop AI-based workplace solutions

Fujitsu, Microsoft to develop AI-based workplace solutions

Technology December 23, 2017 at 3:53 pm 0 comments

TOKYO: Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company Fujitsu and Microsoft on Saturday announced to build new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions that will transform the ways people work. Based on the Microsoft 365 integrated cloud service, the new solutions will be powered by Fujitsu’s AI technology, Fujitsu Human Centric AIRead More

Apple slows some older iPhones because of flagging batteries

Technology December 23, 2017 at 3:52 pm 0 comments

Apple Inc has addressed claims from an app company that says the maker of iPhones slows down the performance of older phones. On Monday, the blog Primate Labs, a company that makes an app for measuring the speed of an iPhone’s processor, published data that appeared to show slower performanceRead More

Alcohol makes men more likely to objectify women

Technology December 23, 2017 at 3:51 pm 0 comments

Washington, Men under the influence of alcohol are more likely to see women as sexual objects, a study has found. Researchers from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US went beyond the mere anecdotal evidence to investigate some of the circumstances and factors that influence why men objectify women. The study, publishedRead More

Data requests from India escalate in 1st half of 2017: Facebook

Data requests from India escalate in 1st half of 2017: Facebook

Technology December 20, 2017 at 6:55 pm 0 comments

New York, December 20 India, the largest audience country for Facebook, requested for data 9,853 times in the first half of 2017 – up from 6,324 times in the first half of 2016, according to a latest report by the social media giant. Facebook released its latest ‘Government Requests Report’Read More

WhatsApp asked to stop sharing data with Facebook

WhatsApp asked to stop sharing data with Facebook

Technology December 20, 2017 at 6:55 pm 0 comments

London, December 20 France’s privacy watchdog has issued formal notice to WhatsApp, asking the popular mobile messaging app to stop sharing user data with the parent company Facebook within a month. The Chair of the National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) had asked WhatsApp to provide a sample of the FrenchRead More

Twitter to begin penalising hateful, abusive accounts: Report

Twitter to begin penalising hateful, abusive accounts: Report

Technology December 18, 2017 at 6:52 pm 0 comments

San Francisco, December 18 Aimed at reducing hateful content on its platform, Twitter will start penalising accounts from Monday that include “hateful imagery and display names”, or those who “use username, display name, or profile bio to engage in abusive behaviour”, the media reported. According to a report in ReCodeRead More

Apple hikes iPhone prices in India post-customs duty hike

Technology December 18, 2017 at 6:52 pm 0 comments

New Delhi, December 18 After the government hiked the customs duty from 10 per cent to 15 per cent for mobile handsets last week, Apple on Monday became the first manufacturer to raise prices (on MRP) across iPhone models, except iPhone SE that the company assembles in the country. “AsRead More